NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.– Conexant Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CNXT), a leading supplier of innovative semiconductor solutions for imaging, audio, embedded modem, and video surveillance applications, today announced a next-generation family of multichannel audio/video (A/V) decoders targeted at video surveillance systems with digital video recording capabilities, video capture cards, and motion sensors. The highly integrated CX25838 and CX25858 deliver the industry’s lowest power consumption and heat dissipation per channel, and enable up to eight video streams, or up to 16 video streams when in a cascaded configuration, to be captured and recorded simultaneously. The CX25858 also includes … Read More → "Conexant Strengthens Video Surveillance Product Portfolio"

Irvine, California, April 12, 2010 – Advantech, a global manufacturer of telecom computing blades and multi-core network platforms, announced today that it has shipped its first batch of FWA-6500 dual processor appliances. The FWA-6500 is based on the Intel® Xeon® Processor 5600 Series. 

The FWA-6500 features dual processor computing performance for high-speed … Read More → "Advantech 10GbE OEM-Ready Appliance Ships with Dual Intel® Xeon® Processor 5600 Series"

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Actel Corporation (NASDAQ:ACTL) today announced it will present at the Single Event Effects (SEE) Symposium being held April 12-14 at the San Diego Marriott La Jolla. The Single Event Effects Symposium is dedicated to the understanding of radiation-induced single event effects (SEEs) in microelectronics and photonics. SEEs occur when a single particle, such as a neutron, proton or heavy ion, interacts with the atoms that make up a semiconductor. SEEs are a common cause of failures … Read More → "Actel to Present Radiation Effects on RTAX-DSP FPGAs at the 19th Annual SEE Symposium"

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Actel Corporation (NASDAQ:ACTL) today announced it will present at the Single Event Effects (SEE) Symposium being held April 12-14 at the San Diego Marriott La Jolla. The Single Event Effects Symposium is dedicated to the understanding of radiation-induced single event effects (SEEs) in microelectronics and photonics. SEEs occur when a single particle, such as a neutron, proton or heavy ion, interacts with the atoms that make up a semiconductor. SEEs are a common cause of failures … Read More → "Actel to Present Radiation Effects on RTAX-DSP FPGAs at the 19th Annual SEE Symposium"

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) , a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced the Best Paper Awards for the twentieth annual Synopsys Users’ Group (SNUG®) San Jose conference, held in Santa Clara, Calif. on March 29-31. First place was awarded to Alvin Loke, Dru Cabler, Chad Lackey, Tin Tin Wee and Bruce Doyle of AMD and Zhi-Yuan Wu of GLOBALFOUNDRIES for “Constant-Current Threshold Voltage Extraction in HSPICE for Nanoscale … Read More → "Synopsys Recognizes Technical Excellence at 20th Annual SNUG San Jose Conference"

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) , a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced the Best Paper Awards for the twentieth annual Synopsys Users’ Group (SNUG®) San Jose conference, held in Santa Clara, Calif. on March 29-31. First place was awarded to Alvin Loke, Dru Cabler, Chad Lackey, Tin Tin Wee and Bruce Doyle of AMD and Zhi-Yuan Wu of GLOBALFOUNDRIES for “Constant-Current Threshold Voltage Extraction in HSPICE for Nanoscale … Read More → "Synopsys Recognizes Technical Excellence at 20th Annual SNUG San Jose Conference"

HILLSBORO, OR — APRIL 12, 2010 — Lattice Semiconductor (NASDAQ: LSCC) today announced the availability of a new low cost PCI Express development kit for its award winning LatticeECP3™ family of high value, low power FPGAs.  Based on a new ECP3 PCI Express solutions board, the kit accelerates development of PCI Express designs.  The kit has been developed from the ground up to accelerate the evaluation of Lattice PCI Express technology, demonstrate a range of solutions that match typical application requirements and speed users to design exploration.  Lattice will demonstrate the LatticeECP3 PCI Express development kit at the 13th … Read More → "Lattice Accelerates PCI Express System Design With New Low Cost LatticeECP3 Development Kit"

San Jose, California – April 8, 2010 – Super Talent Technology, a leading manufacturer of Flash storage solutions and DRAM memory modules, today announced a new value solid state drive (SSD) product line dubbed Super Talent VSSD that brings performance and solid-state technology together at an incredible price.

Super Talent VSSD offers shorter OS bootup time, faster application loading, less system power consumption and a brand new experience the customer can never get from traditional hard-disks. VSSD takes full advantage of the 3Gbps SATA-II bandwidth. The VSSD is capable of sequential read speeds up to 150 MB/sec and sequential write speeds … Read More → "Super Talent Introduces Value SSD Product Line"

Pittsford, NY, USA: Saelig Company, Inc. has introduced USBscope50 – possibly the world’s smallest USB DSO (Digital Storage Oscilloscope). USBscope50combines a very small form factor – similar to a memory stick – with the high performance normally associated with much larger bench-type products. Powered from a USB port, USBscope50’s modular design allows the user to configure a single channel or up to 4 channels when using multiple adapters. A proprietary synchronization system insures tight signal channel-to-channel matching and concurrent triggering. USBscope50 is small enough to be carried in a … Read More → "Saelig’s Miniature 10MHz Scope Adapter Offers Signal Isolation"

Altera, Xilinx and Mentor Graphics Precision Synthesis users can instantly download, at a cost of $60-$600, streaming FFT IP that will process up to 250 Million complex samples per second. Users who need to accelerate spectral applications can immediately benefit from the new FFT vendor independent libraries released by OptNgn today.  

Read More → "OptNgn Releases 264 FFT FPGA Library Elements that are High Performance, Vendor Independent, and Instantly Downloadable"