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Putting Low Power and Flexibility Where It Matters Most: Handheld Portable Applications

Introduction

In the short span of three decades, electronics have not only proliferated in our world, but have also gotten smaller and more portable. The march of Moore’s Law has brought portability to the consumer, industrial, military, medical and other markets.

As this demand within end markets has exploded, so too has the pressure for low power subsystems and ICs to power them. And, as the world is getting … Read More → "Putting Low Power and Flexibility Where It Matters Most: Handheld Portable Applications"

QuickLogic First to Market Display Controller Solution Supporting 60 fps Content Refresh over MDDI Type 2

Sunnyvale, CA – March 29, 2010 – QuickLogic Corporation (NASDAQ: QUIK), the lowest power programmable solutions leader, has successfully delivered the first complete display controller solution using the Mobile Display Data Interface (MDDI) Type 2 interface for Smartbook, Smartphone and Tablet applications using Qualcomm chipsets.  Additionally, QuickLogic has verified the solution’s operation as an MDDI Type 2 (dual lane) client running 60 fram! es/second (fps) at Full-Wide VGA (FWVGA) resolution.  The solution is implemented on an ArcticLink® II VX4C solution … Read More → "QuickLogic First to Market Display Controller Solution Supporting 60 fps Content Refresh over MDDI Type 2"

QuickLogic First to Market Display Controller Solution Supporting 60 fps Content Refresh over MDDI Type 2

Sunnyvale, CA – March 29, 2010 – QuickLogic Corporation (NASDAQ: QUIK), the lowest power programmable solutions leader, has successfully delivered the first complete display controller solution using the Mobile Display Data Interface (MDDI) Type 2 interface for Smartbook, Smartphone and Tablet applications using Qualcomm chipsets.  Additionally, QuickLogic has verified the solution’s operation as an MDDI Type 2 (dual lane) client running 60 fram! es/second (fps) at Full-Wide VGA (FWVGA) resolution.  The solution is implemented on an ArcticLink® II VX4C solution … Read More → "QuickLogic First to Market Display Controller Solution Supporting 60 fps Content Refresh over MDDI Type 2"

Curtiss-Wright Controls Announces its First OpenVPX/VITA-65 Serial RapidIO® GEN-2 Switch

OTTAWA, ONTARIO – March 30, 2010 — Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a business group of Curtiss-Wright Controls and a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VME, VPX, OpenVPX™, and CompactPCI® products for the rugged deployed aerospace and defense (A&D) market, has announced the availability of the new OpenVPX™/VITA-65 compliant VPX6-6902 Serial RapidIO® (SRIO) switch card. This rugged 6U VPX board, available in both air- and conduction-cooled versions, combines Ethernet and SRIO switching in a single slot for management, control and dataplane switching in high … Read More → "Curtiss-Wright Controls Announces its First OpenVPX/VITA-65 Serial RapidIO® GEN-2 Switch"

Sondrel Adopts Azuro Clock Tree Synthesis Solution to Deliver Lowest Power

SANTA CLARA, CA – March 30, 2010 – Azuro, Inc., a leading provider of advanced clock tree synthesis and timing optimization tools for digital chip design, today announced that Sondrel has adopted Azuro’s PowerCentric™ clock tree synthesis solution. Sondrel specializes in low power and high performance integrated circuit (IC) design services based on an award-winning design flow (Helium) and methodology to meet the performance, power, area, and schedule demands of the world’s toughest and most advanced chips.

“Sondrel provides services to several of the biggest … Read More → "Sondrel Adopts Azuro Clock Tree Synthesis Solution to Deliver Lowest Power"

Tanner EDA Adds Kelleher Systems as Distributor for Full-flow Analog IC Design Tool Suite

MONROVIA, California – March 30, 2010 – Tanner EDA, the catalyst for innovation for the design, layout and verification of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs) has signed a distribution agreement with Kelleher Systems, a New York-based reseller of electronic design automation (EDA) tools. The agreement covers sales of Tanner’s full-flow analog IC design suite, HiPer Silicon, as well as related specialty design tools … Read More → "Tanner EDA Adds Kelleher Systems as Distributor for Full-flow Analog IC Design Tool Suite"

New Benchmark Comparison of ITTIA DB SQL and SQLite

March 30, 2010 — Bellevue, WA — ITTIA, a global supplier of embedded lightweight relational database software, demonstrates its database benchmark leadership to application developers of embedded systems and devices, with exceptional results. On an ARM device, ITTIA DB SQL surpasses SQLite, an open source database, in three critical areas: insert, select, and update. ITTIA’s flagship product, ITTIA DB SQL, is an industry-leading RDBMS that provides performance and reliability in embedded environments, from embedded Linux and Windows Mobile to desktop workstations.

In addition, ITTIA has released a white … Read More → "New Benchmark Comparison of ITTIA DB SQL and SQLite"

Kozio Introduces In-System Diagnostics for Texas Instruments OMAP™ 4 Platform

Longmont, Colorado, March 30, 2010 – Kozio, Inc. (www.kozio.com) today announced the expansion of its in-system diagnostics solution to support the new OMAP™ 4 platform from Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI). Kozio is the trusted technology leader for enabling the fastest path to reliable hardware for embedded designs through in-system diagnostics, which includes at-speed functional tests with interactive and automated interfaces. With more than one million lines of code used today by leading mobile product manufacturers and leveraging their strong experience with OMAP 3 processor diagnostics, Kozio delivers support for the OMAP 4 platform and surrounding technologies including displays, cameras and more. … Read More → "Kozio Introduces In-System Diagnostics for Texas Instruments OMAP™ 4 Platform"

Saelig Introduces Rugged Puck Antennas for Indoor/Outdoor Wireless Use

Pittsford, NY, USA: Saelig Company, Inc. announces the tough new CP range of antennas based on a common rubberized low- profile “puck” design with a built-in central threaded mount. All CP antennas offer 2-3 dBi gain for linearly polarized signals and are ground-plane independent. Compact (102 x 33.5mm) CP antennas are 1/2 wave radiating elements have a power rating 10W and are supplied with 1 – 3m of cable terminated with … Read More → "Saelig Introduces Rugged Puck Antennas for Indoor/Outdoor Wireless Use"

Terawins, Inc. Selects MIPS Technologies’ Processor IP for Next-Generation Multimedia ICs

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – March 30, 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, today announced that Taiwan-based IC provider Terawins, Inc. licensed the MIPS32® 24KEc™ processor core for development of devices for a range of portable LCD products including digital photo frames, portable media players and automotive DVD/ … Read More → "Terawins, Inc. Selects MIPS Technologies’ Processor IP for Next-Generation Multimedia ICs"

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