"Toshiba is dedicated to providing customers with the most value for their budget," said Ted Nemetz, VP, Service Business Unit, Toshiba. "The Aquilion Assurance Program does just that - allows customers to acquire the service and performance Toshiba is known for, at a price that meets their facility's needs."

A refurbished CT system from Toshiba is held to the same quality and performance standards as a brand-new Toshiba CT system. Previously owned Toshiba CT systems are inspected at the Quality Assurance Center, where a team of experts evaluate and test all moving parts and programs. After the system has been inspected, new parts are installed and upgraded, including crucial items like the X-ray tube, and new software is installed. The system is then repainted, relabeled and placed in new packaging. Before a system leaves the Quality Assurance Center, it is tested against Toshiba's original factory standards.

According to Toshiba, the Aquilion Assurance Program is for health care facilities looking to acquire diagnostic imaging equipment, but may not have the capital to purchase a brand-new system. Existing customers can trade in an Aquilion 8-, 16-, 32- or 64-detector row system for credit towards a refurbished CT system. Customers also have the option to acquire a new Service contract with the purchase of a refurbished CT system.

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"As a provider of digital consumer products, Toshiba understands the advantage of using an SoC platform that provides performance, ease-of-integration, time-to-market benefits and true IP reuse," said Jack Browne, Senior VP of Sales and Marketing at Sonics. "We look forward to our continued collaboration as Toshiba expands its home entertainment developments around the globe."

First introduced in July 2008, SonicsSX accelerates video performance and eases global integration of IP cores and subsystems onto a single chip. To address increased processing for HD video, SonicsSX offers network-on-chip (NoC) capabilities for higher operating clock frequencies, native support for 2D data transactions and an expanded data bus width to 256 bits. It also contains Sonics' Interleaved Multichannel Technology (IMT), enabling SoC architectures to transition from single to multiple DRAM channels, or multichannel, while automatically balancing the traffic among the channels.

SonicsSX has built-in security features that provide protection for digital media and its low-power circuitry ensures extremely low active power for mobile battery-powered applications.

The SonicsStudio Development Environment supports SonicsSX for SoC architecture and performance analysis. Developers have the advantage of completing data flow analysis during the architecture phase of product development rather than in later stages of product completion. This provides integration with software and shorter overall product development schedules.

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PinnacleHealth said that it will use the Aquilion Premium at its Community Campus, making them the first hospital in the country offering this advanced technology. The Community Campus, while offering a complete range of services, specializes in neurology, rehabilitation, orthopedics and general surgery. It is home to an acute care hospital, rehabilitation hospital and new Regional Cancer Center opening in 2010.

"The Aquilion Premium allows patients to be imaged with low radiation and little-to-no sedation, which is particularly important when imaging pediatric populations or patients of any age who might require sequential, follow up CT scans," said Dr. Brian Harris, medical chair, Department of Imaging, PinnacleHealth. "Another significant benefit of the Aquilion Premium is its spectacular image quality and ability to reconstruct images to be viewed in multiple planes, including 3D."

"Toshiba is committed to listening to its customers and providing the right technology mix for the community," said Doug Ryan, senior director, CT Business Unit, Toshiba. "Toshiba developed the Aquilion Premium to meet the ever-changing imaging needs of the medical community by making it field upgradable to the Aquilion ONE, enabling them to have access to advanced technology today, while allowing physicians and administrators to plan for their future needs."

PinnacleHealth is a non-profit healthcare system serving Central Pennsylvania.

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"With TSON Advance packaging, our latest MOSFETs offer designers new options to increase board density and save space, with a selection of high efficiency solutions for DC-DC conversion," said Jeff Lo, business development manager, Discrete Power Devices, for TAEC.

