Broadband Technology 2000 has signed a rep and distribution deal with US start-up GreenVITY, which develops powerline comms (PLC) to Zigbee and Zigbee to PLC bridge ICs. The chips conform to the HomePlug Green PHY specification supporting ...
Tags: Broadband Technology, chips
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has a warning for organizations that post a lot of business and personal information on public web pages and social media sites: Don't do it. Phishers, the agency said in an alert this week, look ...
Tags: web pages, social media
LED lighting standards were one of the focuses at the 2013 Taiwan International Lighting Show as many firms introduced LED light bulbs meeting the requirements of Energy Star in hope to enter the international market. In addition, ...
Tags: LED, LED lighting, lighting
Agilent Technologies Inc of Santa Clara, CA, USA says that Plextek RF Integration, a UK-based company that designs and develops RFICs, MMICs and microwave/millimeter-wave modules, has selected Agilent's Momentum software to simulate its new ...
Tags: Agilent Plextek 3D planar, electromagnetic software, Electrical
A new data interface for battery management systems has been designed to provide interference immunity and to support distributed battery systems, writes Jon Munson from Linear Technology. For reliability of battery packs being designed ...
Tags: Hybrid Car, Car Batteries, Auto Parts
MagnaChip Semiconductor Corporation, a Korea-based designer and manufacturer of analog and mixed-signal semiconductor products, and Sidense Corp., a developer of logic non-volatile memory one-time programmable (OTP) memory IP cores today ...
Tags: Semiconductor Corporation, Semiconductor, semiconductor products
Specialty foundry TowerJazz (which has fabrication plants at Tower Semiconductor Ltd in Migdal Haemek, Israel, and at its subsidiaries Jazz Semiconductor Inc in Newport Beach, CA, USA and TowerJazz Japan Ltd) and Avago Technologies, a ...
Tags: TowerJazz SiGe Avago, Electrical, Electronics, Semiconductor
Micrel has signed a distribution deal with catalogue and online firm Mouser Electronics. Mouser will stock Micrel's product portfolio includes analogue, power, mixed-signal, and RF chips. It also includes ICs for communications, clock ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, Mouser Electronics
At the Optical Fiber Communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC 2013) in Anaheim (19-21 March), optical solution provider Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd (SEI) introduced its next generation of active optical cables ...
Tags: Sumitomo Electric, Coherent Communications, Electronics
Power Integrations had rolled its Expert Suite PSU design software to version 9.0, extending LED driver capability and improving schematic manipulation. "Expert Suite now includes support for LinkSwitch-PL and LinkSwitch-PH LED-driver ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, LED Drivers
Dynamic changes to R&D processes, tools, technical challenges, and funding/business models will be highlighted at SEMICON West 2013, along with product displays of the latest semiconductor manufacturing technology, components and ...
Nanoelectronics research center Imec of Leuven, Belgium has announced the launch of its fully integrated silicon photonics platform through a cost-sharing multi-project wafer (MPW) service via ePIXfab, the EU-funded silicon photonics ...
Tags: silicon photonics, Nanoelectronics, optical transceivers
Asahi Glass and nMode Solutions of Arizona have formed a semiconductor packaging company called Triton Micro Technologies to develop via-fill technology using ultra-thin glass to make interposers for 2.5D and 3D semiconductors. "The ...
Tags: Asahi Glass, nMode Solutions of Arizona, semiconductor packaging
New automotive technologies that go beyond touchscreens, satellite radio, and voice-activated GPS commands are being tested and improved, and will soon begin to appear in many more new car models, resulting in solid growth for the ...
Tags: Emerging Technologies, Strong Opportunity, Automotive ICs
ams AG (SIX: AMS), a designer and manufacturer of high-performance analog ICs for consumer and communications, industrial and medical and automotive applications, today introduced a new intelligent LED driver for mobile phone cameras that ...
Tags: integrated circuit, Electrical, Electronics