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The industry’s first precision instrumentation amplifier designed and manufactured specifically for high temperature applications was unveiled by Analog Devices Inc. (ADI). The AD8229, 1.0-nV/√Hz high-temperature instrumentation amplifier is the only low noise instrumentation amplifier guaranteed to perform at up to 210°C in the most extreme environments, such as down-hole...

Avago Technologies has signed a Manufacturers Representative agreement for the Israeli market with Semix Engineering & Marketing Ltd. Avago is providing leading electronics companies in Israel with a wide range of products, including RF and microwave semiconductors, fiber optics, optocouplers, LEDs and encoders. The agreement is intended to help...

NXP Semiconductors N.V. announced the appointment of Peter Kelly as Executive Vice President, Operations. He joins Chris Belden reporting to Rick Clemmer and will share responsibility with Belden for managing the overall operations of NXP. “The global operations organization is of key importance to the success of NXP, especially...

Semtech Corp. , a supplier of analog and mixed-signal semiconductors, and Virtual Extension (Beit Dagan, Israel), a mesh wireless networks provider, announced the expansion of their wireless mesh network platform to include a new, ultra-high transmission range (Tx) power chipset that brings a new level of performance to a...

Texas Instruments has been ranked at the top of the latest Vendor Matrix released by ABI Research. Freescale Semiconductor and NXP Semiconductors claimed the second and third spots in the company’s most recent evaluation of worldwide IEEE 802.15.4 integrated circuit vendors. The Vendor Matrix is an analytical tool developed...

Analog Devices Inc. (ADI) announced a new RF transceiver that addresses the ARIB STD-T96 protocol for wireless data transmission. Established by Japan’s ARIB (Association of Radio Industries and Businesses), the ARIB STD-T96 is specified for the automatic transmission and measurement of data from remote sources by low-power radio equipment....

RF Micro Devices Inc. (RFMD) announced it is proudly celebrating its 20th anniversary with commemorative events planned at company locations throughout the year. RF Micro Devices was incorporated on February 27, 1991, and held its initial public offering on June 3, 1997. From its earliest days, RFMD has been...

Xilinx and Nujira announced the first successful integration of envelope tracking (ET) technology with a third-party digital pre-distortion (DPD) solution running on an FPGA. The two companies have delivered a reference design for a cellular base station PA circuit with Nujira’s Coolteq.h envelope tracking modulator linearized by a Xilinx...