Electronicstalk news headlines: Sunday 30 April to Saturday 6 May 2006

Laser-cut templates aid process verification

Photo Stencil can now offer precision component verification inspection templates to its customers, directly from its worldwide headquarters.

News from Photo Stencil ( 5 May 2006)

Flying probe testers work with boundary scan

Goepel Electronic and Itochu SysTech have developed a boundary scan option for Takaya series 8xxx and 9xxx flying probe testers. Brochure Available

News from Goepel Electronic ( 5 May 2006)

Tact switch is smaller than a grain of rice

Alps has developed a slim-format compact-sized side-push tact switch that is soldered for robust strength.

News from Alps Electric (UK) ( 5 May 2006)

Experts line up for high-speed panel session

The Continuing Professional Development Centre hosts this summer's High-Speed Digital Engineering Week from 27th to 30th June 2006 in Oxford.

News from University of Oxford Electronics and Telecoms ( 5 May 2006)

Payne takes charge of technology

LSI Logic Corp has named Robert L Payne to the post of Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer.

News from LSI Europe ( 5 May 2006)

Yamaha extends IP licensing agreement

Yamaha Corporation has licensed components of Virage Logic's IPrima platform, including embedded memories and standard cells.

News from Virage Logic ( 5 May 2006)

Test set speeds Bluetooth characterisation

CSR has chosen the new Anritsu MT8852B EDR test set for integration into its Bluetooth characterisation systems for automated testing of standard rate and EDR Bluetooth devices.

News from Cambridge Silicon Radio ( 5 May 2006)

Blowers are RoHS compliant

The Diplomat range of DC backward curved impellers from Comair Rotron is now fully RoHS compliant.

News from Aerco ( 5 May 2006)

Bipolar transistors get more in a SOT23 package

A range of low voltage bipolar transistors extends the power handling capability of the SOT23 package, enabling designers to shrink products by replacing larger SOT89 and SOT223 equivalent parts.

News from Zetex ( 5 May 2006)

3Com adopts 48-port switch

3Com is using Agere's world-leading Ethernet switching products in its Baseline Plus family of switches.

News from Agere Systems ( 5 May 2006)

Alliance aims for faster wireless development

TTPCom has reached agreement with Analog Devices on a programme designed to speed customer development of wireless devices based on ADI's SoftFone products.

News from TTPCom ( 5 May 2006)

Irish consultants support methodology manual

Silicon and Software Systems is supporting the Synopsys VCS comprehensive RTL verification solution and the verification methodology manual for SystemVerilog.

News from Synopsys ( 5 May 2006)

Case is home for home theatre PCs

The CM Media 260 case offers a stylish and flexible design for anyone looking to build a home theatre PC.

News from Cooler Master Europe ( 5 May 2006)

Viewer cuts the cost of design visibility

A new viewer enables users to quickly and easily view, print, cross probe and explore design projects and documents that have been created in Altium Designer.

News from Altium ( 5 May 2006)

Industrial connectors are RoHS compliant

Amphenol Industrial Operations has reduced and, where feasible, eliminated regulated hazardous substances from the Amphe-Lite series.

News from Amphenol Industrial Operations ( 5 May 2006)

Disk drive connectors have the right angle

A range of 29-position right-angle receptacle connectors enable attachment of Serial Attached SCSI HDDs to processor blades, storage blades, mezzanine cards or embedded system boards.

News from FCI ( 5 May 2006)

Senior role for Wolters

Hubert Wolters has joined CoWare as Senior Sales Director for Central and Northern Europe reporting to Mike Faust, CoWare's Vice President of North America and Europe Sales.

News from CoWare ( 5 May 2006)

Tiny antenna helps headset go a long way

User Application Article Fractal antenna technology pioneer Fractus provides antennas for Nextlink's ground-breaking Bluetooth headsets.

News from Fractus ( 5 May 2006)

Multichip LEDs are bright choice for concept car

Visopia has selected Perkinelmer's RGB LED design as part of a high power lighting system for the Scion Fuse 2006 concept car.

News from Perkinelmer Optoelectronics ( 5 May 2006)

LED driver runs flashes and backlights

A new driver IC powers white LEDs used in applications such as camera flashes and strobes as well as backlighting colour LCD panels in mobile devices.

News from Marktech Optoelectronics ( 5 May 2006)

HDL simulator supports multicore SPARC

Aldec is providing full simulation support in Riviera for the open-source UltraSPARC T1 from Sun Microsystems.

News from Aldec ( 5 May 2006)

Record quarter for Kontron

Kontron generated sales of Eur 86.6 million in the first quarter of 2006, a gain of 39% over the same period last year (Eur 62.3 million). Brochure Available

News from Kontron UK ( 5 May 2006)

BoM convertors are ready for the RoHS rush

Farnell InOne's BoM Response Team is expecting a rapid rise over the next three months in the number of BoMs requiring conversion.

News from Farnell ( 5 May 2006)

Custom power systems designed online

Engineers can design their own custom power systems online with the new System Builder on the Acopian website.

News from Acopian Power Supplies ( 5 May 2006)

PHY cores cut design work on Flash management SoCs

User Application Article Bitmicro Networks has chosen Synopsys' DesignWare physical layer cores for PCI Express and Serial-ATA (SATA) high-speed serial interfaces.

News from Synopsys ( 5 May 2006)

Chipset supports high-speed Wi-Fi standard

Focus EDL will be giving live demonstrations of the capabilities of Metalink's new WANPlus chipset at "The Wireless Event" at London's Olympia on 16th and 17th May 2006.

News from Focus EDL ( 5 May 2006)

Flash microcontroller is an ACE

The Atmel AT91SAM7X ARM-based Flash microcontroller has won the 2006 EE Times Annual Creativity in Electronics (ACE) Award in the Processor/Memory category.

News from Atmel Corporation ( 5 May 2006)

Atmel signs for optimised Linux support

Atmel has chosen LinuxLink by TimeSys as the primary Linux distribution mechanism for its new ARM-based processors.

News from TimeSys Corp ( 5 May 2006)

Controller keeps watch over AC supplies

American Aerospace Controls (AAC) now offers an AC current controller that provides exceptional protection from system failure and current overload damage.