Bielsko-Biala/Poland, August 9th, 2010 – The silicon intellectual property (IP) provider, Evatronix SA, today announced its presence at the series of EDA Tech Forum events hosted in Hsin-Chu, Taiwan on August 24th, Shanghai and Beijing, China on August 31st and September 2^nd, respectively. During these selected shows, Evatronix will unveil its latest IP improvements in the hottest design areas of the semiconductor industry – USB 3.0, NAND Flash and SD memory, and multimedia.

The EDA Tech Forum events feature industry’s most influential experts and highest ranked officers from EDA tools manufacturers. Taiwanese and Chinese events will feature keynote from Mentor Graphics CEO Wally Rhines, and VIP speakers representing key market players, like TSMC and others.

“For users of EDA tools, the workflow can be significantly reduced by implementation of verified, tested and silicon-proven IP,” said Michal Jedrak, Technical Marketing Manager at Evatronix. “With extensive test benches, TLM models for selected cores, standardized development environments and hardware evaluation boards, we provide complete and proven solutions that cut SoC development time by significant degree.”

“The EDA Tech Forum events are strongly focused on presenting SoC designers with the best solutions for their job,” said Evelyn Chen, the Regional Marketing Manager of Mentor Graphics. “Naturally, the presence of IP providers like Evatronix helps us embrace the spectrum of their interests even better.”

About Evatronix

Evatronix SA, founded in 1991, develops electronic virtual components (IP cores) along with complementary software and supporting development environments. The company also provides electronic design services. Product lines cover a multitude of solutions from interface controllers and microprocessors to integrated System-on-Chip development platforms.

Evatronix is a renowned provider of 8051 and 80251 microcontrollers, SuperSpeed USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 controllers and memory controllers – ONFi 2.2 compatible NAND Flash, and SD 3.0/SDIO 2.0/eMMC 4.4 compatible SDIO Host controller, among others.

Evatronix IP cores are available directly or through the sales network of its strategic distribution partner, CAST, Inc.

Evatronix is headquartered in Bielsko-Biala, Poland, and employs over 75 engineers.

For more information about the company please visit the company’s web site at www.evatronix-ip.com or contact Jacek Duda at +48 32 231 11 71 ext. 22 
or jacek.duda(at)evatronix-ip.com

MILPITAS, CA – August 9, 2010 – Linear Technology announces the TimerBlox™ family, a set of simple, small, accurate and low power devices for five commonly used timing functions: voltage-controlled oscillator, low frequency oscillator, pulse width modulated oscillator, monostable pulse generator (one-shot) and delay. As a family, the TimerBlox parts provide a precision, easy-to-use solution; these parts offer a single common platform and allow the use of precise building block solutions for each function.

Leveraging Linear Technology’s advanced silicon oscillator technology, TimerBlox parts combine an accurate, programmable oscillator with precision circuitry and logic. Like all Linear Technology silicon oscillators, TimerBlox devices are solid state and can be operated under high acceleration, vibration and temperature extremes. TimerBlox products ensure accuracy and stability at a much higher level than typical resistor/capacitor-based oscillators. Each TimerBlox part can operate over a wide frequency or time range, and is programmed with 1 to 3 resistors. The micropower operation provides an alternative to resistor/capacitor-based timers that often require milliwatts of power.

The 20mA source and sink capability directly drives opto-isolators and transformers for electrical isolation. Fully specified over the temperature range of -40°C to 125°C, the TimerBlox parts are suitable for demanding automotive and industrial environments, where many oscillators and microcontrollers are unable to operate. The small SOT23 footprint allows each timing device to be placed at the point of use, without routing signals over long distances, and provides an ideal timer for space-limited applications such as handheld and portable devices.

“TimerBlox devices ease the design and time constraints facing today’s engineers,” says Erik Soule, General Manager for Linear Technology. “They eliminate the complexity of software programming and circuit design, while providing good accuracy, low power and a small footprint.”

Application examples and design ideas have been compiled in the TimerBlox Circuit Collection, available online at www.linear.com/TimerBlox. Incorporating TimerBlox parts into larger systems is simplified with a complete set of TimerBlox LTspice® models. The LTspice design tool is a high performance Spice III simulator, schematic capture and waveform viewer, available for download from Linear Technology. In addition, the TimerBlox can be quickly set up using the TimerBlox Designer, an Excel-based set-up tool that generates a schematic, with part name and resistor values, and a timing diagram based on the timing function parameters. Finally, a complete line of TimerBlox demo boards are available for purchase from Linear Technology.

Summary of Features: TimerBlox Family

• TimerBlox Family – Five Timing Functions:
  • Voltage Controlled Oscillator (LTC6990)
  • Resettable Low Frequency Oscillator
  • Voltage Controlled Pulse Width Modulator (PWM)
  • Monostable Pulse Generator (One-Shot)
  • Delay Block / Debouncer
• Frequency Programmable Internal Oscillator
  • No Crystal
  • No Timing Caps
  • Programmable for 9.5hr Period, up to 2MHz
  • 2.25V to 5.5V Single Supply Operation
  • Output Sources/Sinks +20mA
  • Simple, Programmed with only 3 Resistors
  • 500usec Start-up Time
  • 60uA to 250uA Supply Current
  • -40°C to 125°C Operating Temperature Range
  • Low Profile (1mm) ThinSOT™ Package or 2mm x 3mm DF

