Element14 has selected the winning designs in its Inductive Sensing Design Challenge, featuring the world’s first inductance-to-digital converter from Texas Instruments. Belgian designer Sammy Peiren was named the Grand Prize Winner for his USB microphone concept, and Dutch designer Elbert Kreukniet was named Community Choice Winner for his wireless metal detector. The two designs stood…
DetailsPasternack Enterprises, Inc., an industry-leading manufacturer and supplier of RF, microwave and millimeter wave products, has been awarded the 4-Star Supplier Excellence Award by Raytheon’s Integrated Defense Systems (IDS) business. This is the second consecutive year that Pasternack has been honored with a Supplier Excellence Award from Raytheon IDS. Raytheon’s Integrated Defense Systems business instituted…
DetailsNew Tripoli, Pa. – The TFT-LCD equipment market has been on a roller coaster ride for the past ten years, as Japanese companies dominate the industry, according to the report LCD Market: Technology Directions and Market Analysis, recently published by The Information Network (www.theinformationnet.com), a New Tripoli, PA-based market research company. AKT, a subsidiary of Applied Materials, was the…
DetailsCambridge, England — ARM® and Cadence today announced an expanded collaboration for IoT and wearable devices targeting TSMC’s ultra-low power technology platform. The collaboration enables the rapid development of IoT and wearable devices by optimizing the system integration of ARM IP and Cadence’s integrated flow for mixed-signal design and verification, and their leading low-power design and verification…
DetailsAvnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), a leading global technology distributor, today announced that Mike Buseman, chief global logistics and operations officer, Avnet, Inc., will present a session, titled “Cultivating a Lean Supply Chain,” at the SCOPE Supply Chain Operations Fall conference. The event will be held at the Red Rock Resort in Las Vegas, October 5-7,…
DetailsHsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C. — TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced the foundry segment’s first and most comprehensive ultra-low power technology platform aimed at a wide range of applications for the rapidly evolving Internet of Things (IoT) and wearable device markets that require a wide spectrum of technologies to best serve these diverse applications. In this platform,…
DetailsAliso Viejo, Calif. — Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq: MSCC), a leading provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance, today announced the availability of the company’s new largest density, lowest power SmartFusion®2 150K LE System-on-Chip (SoC) FPGA Advanced Development Kit. Board-level designers and system architects can quickly develop system-level designs by using the two…
DetailsArrow Electronics, Inc., and Advantech have announced that they will be jointly hosting an Internet of Things Seminar for original equipment manufacturers that will not only be informative about the hottest growth area in technology but will also provide practical advice on how to take advantage of this new wave of connectivity. In addition to…
DetailsIPC’s Validation Services Program has awarded an IPC J-STD-001 and IPC-A-610 Qualified Manufacturers Listing (QML) to Hunter Technology Corp., an electronics design and manufacturing services firm based in Milpitas, Calif. The facility successfully completed an intensive audit based on two of IPC’s foremost standards: IPC J-STD-001, Requirements for Soldered Electrical and Electronic Assemblies and IPC-A-610,…
DetailsWellington, New Zealand — RS Components (RS), the trading brand of Electrocomponents plc (LSE:ECM), the global distributor for engineers, has signed a significant distribution agreement with Adapteva, producer of the innovative Epiphany multicore coprocessor and developer of the popular Parallella-16 board. The partnership will bring the Parallella board directly to customers in Europe and Asia, which comprise…
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