OTTAWA, Ontario, July 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Altera Corporation (NASDAQ:ALTR) , Terasic Technologies, Impulse Accelerated Technologies Inc. and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) today announced the winners of the 2010 Innovate North America FPGA Competition. The competition is focused on the use of FPGA technology and design software to create innovative digital-system designs.

To assist with their design efforts the student teams and their professors were provided with Altera’s Quartus® II design software and a board from Terasic … Read More → "University of Saskatchewan Wins 2010 Innovate North America FPGA Competition"

BANGALORE, India, July 14 /PRNewswire/ — UBM India, the Indian arm of leading global business media company United Business Media Ltd., and EE Times Group, its division for electronics industry, today announced that the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) India 2010 will feature a CXO Panel discussion “India Design Houses: More of the same?” aimed at Senior Management and Engineers from the Embedded industry. Mr. Ganesh Moorthy, Chief Operating Officer -Microchip Technology Inc., is keynote speaker at ESC India 2010 being held at NIMHANS Convention centre, Bangalore, July 21-23.

Topic: Smart Energy

Title: Opportunities in the Emerging Smart Energy … Read More → "Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) India 2010 to Address Critical Issues in the Embedded Space"

BANGALORE, India, July 14 /PRNewswire/ — UBM India, the Indian arm of leading global business media company United Business Media Ltd., and EE Times Group, its division for electronics industry, today announced that the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) India 2010 will feature a CXO Panel discussion “India Design Houses: More of the same?” aimed at Senior Management and Engineers from the Embedded industry. Mr. Ganesh Moorthy, Chief Operating Officer -Microchip Technology Inc., is keynote speaker at ESC India 2010 being held at NIMHANS Convention centre, Bangalore, July 21-23.

Topic: Smart Energy

Title: Opportunities in the Emerging Smart Energy … Read More → "Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) India 2010 to Address Critical Issues in the Embedded Space"

MILPITAS, CA – July 13, 2010 – Linear Technology announces the H-grade version of the LT3496. The LT3496 is a 2MHz DC/DC converter designed to operate as a three-channel constant current LED driver. Each of the device’s three channels can drive up to eight 500mA LEDs in series, enabling it to drive up to 24 x 500mA LEDs at efficiencies up to 96%. The H-grade version operates up to a junction temperature of 150?C, compared to the E- and I-grade versions’ 125?C maximum junction temperature. All electrical specifications are identical for the E-, I- and … Read More → "Triple Output LED Driver Drives Up to 24 x 500mA LEDs & Offers a 150?C Maximum Junction Temperature"

MILPITAS, CA – July 13, 2010 – Linear Technology announces the H-grade version of the LT3496. The LT3496 is a 2MHz DC/DC converter designed to operate as a three-channel constant current LED driver. Each of the device’s three channels can drive up to eight 500mA LEDs in series, enabling it to drive up to 24 x 500mA LEDs at efficiencies up to 96%. The H-grade version operates up to a junction temperature of 150?C, compared to the E- and I-grade versions’ 125?C maximum junction temperature. All electrical specifications are identical for the E-, I- and … Read More → "Triple Output LED Driver Drives Up to 24 x 500mA LEDs & Offers a 150?C Maximum Junction Temperature"

Algotronix Ltd., Edinburgh, UK announces the availability of an XTS-AES core to meet the NIST SP800-38E recommendation published in January 2010 and the IEEE 1619-2007 standard.

The IP core provides encryption for data storage applications and can be configured to exceed the demands of SATA 3.0 and USB 3.0, as well as smaller footprint configurations for less demanding requirements. The low-cost core features a hardware AES encryption solution that provides AES-128 or AES-256 for hard drives or memory sticks.

“As a design services company, we need the lowest cost core with& … Read More → "Algotronix announces an XTS-AES IP core for storage applications"

SAN JOSE, CA–(Marketwire – July 13, 2010) – Automation Anywhere (www.AutomationAnywhere.com), a global leader in automation software, today announced the newest version of Testing Anywhere. Testing Anywhere first launched in December, 2009 and is being adopted by large system integrators and other software development teams looking for significantly better efficiencies and quality around automated software testing.

“We’ve been using Testing Anywhere’s new Object Avatar and believe there is nothing else like it in the market today. It … Read More → "Automation Anywhere Launches Testing Anywhere 6.5"

Bristol, UK and Sunnyvale, Calif. – July 13, 2010– XMOS® today announced the industry’s first USB Audio Class 2.0 reference design for high channel count computer audio interfaces, DJ and live sound mixers, musical instruments and digital effects devices.

As USB Audio 2.0 continues to replace IEEE 1394 in professional, prosumer and consumer audio applications, this new reference design builds on the highly successful XMOS L1 USB Audio 2.0 reference design for low channel count (stereo) applications. XMOS USB Audio 2.0 solutions help developers of audio … Read More → "First USB Audio 2.0 Reference Design with Support for High Audio Channel Count"

Duesseldorf, 14th July 2010 – Renesas Electronics, a premiere supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced the availability of its new SuperSpeed Universal Serial Bus (USB 3.0) host controller (part number µPD720200A). It offers 85 percent less power consumption compared to the company’s existing host controller (part number µPD720200) when peripheral devices, such as mice, are not connected to the ports.

Supporting fast data transfer rates of up to 5 gigabits per second (Gbps), the µPD720200A device achieves low power consumption of 50 milliwatts (mW), 85 percent less than the company’s existing USB 3.0 host controller. The new … Read More → "Renesas Electronics Introduces New USB 3.0 Host Controller with 85 Percent Reduced Power Consumption"

Plymouth, UK – 14 July 2010 — Plessey Semiconductors Limited today announced that they had successfully transferred their first bipolar process, the W-series process, onto their 8-inch line in Plymouth, England. The W-series bipolar process is a critical process for a number of new product releases as well as part of the ongoing support Plessey is providing to its existing foundry customers. 

The first two Plessey products now in product test have been produced on the W-series process. The process exhibits very good low current performance, high linearity, and because of the single crystal emitter structure … Read More → "Plessey Semiconductors announces bipolar process technology now available"