Avnet Electronics Marketing EMEA, a subsidiary of Avnet, has signed a pan-European franchise agreement with Maxim Integrated Products. , one of the World’s leading manufacturers of analog components. The agreement is an extension of an existing relationship. Maxim has granted Avnet a twin franchise ...

Murata Power Solutions, formerly C&D Technologies Power Electronics Division, has decided to combine its product development and marketing teams under a single management line. This has resulted in the appointment of John Wanes as the Business Lead for AC/DC Products designed at its Toronto location...

The RoboCup German Open 2008 takes place from the 21st to the 25th of April 2008 at the Hanover Fair. For the first time the Robocup competition and accompanying events will take place under one roof together with the new special exhibition area “Mobile robots and autonomous systems”. Robocup Senior...

Mike Uhler, former CTO of Mips, has joined AMD as its first vice president of Accelerated Computing. Uhler has experience developing advanced chip architectures and software for designs that combine multiple intellectual property (IP) blocks. Prior to his role as CTO of MIPS, he served in various ar...

Micrel added four divide by three and divide by five clock dividers to their clock divider product family. The SY89228/229 are 1GHz LVPECL/LVDS dividers that feature Fail Safe Input (FSI) circuitry and the SY89230/231 are 3.2GHz LVPECL/LVDS dividers. Targeted applications include pre-scaling functio...

Texas Instruments introduced a resistor-programmable temperature switch. The TMP300 allows simple temperature monitoring and control. The TMP300 features a trip point that is set by adding a single resistor, and the open-drain output can control a power switch or provide a processor interrupt. ...

Fairchild Semiconductor’s FAN5645, a single wire programmable LED driver, offers a solution for blinking LED indicators. This device records a blinking pattern and plays it indefinitely, eliminating the need for continual system processor control. This results in energy savings and longer battery li...