Monthly Archives: September 2011

The UK Electronic Skills Foundation (UKESF) has reported a 70% increase in industry support for the second year of its university scholarship programme. It now receives funding from 12 firms to award 51 UKESF Scholarships to elite electronics engineering undergraduate … Continue reading →

Energy Micro has introduced 100 new EFM32 Gecko energy friendly microcontrollers.  Pin and code compatible with the existing Gecko and Tiny Gecko products, the new ARM Cortex-M3 based Leopard Gecko and Giant Gecko microcontrollers bring memory configurations up to 1MB, … Continue reading →

Ericsson has introduced two new vertical-mounting members into its family of 3E digital PoL voltage regulators aimed at space-critical applications.

ACAL BFi has signed a pan-European franchise agreement with OriginGPS, a manufacturer of miniature GPS modules.

According to Doug Pulley, CTO of Picochip, for London to offer genuinely world-class, LTE everywhere mobile broadband, it will require the installation of 70,000 small cells across the capital, including 2,000 nodes covering the Underground network by 2015.

Powervation’s new dual phase digital DC/DC controller, the PV3102, features Auto-Control, the company’s real-time adaptive loop compensation technology.

Nordic Semiconductor has revealed that the Compex Wireless, the world’s first wireless muscle electro-stimulator – as used by HTC-Highroad, the cycling team of top 2011 Tour de France sprinter Mark Cavendish – employs Nordic nRF24LE1 proprietary 2.4GHz SoCs.

Fujitsu Semiconductor Europe and Autotalks say they will co-operate on Autotalks’ processor for vehicle-to-vehicle communication, to be developed by Autotalks and manufactured by Fujitsu Semiconductor. The communication processor supports the US, EU and Japan specifications, and will be available in … Continue reading →

Powervation has joined forces with Murata Power Solutions to co-develop a new reference design for Murata Power Solutions’ 45A Power Block. The CEB019 digital DC/DC power reference design uses Powervation’s newly-launched PV3012 dual phase digital synchronous buck controller with Auto-Control, … Continue reading →

Murata Power Solutions has introduced its ULS series of open frame, PCB board mount 30 Watt isolated DC/DC converters to the market.