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Mistral announces solutions based on Curtiss-Wright’s New COTS-based RADHARD Ready™ Initiative

Bangalore, Thursday, 11th November 2010 – Mistral Solutions Pvt. Ltd., a leading provider of complete technology solutions and professional services in the embedded space, today announced Curtiss-Wright’s (CWCEC) new RADHARD Ready™ COTS technology development initiative, which applies the principles of embedded COTS product design to military applications that have to perform/survive and function following exposure to otherwise damaging gamma and neutron radiation events. 

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Datakey Electronics Releases New High Capacity Line of Portable Memory Tokens



November 3, 2010. Savage, MN – Datakey Electronics’ new High Capacity Line of portable memory tokens combines the high capacity and high throughput of consumer memory products (like USB flash drives/thumb drives and SD cards) with Datakey Electronics’ rugged packaging, reliable operation, unique form-factors, and high cycle-life/harsh environment … Read More → "Datakey Electronics Releases New High Capacity Line of Portable Memory Tokens"

Nallatech Will Demonstrate Deep Packet Inspection FPGA Network Accelerator at Supercomputing 2010

November 11th, 2010 – Nallatech, a leading supplier of accelerated computing solutions, will showcase the PCIe-180 Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) network accelerator card capable of real time deep packet inspection and processing of 10Gb Ethernet traffic.

The Nallatech PCIe-180 is a versatile product with a combination of unique features that make it ideal for deep packet inspection applications. The first is the card’s ability to dynamically switch between 10GbE and SONET/SDH protocols … Read More → "Nallatech Will Demonstrate Deep Packet Inspection FPGA Network Accelerator at Supercomputing 2010"

The Five Pitfalls of 4G Baseband Design

There’s a bandwidth explosion taking place in mobile communications. Under the broad umbrella of the ITU’s IMT-2000 set of 3G cellular communications standards, cellular data rates have risen from a few tens of kilobits to megabits per second, to tens of megabits per second, and now to hundreds of megabits per second with even higher levels of performance expected for fixed-location applications.

What does a LTE baseband subsystem look like? This … Read More → "The Five Pitfalls of 4G Baseband Design"

The What, Why and How of Customizable Dataplane Processors (DPUs)

Designers have long understood how to use a single processor for the control functions in a SOC design. However, there are a lot of data-intensive functions that control processors cannot handle. That’s why designers design RTL blocks for these functions. However, RTL blocks take a long time to design and even longer to verify, and they are not programmable to handle multiple standard or designs.

Dataplane processors (DPUs) are designed to provide programmabilityRead More → "The What, Why and How of Customizable Dataplane Processors (DPUs)"

10 Reasons to Customize a Processor Core

Reason #1 – Lower Power

Some people think that all RISC processors deliver about the same performance per clock cycle. This assumption is wrong for processor cores that have been customized for a specific application. By customizing the processor, designers can get a significant performance improvement for each clock cycle.

A designer can add custom instructions to a processor’s ISA, which will increase the … Read More → "10 Reasons to Customize a Processor Core"

Synopsys NanoTime Enables Full Chip Transistor Level Timing Analysis on Cavium Networks OCTEON II Internet Application Processor

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Nov. 11, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today reported that Cavium Networks, Inc. used NanoTime transistor-level static timing analysis (STA) solution to achieve full-chip STA signoff for its next-generation internet application processor, OCTEON II that is shipping now. The multi-core, high speed OCTEON II processor is optimized for high performance network packet processing and low power consumption. Targeted for scalable networking equipment designed to fuel the voice, video and data convergence driven by cloud computing, the OCTEON II required extremely accurate timing verification in … Read More → "Synopsys NanoTime Enables Full Chip Transistor Level Timing Analysis on Cavium Networks OCTEON II Internet Application Processor"

Renesas Electronics Introduces RX600 Series Microcontrollers that Reduce Standby Mode Power Consumption by Approximately 90 Percent

electronica, Munich, 9 th  – 12 th  November  2010   Renesas Electronics, a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions,  today announced the availability of three new groups of products in the RX600 series of 32 … Read More → "Renesas Electronics Introduces RX600 Series Microcontrollers that Reduce Standby Mode Power Consumption by Approximately 90 Percent"

Atmel Introduces Industry’s First Open Source License AES-128 Immobilizer Protocol Stack

Munich, Germany, Electronica–November 11, 2010–Atmel® Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML), a leader in microcontroller and touch solutions, today announced the release of a complete immobilizer protocol stack, based on the AES-128 cryptography standard, under an open source license. As the industry’s first to deliver this open source immobilizer protocol stack, Atmel shows its commitment to the worldwide automotive market and helps improve an engineer’s time-to-market with their designs.

Since immobilizer devices are part of nearly all Remote Keyless Entry/ Passive Entry Go systems today, interoperability between IC suppliers and true peer-reviewing of the achieved security strength … Read More → "Atmel Introduces Industry’s First Open Source License AES-128 Immobilizer Protocol Stack"

NEC, Intel and Microsoft Form Strategic Relationship – Integrated Products Drive Next Generation Digital Signage Devices

Tokyo, Nov 10, 2010 (JCN Newswire via COMTEX) — NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701), Intel Corporation (Intel; NASDAQ: INTC) and Microsoft Corp. (Microsoft; NASDAQ: MSFT) today announced that the companies will enter into a strategic relationship to provide an integrated digital signage offering for the global market, including Japan. This collaboration will result in an optimized digital signage platform that addresses the retail and digital signage market segment’s need for a more streamlined, high performance and highly reliable solution that supports digital content, interactivity, intelligence and lifecycle management.

In January 2010, Intel and Microsoft announced a strategic relationship to develop and … Read More → "NEC, Intel and Microsoft Form Strategic Relationship – Integrated Products Drive Next Generation Digital Signage Devices"

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