Lantiq announced that Michael Thompson has joined the company as Senior Vice President and head of the worldwide sales organization. Over the course of his career he worked with communication companie...

Vicor reported its financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 2009. Revenues for the fourth fiscal quarter decreased to $49,138,000, compared to $51,324,000 for the corresponding...

Electronic components distributor Digi- has signed a deal for the global distribution of gallium nitride (GaN)-based power management devices from EPC. Established in 2007, EPC is a fab-less company w...

The Embedded World ended last Thursday with a growth of exhibitors and visitors. 730 Companies – an increase of 4% on the previous year – presented their products and services to 18,350 trade visitors...

Particularly harsh environmental conditions often demand special fixing components for electronics mounting systems. Now Schroff has added products of this type from its sister companies Birtcher and Calmark, both also members of the Pentair Technical Products Group, to its standard product range. I...

With the Sony/Philips Digital Interface (S/PDIF) protocol that was developed jointly by those two companies as an interface for audio data, it is possible to transmit digital audio signals nearly without data loss. Data transmission can be accomplished either electrically using a coaxial cable or op...

CompactPCI Serial (PICMG CompactPCI-S.0), originally known as "CompactPCI Plus", is the successor to CompactPCI. This independent specification is built on entirely serial architecture and offers a data transfer speed of up to 32 Gb/s. However, a soft migration path from parallel to serial architect...

Photonfocus introduces a new uncooled CMOS camera EL1-D1312-160-CL for the inspection of solar cells based on electroluminescence. The 1.4Megapixel camera is based on the newly developed CMOS imager A1312 from Photonfocus. The camera is optimized for applications in the visible as well as the Near I...