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Display specialist Ginsbury have announced the addition of a 18.5-inch projected capacitive (PCAP) touch panel from the industrial touch panel supplier Ocular. The touch panel is part of Ocular"s Crystal Touch: TRUE Multi-Touch PLUS standard product line.

EBV Elektronik is offering its customers online access to comprehensive information about all applications, markets and technologies in the Vertical Segment of Identification. As well as providing an overview of markets and applications, the new EBV Identification website contains information on everything from general material about the subject of identification to detailed descriptions of the actual applications.

Toshiba Electronics Europe has launched a new VGA, 1/4 inch CMOS image sensor for automotive applications including rear view cameras for parking assist systems, surround view systems and side view systems. The TCM5126GBA integrates a high dynamic range (HDR) function that reproduces high quality images of objects backlit by the sun and vehicle headlights. The CMOS image sensor boasts a pixel size of 5.6µm and a full resolution frame rate of 60fps.

LSI Corporation has unveiled the third generation of its SandForce flash controller line, currently the industry’s most widely deployed flash management technology for driving PCIe and SATA solid state drive (SSD) and flash card solutions. Designed to support power-sensitive client computing applications, the new SandForce SF3700 flash controller family provides increased levels of flash performance, reliability and endurance.

Kontron has announced the availability of its next-generation high-performance embedded computer COBALT (Computer Brick Alternative) system offering a complete, rugged small form factor system that leverages the company"s hardened COM Express Computer-on-Modules (COMs) and optimises the latest Intel x86 architecture.

Microchip has unveiled the new 24-member PIC32MZ Embedded Connectivity (EC) family of 32-bit MCUs. Designed to support increasingly complex application the MCU provides 330 DMIPS and 3.28 CoreMarks/MHz, in addition to dual-panel, live-update Flash (up to 2 MB), large RAM (512 KB) and the connectivity peripherals - including a 10/100 Ethernet MAC, Hi-Speed USB MAC/PHY, which is a first for PIC MCUs, and dual CAN ports.

Intersil Corporation has just introduced the ISL29035, a new and highly compact ambient and infrared sensor. According to Intersil it is the industry’s smallest 6-lead digital light sensor and looks to address the requirements for angular response and sensitivity to various light sources in handheld, PC, TV and industrial display applications.

Altera Corporation has announced that the latest release of the company’s SDK for OpenCL supports IBM Power Systems servers as an OpenCL system host. Customers will now be able to develop OpenCL code that targets IBM Power Systems CPUs and accelerator boards using Altera’s FPGAs as a high-performance compute solution. According to the company FPGA users can see a 5-20X performance boost over standard CPU based servers for many applications.

Harwin has announced that its Gecko family of high performance connectors will be used on CubeSat miniature satellites which are being designed by Surrey Space Centre as part of the international QB50 programme led by the von Karman Institute in Belgium.

New from International Rectifier the IR3891 and IR3892 SupIRBuck integrated dual output voltage regulators have been designed for space-constrained netcom, server and storage applications.