Greatbatch, Inc. (NYSE: GB) today announced the qualification of its first battery model to incorporate nanoSVO™ for use in next-generation implantable medical devices. This announcement marks a dramatic advancement in the clinically-proven Silver Vanadium Oxide (SVO) high-rate battery product line. nanoSVO results from a proprietary, highly efficient synthesis process that vastly improves cathode material homogeneity, yielding more reliable and superior battery performance.

Enhanced embedded emulation module shortens debugging in complex applications Bringing high integration and ultra-low power to complex, deeply embedded industrial sensing applications including portable medical systems, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE:TXN) announced volume availability of the MSP430FG461x series of ultra-low power MCUs with up to 120KB flash memory. As the first devices to incorporate the MSP430X architecture-with extended 1MB memory model-the MSP430FG461x series is designed for today's larger system memory requirements and allows for the development of very sophisticated real-time applications, completely in modular C libraries with full backward compatibility.