For $9.3 million Spectrum Control has acquired all of the outstanding common stock of Advanced Thermal Products (ATP). ATP, based in St. Marys, Pennsylvania, designs and manufactures custom temperature sensors, temperature probes and thermistors. Advanced Thermal Products was founded in 1985. Founde...

According to a report in Forbes News magazine, AMD is to close its Geode Design Center in Logmont, Colorado. One half of the staff of 150 will be absorbed in other AMD factories; the remainder will be laid off. As is mentioned further, planned developments for Geode will not be carried out. Neverthe...

Expectations for 2006 in decline

The consolidated net sales of the Micronas Group for the first six months of the current year reached CHF 411.3 million, a rise of 5.7 percent over the same period of 2005. Operating profit before depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) fell compared with the first half of 2005 by 45.5 percent to CHF...

MK Consultants has introduced the FM transmitter GT2HP-UHF. The module operates at the UK license-free frequency of 458.85MHz and has a power output of 250mW. It can be paired with the MK Consultants GR2 receiver. Housed in a fully shielded 31mm x 19mm x 4mm miniature SIL package, the GT2HP-UHF...

VeriEZ Solutions announced two pre-packaged sets of guidelines (“rulesets”) for design and verification teams. The rulesets complement existing rulesets in EZVerify, VeriEZ’s productivity solution for OpenVera and SystemVerilog-based design and verification teams. EZVerify utilizes static analysis t...

Macraigor Systems announced the availability of J-SCAN Version 2.1, the newest release of its boundary-scan debug and programming tool. Version 2.1 of J-SCAN communicates to the target with a USB 2.0- and USB 1.1-compatible interface that runs in high speed or full speed modes. This gives a performa...