Summary of Features: LTC6990

• Voltage Controlled Oscillator for 488Hz to 2MHz
• Simple 2 Resistor Set-up
  • Set Center Frequency
  • Set Wide or Narrow Tuning Range
• 2.25V to 5.5V Single Supply Operation
• 72μA Supply Current at 100kHz
• 500μs Start-up Time
• VCO Bandwidth >300kHz at 1MHz
• Square Wave Output with 50% Duty Cycle
• Output Enable with Selectable Hi-Z or Low Output when Disabled

About Linear Technology

Linear Technology Corporation, a manufacturer of high performance linear integrated circuits, was founded in 1981, became a public company in 1986 and joined the S&P 500 index of major public companies in 2000. Linear Technology products include high performance amplifiers, comparators, voltage references, monolithic filters, linear regulators, DC-DC converters, battery chargers, data converters, communications interface circuits, RF signal conditioning circuits, µModule® products, and many other analog functions. Applications for Linear Technology’s high performance circuits include telecommunications, cellular telephones, networking products such as optical switches, notebook and desktop computers, computer peripherals, video/multimedia, industrial instrumentation, security monitoring devices, high-end consumer products such as digital cameras and MP3 players, complex medical devices, automotive electronics, factory automation, process control, and military and space systems.

MILPITAS, CA – August 9, 2010 – Linear Technology announces the TimerBlox™ family, a set of simple, small, accurate and low power devices for five commonly used timing functions: voltage-controlled oscillator, low frequency oscillator, pulse width modulated oscillator, monostable pulse generator (one-shot) and delay. As a family, the TimerBlox parts provide a precision, easy-to-use solution; these parts offer a single common platform and allow the use of precise building block solutions for each function.

Leveraging Linear Technology’s advanced silicon oscillator technology, TimerBlox parts combine an accurate, programmable oscillator with precision circuitry and logic. Like all Linear Technology silicon oscillators, TimerBlox devices are solid state and can be operated under high acceleration, vibration and temperature extremes. TimerBlox products ensure accuracy and stability at a much higher level than typical resistor/capacitor-based oscillators. Each TimerBlox part can operate over a wide frequency or time range, and is programmed with 1 to 3 resistors. The micropower operation provides an alternative to resistor/capacitor-based timers that often require milliwatts of power.

The 20mA source and sink capability directly drives opto-isolators and transformers for electrical isolation. Fully specified over the temperature range of -40°C to 125°C, the TimerBlox parts are suitable for demanding automotive and industrial environments, where many oscillators and microcontrollers are unable to operate. The small SOT23 footprint allows each timing device to be placed at the point of use, without routing signals over long distances, and provides an ideal timer for space-limited applications such as handheld and portable devices.

“TimerBlox devices ease the design and time constraints facing today’s engineers,” says Erik Soule, General Manager for Linear Technology. “They eliminate the complexity of software programming and circuit design, while providing good accuracy, low power and a small footprint.”

Application examples and design ideas have been compiled in the TimerBlox Circuit Collection, available online at www.linear.com/TimerBlox. Incorporating TimerBlox parts into larger systems is simplified with a complete set of TimerBlox LTspice® models. The LTspice design tool is a high performance Spice III simulator, schematic capture and waveform viewer, available for download from Linear Technology. In addition, the TimerBlox can be quickly set up using the TimerBlox Designer, an Excel-based set-up tool that generates a schematic, with part name and resistor values, and a timing diagram based on the timing function parameters. Finally, a complete line of TimerBlox demo boards are available for purchase from Linear Technology.

Summary of Features: TimerBlox Family

• TimerBlox Family – Five Timing Functions:
  • Voltage Controlled Oscillator (LTC6990)
  • Resettable Low Frequency Oscillator
  • Voltage Controlled Pulse Width Modulator (PWM)
  • Monostable Pulse Generator (One-Shot)
  • Delay Block / Debouncer
• Frequency Programmable Internal Oscillator
  • No Crystal
  • No Timing Caps
  • Programmable for 9.5hr Period, up to 2MHz
  • 2.25V to 5.5V Single Supply Operation
  • Output Sources/Sinks +20mA
  • Simple, Programmed with only 3 Resistors
  • 500usec Start-up Time
  • 60uA to 250uA Supply Current
  • -40°C to 125°C Operating Temperature Range
  • Low Profile (1mm) ThinSOT™ Package or 2mm x 3mm DF

Summary of Features: LTC6990

• Voltage Controlled Oscillator for 488Hz to 2MHz
• Simple 2 Resistor Set-up
  • Set Center Frequency
  • Set Wide or Narrow Tuning Range
• 2.25V to 5.5V Single Supply Operation
• 72μA Supply Current at 100kHz
• 500μs Start-up Time
• VCO Bandwidth >300kHz at 1MHz
• Square Wave Output with 50% Duty Cycle
• Output Enable with Selectable Hi-Z or Low Output when Disabled

About Linear Technology

Linear Technology Corporation, a manufacturer of high performance linear integrated circuits, was founded in 1981, became a public company in 1986 and joined the S&P 500 index of major public companies in 2000. Linear Technology products include high performance amplifiers, comparators, voltage references, monolithic filters, linear regulators, DC-DC converters, battery chargers, data converters, communications interface circuits, RF signal conditioning circuits, µModule® products, and many other analog functions. Applications for Linear Technology’s high performance circuits include telecommunications, cellular telephones, networking products such as optical switches, notebook and desktop computers, computer peripherals, video/multimedia, industrial instrumentation, security monitoring devices, high-end consumer products such as digital cameras and MP3 players, complex medical devices, automotive electronics, factory automation, process control, and military and space systems.