SAN JOSE –Texas Instruments VP of emerging medical applications Doug Rasor will keynote the upcoming Medical Electronics symposium: Technology Concepts Enabling Product Reality.
 
His talk, How Technology will Revolutionize Healthcare in the 21st Century and Beyond, will highlight the third annual MicroElectronics Packaging and Test Engineering Council event.
 
The event takes place Sept. 25 at Arizona State University in Tempe.
 
Other sessions will include Revolutionary Concepts in Medical Electronics; Advanced Materials for Medical Electronics; Key Enabling Technologies, and Next Generation of Bio-Medical Systems.
 
For more information and to register, contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or visit www.meptec.org.

ARLINGTON, VA -- August orders for electronics components rose, reversing a summer dip, the Electronic Components Association said today. Orders remained flat year-over-year, however, the trade group said.

In a press release, president Bob Willis said the cycle is following historical seasonality trends. "Historically, we've seen a summer downturn followed by an acceleration in orders during the fall. I suspect that this is what's happening here."

ECA said it altered the baseline year of its monthly order index from 1996 to 2006 to better reflect the current market. The switch resulted in greater volatility in the adjusted four- to five-week results, but 12-month average results are not affected. Also, the trade group now tracks only North American orders, which ensures greater reporting consistency among manufacturers participating in the survey, ECA said.