Bristol, UK and Sunnyvale, Calif. – August 3^rd, 2010–XMOS® today announces that its customers, Meridian, Intelligent Media Technologies and High Resolution Technologies, have lowered development costs, shortened time to market and increased design flexibility to produce more differentiated products by using XMOS event-driven processors™. XMOS programmable chips bring together the capabilities of processors, DSPs and FPGAs, to help design economical electronic products at exceptional speed. 

“Embedded design and development … Read More → "XMOS Customers Build Better Products, Faster"

AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 4, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — NIWeek — National Instruments (NASDAQ:NATI) today announced the NI 9157 and NI 9159 MXI-Express RIO chassis and NI 9148 Ethernet RIO chassis, which in addition to the existing NI 9144 EtherCAT chassis, extend the company’s offering of high-channel-count expansion chassis on a variety of buses. Built on NI reconfigurable I/O (RIO) technology, these chassis deliver the benefits of field programmable gate array (FPGA)-based hardware and C Series I/O to applications requiring hundreds, or even thousands, of channels. … Read More → "NI Extends LabVIEW FPGA and C Series I/O with New High-Channel-Count Expansion Chassis"

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.  August  4, 2010 — Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, and GLOBALFOUNDRIES, a leading provider of advanced semiconductor technology and manufacturing services, today announced an agreement to develop the Synopsys DesignWare®SuperSpeed USB (3.0), USB 2.0, HDMI 1.4 Tx and Rx, DDR3/2, PCI Express® 2.0 and 1.1, SATA 1.5/3 Gbps and 6 Gbps, and XAUI  PHY IP for GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ 28 nanometer (nm) “Gate First” High-k Metal Gate (HKMG) process technologies. The collaboration will enable mutual customers to differentiate their 28nm designs with a high quality IP … Read More → "Collaboration enables faster time-to-volume for advanced high performance SoC designs"

MILPITAS, CA – August 4, 2010 – Linear Technology Corporation introduces the LTC2655, a quad voltage output 16- and 12-bit digital-to-analog converter (DAC) family with internal reference and I2C interface. The LTC2655 DACs achieve 16-bit performance of +4LSB INL maximum over temperature, a factor of four better than the closest 16-bit quad competitor. The LTC2655 offers the lowest offset error +2mV (max) and lowest gain error 0.1% (max), a combination that ensures that the device retains accuracy near the supply rails and provides users with a wider effective output range. The LTC2655’s precision specifications make … Read More → "16-Bit Quad, I2C DAC with Internal Reference Achieves +4LSB INL (Max)"

MILPITAS, CA – August 4, 2010 – Linear Technology Corporation introduces the LTC2655, a quad voltage output 16- and 12-bit digital-to-analog converter (DAC) family with internal reference and I2C interface. The LTC2655 DACs achieve 16-bit performance of +4LSB INL maximum over temperature, a factor of four better than the closest 16-bit quad competitor. The LTC2655 offers the lowest offset error +2mV (max) and lowest gain error 0.1% (max), a combination that ensures that the device retains accuracy near the supply rails and provides users with a wider effective output range. The LTC2655’s precision specifications make … Read More → "16-Bit Quad, I2C DAC with Internal Reference Achieves +4LSB INL (Max)"

SAN JOSÉ, CA−August 3, 2010–LynuxWorks, Inc., a world leader in the embedded software market, announced today that it will demonstrate its LynxOS-178 and LynxSecure safety-critical and secure software products for use in next generation unmanned aerial vehicles at AUVSI’s Unmanned Systems North America 2010. The AUVSI 2010 conference, sponsored by the Association for Unmanned Vehicles International, is the largest annual event focusing on international ground, … Read More → "LynuxWorks Addresses Safety Requirements for NextGen UAVs at AUVSI 2010"

Edinburgh, UK, August 3 2010 – Wolfson Microelectronics plc has today announced the introduction of the innovative WM2002 stereo headphone driver, the world’s first commercially available digital ambient noise canceling (ANC) application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC).  Featuring Wolfson’s revolutionary myZone™ digital ambient noise cancellation (ANC) technology, the WM2002 will enable global electronics manufacturers to provide consumers with cost effective, mass-market, noise canceling headphones and headsets.

Using unique feed-forward noise cancellation, the WM2002 delivers best-in-class digital ANC performance, enabling up to 30 dB peak active ambient noise cancellation. Depending on the acoustics implementation, … Read More → "Wolfson’s latest innovative myZone™ technology delivers world’s first digital ANC ASIC to headphones and headsets"

Unterpremstaetten, Austria (August 3, 2010) – austriamicrosystems (SIX: AMS), a leading global designer and manufacturer of high-performance analog ICs, has announced the AS3676, a highly Integrated Lighting Management Unit (LMU) with ambient … Read More → "austriamicrosystems announces a new highly flexible Lighting Management Unit for mobile applications"