EINDHOVEN, NETHERLANDS–(Marketwire – December 1, 2010) – NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) today launched the SmartMX2™ — an all-new family of secure microcontrollers built on the groundbreaking IntegralSecurity™ architecture. The SmartMX2 is designed to provide unprecedented levels of security for multi-applications without compromising on convenience, performance or design productivity. With its flexibility and scalability, the SmartMX2 covers a wide range of applications such as eGovernment, banking, PayTV, mobile transactions, public transport, access management and device authentication.

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MILPITAS, CA – December 1, 2010 – Linear Technology Corporation introduces the LTM8008, a six-output DC/DC µModule^® regulator with guaranteed operation from -40°C to 150°C. The LTM8008 includes a 3V to 72V input SEPIC converter and six linear regulators, housed in a small 15mm x 15mm x 2.82mm LGA package. This highly integrated multiple output … Read More → "Six Output DC/DC µModule Regulator"

Sunnyvale, CA – November 30, 2010 – QuickLogic Corporation (NASDAQ: QUIK), the leader in low power Customer Specific Standard Products (CSSPs), announced today that its DPO technology has been field-proven to lower total system power consumption by up to 36% in handheld consumer devices such as smartphones and tablets.  This power savings results in extending the battery life of these devices by the same percentage.

Used in conjunction with the DPO Proven System Block (PSB), QuickLogic’s Visual Enhancement Engine (VEE) technology greatly enhances the viewability … Read More → "QuickLogic’s DPO Technology Extends Single-Charge Battery Life By Up To 36% in Handheld Devices"

WASHINGTON, DC – November 30, 2010 – Software Defined Radio Forum – Green Hills Software, Inc., the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutions, today announced that its INTEGRITY® RTOS, GateD® Advanced Routing and MULTI® integrated development environment (IDE) have been selected by Rockwell Collins as the operating system unicast routing solution and tools environment for the Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) Enterprise Network Services Tactical Data Controller product. Green Hills products and services are the basis for the secure and reliable interoperation between networking and legacy waveforms as well as critical radio network management and networking services.</ … Read More → "Green Hills Software Powers Next-Generation Routing Solution for Rockwell Collins"

Abingdon, United Kingdom, 30th November 2010 – Toumaz, the leading provider of ultra-low power wireless telemetry technologies for medical monitoring and internet-connected consumer devices, today announces that its TZ1090 (‘XENIF’) System-on-Chip is now in production in the latest connected audio product from PURE, the world’s leading supplier of DAB and connected radios. 

PURE’s ONE Flow delivers internet-connected digital radio with music purchase services in a new small form factor radio and at a market-changing price point. It is enabled by Toumaz’s TZ1090 XENIF device, an advanced 32-bit processor-based SoC … Read More → "Toumaz ‘XENIF’ all-in-one Wi-Fi, baseband and application processor now in production with PURE ONE Flow connected audio product"

OTTAWA, CANADA – November 29, 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 availability of the XMC-603, its new rugged quad-channel MIL-STD-1553 XMC interface module. The XMC-603 mezzanine module speeds and simplifies the integration of dual redundant ports of MIL-STD-1553 into military and aerospace embedded computing systems.

“MIL-STD-1553 remains an important data bus for deployed military platforms,& … Read More → "Curtiss-Wright Controls Introduces New Quad-Channel MIL-STD-1553 Module"

MILPITAS, CA – November 30, 2010 – Linear Technology introduces the LTC5564, a precision RF power detector that operates from 600MHz to 15GHz, with exceptionally fast response time of 7ns from a pulsed RF signal. Moreover, the device has an on-chip fast comparator with a propagation delay of 9ns. The comparator threshold voltage is user-settable, enabling a flexible trip point. The device’s output may be latched by … Read More → "Ultrafast 7ns Response Time 15GHz RF Detector with Fast Comparator"

• Directly acquires L-Band RF signals as low as -75 dBm from antenna connection
• Amplifies and downconverts RF, then digitizes I & Q signals at 200 MSPS
• Supports digital demodulation of satellite and telecommunications signals
• Onboard Virtex-6 FPGA preconfigured with data acquisition and radio tuning features

WASHINGTON, DC, Software Defined Radio Forum (SDR) 2010 Technical Conference–November 30, 2010 & … Read More → "Pentek Expands SDR Market Leadership by Integrating L-Band RF Tuner with Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGA"