Piranha color cameras from Dalsa (sales: Rauscher) deliver superb color fidelity at fast line rates and high resolutions. The RGB trilinear sensor eliminates artifacts associated with prism cameras by placing a separate row of pixels for each color on a single sensor die. Dalsa’s advanced design min...

The total turnover of the German component distribution market in 2006 increased by 17% to more than 2.53 bn Euro. This was reported by the FBDi. In the middle of the year the Book-to-Bill-Rate was 1.06. However, various corrections in the statistics occurred due to new and changed memberships. The ...

Mosaid sells certain assets of its System Division's automatic test equipment business to Teradyne for $20 million in cash. Teradyne also intends to hire the new product development team of the Systems Division. Mosaid anticipates that the transaction will close by April 2007, and will generate a pr...

Exar, a provider of mixed-signal silicon solutions for communications infrastructure, announced that Dr. Roubik Gregorian has resigned as Chief Executive Officer and President of the Company and as a member of the Board of Directors. Dr. Gregorian will remain with the Company in an advisory role thr...

Weidmüller has extended its family of SAI Active Universal modules with SAI Active Pro – a sub bus system with robust design rated to IP67. Standard bus systems used in mechanical engineering often prove to be problematical vis-à-vis two factors: The number of addresses is restricted and the costs f...

Epcos has developed two new ferrite materials whose properties make them suitable for the power range typical of SMPS and current meters. N95 is distinguished by a flux density of 525 mT at 25 °C and 410 mT at 100 °C. A special feature is its power dissipation at 100 °C: it is 250 kW/m3 at 500 kHz a...

STMicroelectronics introduced a LED driver to include auto-power-saving features. An advantage over the previous STP16Cx596 Power Logic series, the constant-current LED drivers allow the individual ICs to go into a shutdown mode when no active inputs are detected. The series features a clock and dat...