
‘Handset Vendors’
An Electronicstalk guide
Start with the news release Atmel offers chipsets for 15in touchscreens from Atmel, which we summarised at the time by saying "Atmel has announced that it is shipping production quantities of the Atmel Maxtouch mXT1386 and mXT616 chipsets for large touchscreens up to 15in. ". Several months prior to that, we featured the news release Self-encrypting drive targets shared desktop PCs from Toshiba Storage Device Division: "Toshiba Storage Device Division (SDD) has launched the MKxx61GSYD, a 7,200rev/min 2.5in self-encrypting drive (SED) designed for commercial notebooks and security-sensitive applications. ".
In November 2010, we covered the news from Zytronic - take a look at Heavy-duty touchscreen for interactive displays which says: "Zytronic, with its systems integration partner JEA Technologies, has brought heavy-duty touchscreen functionality to its J-Vue interactive display units, for customer use in supermarkets and banks.".
Take a look also at the news release from Atmel, Immobiliser protocol stack for automotive market, as well as Texas Instruments introduces first 10GHz DSP from Texas Instruments, and Kontron develops packet processor for 4G networks from Kontron.
Latest stories...
Penta-band antenna is ground plane independent (October 2010)
Pulse has introduced a penta-band standalone antenna for applications such as point-of-sale terminals, credit-card readers, data loggers, automated meter readers (AMR) and industrial communications.
Peregrine introduces SP6T radio-frequency switch (September 2010)
Peregrine Semiconductor has unveiled a single-pole, six-throw (SP6T) radio-frequency (RF) switch, which offers design flexibility for manufacturers of 3G front-end modules used in multi-band handsets.
FBAR duplexers for mobile handsets and terminals (August 2010)
Avago Technologies has launched a 4G/LTE Band 7 duplexer to its line of high-isolation, 2 x 2.5mm film bulk acoustic resonator (FBAR) duplexers for mobile handsets and data terminals.
Synopsys adds TDD mode to LTE Model Library (August 2010)
Synopsys has announced the availability of the Time Division Duplex (TDD) mode in its Long-Term Evolution (LTE) Model Library for physical layer system simulation.
SynaptiCAD upgrades Waveformer Lite tool (August 2010)
SynaptiCAD has released an upgrade to Waveformer Lite, its entry-level tool for generating VHDL and Verilog test benches graphically from timing diagrams drawn by the user.
Truetouch used in separable mobile-phone handset (July 2010)
Fujitsu has selected Cypress Semiconductor's Truetouch solution to implement the touch screen in NTT Docomo's Prime series F-04B mobile phone.
Two-channel audio analyser for production testing (June 2010)
Audio Precision, the recognised standard in audio test and measurement, has introduced the APx515, a two-channel audio analyser optimised for production testing applications.
PMC-Sierra launches pluggable GPON ONT design (June 2010)
PMC-Sierra's pluggable GPON optical network terminal (ONT) reference design can connect any customer premises equipment (CPE) equipped with a standard SFP port to a high-speed passive optical network.

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