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RFMD® Announces Availability Of New pHEMT Process Technologies For Foundry Customers

July 25, 2011

Greensboro, N.C., July 19, 2011- RF Micro Devices, Inc. (Nasdaq GS: RFMD), a global leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance radio frequency components and compound semiconductor technologies, today announced its Foundry Services business unit has expanded its portfolio of process technologies to include two additional GaAs process technologies – RFMD’s FD25 low noise pHEMT process and RFMD’s FET1H switching pHEMT process. The two additional GaAs pHEMT process technologies are available immediately to foundry customers.

RFMD’s 0.25-micron FD25 pHEMT process technology delivers low noise, medium power and high … Read More → "RFMD® Announces Availability Of New pHEMT Process Technologies For Foundry Customers"

Microsemi Announces SmartFusion cSoC Support with FreeRTOS

July 25, 2011

IRVINE, Calif.–July 25, 2011–Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq: MSCC), a leading provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance, today announced its award-winning SmartFusion® customizable system-on-chip (cSoC) devices are now supported by FreeRTOSTM (www.freertos.org), a scale-able real time kernel designed specifically for small embedded systems, and can be used in any type of application.

FreeRTOS is an extremely popular and professionally developed kernel that can be used in commercial applications, completely free of charge, without any requirement to expose proprietary source code. With FreeRTOS … Read More → "Microsemi Announces SmartFusion cSoC Support with FreeRTOS"

Avnet Electronics Marketing and TI to Teach Workshops on Wireless Connectivity

July 22, 2011

PHOENIX— July 21, 2011 — Starting July 28, 2011, Avnet Electronics Marketing, an operating group of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), and Texas Instruments Incorporated (Read More → "Avnet Electronics Marketing and TI to Teach Workshops on Wireless Connectivity"

NEW:UK 2012 helps create the largest manufacturing event in the UK

July 22, 2011

July 21^st 2011 – Next year NEW:UK (National Electronics Week) will be co-locating with 7 other industry events to create the largest manufacturing event in the UK with over 1,000 exhibiting companies, covering in excess of 37,000 square metres of exhibition space.

Claire Saunders, Event Director comments “In 2012 we want to build a bigger and better event for the industry, so we are today announcing that NEW:UK will be co-locating with MACH, Drives and Controls, Air-Tech, Ifpex, Plant and Asset Management, Electrex and Independent Power, Energy and Electic Expo, to create … Read More → "NEW:UK 2012 helps create the largest manufacturing event in the UK"

New 117 Series SIL Reed Relays from Pickering Electronics

July 22, 2011

Clacton-on-Sea UK, July 2011 – Pickering Electronics is expanding its range of reed relay products with the introduction of a new two pole Single-in-Line (SIL) 117 series relay.

The 117 series occupies the smallest board area in the Pickering Electronics reed relay range – just 0.15 inches x 0.4 inches for the two pole version. It is also available in a single pole reed relay occupying only 0.15 x 0.27 inches, just 38% and 26% respectively of the board area compared to the … Read More → "New 117 Series SIL Reed Relays from Pickering Electronics"

Curtiss-Wright Controls Debuts New Rugged Solid-State HD Video Data Recorder

July 22, 2011

ASHBURN, VA – July 20, 2011 – Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing (CWCEC), a business group of Curtiss-Wright Controls and a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VME, VPX, OpenVPX™ and CompactPCI products for the rugged deployed aerospace and defense market, has introduced the newest addition to its industry leading Skyquest™ family of rugged video recorders, the Skyquest& … Read More → "Curtiss-Wright Controls Debuts New Rugged Solid-State HD Video Data Recorder"

Saelig Debuts New Low-cost 60MHz Oscilloscope With Deep Memory

July 22, 2011

Pittsford, NY, USA: Saelig Company, Inc. announces the SDS6062 – a new, two-channel benchtop scope with a huge 10MSa record length for each channel, allowing zooming capability for investigating fast, intermittent pulses. This low-cost versatile scope samples at 500MSa/s and is packed with useful features normally only seen on higher-end DSOs, including deep memory, external, video-capable trigger, auto-measurements, auto-scaling, large 8″ full color LCD display, XY mode, auto-set, averaging, math functions, USB output, waveform storage, pass/fail output and a 3-year warranty. Even FFT functionality is included for frequency spectrum display. The SDS6062</ … Read More → "Saelig Debuts New Low-cost 60MHz Oscilloscope With Deep Memory"

TI introduces industry’s most highly integrated piezo haptic driver

July 21, 2011

DALLAS (July 20, 2011) – Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) today introduced the most highly integrated piezo haptic driver for mobile consumer and industrial designs. The DRV8662 features an integrated 105-V boost converter, power diode, and 50-V to 200-V peak-to-peak (Vpp) fully-differential amplifier, resulting in a solution size that is 50 percent smaller than leading competitors. The DRV8662 also lowers total solution cost by 40 percent compared to competing solutions, thanks to an efficient, transformer-less design. With the capability to drive a wide range of piezo actuator voltages and fast start-up time, the DRV8662 benefits … Read More → "TI introduces industry’s most highly integrated piezo haptic driver"

Curtiss-Wright Controls Debuts New Rugged Video Distribution System Unit for Deployed Surveillance Platforms

July 21, 2011

ASHBURN, VA – July 20, 2011 – Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing (CWCEC), a business group of Curtiss-Wright Controls and a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VME, VPX, OpenVPX™ and CompactPCI products for the rugged deployed aerospace and defense market, has introduced the newest addition to its industry leading Skyquest™ family of rugged video management system ( … Read More → "Curtiss-Wright Controls Debuts New Rugged Video Distribution System Unit for Deployed Surveillance Platforms"

Xilinx Space-Grade Virtex-5QV FPGA in Production with Mega-Rad Capability

July 21, 2011

SAN JOSE, Calif., July 21, 2011 – Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced that its radiation-hardened-by-design space-grade Virtex®-5QV FPGA is available in production with greater than 1Mrad(Si) Total Ionizing Dose (TID) capabilities for supporting the broadest range of space borne missions from low-earth orbit and beyond. The Virtex-5QV device is the first of its kind reprogrammable Single-Event-Upset (SEU) hardened FPGA specifically designed to withstand the harshest radiation environments so that design teams can shorten time-to-launch from years to months by using an off-the-shelf solution for building complex, high-performance space systems that can be reprogrammed and … Read More → "Xilinx Space-Grade Virtex-5QV FPGA in Production with Mega-Rad Capability"