Lattice Semiconductor announced the addition of the programmable, ispPAC-POWR607 device to its Power Manager II product family. The devices achieve a sub- $1.00 price point in high volume, targeting power management applications such as LCD TV, automotive multimedia systems, GPS receivers, Multimedi...

Vicor announces the addition of eight mid-power Maxi DC-DC converters to the 24Vdc input family: a 3.3Vout, 200W model and 300W models at 5, 12, 15, 24, 28, 36, and 48Vout. The modules - which incorporate Vicor’s patented low-noise Zero-Current and Zero-Voltage Switching (ZCS/ZVS) topology - are app...

Epcos will terminate the business activities in the field of double-layer capacitors (UltraCap) by March 31, 2007. The company hopes that the termination will improve earnings by about EUR 4 million per year. The outlook for successful high-volume marketing of double-layer capacitors has deteriorate...

Zinc Matrix Power, developer of rechargeable battery technology based on silver, zinc and water, unveils Silver-Zinc Rechargeable Battery Technology as a Safe Alternative to Traditional Lithium-Ion Batteries. This technology contains no lithium or flammable liquids and is free from the problems of t...

Green Hills Software has announced that µ-velOSity is now available for Analog Devices’ Blackfin processors. With a ROM footprint as small as 2200 bytes, RAM footprint as small as 1000 bytes, and service call times as low as 30 cycles, µ-velOSity is dedicated for the convergent applications in which...

Synopsys and First Silicon Solutions (FS2), a division of MIPS Technologies, announced the availability of the Sitka evaluation and development platform for Synopsys' DesignWare PCI Express (PCIe) IP. The Sitka board, the result of collaboration between the two companies, functions as a standard PCI...

The SMT348 and SMT368 from Sundance Multiprocessor Technology are based on the Xilinx Virtex4 range. The board features 16MB of blistering fast QDRII memory. With 8MB of ZBTRAM comes the lower cost SMT368. Both are scalable and include SHB interfaces and the SLB (Sundance LVDS Bus) interface. These ...