SANTA CLARA and SAN JOSE, Calif., April 27, 2010—Renesas Electronics America Inc. and Redpine Signals announced today 802.11a/b/g/n wireless connectivity solutions that make it easy for system engineers to add single-stream 802.11n Wi-Fi capability to embedded systems that use Renesas Electronics’ R8C, RX and SuperH™ microcontrollers (MCUs). These solutions are based on the Connect-io-n and n-Link series of modules from Redpine Signals^®, which make it easy to design new systems and … Read More → "Renesas Electronics America and Redpine Signals Collaborate to Provide Fully Productized Ultra-Low-power, High-throughput 802.11n Wi-Fi® I/O Connectivity for Embedded Systems"

April 27, 2010, San Jose, Calif – ADLINK Technology, Inc., a leading provider of machine vision platforms and boards, announced the release of the EOS-1000, the industry’s first compact vision system based on the Intel® Core™2 Duo P8400 processor. The EOS-1000 provides four independent PoE (Power over Ethernet) ports with data transfer rates up to 4.0 Gb/s and combines high computing power and multi-camera imaging—ideal for applications such as 3D vision robotic guidance.

The EOS-1000 is a compact-size 7.8” W x 6.5” D x 3.3” H (200 x 165 x 85 … Read More → "ADLINK Introduces Industry First PoE Compact Vision System based on the Intel® Core™2 Duo P8400 Processor"

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 27, 2010 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Today during an industry address at the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) Silicon Valley, Microsoft Corp. announced the release to manufacturing of Windows Embedded Standard 7, delivering the power, familiarity and reliability of the Windows 7 operating system in a highly customizable and componentized form. OEMs can leverage Windows Embedded Standard 7 to create differentiated experiences and enhanced connectivity with Windows-based PCs, servers and online services on specialized devices, such as thin clients, digital signage and industrial controls for the enterprise, as well as set-top boxes (STBs), connected media devices (CMDs), and TVs … Read More → "Microsoft Delivers Windows 7 Technologies to Device Manufacturers With Release of Windows Embedded Standard 7"

Taipei, Taiwan,  April 27, 2010 – VIA Technologies, Inc, a leading innovator of power efficient x86 processor platforms, today announced the latest additions to its VIA VIPRO range of fanless touch screen panel PCs with the 6.5 inch VIA VIPRO VP7806 and 15 inch VIA VIPRO VP7815. Created using the flexible and modular Em-ITX form factor, these new VIA VIPRO panel PCs offer the perfect solution for the latest HMI applications.

Both VIA VIPRO devices are fanless and durable with IP65 compliant LED backlit panels that can withstand temperatures of -200C to 600C. Industry-leading device … Read More → "VIA Extends Fanless and Durable VIA VIPRO Panel PC Family"

San Jose, CA, April 27, 2010 – Atmel® Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML), a leader in microcontroller and touch technology solutions, today announced that its maXTouch controller powers the touchscreen interface in the recently announced Samsung Wave smartphone. Released during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the Wave S8500 boasts a 3.3-inch Super AMOLED touchscreen that integrates Atmel’s maXTouch capacitive touchscreen technology to make the user interface incredibly responsive and intuitive. The Samsung Wave also includes a 5-megapixel camera with auto focus and support for 720p HD video recording and playback. 

“The Atmel maXTouch capacitive touchscreen technology has enabled the … Read More → "Atmel maXTouch™ Solution Enables Touchscreen Innovation for Samsung’s AMOLED Wave Smartphone"

LAS VEGAS, April 27 /PRNewswire/ — Titan IC Systems today announced its new Hyperion product family, offering high performance regular expression (regex) offload solutions for the network, cloud security and server markets.

The Hyperion 10G is a high performance PCIe accelerator card, targeted for offloading traditional software based regex content analysis tasks for a range of security applications requiring small form factor and low power consumption, without compromising performance.

The card is based on the high performance Titan IC 64-bit Regular Expression Processor (RXP), optimised for streamed IP packet and flow processing, offering true 10Gbit/s … Read More → "Titan IC Systems Announces PCIe Based Regex Offload Solutions for Security Appliances"

Sunnyvale, CA – April 27, 2010 – QuickLogic Corporation (NASDAQ: QUIK), the lowest power Customer Specific Standard Products (CSSPs) leader, is proud to announce the verification of QuickLogic’s Visual Enhancement Engine (VEE) and Display Power Optimizer (DPO) technology with OLED displays.  VEE technology greatly enhances the viewability of OLED displays under … Read More → "QuickLogic Enhances User Experience with OLED Displays"

Sunnyvale, CA – April 27, 2010 – QuickLogic Corporation (NASDAQ: QUIK), the lowest power Customer Specific Standard Products (CSSPs) leader, is proud to announce the verification of QuickLogic’s Visual Enhancement Engine (VEE) and Display Power Optimizer (DPO) technology with OLED displays.  VEE technology greatly enhances the viewability of OLED displays under … Read More → "QuickLogic Enhances User Experience with OLED Displays"

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 27, 2010, 2010– At the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) in Silicon Valley on April 26-29, 2010, Actel Corporation will be displaying SmartFusion™ intelligent mixed signal FPGAs in action, offering a compelling solution for high complexity motor and motion control applications. With SmartFusion’s integrated 32-bit ARM® Cortex™-M3 microcontroller, programmable analog, on-chip embedded nonvolatile memory (eNVM) and proven low power flash based FPGA fabric, SmartFusion directly address the challenges of motor control design.

The development of smaller and more powerful motors, along with recent advances in high-energy batteries, has opened new markets to a wide range of … Read More → "Actel’s SmartFusion Intelligent Mixed Signal FPGAs Target High Complexity Motor Control Solutions"

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 27, 2010, 2010– At the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) in Silicon Valley on April 26-29, 2010, Actel Corporation will be displaying SmartFusion™ intelligent mixed signal FPGAs in action, offering a compelling solution for high complexity motor and motion control applications. With SmartFusion’s integrated 32-bit ARM® Cortex™-M3 microcontroller, programmable analog, on-chip embedded nonvolatile memory (eNVM) and proven low power flash based FPGA fabric, SmartFusion directly address the challenges of motor control design.

The development of smaller and more powerful motors, along with recent advances in high-energy batteries, has opened new markets to … Read More → "Actel’s SmartFusion Intelligent Mixed Signal FPGAs Target High Complexity Motor Control Solutions"