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News releases on Electronicstalk categorised by date

Sunday 17 March
to Saturday 23 March 2002

PLCC-packaged LEDs offer wider temperature range

Agilent Technologies has a new range of light-emitting diodes for automotive interior lighting and backlighting for industrial instruments and electrical appliances.  Brochure Available 

News from Avago Technologies (22 March 2002)

Website offers a virtual design centre

Analog Devices has redesigned its website to be faster and easier to access, with a new home page that offers engineers the amenities of a virtual design centre.

News from Analog Devices (22 March 2002)

Low-current LEDs are green in any colour

Titan Opto has expanded its range of low-current LEDs to include higher-brightness 3 and 5mm discrete devices and a range of surface-mount chip-with-reflector PLCC-2 sizes.

News from Anglia (22 March 2002)

Ansoft picks up automotive award

Automotive Engineering International presented Ansoft with an AEI Tech 2002 Award at the SAE World Congress, held in Detroit, Michigan, in early March.

News from Ansoft Europe (22 March 2002)

Latest SoPC design suite to appear next month

Celoxica will publicly unveil DK1.1, the next version of its Handel-C-to-hardware design suite at Programmable World 2002 on 17th April 2002.

News from Celoxica (22 March 2002)

Gasket provides stable corrosion-free shielding

Chomerics has a new form-in-place EMI gasket material for applications requiring long-term shielding stability and galvanic corrosion resistance.

News from Chomerics Europe (22 March 2002)

Compact embedded PC is easy to expand

The CPU-1420 from Datasound Laboratories is an enhanced 586 class computer in a compact expandable PC/104-Plus form factor with a low-power-consumption core based on a 133MHz AMD 520.

News from Datasound Laboratories (22 March 2002)

Board stackers provide design flexibility

A range of PCB stackers, headers and socket strips from Genalog enables boards to be stacked at custom spacing in 0.13mm increments.

News from Genalog (22 March 2002)

Single-supply MCU controls two motors on its own

Hitachi's latest 32bit single-chip RISC MCU features 256Kbyte of on-chip single-power-supply Flash memory and two motor control timers, enabling single-chip control of two motors.

News from Hitachi Europe (22 March 2002)

Bridge unites systems with software

I-Logix has developed a bridge it claims will unite systems engineering with software design and implementation.

News from I-Logix Europe (22 March 2002)

PCIbus cards handle heavyweight acquisition

A new range of PCIbus isolated digital I/O cards provide high-level digital sensing and switching (up to 60V and 350mA) that are beyond the capacity of traditional TTL digital I/O cards.  Brochure Available 

News from Keithley Instruments (22 March 2002)

Website aids optical vector analysis

Luna Technologies has expanded its website to include a host of technical information on optical vector analysis technology.

News from Luna Technologies (22 March 2002)

Display stores up to 64 messages

The Message Runner from Matsushita Electric Works is an easy to use compact message display unit that allows up to 64 messages to be stored and displayed on a clearly visible eight-character screen.

News from Panasonic Electric Works UK (22 March 2002)

SiGe process opens up 10Gbit/s market

Micrel has brought its new 0.6-micron ASSET-2 high-speed silicon germanium (SiGe) fabrication process online, giving it the necessary technology to move into the 10Gbit/s communication space.

News from Micrel (22 March 2002)

One fuse or two for 10A inlet

New from Schurter is the type 4707 fused power entry module.  Brochure Available 

News from Schurter (22 March 2002)

Resettable fuses meet telecomms specs

Schurter has expanded its PTC-Fuse family with two ranges of devices approved for telecomms applications.  Brochure Available 

News from Schurter (22 March 2002)

The full rundown on Mitsubishi microcontrollers

In response to requests from designers, Solid State Supplies has produced a 16-page catalogue which contains full specifications for the Mitsubishi M16C family of 8 and 16bit microcontrollers.

News from Solid State Supplies (22 March 2002)

Networked microprocessors shrink to BGA

New from Solid State Supplies, the NET+20M and NET+50M networked microprocessors feature BGA packaging to reduce their footprint from 28 to 15mm2.

News from Solid State Supplies (22 March 2002)

Texcel improves manufacturer's delivery response

 User Application Article  Texcel Technology has enabled HV manufacturer Start-Spellman to improve its delivery flexibility as part of a strategic outsourcing agreement for low-volume, high-variety PCBs and subassemblies.

News from Texcel Technology (22 March 2002)

Single-chip decoder handles all TV and PC formats

Texas Instruments has released the industry's first all-format digital video decoder that enables PC graphics formats and standard and high-definition video formats to coexist in display applications.

News from Texas Instruments (April 2001-March 2006) (22 March 2002)

Interfaces take control of touch screens

Available now are the industry's first complete programmable analogue interface circuits for controlling position, pressure and plate resistance measurements in four-wire touch-screen applications.

News from Texas Instruments (April 2001-March 2006) (22 March 2002)

RTOS and development tools are dedicated to DSP

VSPWorks is a complete development platform for developing applications powered by digital signal processors.

News from Wind River Systems (22 March 2002)

CPU card prepares for next generation PCI

The Rocky-3706EVG 64bit/66MHz PCIbus CPU board from Wordsworth is able to accept the next generation of 64bit PCI cards for use in high performance network applications.

News from Wordsworth Technology (22 March 2002)

Dendrimers provide alternative OLED structure

High efficiency organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) using pioneering dendrimer materials have been developed by scientists sponsored by display technology developer Opsys.

News from Cambridge Display Technology (22 March 2002)

Agilent combines with Tropian for multimode GSM

Tropian and Agilent Technologies have developed a complete RF transmitter solution for GSM/GPRS/Edge handset applications.  Brochure Available 

News from Avago Technologies (21 March 2002)

Tester zooms in for in-depth audio analysis

The new 200kHz Cascade Plus audio tester from Audio Precision is now available in the UK from the exclusive distributor, TTi (Thurlby Thandar Instruments).

News from TTi (Thurlby Thandar Instruments) (21 March 2002)

Fibre-optic distribution platform saves signals

A new pair of fibre-optic distribution products from Datum provide an interference-free solution for RF signal transmission to multiple locations.

News from Datum (21 March 2002)

Buchanan boosts Elixent's US operations

Elixent has expanded its US presence by appointing Mike Buchanan as director of marketing.

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