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Avago Technologies, the world's largest privately held semiconductor company, today expanded its line of smart dot-matrix 5 by 7 LED alphanumeric displays to include the industry's first smart displays with 'eye catching' blue characters in a thin rectangular 8-character package. Avago's HCMS-2919 and HCMS-2976 LED displays are about the width of a AAA battery and ideal for those designers looking to enhance the appearance of their products with ...

Avago Technologies announced the latest edition to its family of ultra low noise, high gain, high linearity Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) active bias amplifiers for use in cellular infrastructure applications. Avago’s MGA-633P8, which is an easy-to-use GaAs monolithic microwave IC (MMIC) low noise amplifier (LNA), provides ‘Best in Class’ performance and has a compact footprint. Additionally, it has a common printed circuit board layo...

The partners in a new publicly-funded European research project today announced details of the multinational/multidisciplinary program called LAST POWER (‘Large Area silicon carbide Substrates and heTeroepitaxial GaN for POWER device applications). The aim of this important 42-month ENIAC (European Nanoelectronics Initiative Advisory Council) project is to provide Europe with strategic independence in the field of wide band gap (WBG) semiconduc...

The microchip (integrated circuit / IC) yesterday celebrated its 50th birthday. Fairchild Semiconductor’s Robert Noyce received the first patent for a commercially available silicon IC on the 25th of April 1961.

Renesas Technology has added 16Kbyte Flash versions to its popular line-up of low pin count, SH/Tiny Flash microcontrollers. The lower memory versions provide a more flexible and cost effective solution with many advantages over DSPs. With their performance and small memory sizes, these devices are ideal to perform both real-time control and DSP functions.

Renesas has introduced the SH7211F, what it says is the fastest general purpose flash microcontroller to date. Featuring two banks of Renesas’ leading-edge MONOS flash that is at least twice as fast as its closest competitor, the device is ideal for use in ‘next generation’ motor drives and many other high performance industrial systems requiring excellent real-time-behaviour, as well as general purpose applications. MONOS, by the way stan...

Peregrine Semiconductor announced the expansion of its European design and manufacturing operations and the opening of a new facility located in Aix-en-Provence, France. Peregrine Semiconductor Europe (PSE) operations include RF integrated circuit (RFIC) design and engineering at its design center in Aix-en-Provence, France; IC wafer manufacturing from wafer foundry Sapphicon in Australia and UMC in Taiwan; assembly and packaging from Hybritech C...

RFMD’s RFHA1003 GaN Power IC (PIC) is a wideband power amplifier designed for continuous wave and pulsed applications such as military communications, electronic warfare, wireless infrastructure, radar, two-way radios and general purpose amplification. Using an advanced high power density Gallium Nitride (GaN) semiconductor process, this high-performance amplifier achieves high efficiency, flat gain and power over a large instantaneous bandwidt...

Early Integration Testing Illustrates that IBM’s 8HP Silicon Germanium Technology will Meet World’s Most Demanding Oscilloscope Requirements

RF Micro Devices, Inc. announced today that its Foundry Services business unit has updated its process design kits (PDKs) for use with Agilent Technologies’ recently released Advanced Design System (ADS) 2011 EDA software.