Semiconductors News

RSS

TI Introduces LED Drivers for High-Quality Video in Large-Panel Signage Applications

Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) introduced today two 16-channel, constant-current sink, light- emitting diode (LED) drivers with dot correction and grayscale on one integrated circuit (IC) for high-quality video. The drivers give designers increased system reliability and dynamic brightness control to enhance the resolution for large-panel mono-, multi- or full-color LED displays, LED signboards and display backlighting.

7 Nov 2007

Bioscrypt Introduces New Optical Reader

Bioscrypt Inc., a leading provider of identity and access management solutions, today announced the V-Station (Optical), a fingerprint reader for physical access control featuring a 500 DPI optical sensor. The reader is immediately available for purchase.

7 Nov 2007

Radar Technology: Key to Innovative Driver Assistance Systems That Avoid Car Accidents

Around 1.7 million people are injured and 40,000 killed on Europe’s roads each year. The European Union aims to cut in half this large number by 2010, and innovative safety systems in cars can help make this happen. For instance, long- and medium-range radar can lower road accident risk despite visibility. Equipped with such a safety system, vehicles can identify other road users and obstacles ahead at distances of between 20 and 200 meters.

7 Nov 2007

Hot Embossing - An Alternative to Precision Molding for Glass Lens Production

Up to 10 times faster, a good 70 percent cheaper, yet still of comparable quality: It is worthwhile to manufacture glass lenses by hot embossing rather than precision molding. Researchers have optimized this technology.

6 Nov 2007

MGB Endoscopy Announces World's First CMOS HD Endoscopic Camera

After depending on merely adequate standard video camera support for the past 30 years, the field of minimally-invasive endoscopy now has a realtime visual tool to meet all of its demanding requirements.

6 Nov 2007

Pixelplus Introduces 'System-On-A-Chip' Image Sensor

Pixelplus Co., Ltd. (NASDAQ:PXPL), a fabless semiconductor company in Korea that designs, develops, and markets CMOS image sensors for various consumer electronics applications, today announced that it introduced samples of its PO6030 VGA 'System-on-a-Chip' ("SoC") image sensors through the Company's foundry partner in Taiwan.

6 Nov 2007

JDSU Announced Delivery of Pump Laser to Support Increasing Network Traffic Demands

JDSU today announced that it has delivered its 400,000th 980 nanometer (nm) amplifier pump laser based on its planar platform. The recipient of the milestone shipment, Wuxi Zhongxing Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. (WXZTE), located in Wuxi, China, has purchased more than 30,000 980nm pump lasers from JDSU over the past three years.

6 Nov 2007

Negative-Index Metamaterials Faster than Existing Telecoms Devices

An optical modulator based on negative-index metamaterials could be faster and more compact than existing telecoms devices.

6 Nov 2007

Sales of Fiber laser to Exceed $240 million in 2007

Sheet metal cutting and micro applications lead the growth in the fiber laser market according to the latest report from Strategies Unlimited.

4 Nov 2007

Microsemi Increase New Backlight Inverters for Powering Displays

Microsemi Corporation, a leading manufacturer of analog and mixed signal integrated circuits and high reliability semiconductors, has announced the addition of two new series to its benchmark portfolio of backlight inverters for powering displays that use a single cold cathode fluorescent lamp.

1 Nov 2007