Ultralife reported revenue of $36.8 million for its fourth quarter of 2007, an increase of 22% compared with $30.1 million reported in the same three-month period in 2006. Revenue rose $6.7 million over the same quarter last year primarily due to higher sales of communications systems and the added ...

Cadence has acquired Chip Estimate Corporation. Founded in 2003, Chip Estimate products enable electronics design teams to predict the die size, yield, power consumption, performance, and cost of chips based on almost any design architecture, IP and silicon process node options. In addition the comp...

There has been a call for papers for the congress of the SPS/IPC/DRIVES 2008, which will be held from the 25th - 27th November in Nuremberg. Speakers are invited to submit their proposals by the 9th of May 2008. The emphases of the congress of the “SPS” are the subjects of Communication and Embedded...

The german manufacturers organized in the electronic modules section of the ZVEI, the Association of Electronic Components and Systems reports that the orders received in the 4th quarter 2007 increased by 11.9%. Compared to the 3rd quarter the turnover declined by 4.3%. The reason for this, accordin...

Texas Instruments introduced three DisplayPort devices that provide connectivity between personal computers and video displays. The low-power devices support data signaling rates up to 2.7 Gbps to accommodate DisplayPort and high-definition multimedia interface (HDMI) speeds, commonly used to link d...

STMicroelectronics announced a integrated power-management solution for MOST (Media Oriented Systems Transport) networks. The L5961 power management IC, which has been designed in cooperation with fabless semiconductor manufacturer SMSC to work with that company’s MOST network processors, inclu...

Ansoft has released new versions of Nexxim, a high-capacity circuit simulation software, and Ansoft Designer, an integrated schematic and design management software. The products include new statistical analysis and transient simulation capabilities that allow engineers to simulate high-speed serial...