AUSTIN, TX – National Instruments (NI) reported second-quarter revenue dropped 28% from last year to $152.2 million. Despite the drop, it still came in above the midpoint of the company’s guidance. Read more ...
THIEF RIVER FALLS, MN and SUNNYVALE, CA – Digi-Key Corp. and Fujitsu Microelectronics America (FMA) have signed a distribution agreement. Digi-Key will now distribute FMA’s MB95200 series of 8-bit microcontrollers and FMA1127 digital touch-screen controllers. The MB95200 series has low power requirements and high reliability. Applications include home appliances, electrical tools and consumer healthcare products. The FMS1127 is the first digital touch-screen sensor IC and was developed for mobile devices including PDAs and mobile phones.
WILSONVILLE, OR – Mentor Graphics Corp. appointed Trident Techlabs as its distributor in India. Trident will oversee the PCB and ASIC/FPGA product portfolio including: Expedition Enterprise and PADS; ModelSim; Questa and HyperLynx. The agreement will expand Mentor’s customer base to include Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad and Pune.
SAN FRANCISCO – Mentor Graphics CEO Wally Rhines may have coined his own corollary to Moore's Law: The number of transistors produced per electronics engineer increases by four orders of magnitude every 25 years.
WILSONVILLE, OR – Dr. Walden Rhines, CEO and chairman of Mentor Graphics Corp., will be the keynote speaker at Semicon West 2009, held July 14-16 in San Francisco.
WILSONVILLE, OR – Mentor Graphics Corp. has appointed Beijing Ruihesoft Co. its distributor in China. Ruihesoft will handle PADS PCB design flow and the HyperLynx product line for high-speed signal interconnect simulation. The partnership will also expand Mentor’s coverage in the country, adding an additional five major cities in eastern and northern China.
Ruihesoft provides application software services in design, research and development. The company has six branches in China, as well as an extensive sales and service network.