Munich, Germany (Electronica 2010) November 11, 2010 – Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq:MSCC), a leading  provider of semiconductor technology aimed at building a secure, smart, connected world, today announced that its family of Plastic Large Area Device (PLAD)(TM) surface-mount transient voltage suppressors (TVS) enables avionics systems to meet new safety standards required for today’s carbon composite-skinned aircraft.

Microsemi’s  PLAD™ packaging improves surge protection, preventing the disruption of digital signal processing, component damage and interruption of function due to the indirect effects of lightning.  These new multiple-burst lightning-protection requirements were specified by the Radio Technical Committee … Read More → "Microsemi Patented PLAD™ Technology Delivers Safer Air Travel"

SANTA CLARA, Calif.– ARM today introduced the ARM^® Mali™-T604 Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) at the ARM Technology Conference 2010 in Santa Clara, bringing innovative and compelling visual computing to next generation consumer electronics devices. Delivering up to 5x performance improvement over current Mali graphics processors, the Mali-T604 provides industry-leading graphics performance with an energy-efficient profile. The Mali-T604 enables visually rich user experiences not previously seen in consumer electronics devices, scaling from smartphones to high-end digital entertainment systems. The Mali-T604 is currently available to license by lead partners. Samsung, who is already a licensee of … Read More → "ARM Heralds New Era in Embedded Graphics with Next-Generation Mali GPU"

SAN JOSE, CA, November 10, 2010 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: CY) today announced the ARM® Cortex™M3/ PSoC® 5 Design Challenge, a contest to find the most innovative and useful designs from the millions of possibilities available to designers using the Cypress PSoC 5 architecture powered by the ARM Cortex-M3 processor. The contest, presented in conjunction with EE Times and ARM, kicks off this week at the ARM TechCon, with the Grand Prize to be awarded in May, 2011. A total of over $10,000 in cash and prizes will be awarded throughout the contest, including the $2,500 Grand Prize. More information, including … Read More → "Cypress Announces ARM® Cortex™-M3/PSoC® 5 Design Challenge"

Littleton, Colo., November 8, 2010? — Infinite Power Solutions (IPS) announced today that it has teamed with Texas Instruments (TI) to create the world’s first perpetually-powered digital signal processor (DSP) solution using its industry leading solid-state energy storage solutions and ambient energy harvesting technology. This is made possible by the ultra-low power consumption of TI’s TMS320C5515 DSP and the ultra-efficient, high-peak current capability and near loss-less energy storage of the IPS THINERGY® Micro-Energy Cell (MEC). The award-winning THINERGY solid-state MEC101-7S is rapidly … Read More → "Perpetually Powered DSP Applications Made Possible With Thingery"

Bellevue, WA – November 9, 2010 – Impulse Accelerated Technologies today announced that the Impulse C-to-FPGA compiler will be extended to support Convey’s HC-1 hybrid-core server. The companies are collaborating to integrate the Impulse compiler into the Convey Personality Development Kit (PDK), allowing C-language algorithms to be deployed as FPGA hardware accelerators in high-performance computing applications.

The Impulse compiler tools support automatic pipeline generation, instruction scheduling and other optimizations for increased algorithm throughput. The integration will combine Impulse compiler-generated hardware kernel functions with Convey’s proprietary shared memory accelerator architecture. Target applications include bioinformatics, financial computing, … Read More → "Impulse and Convey Computer to Support C-to-FPGA for Accelerated Computing"

SAN JOSE, CA–November 9, 2010–LynuxWorks, Inc., a world leader in the embedded software market, showcased its LynxOS-SE operating system running on the ARM Cortex-A8 processor at the ARM Technology Conference, November 9-11, 2010, at the Santa Clara Conference Center, CA.

LynxOS-SE for the ARM Cortex-A8 processor, was ported first to the Texas Instruments OMAP 3 platform. Designed for portable and mobile applications, OMAP 3 is the first family of multimedia application processors to integrate … Read More → "LynxOS-SE for ARM Cortex-A8 Showcased at ARM Technology Conference"