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DALLAS (November 30, 2007) - Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) and Arrow Electronics Inc. will present a live Analog eLabTM Webcast for designers titled "Selecting the Right Isolation Solution" on Wednesday, December 12, 2007, at 11:00 a.m. CST (18:00 hrs CET). The webcast will highlight the various isolation options available to electronics designers and discuss relevant criteria for selecting a solution for their applications.

This story describes the support done in Erika Enterprise for the Evidence/Embedded solutions Flex Board. Flex is an embedded board which can be used by all the developers who want to fully exploit the potential of the latest Microchip micro-controllers: the dsPIC (R) DSC family. Flex is born as a development board where to easily develop and test real-time applications for the dsPIC (R) DSC micro-controller.

Embedded applications often require tight control on the temporal behavior of each single activity in the system. The research in the field of real-time systems brought the team of Evidence Srl to design a small, efficient, modular real-time kernel that can be used to easily guarantee real-time constraints in every embedded applications. Erika Enterprise and RT-Druid represent the answer of Evidence Srl for the development of scalable real-time applications for the Microchip dsPIC (R) DSC family.

FLEX is an embedded board which can be used by all the developers who want to fully exploit the potential of the latest Microchip micro-controllers: the dsPIC® DSC family. FLEX is born as a development board where to easily develop and test real-time applications for the Microchip dsPIC® DSC micro-controller.

The main idea is to develop a single-click digital control automatic code generation tool for FLEX. To use The Scilab/Scicos code generator you need at least the following hardware and software:

Carl Icahn, BEA Systems Inc.’s largest shareholder and activist investor seem to have a possible battle with BEA, itself.
http://openit.biteus.org/bea-fights-with-carl-icahn/

CHANDLER, Ariz., Nov. 5, 2007 [NASDAQ: MCHP] — Microchip
Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller and analog semiconductors, today announced the PIC32 family of 32-bit microcontrollers (MCUs). The PIC32 family adds more performance and
more memory while maintaining pin, peripheral and software compatibility with Microchip’s 16-bit MCU/DSC families. To further ease migration and protect tool investments, the PIC32 family is fully
supported by Microchip’s free MPLAB^® Integrated Development Environment (IDE). The MPLAB IDE offers unprecedented compatibility by supporting Microchip’s complete portfolio of 8-, 16- and 32-bit devices.
WWW.MICROCHIP.COM/PIC32

In the past months, there are claims that the well-known KeywordSpy is a reseller of KeyCompete. To check the veracity of the alleged buzz, I decided to signed-up for both systems and compared their respective services. After a series of tests, I boldly claim via this post that KeywordSpy is way way better than KeyCompete.

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STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a world leader in automotive semiconductors, today announced it has launched volume production of its Teseo GPS engine designed for use in certain Garmin Portable Navigation Devices (PNDs) and handheld GPS receivers.
“We are proud to announce that our state-of-the-art GPS technology has been selected for Garmin’s new range of portable and handheld devices,” said Domenico Rossi, General Manager of ST’s Car Radio and Multimedia Division. “ST is one of the few players in this market that can offer high-performance and cost-effective GPS solutions, based on robust silicon technology, experience in the automotive market, and know-how developed in collaboration with leading navigation manufacturers.”