National Instruments Corp. (NI, Austin, TX) announced a new series of Pentium 4 and Celeron-based embedded PXI/CompactPCI controllers. The series includes the NI PXI-8186 controller that features a 2.2GHz Intel Pentium 4 processor. The NI PXI-8180 Series controllers ease system integration while meeting the demanding reliability requirements of real-time and automated test applications. In addition […]
International Rectifier Corp. (IR, El Segundo, CA) announced that its board of directors has approved, subject to stockholder approval, an amendment to the company's Certificate of Incorporation to increase the authorized number of shares of common stock from 150,000,000 to 330,000,000. As of December 12, 2003, there were approximately 92,271,016 shares issued and outstanding or […]
Linear Technology Corp. (LTC, Milpitas, CA) introduced the new LTC3801, a ThinSOT™ (SOT-23), step-down, dc/dc controller designed to prolong battery by limiting...
STMicroelectronics Inc. (ST, Geneva, Switzerland) announced a new semiconductor technology that virtually eliminates the potential problem of the growing vulnerability of silicon chips to so-called "soft errors". The new rSRAM technology delivers greatly increased immunity to the effects of stray atomic particles without incurring significant cost or performance penalties. The solution does not significantly increase […]
Kenet Inc. (Reading, MA), a developer of mixed-signal semiconductor products, formally launched the company and announced it has been awarded a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the central research and development organization for the US Department of Defense. Under the DARPA contract, Kenet will further develop the ability to monolithically integrate […]
STMicroelectronics Inc. (ST, Geneva, Switzerland) announced the acquisition of wireless LAN developer Synad Technologies Ltd. (UK), which is a fast-growing startup that has rapidly revealed itself as a successful WLAN fabless company and one of the few able to deliver a full dual-band, multi-standard solution. Synad has a proven multi-mode, full CMOS, production-ready chipset and […]
Sipex Corp. (Milpitas, CA), a provider of high-performance, analog integrated circuits, introduced the new SP6134 and SP6137, two high-power, high-efficiency, synchronous step-down controllers for 12V applications. The devices reduce external component size by offering higher-frequency operation of 600KHz for the SP6134 and 900KHz for the SP6137. The SP6134 and SP6137 are available in a MSOP […]
Alliance Semiconductor Corp. (Santa Clara, CA) announced the availability of its AS95L2100 family of resilient packet ring (RPR) controllers, which support the emerging IEEE 802.17 RPR standard (draft 3.x) at various line interface speeds, including OC-12, OC-48 and OC-192 for SONET, and 2.5G and 10G for Ethernet. The AS95L2100 family is suitable for networking, communications, […]
Linear Technology Corp. (LTC, Milpitas, CA) introduced two secondary-side, synchronous n-channel MOSFET drivers, the LTC3900 and LTC3901. Both devices have timer and...
Dynex Semiconductor Ltd. (Lincoln, UK), a leading power semiconductor technology company, announced that it has been awarded a grant by the British Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) to develop technologies for novel power electronic components based on semiconducting diamond. The Carbon Power Electronics Programme (CAPE) is a development project being undertaken by a consortium […]
AMI Semiconductor Inc. (AMIS, Pocatello, ID), a leader in the design and manufacture of application-specific integrated circuits, announced that the company has combined the popular 8051 processor core with its own I3T80 mixed-signal, high-voltage technology to deliver leading-edge system-on-a-chip devices for the automotive, industrial and medical markets. The new products offer a unique range of […]
Alliance Semiconductor Corp. (Santa Clara, CA) announced the availability of its ASM3P2779 low-voltage, low-power, electromagnetic interference (EMI) reduction integrated circuit (IC) for next-generation portable devices. The ASM3P2779 is a low-power, versatile spread-spectrum frequency modulator designed for the mobile market and targets personal digital assistants, cell phones, portable MP3 players, notebooks, as well as video and […]
Central Semiconductor Corp. (Hauppauge, NY) announced its CMLSH-4 and CMLSH-4DO PICOmini™ surface-mount Schottky diodes, which are rated at 40V (maximum) peak repetitive...
C&D Technologies Inc. (Tucson, AZ) has increased the number of available variations of its WPA60 dc/dc converter from one to nine. Each...
Intersil Corp. (Milpitas, CA) announced its new Endura™ ISL6608 synchronous-buck MOSFET driver IC designed for high-current, multi-phase power solutions used in a...