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Curtiss-Wright Controls Adds 8GB SDRAM option to Dual-Core Intel® Core™ VME64x Single Board Computer

December 27, 2010

SAN DIEGO, CA – December 23, 2010 – Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing (CWCEC), a business group of Curtiss-Wright Controls and a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VME, OpenVPX™ and CompactPCI products for the rugged deployed aerospace and defense market, has expanded the onboard memory capacity of its dual-core Intel® Core™-based SVME/DMV-1905 VME64x single board computer (SBC) with support for up to 8GB of SDRAM. The rugged SVME/DMV-1905 features a dual-core Intel® Core™ i7-610E processor and brings the low-power, high-performance advantages of … Read More → "Curtiss-Wright Controls Adds 8GB SDRAM option to Dual-Core Intel® Core™ VME64x Single Board Computer"

Curtiss-Wright Controls Enhances Popular VPX3-1252 3U VPX SBC with 8GB SDRAM and SERDES Options

by Kevin Morris

December 26, 2010

SAN DIEGO, CA – December 23, 2010 — Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing (CWCEC), a business group of Curtiss-Wright Controls and a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VME, OpenVPX™and CompactPCI products for the rugged deployed aerospace and defense market, has announced the availability of an enhanced version of their popular VPX3-1252 Intel® Core™2 Duo processor-based 3U VPX single board computer (SBC). The updated SBC now features an increased memory option, with onboard SDRAM up to 8GB now supported. CWCEC also announced a new SERDES version of the high performance, small form … Read More → "Curtiss-Wright Controls Enhances Popular VPX3-1252 3U VPX SBC with 8GB SDRAM and SERDES Options"

Curtiss-Wright Controls 8GB Buffer Memory XMC Card Supports both SRIO and PCIe Interfaces

by Kevin Morris

December 23, 2010

CHATSWORTH, CA – December 23, 2010 – Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VME, VPX, OpenVPX™, VXS and CompactPCI products for the Aerospace and Defense (A&D) market, has introduced the MM-6171 XMC a new high performance, rugged Buffer Memory module designed for use in digital signal processing (DSP) Systems.

The new XMC mezzanine module card supports either Serial RapidIO (SRIO) or PCI Express (PCIe, 4-lane) host interfaces with up to 8 Gbytes of DDR2 SDRAM buffer memory with ECC. The MM-6171speeds and simplifies the integration of high … Read More → "Curtiss-Wright Controls 8GB Buffer Memory XMC Card Supports both SRIO and PCIe Interfaces"

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2010 in FPGAs in Review

by Kevin Morris

December 21, 2010

Ring the bells, tell the tales and calibrate the scales. 2010 is coming to a close and the FPGA market will never be the same.

On the other hand, the FPGA industry was never the same before 2010, so this is probably business as usual.

2010 saw the real rollout of FPGA families that were introduced last year – 40/45nm products from Xilinx and Altera; creative alternative products from Actel, Lattice, and QuickLogic; and 65nm products from SiliconBlue and Achronix. Real customers are now using real versions of all these parts, and the results are – similar to … Read More → "Banner Year"

Mentor Graphics

Graphics Mentor

by Jim Turley

December 21, 2010

Engineers of a certain age will remember when Mentor Graphics made engineering workstations. Remember those? They were overpriced computers with big monitors that every self-respecting hardware or software designer had on his/her desk, as opposed to a Windows or Macintosh machine that marked you as a receptionist, or worse, a marketing dweeb.

Mentor was just one of many companies making engineering workstations, including Apollo, Daisy, Intergraph, and Sun Microsystems. Remember them? Unlike most of its competitors, however, Mentor Graphics … Read More → "Mentor Graphics"

Altera’s DO-254/ED-80 Certifiable Nios II Processor Leveraged in Thales Safety-Critical Avionics System Certified by EASA

by Amelia Dalton

December 21, 2010

San Jose, Calif., December 20, 2010—Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) today announced the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) certified a safety-critical avionics system that includes a DO-254/ED-80-certifiable version of Altera’s Nios^® II embedded processor. Thales Avionics implemented a safety-critical version of the Nios II embedded processor in an Altera^® HardCopy^® ASIC for use in its family of integrated electronic standby instruments rather than developing a custom ASIC solution. Leveraging Altera’s DO-254/ED-80-certifiable processor allowed Thales to significantly reduce overall system development time when … Read More → "Altera’s DO-254/ED-80 Certifiable Nios II Processor Leveraged in Thales Safety-Critical Avionics System Certified by EASA"

Sigma Designs and MIPS Technologies Strengthen Relationship Targeting Development of Next-Generation Connected Devices

by Amelia Dalton

December 21, 2010

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – December 21, 2010 – MIPS Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MIPS), a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for digital consumer, home networking, wireless, communications and business applications, today announced that Sigma Designs, Inc., a leading provider of system-on-chip (SoC) solutions for delivering entertainment and control throughout the home, reaffirmed its commitment to the MIPS® architecture with a new license agreement. The agreement encompasses a broad spectrum of MIPS32® cores, including the MIPS32 4KEc® Pro core, M14K™ family, 24K® Pro family, 34K® Pro family, 74K® family and the 1004 … Read More → "Sigma Designs and MIPS Technologies Strengthen Relationship Targeting Development of Next-Generation Connected Devices"

DigitalAria Launches FXUI Stereoscopic 3D Embedded GUI Engine for Mobile Devices and Home Appliances

by Amelia Dalton

December 21, 2010

San Jose, CA – December 21, 2010 – DigitalAria [http://www.digitalaria.com], a leading developer of optimized multimedia software for mobile phones, today announced their release of the extended FXUI®-3D engine designed to enable a rich multimedia user experience. This embedded GUI graphics engine includes Flash playback and delivers superior graphics capabilities to mobile phone, tablet PC, smart TV, PMP, and other consumer electronics. It supports multiple platforms, including Android, Windows, and Linux operating systems.

SuperTalent Unveils Second Generation DuraDrive TM SSDs

by Bryon Moyer

December 20, 2010

San Jose, California – December 17, 2010 – Super Talent Technology, a leading manufacturer of Flash storage solutions and DRAM memory modules, today announced their new DuraDrive series SSDs.

The new DuraDrive ET2/ZT2 represents the next generation of industrial data storage solutions by offering enhanced durability, reliability and performance. The DuraDrive was designed for use in environments considered “too harsh” for a standard drive.

The DuraDrive series utilized Solid State Disk technology, meaning it performs faster, use less power, offers greater reliability, generate less heat, and require less cooling than their HDD counterparts. By carefully … Read More → "SuperTalent Unveils Second Generation DuraDrive TM SSDs"

Cypress Completes High-Density QDRII+ SRAM Portfolio With New 65-nm 36-Mbit and 18-Mbit Devices

by Bryon Moyer

December 20, 2010

San Jose, Calif., December 20, 2010- Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: CY), the industry leader in SRAMs, today announced newQuad Data Rate™ (QDR™) and Double Data Rate (DDR) SRAMs at 36-Mbit and 18-Mbit densities, the latest members of its 65-nm SRAM family. The new memories complete the industry’s broadest portfolio of 65-nm synchronous SRAMs, which includes densities up to 144Mbit and speeds up to 550 MHz. Cypress’s patented process technology reduces power consumption up to 50% compared with 90-nm SRAMs, enabling the new wave … Read More → "Cypress Completes High-Density QDRII+ SRAM Portfolio With New 65-nm 36-Mbit and 18-Mbit Devices"

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