Broadcom, a semiconductor developer for wired and wireless communications, will acquire LVL7 Systems, a privately-held developer of networking software. Broadcom expects to pay approximately $62 million in cash to acquire outstanding shares of capital stock and vested stock options of LVL7 and liqui...

The SPS/IPC/DRIVES 2006 fair was opened in Nuremberg Tuesday and in the next three days 1,203 exhibitors from 33 countries will display systems and components in the field of electrical automation. In comparison to 2005 this is an increase of 43 local companies and the area of the fair has increased...

The companies involved in automation technology in Germany have achieved a turnover of 15.4 bn Euro in the first 6 months of 2006. This result is 9% above that of the comparable period of the previous year. Exports rose by 10.9%. The internal market increased by 10.6% and imports rose by 15%. The nu...

Intersil’s ISL6545 and ISL6545A single-output PWM (pulse width modulation) controllers are integrating the boot diode, the overcurrent protection, and the MOSFET drivers onto a single chip. The devices’ overcurrent function protects the controllers from a shorted output by using the lower MOSFET’s o...

Tektronix announced RSA-IQWIMAX demodulation and analysis software, part of a test set to find and solve WiMAX design problems. The software is a application specific test tool for characterizing and troubleshooting WiMAX device designs utilizing a Tektronix RSA3408A Real-Time Spectrum Analyzer and ...

Maxim introduces the latest member of its high-speed, LVDS SERDES family-the MAX9254 hot-swappable, high-output-drive, 21-bit, DC-balanced LVDS deserializer with programmable spread spectrum. This device spreads output clock and data over a specified ±2% or ±4% range to reduce EMI. By reducing the n...

The Harting Group with its headquarters in Espelkamp, Ostwestfalen, closed its business year 2005/2006 in September (cut-off date 30.9.2006). Worldwide the company achieved a turnover of 313 M Euro and thus managed an increase compared to the previous year of 17.2% (previous year 267 m. Euro). In th...