From the Editor

This year the name Plessey goes back onto a building just outside the British port of Plymouth, after twenty years absence. Europe editor, Dick Selwood, looks back to the legacy and forward to the prospects of Plessey Semiconductors.

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Jim Turley - Editor, Embedded Technology Journal


Industry News

February 08, 2010

Space Saving Dual Concentric Encoders from Foremost

MIPS Technologies Licenses Processor IP to Taiwan’s IC Plus Corp.

Peratech’s QTC sensor technology licensed to Samsung Electro-mechanics

Paragon Software Introduces NTFS For Windows CE, Providing Mobile And Embedded Devices With Full Access To NTFS Storage

Xilinx at Mobile World Congress 2010

Low Power Isolated Monolithic Flyback Switching Regulator Simplifies Design & Eliminates Optocoupler

SiliconBlue Unveils New Members of the iCE65 mobileFPGA Family at Mobile World Congress

February 05, 2010

CommAgility Announces Complete PHY And MAC Card For LTE Or WIMAX

Saelig Introduces Customizable Hi-speed USB2.0 Module

Wind River to Add Virtutech Simics Products to Comprehensive Embedded Software Portfolio

Call For Community Input: Linux Professional Institute "Job Task Analysis"

February 04, 2010

Tiny Qseven Starter Kits with ready-to-run Linux Installation

Jungo Launches Driver-Less USB Software for Mobile Data Cards

C-MAC MicroTechnology announces further development of high temperature DC-DC converters

Empress Embedded Database Crowns Googles Nexus One

IAR Systems and Energy Micro collaboration eases development of ultra low power MCU applications

Feature Articles

Phoenix Rising?

An Old Name Returns in a New Role

by Dick Selwood

Trying to trace UK electronics companies through the maze of takeovers, sales, mergers and disposals of the last fifty years is complex and frequently depressing. Then sometimes something happens and, irrationally, the mood lightens. The news that the Plessey Semiconductors name is once again to be on the outside of a wafer fab provokes one of those irrational moments.

Thirty years ago Britain still had a significant home-grown electrical and electronics industry.

ICL was building mainframe computers, with its own operating system and using its own designs of LSI ICs.  Read More

Cortex M0 or BMW M3?

by Jim Turley


Tilera Gets Its Gonzo On

by Jim Turley


Telling Time Over Ethernet

by Rajendra Nath Datta, Senior Director of Marketing, Symmetricom


Safety and Aristotle

by Dick Selwood



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