Intersil announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Zilker Labs, Inc., a privately-held, fabless semiconductor company with technology knowledge in digital power integrated circuits. Zilker Labs’ patented Digital-DC technology is amixed-signal power conversion and management...

The forerunners of the financial crisis are not noticeable in the orders received by the manufacturers of electronic modules. This has been reported by the ZVEI-Association Electronic Components and Systems. The orders received by in-house producers as well as by Electronic Manufacturing Services Pr...

Actel announced the availability of Libero Integrated Design Environment (IDE) version 8.5. Actel’s suite of software design tools extends support for the recently announced nano versions of IGLOO and ProASIC3 field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). It also introduces support for instantiation and c...

PLX Technology, a supplier of PCI Express (PCIe) switch and bridge silicon, will acquire all of the outstanding shares of capital stock of Oxford Semiconductor, a privately held fabless provider of industry-leading silicon and software for the consumer and small office/home office (SOHO) storage mar...

Avnet Memec distributes Luminary Micro’s Intelligent Display Module with 3.5” Landscape Display (MDL-IDM-L35). The module offers a complete QVGA touch-screen user interface for control, automation, and instrumentation applications. Offered both as a volume production module and a complete, open-tool...

According to the German ZVEI Association of Electronic Components and Systems, the sales of the circuit board manufacturers in September 2008 was only very slightly below that of August 2008. The cumulated combined sales, so far correspond to those of the previous year. The effects of the financial ...

Texas Instruments introduced a 2-MHz DC/DC boost converter that operates at 5 µA of quiescent current, while maintaining a high efficiency at light load conditions. The integrated circuit supports an input voltage of 0.7 V to 5.5 V and an output voltage range of 1.8 V to 5.5 V, extending battery lif...