While designers of advanced portable systems with hot swap capabilities often need programmability to maximize protection, reverse blocking to control reverse current potentials and a fault flag to indicate over-current or over-temperature conditions, until now they could only add all three function...

Omron and Renesas have reached an agreement to jointly develop capacitive touch sensor solutions, a field that is attracting a great deal of interest as a next-generation man-machine interface. Based on this agreement, Renesas will integrate Omron's touch sensor technology into its R8C Family 16-bit...

Samsung Electronics announced that Wan Hoon Hong has been appointed Chief Executive Officer and President of Samsung Semiconductor, Inc. Hong will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of the company’s Memory, LCD, Storage and System LSI divisions within the Americas. Prior to his appointment fo...

Vicor reported its financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 2008. Revenues for the fourth quarter decreased to $51,324,000, compared to $53,947,000 for the corresponding period a year ago and $51,278,000 for the third quarter of 2008. Net loss for the fourth quarter was $3,50...

National Semiconductor reported sales of $292 million and net income of $21.1 million for the third quarter of fiscal 2009. In the second quarter the company reported $422 million in sales and $36 million in net income. Compared to last year, sales decreased approximately 36 percent from the $453 mi...

The GS-Series (sale: Rauscher) are based on Prosilica’s GB-Series single-board cameras. These cameras with Gigabit Ethernet interface (GigE vision) are aimed at industrial inspection, general machine vision and microscopy. The first four models to be released are the GS650, GS660, GS1380, GS2450, ra...

The organiser of the embedded world has presented the statistics of the trade fair held from the 3rd to the 5th of march 2009 in Nuremberg. According to these there were 704 exhibitors to present their products to 15,850 visitors. In comparison to 2008 there were 4 percent more exhibitors. The sales...