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LEM SA, the world’s leading manufacturer of isolated current and voltage measurement components, has appointed Alan Denny as the new Business Development Manager for its Battery Monitoring Division.

picoChip has announced the appointment of Steve Laurenson to the newly-created post of VP Engineering. A 28-year veteran of the mobile communications and semiconductor industries, Laurenson will take on a customer-oriented role, ensuring that picoChip continues to develop and support the technologies and products required by the wireless market.

Dr Tohru Furuyama, the general manager for Toshiba Corporation’s Centre for Semiconductor Research and Development, will present a keynote address on the topic of system-on-chip (SoC) development at the opening session of this year’s DATE Conference in Nice, France.