Sea, Air & Space, National Harbor, Maryland – May 3, 2010 — Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing (CWCEC), a business group of Curtiss-Wright Controls and a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VME, VPX, VXS and CompactPCI products for the rugged deployed defense and aerospace market, has announced a new partnership for software joint development with Gedae, Inc. The partnership will bring support for Gedae, Inc.’s software development environment (also named Gedae) to CWCEC’s next-generation of CHAMP VPX DSP engines. Gedae provides … Read More → "Curtiss-Wright Controls Announces Software Development Partnership with Gedae Software: Demo System to be Displayed at Sea, Air, Space 2010"

Taipei, Taiwan,  May 4, 2010 – VIA Technologies, Inc, a leading innovator of power efficient x86 processor platforms, today announced the new VIA EPIA-M830 Mini-ITX board.  Designed specifically to meet the needs of next generation kiosk, POI and POS applications, the VIA EPIA-M830 places the latest 64-bit, high performance VIA Nano E-Series processor in a streamlined, application specific Mini-ITX form factor board.

Kiosk and POS systems will soon support an incredible array of increasingly complex human-machine interactions that reach beyond traditional ticketing or retail scenarios. The VIA EPIA-M830 is designed to take the kiosk … Read More → "VIA Launches VIA EPIA-M830, First VIA Nano E-Series Mini-ITX Board"

HOUSTON, TX (May 4, 2010) – Bringing the intelligence and precision of real-time digital control to expanding LED applications, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) today announced its new TMS320C2000™ Piccolo microcontroller (MCU) DC/DC LED Developer’s Kit. The new LED controller kit enables developers to leverage the performance of low-cost Piccolo MCUs to differentiate LED designs with advanced features such as dimming, color tone adjustment, power line communication and fault detection. Additionally, developers can reduce system cost through the integrated control of LED and power stages using a single Piccolo MCU. The … Read More → "Design intelligence and advanced features into cost-efficient lighting applications with new digital DC/DC LED Developer’s Kit based on TI’s Piccolo™ MCU"

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 3, 2010 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: CY) today introduced a new online community for designers to share design tips, ask questions and find in-depth information on a wide range of Cypress products, including the PSoC® programmable system-on-chip. The new Cypress Developer Community™ website, now available at www.cypress.com/go/communityRead More → "Cypress Launches Online Design Community for PSoC® Platform And Other Leading Technologies"

Taipei, Taiwan, May 3, 2010 — ALi Corporation, a leading fabless semiconductor company with more than 150M set-top box (STB) system-on-chips (SoCs) shipping into digital satellite and terrestrial retail markets, today announced that it has partnered with SMiT, a Conditional Access Modules (CAM) manufacturer with leading market share in Europe, to develop CAM … Read More → "World’s Leading CAM Manufacturer, SMiT, Partners with ALi To Penetrate High-End Set-Top Box Market"

SUNNYVALE, CA, May 3, 2010 – MIPS Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: MIPS), a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for digital consumer, home networking, wireless, communications and business applications, announced today that Mobileye, the global pioneer and leader in vision-based collision prevention systems, licensed its multi-threaded multiprocessing MIPS32® 1004K™ Coherent Processing System (CPS). Mobileye will incorporate the 1004K CPS in its next generation EyeQ™ vision-based SoC for use … Read More → "Mobileye® Licenses MIPS32® 1004K™ Coherent Processing System for Advanced Driver Assistance SoCs"

Highlights:
•       Invokes Calibre natively within the Olympus-SoC environment
•       Automatically detects and repairs DRC/DFM violations during implementation
•       Eliminates late stage surprises and unnecessary signoff iterations
•       Improves design quality while reducing time to signoff

WILSONVILLE, Ore., May 3, 2010 – Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced the new Calibre® InRoute design and verification platform, which now enables designers to natively invoke Calibre tools within the Olympus-SoC™ place and route system to achieve true manufacturing closure during physical … Read More → "Mentor Graphics Calibre InRoute Delivers True Manufacturing Signoff During Physical Design Closure"

MILPITAS, CA – May 3, 2010 – Linear Technology introduces the LTC3615, a high efficiency, 4MHz synchronous buck regulator that incorporates a constant frequency, current-mode architecture. Low resistance internal switches enable the LTC3615 to deliver up to 3A of continuous output current from each channel while its low dropout operation provides an output voltage ranging from 0.6V to just millivolts below VIN. The LTC3615 operates from an input voltage of 2.25V to 5.5V, making it ideal for single-cell Li-Ion applications as well as 3.3V and 5V intermediate bus systems. Its switching frequency is user programmable from 400kHz to 4MHz, enabling the use of … Read More → "General Purpose Dual 3A, 4MHz, Synchronous Step-Down Regulator Also Supports DDR Memory"