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500mA Negative Micropower LDO Offers New High Reliability Grade Operating Down to -55°C

MILPITAS, CA – August 18, 2010 – Linear Technology Corporation announces a new high reliability, military plastic MP-grade version of the LT1175, a 500mA negative micropower low dropout regulator. The MP-grade LT1175 is offered in SOIC-8 and DD-Pak packages with a -55°C to +125°C operating junction temperature range. With a wide input voltage range of -4.3V to -20V, the LT1175 features micropower operating currents of 45uA quiescent and 10uA in shutdown, preventing output voltage rise under no-load conditions. The device’s reference amplifier topology ensures precision DC characteristics and the ability … Read More → "500mA Negative Micropower LDO Offers New High Reliability Grade Operating Down to -55°C"

500mA Negative Micropower LDO Offers New High Reliability Grade Operating Down to -55°C

MILPITAS, CA – August 18, 2010 – Linear Technology Corporation announces a new high reliability, military plastic MP-grade version of the LT1175, a 500mA negative micropower low dropout regulator. The MP-grade LT1175 is offered in SOIC-8 and DD-Pak packages with a -55°C to +125°C operating junction temperature range. With a wide input voltage range of -4.3V to -20V, the LT1175 features micropower operating currents of 45uA quiescent and 10uA in shutdown, preventing output voltage rise under no-load conditions. The device’s reference amplifier topology ensures precision DC characteristics and the ability … Read More → "500mA Negative Micropower LDO Offers New High Reliability Grade Operating Down to -55°C"

MIT Spin-Out Lyric Semiconductor Launches a New Kind of Computing With Probability Processing Circuits

SANTA CLARA, CA and AUSTIN, TX–(Marketwire – August 17, 2010) –  FLASH MEMORY SUMMIT and THE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON LOW POWER ELECTRONICS AND DESIGN Lyric Semiconductor, Inc. a DARPA- and venture-funded MIT spin-out, today emerged from stealth mode to launch a new technology called probability processing, which is poised to deliver a fundamental change in processing performance and power consumption. With over a decade of development at MIT and at Lyric Semiconductor, Lyric’s probability processing technologyRead More → "MIT Spin-Out Lyric Semiconductor Launches a New Kind of Computing With Probability Processing Circuits"

Acrosser Launches a New PCI/104+Solution-AR-B8020

There are many industrial applications only need 386 or 486 level CPU to execute basic industrial applications.  Nowadays those low cost processors has been phased out from the market, system integrators are forced to spend more cost on new platforms which are expensive and over requirements.  For example, the current X86 CPU clocks are all over 600MHz. and form factor sizes are bigger than 3.5”. They are either too expensive or too big for simple industrial applications.< … Read More → "Acrosser Launches a New PCI/104+Solution-AR-B8020"

Why Are There No Successful New FPGA Companies?

FPGAs are wonderful things – but you know that; otherwise you wouldn’t be reading this. This year it will be 25 years since Xilinx shipped its first product, the XC2064, creating the name Field Programmable Gate Array to distinguish the device from other programmable logic and to rank it alongside the gate array in use for building ASICs.

By 1990, there were around 20 companies attempting to play in this market, but already Xilinx and Altera were pulling ahead, with Lattice, Actel, Atmel, and QuickLogic snapping … Read More → "Why Are There No Successful New FPGA Companies?"

Lyric Semiconductor Debuts “Probability Logic”

The old joke has finally come true: the AND, OR, and XOR gates are finally being joined by the “maybe gate.”

Boston-based startup Lyric Semiconductor has taken the wraps off its “probability logic,” a new kind of digital circuit based on Bayesian, rather than Boolean, arithmetic. Although the phrase might sound iffy and unpredictable, a sort of rehash of fuzzy logic, Lyric’s gates are actually completely reliable and deterministic. The difference is that they integrate the likelihood of an input as well as its state. The … Read More → "Lyric Semiconductor Debuts “Probability Logic”"

Keeping Things Safe for Work

So you’re doing a design of this clever, dashy little inner-city small-but-fast car. And, like everyone else, you’re not doing it all 100% by yourself. You’ve invented the wheel enough times to where the thrill is pretty much gone; you’re going to buy some wheels instead and focus your efforts, maybe, on infotainment instead. You know, nothing takes the boredom out of downtown traffic like a video and the ability to update your Facebook page with one hand while you drive with the other and talk on your phone … Read More → "Keeping Things Safe for Work"

DigiTech® Chooses QNX® for Realtime Operating System Control

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – DigiTech, a leading manufacturer of guitar and bass processors, has chosen QNX Software Systems Co. to provide the realtime operating system for its JamMan Solo, Stereo, and Delay pedals. QNX is known as an industry leader in powering mission-critical applications in a range of devices, including Harman automotive infotainment systems.

QNX is providing its comprehensive software platform for the JamMan line of pedals, giving users increased control and a more varied feature set. The QNX®< … Read More → "DigiTech® Chooses QNX® for Realtime Operating System Control"

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