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Texas Instruments is targeting its voice-over-Internet-protocol (VoIP) over wireless LAN (WLAN) mobile phone platform at the healthcare, retailing, manufacturing and university campus market. VoIP on WLAN networks will also be aimed at the residential market, said Angela Raucher, IP phone business manager at TI. “Service providers are interested in offering VoIP phones to meet a need,” she said. The platform ...

Mentor Graphics has agreed to provide EDA tools to chip entrepreneurs through the university partnership SETsquared. SETsquared is part of an enterprise partnership between the universities of Bath, Bristol, Southampton and Surrey which recently received £13m from the Government’s higher education innovation fund. The organisation aims to help early stage, high growth potential technology ventures across the south of the ...

There are reported to be hundreds of thousands of designers working with FPGAs and programmable logic – most of them using the free or very low cost tools from the device vendors. But a rapid performance gain in FPGAs is attracting interest, especially from Asic-savvy designers, and this has not escaped the notice of EDA firms, who are supporting the ...

At a quarter the size of a standard PC Card, the flash card is already small. However, if mobile phone makers have their way, how...

ARM has plotted a strategy to get the company past the billion dollar revenue mark and aims to become the ‘virtual Intel’ of the semiconductor industry. “We can see how we can get beyond $1bn, we know how we can get there,” Sir Robin Saxby, chairman of ARM told Electronics Weekly. For over a decade, Saxby has held to the ...

Pat Gelsinger, senior vice-president and chief technology officer at Intel, sat down with Electronic News to talk about the future of computing, new markets where silicon will become prevalent and the processor giant’s overall direction. What follows are excerpts of that interview. Electronic News: Intel seems to have shifted gears from the race to more performance in a single processor ...

AVX claims to have the smallest tantalum capacitor with the highest volumetric efficiency on the market. The firm’s 0402-sized TACmicrochip tantalum chip capacitor is now available at the all-important 10µF capacitance value. “There is no point making a small device if you cannot put higher capacitance values in those geometries,” said Bill Millman, technical director in AVX’s tantalum division. “We ...

Disappearing are the days when the fog light switch in a car is actually connected to the light bulbs it operates. Instead, a digital message in a data bus is increasingly likely to be sent to an electronics module near the lamp. This module will not only activate the fog light, and probably several other lamps as well, but it ...

Swiss memory technology firm Innovative Silicon has hired intellectual property veteran Mark-Eric Jones as its chief executive officer. Jones joins the start-up after six years at memory firm MoSys, where he was vice-president and general manager for IP licensing. He has also led Mentor Graphics’ Inventra IP business unit. “We are delighted to welcome Mark-Eric to Innovative Silicon,” said Pierre ...

Technology for inkjet printing lines of conductive inks and polymer semiconductors just 10µm wide is the target of a project being led by Cambridge firm Plastic Logic. The company, with the University of Cambridge and materials suppliers Avecia and Gwent Electronic Materials, was last week awarded £1.2m as part of the Government’s £90m Micro and Nanotechnology Manufacturing initiative, announced last ...