Vicor is now offering custom power system design and manufacturing capabilities in Europe. The custom service allows customers to specify their power systems for application-specific power needs and/or unique form factor specifications, based on Vicor’s power modules and components. It will be provided by European Technical Support Centres and the company’s Custom Design Centre and manufacturing facilities in the US. According to Felice Caccavale, v-p EMEA, Vicor: ...

The GSMA, organisers of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, have announced the winners of the 19th Annual Global Mobile awards. Headline grabbing awards include the Samsung Gear Fit being awarded “The Best Mobile Device”, the Apple iPad Air scooping “Best Mobile Tablet”, LG picking up “Most Innovative Device Manufacturer of the Year” (“Impressive across the board with ground-breaking innovation ...

The Electronics Weekly team share their picks of the week, in terms of announcements, developments, product releases, quotes or anything else in the wider world that caught their eye in the last seven days… David Manners, components editor …It was Pasquale Pistorio (right) taking to the streets alongside the President of the Italian Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, and the Mayors of ...

VLSI Technology, the ASIC company, once told Apple they were going to be late delivering a chip.

Altium’s latest release of its Tasking ARM compiler incorporates the Software Platform technology for Cortex-M series microcontrollers. This development tool is intended allow designers to create an embedded application without worrying about standard middleware components. The Eclipse-based IDE includes a C/C++ compiler, simulator and hardware debugger along with a collection of frequently used middleware components, such as TCP/IP, USB, CAN, web server, ...

Server revenues declined 4.4% in Q4 to $14.2 billion – making it the fourth quarter in a row that server revenues have shown y-o-y declines, says IDC.

Server revenues declined 4.4% in Q4 to $14.2 billion – making it the fourth quarter in a row that server revenues have shown y-o-y declines, says IDC.

One more I was forced to shout at the radio this morning as the delightful Evan Davis said something about the R101 being the most advanced airship of its time – I sadly cannot remember the exact words, but that was roughly that. Why shout? Because the R101 might well have been the longest airship, but the R100 – which ...

Farnell element14 is offering Atmel’s SAMA5D3 Xplained prototyping and evaluation platform for microprocessor-based design. The board, which is based on Atmel’s SAMA5D3 ARM Cortex-A5 processor-based MPU, has Arduino shield-compatible expansion headers for customisation. With a Linux distribution and software package the board is also compatible with Android developments. Atmel has expanded its ARM Cortex M0+-based microcontroller range with entry-level, low-power devices. The SAM D21, D10 and D11 families of Cortex M0+-based ...

NXP has been awarded passport-level security clearance for its P60 microcontroller. The MCU, based around what the firm brands ‘SmartMX2 technology’, received Common Criteria Certification level EAL6+, “the highest achievable level by a semiconductor company”, said NXP. “The certificate was presented by the German Government’s Federal Office for IT Security [BSI] during a ceremony held during the RSA conference in ...