ASHBURN, VA – December 3, 2010 — Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a a business group of Curtiss-Wright Controls and 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 CHAMP-AV8, its first rugged, high performance OpenVPX DSP (digital signal processing) engine based on Intel’s next-generation quad-core processor technology. The new CHAMP-AV8 is also Curtiss-Wright Controls’ first DSP engine to offer IDT’s upcoming Gen2 PCIe-to-Serial RapidIO® sRIO protocol conversion bridging semiconductor product, … Read More → "Curtiss-Wright Controls Introduces First Quad-Core Intel® Architecture Based Multiprocessing DSP Engine, Supports sRIO"

December 6, 2010 – Uppsala, Sweden. IAR Systems® today announced that Renesas Electronics’ RX microcontroller architecture is the next target architecture to benefit from the innovative power debugging technology included in IAR Embedded Workbench®. Using power debugging, embedded software can be developed and tuned to save power by exercising stricter control of how and when the hardware consumes power. Keeping the power consumption down extends battery lifetime in mobile applications and reduces heat dissipation.

IAR Embedded Workbench correlates system power consumption to trace data and the source code, making it possible to analyze how software can be designed … Read More → "IAR Systems Innovative Power Debugging Technology is Available for Renesas Electronics’ RX Microcontroller Architecture"

OTTAWA, CANADA – December 3, 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, VPX, OpenVPX™ and CompactPCI products for the rugged deployed aerospace and defense market, has announced the introduction of the XMC-552, its new rugged, high-performance, reliable and power-efficient NAND flash solid state drive XMC/PMC card. The XMC/PMC-552, which is visible to the system as two independent SATA drives, is available in 64, 128 or 256 GB configurations. The small form-factor mezzanine card speeds and simplifies the integration of … Read More → "Curtiss-Wright Controls Introduces New Secure Rugged SATA Solid State Drive XMC Card with Data Encryption and Instant Purge Features"

San Jose, CA, December 6, 2010 – Atmel® Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), a leader in microcontroller and touch solutions, today announced it is shipping production quantities of the Atmel maXTouch(TM) mXT1386 and mXT616 chipsets for large touchscreens up to 15 inches. Atmel maXTouch technology has established a leading position in one of the fastest growing markets in the entire semiconductor industry. The new mXT1386/mXT616 chipsets are the newest members of the maXTouch family and will power a number of upcoming touch devices including tablet PCs, smartbooks, mobile Internet devices (MIDs), Netbooks, PC notebooks and a range of industrial applications.

… Read More → "Atmel Ramps maXTouch for Large Touchscreen"

LPRS, Europe’s leading supplier of short-range radio devices, has provided a high sensitivity, omnidirectional Yagi antenna to four amateur space enthusiasts who have now managed five successful high altitude balloon flights into near-space. The balloon is fitted with a computer probe and digital cameras to send information back to Earth as live internet events.

Spacebits is the brainchild of four technology enthusiasts from Portugal who have been inspired by recent amateur ballooning projects posted to the internet. Celso Martinho, Filipe Varela, Filipe Valpereiro and Fernando Afonso between them have working knowledge of the internet, programming, … Read More → "LPRS Antenna used for receiving signals from Spacebits near space balloon flight"

December 2nd, 2010 – Uppsala, Sweden. IAR Systems today announced support for the ARM Cortex-A5 core within IAR Embedded Workbench.  Adding to the extensive list of ARM cores already supported by IAR Embedded Workbench, this is the first of the Cortex ‘A’ high performance application processor cores to benefit from the features of this comprehensive tool chain.

The ARM Cortex(TM)-A5 processor suits a very wide range of applications. From ultra low cost handsets, feature phones and smart mobile devices, to pervasive embedded, consumer and industrial devices. The Cortex-A5 processor provides a high-end migration path for existing … Read More → "IAR Systems becomes the first independent tool vendor to support the ARM Cortex A5 core"

NEWS RELEASE – Nov. 29, 2010 – National Instruments today introduced NI TestStand 2010, the industry’s most widely used commercial off-the-shelf test management software for automated validation and production testing. NI TestStand helps test engineers build a powerful software framework for accelerating the development of test sequences and minimizes the total cost of ownership of maintaining test executive software deployed across many test stations. The latest version adds many new team-based development features including a Sequence Analyzer, a three-way file diff-and-merge utility, support for new PC technologies and enhanced … Read More → "National Instruments Introduces NI TestStand 2010 With Enhanced Team-Based Test Software Development Tools"

NEWS RELEASE – Nov. 15, 2010 – National Instruments today introduced four new adapter modules for its NI FlexRIO product family, which provides FPGA-based reconfigurable I/O (RIO) forPXI systems, using the LabVIEW FPGA Module software. The user-configurable NI FlexRIO product family takes advantage of industry-leading PXI hardware and software integration to … Read More → "National Instruments Extends PXI Software-Defined Instrumentation With Four New NI FlexRIO FPGA Adapter Modules"

Dusseldorf, 2nd December, 2010 — Renesas Electronics, a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced the availability of three new audio decoder systems-on-chip (SoCs), the μPD63530, μPD63910 andμPD63911, with an integrated USB (Universal Serial Bus) host controller. The new SoCs are ideal for use in automotive and consumer products. The μPD63530 device is available in a 48-pin low-profile quad flat-pack (LQFP) package that is 88 percent smaller than existing package offerings. The μPD63910 and μPD63530 SoCs allow easy software upgrading … Read More → "Renesas Electronics Introduces Three New SoCs for USB/SD Audio Decoders with 88 Percent Reduced Package Size"