San Jose, CA, September 13, 2010 – Atmel® Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) a leader in microcontroller and touch solutions, today announced that Korea-based Pantech has selected the Atmel maXTouch™ solution to power the IZAR, VEGA and EASE touch-enabled smartphones. Leveraging Atmel maXTouch solutions, these new phones offer multi-touch interfaces on Android platforms.

The robust Atmel maXTouch solutions offer higher performance, true unlimited touch functionality, stylus support, better power consumption and faster response times for the user.</ … Read More → "Pantech Selects Atmel maXTouch Solution To Power IZAR, VEGA and EASE Smartphones"

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Sept. 13 /PRNewswire/ — Actel Corporation (NASDAQ: ACTL) today announced that several of its FPGAs are now usable with cryptographic cores offering differential power analysis (DPA) resistance. Customers designing with SmartFusion(TM), Fusion, ProASIC®3 and IGLOO® devices can now protect their secret keys from DPA attacks by implementing AES, GCM or ECC intellectual property cores from IP Cores, Inc. These cores are the first commercially available cryptographic cores for FPGAs offering DPA resistance. IP Cores, Inc. specializes in IP … Read More → "Actel FPGAs Now Available With Cryptographic Cores Offering DPA Resistance"

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 13 /PRNewswire/ — Intel Developer Forum — LeCroy Corporation, a leading supplier of oscilloscopes and serial data test solutions, today introduced a new ExpressCard 2.0 Interposer for the Summit(TM) PCI Express Protocol Analyzer product line. This new ExpressCard 2.0 Interposer is a dedicated probe that makes it easier to analyze data traffic from an ExpressCard interface (designed to insert into an ExpressCard slot in a notebook or tablet system). The ExpressCard standard was developed by the PCMCIA to replace the previous PC card and CardBus standards.

The new ExpressCard 2.0 Standard developed by the PCMCIA, and now part of … Read More → "LeCroy Announces New ExpressCard 2.0 Interposer for PCI Express® 2.0 Analysis"

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Sept. 13 /PRNewswire/ — Actel Corporation (NASDAQ: ACTL) today announced Actel Direct, a sales channel supplying North American customers with simple and streamlined direct sales, fulfillment and application support. Operated by the company, Actel Direct is focused on ensuring the highest level of service to customers by providing same day turnaround on quoting, and processing orders within 24 hours of receipt. Complementary to Actel’s existing full service distribution partners, Actel Direct is beneficial for new customers wanting direct, immediate and accurate … Read More → "Actel Launches Actel Direct Sales Channel in North America"

Pittsford, NY, USA – Saelig Company, Inc. (Saelig)(www.saelig.com) announces the availability of uLCD-32PT, a 3.2″ QVGA TFT with 65K LCD TFT display with integrated touch screen and smart graphics processor. With a serial interface, users can now easily add graphics displays to microprocessor-based products. uLCD-32PT offers easy access to flexible embedded graphics, text, image, animation and countless more features, all built in to uLCD-32PT. All screen related functions are sent using a simple protocol via a serial interface.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Sept. 13 /PRNewswire/ — Actel Corporation (NASDAQ: ACTL) today announced Actel Direct, a sales channel supplying North American customers with simple and streamlined direct sales, fulfillment and application support. Operated by the company, Actel Direct is focused on ensuring the highest level of service to customers by providing same day turnaround on quoting, and processing orders within 24 hours of receipt. Complementary to Actel’s existing full service distribution partners, Actel Direct is beneficial for new customers wanting direct, immediate and accurate … Read More → "Actel Launches Actel Direct Sales Channel in North America"

HENDERSON, Nevada –September 13, 2010 – Aldec, Inc., an EDA leader in FPGA and ASIC Verification and HighRely Inc., industry-leading DO-254/DO-178B avionics development and engineering services company, announce the establishment of a DO-254 ecosystem, including Aldec, HighRely and industry leading programmable logic vendors: Actel® (NASDAQ:ACTL), Altera® (NASDAQ:ALTR) and Xilinx® (NASDAQ:XLNX). Aldec and HighRely provide a comprehensive certifiable DO-254 solution which covers the entire front-end and back-end of DO-254 compliance requirements for any DO-254 program that requires in hardware … Read More → "Aldec, HighRely and Leading FPGA Vendors Establish DO-254 Ecosystem"

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Sept. 13 /PRNewswire/ — Actel Corporation (NASDAQ: ACTL) today announced that several of its FPGAs are now usable with cryptographic cores offering differential power analysis (DPA) resistance. Customers designing with SmartFusion™, Fusion, ProASIC®3 and IGLOO® devices can now protect their secret keys from DPA attacks by implementing AES, GCM or ECC intellectual property cores from IP Cores, Inc. These cores are the first commercially available cryptographic cores for FPGAs offering DPA resistance. IP Cores, Inc. specializes in IP … Read More → "Actel FPGAs Now Available With Cryptographic Cores Offering DPA Resistance"

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — National Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE:NSM) today introduced WEBENCH® FPGA Power Architect, the industry’s first design tool to model and optimize power supplies for FPGAs in minutes.

WEBENCH FPGA Power Architect incorporates the detailed supply requirements of more than 130 of the newest FPGA devices from Altera Corp. and Xilinx, Inc. Modern power supply systems, including advanced FPGAs, are complex to design, often incorporating multiple unique loads to drive precisely specified voltages. In addition to … Read More → "National Semiconductor Launches New WEBENCH FPGA Power Architect"

AMSTERDAM, Sept. 10 /PRNewswire/ — Xilinx, Inc., (NASDAQ:XLNX) and Coreworks today announced at the IBC2010 conference the first availability of a range of new Dolby audio technology and other audio codec IP cores for compressing multichannel audio in Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). Integrating these codecs into a single FPGA eliminates the need for Digital Signal Processor (DSP) farms related to high-density multichannel audio streaming applications, thereby lowering overall cost, power consumption and circuit board area.

“Consumers increasingly want surround … Read More → "Xilinx and Coreworks Deliver Wide Range of Professional Audio Codecs, Including Dolby, for Easy Implementation With FPGAs"