POWAY, Calif., August 17, 2010 — AgigA Tech Inc., a subsidiary of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ:CY), today introduced a new battery-free intelligent power subsystem that prevents the loss of critical data due to a power interruption. The PowerGEM™ (Green Energy Module) power subsystem uses ultracapacitors (or “ultracaps”) to provide temporary power in the event of a system power loss. 

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Pittsford, NY, USA: Saelig Company, Inc. announces two new benchtop scopes – PDS8102T and PDS8202T, both offering a huge 2M data point record length, which allows great depth for investigating fast, intermittent pulses . These low-cost 2-channel scopes sample at 1 Gsa/s and 2 GSa/s respectively, and are packed with useful features normally only seen on higher-end DSOs including video trigger, auto-measurements, large 8″ full color LCD display, XY Mode, auto-set, averaging, math functions, USB output, waveform storage, 3-year warranty, etc. Even FFT functionality is … Read More → "Saelig Debuts New Low-cost 100/200MHz Oscilloscopes"

August 16, 2010 – Foster City, CA. IAR Systems® today announced that IAR Embedded Workbench® for TI MSP430 device has been selected by On-Ramp Wireless for their latest Ultra-Link Processing™ wireless technology.

IAR Embedded Workbench will be packaged with the On-Ramp Ultra-Link Processing(TM) wireless networking System Development Kit (SDK). IAR Embedded Workbench is preloaded with On-Ramp SDK source code drivers, providing the platform to quickly and reliably get the network up and running for the On-Ramp customer.

On-Ramp Ultra-Link Processing technology offers high capacity, long range coverage, and ultra low power consumptions, without … Read More → "On-Ramp Wireless Inc. Selects IAR Embedded Workbench to Support Rapid Prototyping and Application Integration"

Wisbech, UK, 16 August 2010 – Designed to help and assist engineers assess and … Read More → "Anglia Displays assists LCD display selection"

Unterpremstaetten, Austria (Aug 16^th, 2010) – austriamicrosystems (SIX: AMS), a leading global designer and manufacturer of high performance analog ICs, has announced the AS3560 and AS3561 Stereo Headphone Amplifiers for mobile phones, portable navigation devices, music / media players and any media device that uses headphones. These new 30 mW headphone amplifiers continuously adjust the supply rails in response to the input signal, … Read More → "austriamicrosystems announces Class G and Class H Stereo Headphone Amplifiers with industry’s lowest power consumption"

NEW YORK, PARIS, and BATH, England, August 16, 2010 – Crypto 2010 Conference Altran Praxis and AdaCore today announced a new reference implementation of the Skein algorithm, written and verified using the GPL 2010 Edition of the SPARK language and toolset. Skein is a cryptographic hash function and an entrant in the National Institute of Standards … Read More → "Altran Praxis and AdaCore Release Open Source SPARK Implementation of Skein Algorithm"

MILPITAS, CA – August 16, 2010 – Linear Technology introduces the LTC5587, an industry first 40dB dynamic range 6GHz RMS detector integrated with a high sampling rate 12-bit serial A/D converter. The digital output RMS RF detector provides +/-1dB measurement accuracy of high crest-factor signals, independent of the modulation used. The detector is capable of operating over a wide frequency range from 10MHz to 6GHz. The integrated 12-bit ADC captures and digitizes the detector measurement at a rate of up to 500k samples/second and delivers the data via a bit stream over a … Read More → "6GHz RMS Power Detector with Digital Output Provides Fast, Accurate RF Power Measurements in a Compact Solution"

MILPITAS, CA – August 16, 2010 – Linear Technology introduces the LTC5587, an industry first 40dB dynamic range 6GHz RMS detector integrated with a high sampling rate 12-bit serial A/D converter. The digital output RMS RF detector provides +/-1dB measurement accuracy of high crest-factor signals, independent of the modulation used. The detector is capable of operating over a wide frequency range from 10MHz to 6GHz. The integrated 12-bit ADC captures and digitizes the detector measurement at a rate of up to 500k samples/second and delivers the data via a bit stream over a … Read More → "6GHz RMS Power Detector with Digital Output Provides Fast, Accurate RF Power Measurements in a Compact Solution"

HILLSBORO, OR — AUGUST 16, 2010 — Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC) today announced the immediate availability of Version 1.4 of its ispLEVER® Classic design tool suite.  The ispLEVER Classic design software has been upgraded with the addition of Synopsys Synplify Pro with the HDL Analyst feature set, and an improved ispMACH® 4000ZE CPLD fitter with improved power optimization. 

Synplify Pro HDL Analyst provides designers a way to rapidly visualize high-level register transfer level (RTL) Verilog or VHDL.  Designers can cross-probe between the graphical diagrams and source code to ensure that the coding style they use is … Read More → "Lattice Announces Improved Synthesis And Power Optimization in CPLD Tools"

St. Louis, Missouri, USA – August 10, 2010 – Laird Technologies, Inc., a global leader in the design and supply of customized performance-critical components and systems for advanced electronics and wireless products, today announced that they have entered into an agreement with Sprint.

This joint marketing agreement allows each company to refer customers to one another where appropriate. Each company will be able to provide their customers with increased options by leveraging the Machine-to-Machine (M2M) solutions and services of the … Read More → "Laird Technologies Partners with Sprint to Extend M2M Product Line to a Variety of Businesses"