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Total silicon platform provider, VIA offers a broad spectrum of imaginative solutions that are redefining the size, shape and scope of computers.

VIA Technologies - Emergent Computers

VIA stands for "Very Innovative Architecture". VIA acquired most of Cyrix, then a division of National Semiconductor, and also Integrated Device Technology's Centaur, marking its entry into the x86 microprocessor market. - Via at Wikipedia

The VIA EPIA-T700 is the first product based on the Mobile-ITX form factor. Measuring a mere 6cm x 6cm, ....designed for a range of ultra-compact embedded devices in medical, military and in-vehicle applications.

Tiny x86 computer-on-module - VIA Technologies

Powered by a specially miniaturized, fanless 1GHz VIA Eden ULV processor, the EPIA-T700 can be used with a variety of carrier boards that can be adapted and customized to meet the needs of a range of applications where ultra cool, ultra quiet, reliable performance is essential. Multimedia support via the VX820 media system processor.

• Onboard DDR2 512MB soldered memory chip
• Supports one VGA and one TTL/DVP
• Supports one single-channel IDE hard drive
• Supports five USB 2.0 ports
• Supports HD audio

"Flextek Electronics has extensive expertise in electronic controls, closed-loop control systems, embedded real-time controllers, analog circuits and power management, as well as software development."

Flextek Electronics - Electronic Solutions

CLOZD Loop Controller Chip - Flextek Electronics

"CLOZD is a patented control chip that is versatile and easy to use. Just select the desired timing configuration through pin settings and quickly close a loop around a power supply, motor drive, lamp, heater, fan, TEC, valve, actuator, or amplifier."

Toshiba Electronics Europe (TEE) offers a wide IC and discrete product range. high-end memory, microcontrollers and ASIC. Optoelectronic Semiconductors include Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) and Photocouplers.

Toshiba Electronic Components

Toshiba InGaAlP LED-devices feature high brightness as it employs four-element LED chip technology (InGaAlP). Higher Visibility, Low Power and Reliable LEDs for Lighting.

• Optical Semiconductor - Toshiba
• Toshiba America Electronic Components

Products and Solutions for wireless and network communication. CMOS Semiconductor Chips/ICs developed with Radio frequency (RF), mixed signal and digital semiconductor design technologies.

Atheros Communications Semiconductors

Products include Semiconductors for WLAN, Wi-Fi, GPS, Powerline, Bluetooth and Ethernet.

Technical Papers and Resources - Atheros

Atheros AR5007EG

Second generation single-chip IEEE 802.11b/g WLAN solution with support for PCI Express. Integrates a complete WLAN solution-media access controller (MAC), baseband processor, and a high-performance 2.4-GHz radio in a low cost digital CMOS design.

Hendon Semiconductors - Microelectronics Design

"Products include integrated circuits (silicon chips) in Bipolar, Bi-CMOS and CMOS technologies, thick film hybrids (ceramic substrate) and surface mounted printed circuit board assemblies and modules."

History -

"The Hendon business site in Adelaide, South Australia has been a long established integrated circuit design and wafer fabrication facility in Australia, from its Philips semiconductor background up to 1997..."

OM5448 low voltage LED driver and voltage boost circuit - Hendon

Some Features -

• Low voltage operation down to 1V
• Adjustable power output with current setting resistor
• Up to 500mA peak LED drive current
• High efficiency

AKM Semiconductor - Mixed-signal IC

"AKM - Asahi Kasei Microdevices designs and manufactures CMOS mixed signal integrated circuits for applications including audio, multimedia, data storage, and telecommunications."

Other Products - Touchscreen Controllers, Clock Generators.

Semiconductor magnetoresistive element (SMRE)

"Since a Sn doped single crystal film InSb is used as a material for the sensing element, the element has excellent magnetoresistive temperature characteristics and very small neutral voltage temperature drift. This element is mainly used for detection of gear rotation."

Hall Effect Semiconductors - Detects a magnetic field and output analog/digital(IC) signal proportional to the intensity of the magnetic field. used for non-contact type switches, rotation detection, and position detection.

"..Industry leader in the innovation of high-performance, analog-intensive, mixed-signal ICs. Developed by a world-class engineering team with unsurpassed expertise in mixed-signal design,.. "

Silicon Laboratories - High Performance Mixed-signal

Products Include -

8-bit microcontrollers, Embedded modems, Subscriber line interface circuits, silicon direct access arrangements (DAAs) and clocks and oscillators.

• Capacitive Touch Sensors
• Infrared Sensors
• OTP-EPROM
• High-Side DC Current Sensor

Silicon Laboratories' Knowledge Base

The Embedded Ethernet Evaluation Kit demonstrates the simplicity of adding embedded Ethernet connectivity to a product with the CP220x.

Embedded Ethernet Evaluation Kit

RF Micro Devices - RFMD Semiconductors

Manufacturer of RF integrated circuits. Product line includes quadrature modulators, quadrature demodulators, LNA/mixers, IF amplifiers, attenuators, etc.

Products for

• Amplifiers (Broadband, General Purpose)
• Low Noise Amplifiers and Discretes
• High Power Amplifiers and Discretes
• Integrated PLL/Mixers
• Signal Sources (VCOs and PLLs)

TriQuint Semiconductor - RF Semiconductors

Manufacturer of advanced high-performance RF solutions with Gallium Arsenide (GaAs), Gallium Nitride (GaN), Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) and Bulk Acoustic Wave (BAW) technologies.

History of TriQuint -

"1985 - A group of talented engineers found TriQuint as a spin off of Tektronix to research and develop the use of gallium arsenide (GaAs) for high performance wireless applications."

2008 - Acquire WJ Communications in Silicon Valley, California to strengthen Networks product line in base stations. WJ Communications was founded in 1957 as Watkins-Johnson."

TriQuint Semiconductor - Application Notes

NEC Electronics - Semiconductors

Manufactures semiconductors used in sectors like automotive and industrial, and consumer electronics.

• ASICs like Analog ASIC and ARM-based SoC
• ASSPs like CCD Linear Image Sensor and LED Driver IC
• Linear ICs like Operational Amplifier and Power Supply IC
• Transistors, Diodes and Thyristors (Discrete)

LED Driver IC

µPD168804 is a power supply control IC with four constant-current controller/driver channels. A high current drive of up to 1,500 mA per channel is supported by providing an external power MOSFET.