Woodcliff Lake, NJ, May 25, 2010 — Electronic system design engineers who need to understand and evaluate H.264 video encoding now have a quick, cost-effective, ready-to-run tool for doing just that. 

The H.264 Video Encoding Reference Design System from semiconductor intellectual property (IP) provider CAST, Inc. combines multiple hardware functions and essential software in a pre-integrated, well-documented package. The System is available now, running in either Altera or XIlinx FPGAs on commercial prototyping boards.

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Woodcliff Lake, NJ, May 25, 2010 — Electronic system design engineers who need to understand and evaluate H.264 video encoding now have a quick, cost-effective, ready-to-run tool for doing just that. 

The H.264 Video Encoding Reference Design System from semiconductor intellectual property (IP) provider CAST, Inc. combines multiple hardware functions and essential software in a pre-integrated, well-documented package. The System is available now, running in either Altera or XIlinx FPGAs on commercial prototyping boards.

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SAN JOSE, Calif., May 25, 2010 — Magma® Design Automation Inc. (Nasdaq: LAVA), a provider of chip design software, announced today that ARM® (LSE: ARM; Nasdaq: ARMHY) has successfully utilized  Magma’s SiliconSmart® characterization and modeling software suite to enhance and expand ARM’s production characterization system for Physical IP products. This fast, accurate and easy-to-use characterization system will assist ARM in delivering standard cell and I/O libraries.Read More → "ARM Physical IP Production Characterization System Utilizes Magma SiliconSmart Software"

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 25, 2010 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: CY) today announced that LG Electronics has selected its PSoC^®-based CapSense^® solution to implement an array … Read More → "LG Electronics Chooses Cypress CapSense® Solution for “LE” TV Models"

San Diego, California, May 25, 2010   * * *   Three new modules from congatec have been added to the congatec-AG COM Express family and, as with previous models, offer the full scalability of a new CPU platform. They are 100% image compatible and have a common software driver, which facilitates integration into various systems. In all, there are a total of thirteen module variants now available for conga-CS45, conga-BS45 and conga-BM45.

“With these three new modules congatec is continuing to provide the great interchangeability& … Read More → "Power on demand: congatec presents new COM Express modules"

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO — May 25, 2010 — Ramtron International Corporation (Nasdaq: RMTR), the leading developer and supplier of ferroelectric-based low power memory and integrated semiconductor products, today announced that its FM25V10-G – a 1-Megabit (Mb), 2.0-3.6V serial F-RAM memory device – has been qualified to AEC-Q100 Grade 3 standards. This rigorous automotive-grade qualification, established by the Automotive Electronic Council’s Stress Test Qualification for Integrated Circuits, expands Ramtron’s portfolio of AEC-Q100 compliant memory to 15 devices, which are designed to meet the demanding requirements of the automotive market. The Grade-3 qualification ensures … Read More → "Ramtron Serial 1-Mbit F-RAM Upgraded to Automotive Qualification"

Pittsford, NY, USA: Saelig Company, Inc. announces the availability of a printer-specific version of the world’s smallest Bluetooth Class 1 RS232 adapter – especially suited to POS applications, where the printer can be up to 100m distant. LM048SPA is designed to replace standard RS232 serial cables connected to printers made by manufacturers such as Casio, Toshiba, Star Micronics and Sharp, and includes the “out of paper” warning – a unique feature in the industry. Patented new firmware means that only LM048SPA adapters have authentic signal response with smooth dataflow, matching the performance of an … Read More → "Saelig Debuts Bluetooth Wireless Serial Printer Adapter"

Poing, Germany, 25 May 2010 – Avnet Embedded , < … Read More → "Avnet Embedded signs European distribution agreement with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth leader Roving Networks"

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 25 /PRNewswire/ — D2S™, an emerging supplier of computational design platforms, today announced that Aki Fujimura, chairman and CEO of the company, will participate in a 22-nm manufacturing panel during the 47th Design Automation Conference (DAC) at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, Calif. DAC is the world’s leading technical conference and tradeshow covering the latest trends in electronic design and design automation, and will be held June 13-18. Aki Fujimura will participate in the Pavilion Panel “Hogan’s Heroes: What Design and Lithography Nightmares will 22nm Bring?” under the topic “New and Emerging … Read More → "D2S CEO Aki Fujimura to Participate in 22-nm Manufacturing Panel at DAC 2010"

DALLAS, May 25 /PRNewswire/ — Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) today introduced the industry’s first 6-gigabit per second (Gbps) dual serializer-deserializer IC (SerDes) that enables continuous data rate support from 470 megabits per second (Mbps) up to 6.25 Gbps for wireless applications. The TLK6002 supports speed migration from legacy to new faster speeds in the OBSAI and CPRI standards required for all wireless base station designs. The TLK6002 can be used in a wide variety of wireless infrastructure applications including WiMAX, TD-SCDMA, WCDMA and CDMA2000. For details or to order samples, go to: … Read More → "TI introduces the first discrete dual SerDes to support all CPRI and OBSAI data rates"