San Ramon, CA – July 7, 2010 – SchmartBoard, a company that makes prototyping electronic circuits easier, has announced a single development board supporting Texas Instruments Incorporated’s (TI) broad microcontroller portfolio, including ultra-low powerMSP430, ARM® Cortex™-M3-based Stellaris and real-time control C2000 MCU platforms. For more information, go to http://ow.ly/27c0B.

Traditionally, support of an MCU family has … Read More → "SchmartBoard Releases Development Board For TI Microcontrollers"

MILPITAS, CA – July 7, 2010 – Linear Technology announces the LT3596, a 60V, 1MHz step-down DC/DC converter designed to operate as a constant current LED driver for up to 30 LEDs. From a 48V input, the LT3596 can drive up to three strings of LEDs, each with up to ten 100mA LEDs in series, delivering efficiencies of over 90%. The LT3596’s multichannel capability makes it ideal for LED billboards as well as industrial and medical displays. Its input voltage range of 6V to 60V makes it well suited for automotive and industrial applications. The … Read More → "60V Step-Down Drives 3 Strings of Ten 100mA LEDs with 10,000:1 True Color PWM DimmingHeadline"

MILPITAS, CA – July 7, 2010 – Linear Technology announces the LT3596, a 60V, 1MHz step-down DC/DC converter designed to operate as a constant current LED driver for up to 30 LEDs. From a 48V input, the LT3596 can drive up to three strings of LEDs, each with up to ten 100mA LEDs in series, delivering efficiencies of over 90%. The LT3596’s multichannel capability makes it ideal for LED billboards as well as industrial and medical displays. Its input voltage range of 6V to 60V makes it well suited for automotive and industrial applications. The … Read More → "60V Step-Down Drives 3 Strings of Ten 100mA LEDs with 10,000:1 True Color PWM DimmingHeadline"

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif, July 7 – Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced that Open-Silicon a leading system-on-chip (SoC) design and semiconductor manufacturing company, has licensed and integrated 50 high speed DesignWare(r) IP products into customers’ chips with 100 percent first-pass silicon success. The IP products include complete solutions consisting of configurable digital controllers, PHYs which support leading process technologies from 180 to 28 nanometres, verification IP, as well as analogue front ends and data converters. In addition to integrating many of Synopsys’ silicon-proven interface and analogue IP products, Open-Silicon has incorporated … Read More → "Open-Silicon integrates 50 DesignWare interface and analogue IP products with 100 percent silicon success"

Albuquerque, New Mexico, July 2010 – Innovasic Semiconductor and Micrel, Inc. are pleased to announce their collaboration on a new reference platform for Industrial Ethernet connectivity. The new RapID™ Industrial Ethernet Platform uses the Innovasic fido1100® communications controller in conjunction with the new Micrel KSZ8873 Ethernet switch. The intent is to provide industrial equipment OEMs with a connectivity solution that can be configured in star, line or ring topologies. The solution includes all necessary schematics and software, including full-featured, royalty- free stacks for TCP/IP, EtherNet/IP and Profinet. The types of … Read More → "Innovasic Semiconductor and Micrel Partner to Provide Innovative New Industrial Ethernet Reference Platform"

Ecully, France, July 1st, 2010 – Adeneo Embedded, the Microsoft Windows Embedded Gold Partner awarded “Windows Embedded Training Partner of the Year” and “Windows Embedded Systems Integrator of the Year” for both 2008 and 2009 in North America and Europe, announced the immediate availability of its new Board Support Packages (BSPs) for two Atmel AT91SAM9 MCUs on Microsoft Windows Embedded Compact 7.

Windows Embedded Compact 7, the next generation of Microsoft’s widely used Windows Embedded CE platform, provides a complete toolkit for OEMs building specialized consumer and enterprise devices, … Read More → "Adeneo Embedded Releases Microsoft Windows Embedded Compact 7 Board Support Packages for Atmel MCUs"