ISO 14001 Achievement
By Lynn Reed

Try to count how many times a week you hear that we need to improve the planet. I dare you. For many, the message seems to appear so often, that the impact has morphed into just another day to day.....

Re-Certification of BSI 9001/14001
By Lynn Reed

Well, the New Year is fast approaching. To me, this is always an exciting and somewhat magical time. It gives us the opportunity to take a pause, look at things, and maybe be a little more...

Trends in Legacy Parts at Tekmos
By Lynn Reed

Tekmos is frequently called upon to develop ASICs that our customers can no longer purchase from the original vendors. For projects of this type, the customer may have the original..

Tekmos Programmers
By Lynn Reed

Tekmos uses the same 4 MB flash memory in each of our devices. But the devices differ in how to access it. The simplest method is used in the TK89C668, which uses a test mode to...

TK87C451 Microcontroller
By Lynn Reed

Tekmos now offers the TK87C451 Microcontroller as the latest addition to the Tekmos TK8xCx51 family of microcontrollers. The TK87C451 can be used as a drop-in replacement for the...

Merged Designs
By Lynn Reed

Implementing a design into an ASIC has many steps, some of which are expensive. One such item is the generation of the tooling or masks which are the physical embodiment of each..

Flash Memory
By Lynn Reed

Tekmos introduces four more Flash Memory types to help solve obsolescence issues: TK28F256, TK28F512, TK28F010, and TK28F020. Many manufacturers are having trouble locating..

How High Can You Go
By Lynn Reed

We recently characterized our high temperature 8-bit ADC.  While it was designed for 250C operation, we kept raising the temperature until we reached 320C.  We stopped there for a....

TK74H373 New Product Announcement
By Lynn Reed

Tekmos now offers the 250ºC High Temperature TK74H373 Tri-State Octal D-Type Transparent Latch. It has the same pinout as its predecessor, the 74H373 which was designed for less..

High Temperature Microprocessor Strategy
By Lynn Reed

Tekmos is developing a high temperature microprocessor designed to run at 250ºC, using a SOI process. The development has taken longer than planned due to custom design issues..