- 10 - 11 February, 2010
Southern Electronics - 04 March, 2010
Sequoia Wireless Technology Seminar - 08 - 12 March, 2010
DATE 2010 - 24 - 25 March, 2010
Avionics Europe incorporating Defence Electronics - 19 - 21 April, 2010
Next Generation Networks & Basestations
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SpringSoft, a supplier of specialised IC design software, has introduced a new power-aware debug module for its Verdi Automated Debug system. Power-aware debug has been designed to accelerate the comprehension of power intent and automates the process of visualising, tracing and analysing the source of power-related errors. The module is fully integrated with the hardware description language (HDL) debug capabilities of the Verdi system.
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ICs & Semiconductors
Rambus unveils Mobile XDR memory architecture for next generation mobiles
Rambus has unveiled its Mobile XDR memory architecture for next-generation mobile devices. Based on Rambus’ Mobile Memory Initiative introduced last year, Mobile XDR offers a high-bandwidth, low-power memory architecture to enable advanced applications in next-generation mobile devices such as smart phones, netbooks, portable gaming and media devices. |
Wireless Technology
New module offering complete digital baseband design
CommAgility has unveiled a new module that provides a complete Digital Baseband design including L1 PHY (physical layer) L2 RLC/MAC (Radio Link Control/Media Access Control), S1/X2 interface and security processing for LTE (Long Term Evolution) or WiMAX in the compact single width, full-size Advanced Mezzanine Card (AMC) form factor. |
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Comment & Analysis
On the turn
It’s now ten years since we fretted over how the advent of the new millennium and spectre of the dreaded Y2K bugs would impact the world’s computer systems. Would it bring the global economy to a standstill? In the event the computers continued to function and the potential disaster scenarios never played out. Instead, a decade later, we have had to cope with a real and much more serious economic problem caused by the banks, those stuffy, ‘safe as houses’ institutions. |
Interconnection
Combined power-signal connector offers rapid wiring technology for field assembly
Harting’s Han Q 4/2 industrial connector – a high-current device that combined four power contacts rated at 40 A each along with two signal contacts rated at 10 A each – is now available with the company’s rapid wiring technology in a move designed to ease field assembly. |
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EDA & Development
TM500 Test Mobile now supports multiple handset emulation capability
Aeroflex has announced that its TM500 Test Mobile will be the first to market to support multiple UE (user equipment, or handset) emulation in conjunction with measurements for the 3GPP W-CDMA Release 8 DC-HSDPA (Dual Cell High-Speed Download Packet Access) standard. |
Power Electronics
C-MAC extends agreement with CISSOID
C-MAC Technology has extended its agreement with CISSOID to integrate Vesuvio technology into high temperature DC-DC converter designs featuring Magma and Hyperion semiconductor devices. Following on from the successful 20 Watt module based around the original ETNA chip set, these new state-of-the-art modules offer further improvements in efficiency and packaging density and provide multiple output voltages with life time operation at 225°C. The extended product range will provide output voltages in the range of 1.2V up to 90% of VIN at 2A and up to 50% reduction in physical size. Efficiencies of more than 90% above 200°C confirm the leading class position of the product family. Single, dual and triple output voltage modules as well as higher current versions will be available over the coming months. |
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News & Views
Report suggests electronic contract manufacturing is recovering, but uncertainties remain
According to a new report from iSuppli, while the global electronics contract manufacturing industry is set to return to growth in 2010 after a painful 2009, the market still faces major uncertainties over the coming twelve months. Worldwide revenue generated by the two segments of the contract manufacturing business - i.e., Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) providers and Original Design Manufacturers (ODMs) - is set to rise to $280.8 billion in 2010, up 7.8 percent from $260.5 billion in 2009. This follows a 13.4 percent decline in 2009 that was spurred by the global economic recession and the resulting electronics downturn. |
Web Exclusives
Gimme Five – Ray Alderman
Ray Alderman talks to Steve Rogerson in our new series of interviews for CIEonline. Ray Alderman has been executive director of Vita (VME bus International Trade Association) since 1998 and before that he was technical director. His experience includes four years in military intelligence during the Vietnam war, and he has degrees in business and accounting and computer engineering. He has held positions in mainframe hardware and software engineering, and was a certified microprocessor engineer for several semiconductor companies as well as founder and partner in two start-up board and systems companies and president and CEO of a $40m board vendor. He claims he has been a general irritant to the technology industry for the past 30 odd years. |
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- • Bruel & Kjaer open new UK facilities
- • Report suggests electronic contract manufacturing is recovering, but uncertainties remain
- • Dialog Semiconductor acquires power management technology from Diodes Zetex
- • Renesas opens new facility in Beijing
- • ARM sees record chip sales
- • ACW to open US manufacturing facility
- • ML Electronic design saves power in a “Gym for the Lungs”
- • SmartStrip developer attracts £2m in new investment
- • Axis Electronics opens new microelectronic facility
- • Plextek reaches co-marketing agreement with TriQuint
- More . . .
- •Competition: Win a Sensirion EK-H4 multiplexer evaluation kit from APC
- •APTX licenses audio-over-IP solution to Microsoft Game Studios
- •STMicroelectronics adds finishing touches to miniaturised comparator family
- •Bruel & Kjaer open new UK facilities
- •New monopole antennas enable multiple M2M applications
- •Switchtec offers versatile range of new switch disconnectors
- •Cambridge Consultants give Bluetooth product design a boost with DEVA
- •New 15V, 4MHz, synchronous 2.5A step-down regulator from Linear


