Silicon Labs releases two families of frequency control products that use digital phase locked loops to provide frequency generation up to 1.4GHz

Welsh epitaxial wafer firm IQE saw interim revenues boosted 32 per cent to £9.6m as it closes in on an break-even target of £27m

The AAT3687 from AnalogicTech is a one-chip single-cell 4.2V lithium-ion and polymer battery charger

Despite all the talk of automated design flows and high level languages, paper specifications still dominate the entry point for design projects, but ESL's time is near

Bluetooth specialist CSR has opened a hardware design centre in Sophia Antipolis, the area of France noted for excellence in wireless design. Projects to be handled by the French team will include ultra-wideband (UWB) radios, said CSR. The office will be headed by design group leader Stéphane Boudaud. “We have been planning and working on a very high speed version ...

Survey of 1,000 Britons finds we're resorting to laptop PCs to wile away the hours of rain that punctuate the endless minutes of sun during our summer holidays

Toshiba claims to have developed the first configurable microprocessor core to achieve a 1GHz clock speed. At the same time Tensilica introduces 600-700MHz part

BSI have published four international standards on biometric technology which it says are intened to protect UK business and consumers

Acal Semiconductors announces has a PCI controller which can be configured as a bus target, enabling data transfer at modest rates

IBM, Toshiba, and Sony will release documents on the web that describe technical details of their Cell microprocessor