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Samsung Selects Cypress OvationONS™ II Optical Navigation System For Samsung Intercept™ QWERTY Cell Phone

July 25, 2011

SAN JOSE, Calif., July 20, 2011 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: CY) today announced thatSamsung Electronics Company Ltd. has selected the OvationONS™ II optical navigation system for its Android-based Intercept phones. The OvationONS II sensor will be used in the optical track pad modules inside the Intercept for easy and intuitive single-handed screen and menu navigation.

Cypress’s PSoC^®-based OvationONS … Read More → "Samsung Selects Cypress OvationONS™ II Optical Navigation System For Samsung Intercept™ QWERTY Cell Phone"

Cypress TrueTouch™ Touchscreen Solution Drives Hot New Phones from Fujitsu

July 25, 2011

SAN JOSE, Calif., July 20, 2011 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: CY) today announced that Fujitsu Limited has selected the TrueTouch™ touchscreen solution from Cypress to implement the touchscreens in the new F-07C, F-09C, and F-12C mobile phones, available from NTT DOCOMO. The hot new Fujitsu phones are each based on different operating systems and offer different features, but all rely on TrueTouch to implement brilliant, responsive touchscreens.

The F-07C is … Read More → "Cypress TrueTouch™ Touchscreen Solution Drives Hot New Phones from Fujitsu"

TI’s 3-MHz, 100-mA step-down DC/DC converter adds 20-percent run-time to ultra-low power wireless and MCU applications

July 25, 2011

DALLAS (July 25, 2011) – Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE:TXN) introduced a 3-MHz, 100-mA synchronous step-down DC/DC converter, which integrates a bypass switch and a unique DCS-Control technology and extends battery run-time by 20 percent in low-power wireless and MSP430™ MCU-based applications. The high-performance device has an operating current of only 25 uA and supports many low-power applications, such as Bluetooth® low energy systems, metering and building technologies, mobile phones, consumer electronics, medical and human interface devices.

The TPS62730 reduces current consumption drawn from the battery in transmit and receive modes by achieving 95 … Read More → "TI’s 3-MHz, 100-mA step-down DC/DC converter adds 20-percent run-time to ultra-low power wireless and MCU applications"

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"