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Zuken Launches E³.HarnessAnalyzer and Acquires Software IP to Enhance Automotive Solutions

30 October 2014 – Munich, Germany and Westford, MA, USA – Zuken announces the launch of E³.HarnessAnalyzer and the acquisition of the tool-related intellectual property (IP) of electrical and electronics engineering specialist Intedis. The newly-launched product E³.HarnessAnalyzer, which is based on an existing Intedis product, offers efficient collaboration for the automotive harness industry. It complements Zuken’s automotive technology portfolio formed around the market-leading Read More → "Zuken Launches E³.HarnessAnalyzer and Acquires Software IP to Enhance Automotive Solutions"

Best-in-Class Metrology Platform Cuts Design Time for Utilities Worldwide

San Jose, CA—October 29, 2014—Engineers can now design energy meters using one common core that meets worldwide utility standards and saves development time with the ZON™ family of metering SoCs from Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. (NASDAQ: MXIM).

Electricity meter standards vary around the world and utility companies require different types of meters to meet customer and regional needs, so it is no surprise that meter manufacturers need to be flexible and react quickly when the utilities’ requirements change. Meanwhile, metering IC designs today hint at flexibility by … Read More → "Best-in-Class Metrology Platform Cuts Design Time for Utilities Worldwide"

Silicon-Proven, Reprogrammable NVM IP Delivers Smallest Area for Calibration and Trimming Applications

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 30, 2014 /PRNewswire/ —

Highlights:

  • Reprogrammable NVM IP on TowerJazz 180-nm process technology enables analog IC trimming and in-field calibration without additional masks or process steps
  • Small footprint reprogrammable NVM IP integrates charge pump, digital controller and oscillator to reduce overall IC area
  • Operates from a single core supply to reduce system design complexity

Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq:SNPS), a global leader providing software, IP and services used to accelerate innovation in chips … Read More → "Silicon-Proven, Reprogrammable NVM IP Delivers Smallest Area for Calibration and Trimming Applications"

EV Group Next-Gen Nanoimprint Lithography Technology Targets Photonics, LED And Bioengineered Device Production

ST. FLORIAN, Austria, Oct. 21, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — EV Group (EVG), a leading supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for the MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor markets, today introduced its SmartNIL™ large-area nanoimprint lithography (NIL) process. Available on all EV Group NIL platforms, including mask aligners as well as the industry benchmark EVG®720 and newly available EVG®7200 UV-NIL systems, SmartNIL provides a low-cost, large-area and high-volume-manufacturing solution for a variety of advanced devices, including:

ARIA™, the First Accurate & Affordable Home Radon & Indoor Pollution Monitor, Alerts Homeowners to Cancer-Causing Gas in Real Time

Modena, Italy, October 22, 2014 – We don’t think about radon in our home. We prefer to think that it can’t happen to us, or that we don’t live in a radon “hot zone.” We have smoke detectors to protect against fire, and carbon monoxide detectors so we don’t die in our sleep, but until now there has never been a simple, accurate and affordable home monitor to test for radon, the deadly radioactive gas that causes up to 21,000 deaths from lung cancer per year in the … Read More → "ARIA™, the First Accurate & Affordable Home Radon & Indoor Pollution Monitor, Alerts Homeowners to Cancer-Causing Gas in Real Time"

Synopsys IC Compiler II Delivers Five Fold Implementation Speed up, Enables Silicon Success

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 28, 2014 /PRNewswire/ —

Highlights

  • IC Compiler II enables first-time working silicon for high-performance multimedia design in 40-nm technology 
  • 5X faster design implementation enables faster turn-around-time for large partitions
  • Ability to seamlessly handle more modes and corners drastically improves signoff convergence and reduces ECO iterations

Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a global leader providing software, IP and services used to accelerate innovation in chips and electronic systems, today announced that its IC Complier II place-and-route tool enabled Panasonic Corporation System LSI … Read More → "Synopsys IC Compiler II Delivers Five Fold Implementation Speed up, Enables Silicon Success"

Microchip Announces a New Family of 1.8V Low-Power 16-Mbit Serial Quad I/O™ SuperFlash® Memory Devices

CHANDLER, Ariz., Oct. 28, 2014 [NASDAQ:  MCHP] — Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash-IP solutions, today announced a new family of 1.8V Serial Quad I/O™ (SQI) SuperFlash® Memory devices—SST26WF016B.  This device offers 16-Mbit of memory and is manufactured with Microchip’s high-performance SuperFlash technology, which provides the industry’s fastest erase times and superior reliability.

The SST26WF016B provides the fastest erase times of any competing device due to the use of SuperFlash technology.  Sector and block erase … Read More → "Microchip Announces a New Family of 1.8V Low-Power 16-Mbit Serial Quad I/O™ SuperFlash® Memory Devices"

Xilinx Demonstrates All Programmable Embedded Solutions for Machine Vision Applications at Vision Stuttgart 2014

SAN JOSE, Calif.Oct. 28, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) will demonstrate All Programmable embedded solutions for machine vision applications at Vision Stuttgart 2014.  Through a series of demonstrations and presentations, Xilinx with their customers and ecosystem, will highlight the performance and flexibility of the Zynq® All Programmable SoC in vision applications.  The Zynq devices are chosen by camera manufactures and vision systems designers to implement real-time image processing and analysis and leverage the ARM® dual Cortex™ A9 core to … Read More → "Xilinx Demonstrates All Programmable Embedded Solutions for Machine Vision Applications at Vision Stuttgart 2014"

Synopsys’ New DesignWare Sensor and Control IP Subsystem Delivers Ultra Low Power Sensor and Control Processing for SoCs

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 29, 2014 /PRNewswire/ —

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