    Technical Specifications
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                        Maximum
                        Rating   R(DS)(ON)(milliohms)C(rss) C(iss) r(g)
    Product           ---------- --------- ---------  (pF)  (pF) (ohms)
    Number  Polarity V(DSS) I(D)   Typ.      Max.     Typ.  Typ.  Typ. Process
                      (V)  (A)
    ------  --------  ---  ---     ---       ---      ---   ---   ---  -------

    TPCC8001-H  N-    30   22      5.5       8.3      110  1900   1.0   UMOS
              Channel           V(GS)=10V  V(GS)=10V                     V-H
    --------- ------- --   --   ---------   --------   ---  ----   ---   ----

    TPCC8002-H  N-    30   22      5.5        8.3     110  1900   3.2   UMOS
              Channel           V(GS)=10V  V(GS)=10V                     V-H
    --------- ------- --   --   ---------  ---------  ---  ----   ---   ----

    TPCC8003-H  N-    30   13     12.2      16.9       63   990   0.8   UMOS
              Channel           V(GS)=10V  V(GS)=10V                    VI-H
    --------- ------- --   --   ---------  ---------   --  ----   ---   ----

    TPCC8005-H  N-    30   26      4.3        6.4     140  2200   3.4   UMOS
              Channel           V(GS)=10V  V(GS)=10V                    VI-H
    --------- ------- --   --   ---------  ---------  ---  ----   ---   ----

    TPCC8006-H  N-    30   22      5.3        8.0     110  1700   2.8   UMOS
              Channel           V(GS)=10V  V(GS)=10V                    VI-H
    --------- ------- --   --   ---------  ---------  ---  ----   ---   ----

    TPCC8A01-H  N-    30   21      7.1        9.9      54  1430   1.5   UMOS
              Channel           V(GS)=10V  V(GS)=10V                    V-H
               MOSBD                                                   MOSBD
    --------- ------- --   --   ---------  ---------   --  ----   ---  -----

Pricing and Availability

Samples of these latest additions to the Toshiba MOSFETs lineup in TSON packages are available now, with mass production beginning to ramp. Prices in sample quantities start at $0.35.

Toshiba's Discrete Products

Since 1986, Toshiba Corp. has ranked as the top discrete supplier on a worldwide basis, based on annual revenue from international shipments of total discrete products. According to the most recent annual report from market research firm Gartner Dataquest (San Jose, CA), Toshiba remained the top discrete semiconductor supplier. (Source: "2008 Worldwide Semiconductor Market Share Report," Gartner, April 2009). More specifically, Toshiba is a leading supplier in a number of discrete product categories, including power transistors, rectifiers, LMOS logic, CMOS logic, photocouplers, TOSLINKs, LEDs, small signal diodes and transistors. The company's discrete devices are designed to meet the growing demand for high-performance and lower voltages in today's wireless telecommunications and consumer electronics applications, while emphasizing its strength in the automotive and industrial markets.

*About TAEC and Toshiba Corp.

Through proven commitment, lasting relationships and advanced, reliable electronic components, Toshiba enables its customers to create market-leading designs. Toshiba is the heartbeat within product breakthroughs from OEMs, ODMs, CMs, distributions and fabless chip companies worldwide. A committed electronic components leader, Toshiba designs and manufactures high-quality flash memory-based storage solutions, discrete devices, displays, advanced materials, medical tubes, custom SoCs/ASICs, digital multimedia and imaging products, microcontrollers and wireless components that make possible today's leading cell phones, MP3 players, cameras, medical devices, automotive electronics and more.

Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. is an independent operating company owned by Toshiba America, Inc., a subsidiary of Toshiba Corporation, Japan's largest semiconductor manufacturer and the world's third largest semiconductor manufacturer (Gartner, 2008 WW Semiconductor Revenue, April 2009). For additional company and product information, please visit http://www.toshiba.com/taec/.

Information in this press release, including product pricing and specifications, content of services and contact information, is current and believed to be accurate on the date of the announcement, but is subject to change without prior notice. Technical and application information contained here is subject to the most recent applicable Toshiba product specifications. In developing designs, please ensure that Toshiba products are used within specified operating ranges as set forth in the most recent Toshiba product specifications and the information set forth in Toshiba's "Handling Guide for Semiconductor Devices," or "Toshiba Semiconductor Reliability Handbook." This information is available at http://www.chips.toshiba.com, or from your TAEC representative.

SOURCE Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc.

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