Mixed Signal/Analog

Audio Precision has announced a technology demonstration of multichannel audio bus testing at the upcoming AES 2017 International Conference on Automotive Audio. Conducted in cooperation with Mentor Automotive, the test scenario will centre on the digital audio bus technology developed by Analog Devices, Automotive Audio Bus (A2B), and the concept system will incorporate AP’s eight-channel APx585 audio analyser and Mentor’s A2B A...

Visitors to ECOC 2017 (18-20 September) in Gothenburg will be able to see demonstrations of Anritsu’s recently released MP1900A Signal Quality Analyser-R. The MP1900A series is a high-performance Bit Error Rate Tester (BERT) that accurately measures communications equipment, next-generation high-speed electronic and optical devices, including those for M2M and IoT applications, and optical transceivers used in high-end servers.

MaxLinear, a provider of radio frequency (RF), analogue and mixed-signal integrated circuits for the connected home, wired and wireless infrastructure, and industrial and multimarket applications, has announced that Shenzhen Skyworth Digital Technology (Skyworth) is shipping a new smart cable gateway set-top box (STB) based on the MaxLinear MxL214C Full-Spectrum Capture cable front-end receiver.

Pickering Interfaces will be introducing their new High-Density Modular LXI Ethernet Reed Relay Matrices at IEEE AUTOTESTCON in Schaumburg, IL, September 12-14, 2017. The new Modular LXI Matrix Reed Relay Modules (model 65-22x) were originally designed to test Semiconductors at wafer and package levels. The Reed Relay Matrix solution combines Pickering’s LXI Modular Chassis (model 65-200) with their new plug-in matrix module range&mdas...

  Since the introduction of the pioneering Configurable Mixedsignal ICs (CMICs), Silego Technology has announced that it has shopped over three billion units. In addition to this Silego has announced that more than one hundred million units were shipped alone in July.

  Darren Hobbs, Director of Marketing and Strategy at S3 Semiconductors talks about how custom semiconductors are an expensive and out-of-reach tech solution has become a statement of past significance. Today, System on Chip (SoC) solutions are in abundance, and companies like S3 Semiconductors make custom silicon not only practicable, but cost effective as well.

  Manufacturers of strain gauge and load cell signal conditioners, wireless telemetry and high performance analogue to digital converters, Mantracourt Electronics has announced their latest sector-beating device: the FSU-SSB.

Global technology group operating in the semiconductor and connected health industries, S3 Group, has announced a change in strategy for its custom semiconductor business, S3 Semiconductors (S3semi). It will now focus on industrial and communications OEMs, converting their electronic systems and boards into mixed-signal integrated circuits and delivering packaged and tested chips, rather than just design services and IP. This process promises cos...

Designer and manufacturer of COTS and rugged DSP boards and system recorders for commercial, government and military systems, Pentek, has introduced the newest member of the Jade family of high-performance data converter XMC modules based on the Xilinx Kintex Ultrascale FPGA. The Model 71141 is a 6.4GHz dual channel analogue-to-digital and digital-to-analogue converter with programmable DDCs (digital downconverters) and DUCs (digital upconve...

  A voltage-controlled variable attenuator (VVA) has been added to Skyworks' series of broadband, flat attenuation, high third order input intercept point (IIP3) products. The SKY12239-11 has been designed to operate over the 10MHz to 1.5GHz frequency band, and is specifically optimised for use as a wide dynamic range, ultra-low distortion attenuator.