Monthly Archives: February 2012

TouchNetix has announced the first product in its Brilliance series of projected capacitive touchscreen modules. The TNxBR-104A001 is a complete 10.4 inch multi-touch module comprising a 2 mm chemically strengthened and abrasion resistant front glass, ITO on PET sensor, PCB … Continue reading →

Delta’s new ASIComplete program, an European partnership program for ASIC design houses and fabless vendors, has been inaugurated. The program offers a single interface to full semiconductor manufacturing services including:  tape-out, test, package and full turnkey supply chain.

Solid State Supplies has announced a series of four one-day seminars to be held across the UK in collaboration with Microsemi and Allegro Microsystems, two leading suppliers of mixed signal semiconductors for motor control applications.  The first seminar will take … Continue reading →

Solar panel specialist Heliatek has signed a joint development agreement with Reckli, a manufacturer of elastic moulds for concrete building façades. This will enable vertical concrete walls of buildings to become highly efficient solar energy harvesters by integrating Heliatek’s organic … Continue reading →

Cambridge Consultants has introduced a new architecture, ModStar, for the design of low power and efficient software defined radios (SDRs) for military communications. The ModStar architecture has been designed to enable implementation of SDR modules that can link multiple communication … Continue reading →

Mindspeed’s SoCs for dual-mode concurrent 3G and LTE operation, the latest in its Transcede family, are the first to use 3G technology from Picochip, the British company acquired by Mindspeed last month. 

UK design house Plextek has worked with Kelvin Hughes, a world leader in the design and supply of marine navigation systems, to develop an advanced FPGA based signal processing platform. The advanced signal processing platform utilises Xilinx Virtex 5 devices … Continue reading →

NXP has released its LPC1100LV series, which it says is the world’s first ARM Cortex-M0 microcontroller with dual supply voltage of 1.65V to 1.95V VDD and 1.65V to 3.6V VIO.  The LPC1100LV series offers 50 MIPS performance in a tiny … Continue reading →

Arrow Electronics has developed an energy-harvesting evaluation kit together with Italian technology consultant company @m2el that enables users to transmit and receive data via modules powered by solar energy and temperature differences. Called “The Drop,” the kit showcases components from … Continue reading →

Future World Symposium, a conference and exhibition that unveils the path of technological innovation in the UK, is set to take place on the 24th and 25th April  2012.  Now in its second year, the event examines emerging trends and … Continue reading →