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OCTOBER 2010 issue n°100
THE DISRUPTIVE SEMICONDUCTOR TECHNOLOGIES MAGAZINE
MEMS
Pixtronix and Hitachi Displays announce successful joint development
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In addition, this new class of display offers
Application Agility to dynamically optimize image
quality and power consumption for all applications,
ranging from full speed video to e-reader operation in
SiTime introduces interactive, online design support tools
SiTime announced the availability of interactive,
online Part Number Generator and Cross
Reference tools that accelerate the
deployment of SiTime's products. Both these tools
are closely integrated with a Sample Request page,
ensuring that customers around the world can
instantly configure and request the best SiTime
product for their application and receive them within
a week. "Simplifi cation, worldwide availability and
24x7 access are keys to success in the global
electronics business," said Piyush Sevalia, Vice
President of Marketing at SiTime. "These new
a single device. The PerfectLight display is based
upon Pixtronix's Digital Micro Shutter MEMS
technology, which is built within LCD infrastructure
and eliminates liquid crystals, polarizers and color
New tools accelerate deployment of MEMS-based silicon timing solutions.
interactive tools enable our customers to rapidly
replace their legacy quartz-based oscillators with
SiTime's MEMS-based silicon timing solutions and
capture their benefi ts more quickly."
Customers can use the Cross Reference Tool to
locate the best SiTime product that replaces their
existing quartz oscillator. Separately, customers can
use the Part Number Generator, available on each
product page, to confi gure SiTime's oscillators and
create the most optimized solution for their system.
The Part Number Generator has unique features that
simplify operation, such as:
filters to enable a highly efficient, programmable, and
durable display.
www.pixtronix.com
• Real time configurability — the generated part
number changes dynamically with changes in
selected features
• "Any Sequence" operation — a customer can select
features in any convenient order
• "Active Highlights" — which clearly show the features
that have already been selected
• One click reset and one click copy — for use of the
part number in other applications
• Mouseover messages — for real time help
www.sitime.com
Discera and Si-Ware Systems announce successful delivery of ASIC technology
for next-generation low-power MEMS devices
Si-Ware Systems has delivered critical ASIC technology for Discera’s next generation low-power MEMS devices.
Si-Ware Systems’ ASIC technology advances
the capabilities frontier for Discera’s next
generation products by enabling extended
temperature range and stability and superior jitter
performance over previous technology. “Delivering
smaller, lower power products for consumer, mobile,
and video applications requires the high quality of Si-
Ware technology,” said Discera CEO Bruce Diamond.
"Our extensive experience in ASIC technologies for
MEMS devices allows us to consistently deliver high
performance, high reliability products with Discera,"
said Si-Ware Systems CEO Hisham Haddara.
Leveraging its strong expertise in analog, mixed-signal
and RF design, Si-Ware Systems works with its
customers to deliver ASIC technology for a broad
range of markets and applications. Si-Ware has a
proven track record in providing high quality timing
solutions, inertial sensing IC's, MEMS electronic
systems and low power ASICs.
www.si-ware.com
www.discera.com
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Microvision raises $12M through equity financing
Microvision announced that it has raised $12.375 million pursuant to a previously announced equity financing facility with
Azimuth Opportunity Ltd.
Microvision issued approximately 6.3 million
shares of its common stock to Azimuth for
an aggregate purchase price of $12.5 million.
Out of those proceeds, it paid a placement agent fee
of $125,000 to Reedland Capital Partners, an
institutional division of Financial West Group.
Microvision intends to use the funds for general
SPAWAR looks to smart system technology & commercialization center for
MEMS sensor technology
Military sensors specialists at the U.S. Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) are looking to
microelectronics experts at the Smart System Technology & Commercialization Center (STC) to fabricate MEMS
for military sensor systems.
Officials of the SPAWAR Systems Center
Pacifi c announced their plans to negotiate a
sole-source contract with the STC to provide
MEMS sensor fabrication and diagnostic support for
sensors, including starting wafer material and masks
necessary to fabricate the devices. STC will handle
wafer sizes as large as 150 millimeters in diameter.
SPAWAR will ask STC to fabricate intelligence,
corporate purposes, including, but not limited to,
working capital and capital expenditures.
In August, Microvision announced that it had secured
a committed equity fi nancing facility under which it
may sell up to $60 million of its shares of common
stock to Azimuth over a 24-month period. The
company’s PicoP ® display technology platform is
surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) sensors;
inertial sensor components; acoustic sensor
components; energy-harvesting components; optoelectro-mechanical
systems; and-resistive heaters.
Located outside Rochester, N.Y., the 140,000-squarefoot
STC facility has more than 50,000 square feet of
certifi ed cleanroom space with 150-millimeter wafer
production, plus a dedicated 8,000-square-foot
designed to enable next-generation display and
imaging products for pico projectors, vehicle displays
and wearable displays that interface with mobile
devices. Its projection display engine uses laser light
sources to create images with high contrast and
brightness.
www.microvision.com
MEMS and optoelectronic packaging facility. STC
resulted from the 20 Sept. merger of the Infotonics
Technology Center with the Center of Excellence in
Nanoelectronics and Nanotechnology at the College
of Nanoscale Science & Engineering (CNSE) in
Albany, N.Y.
www.militaryaerospace.com
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