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Driving Flexibility into Automotive Electronics Design

With the dramatic increase in development costs for state-of-the-art process technologies, such as next-generation automotive electronic systems, specialization of traditional microcontrollers no longer makes business sense. Now you can develop an exact microcontroller for a specific application by implementing it into an Altera Cyclone IV FPGA for prototyping and volume production. Verification, software development, and field testing can be done immediately after design or even in parallel.

Author:  Tom Schulte, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, … Read More → "Driving Flexibility into Automotive Electronics Design"

Digi-Key Corporation Announces Stock on NXP Semiconductor’s Energy-Efficient Lighting Solution

Thief River Falls, Minnesota, USA – March 25, 2010 – Electronic components distributor Digi-Key Corporation, recognized by design engineers as having the industry’s broadest selection of electronic components available for immediate shipment, announced today it has stock on NXP Semiconductor’s energy-efficient lighting solutions.

NXP’s CFL, SSL, HID and TL lighting solutions are available for purchase on Digi-Key’s global websites. Additionally, they are featured in Digi-Key’s print and online catalogs.

While the compact fluorescent lamp (CFL), the most familiar energy-saving lighting option to consumers, has been available for years, consumers have often been dissatisfied with … Read More → "Digi-Key Corporation Announces Stock on NXP Semiconductor’s Energy-Efficient Lighting Solution"

WD® Introduces 2.5-Inch SATA Hard Drives That Meet Demands for Today’s AV/DVR and Surveillance Markets

LAKE FOREST, Calif., March 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — As demand has increased for digital video storage, including high-definition (HD) video, and as the variety of video-systems configurations increases, WD® (NYSE: WDC) today expanded its line of hard drives for AV/DVR and surveillance applications to include small form factor, 2.5-inch SATA hard drives. WD AV-25 hard drives provide high reliability … Read More → "WD® Introduces 2.5-Inch SATA Hard Drives That Meet Demands for Today’s AV/DVR and Surveillance Markets"

Curtiss-Wright Controls Introduces New Rugged VXS Multi-Channel Data Recorder with Solid State Drives

DAYTON, OH – March 24, 2010 — Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems, a business group of Curtiss-Wright Controls and a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed subsystems for the aerospace and defense market, has introduced the new Vortex VR-6511S8, a 6U VXS (VITA 41) multi-channel data recorder with solid state drives. This recording engine board features a Power® Architecture processor and a Xilinx® FPGA, and supports up to eight (8) SATA controllers that can be striped together to create a high-speed rugged data recording system. The VR-6511S8 enables system designers to easily and rapidly … Read More → "Curtiss-Wright Controls Introduces New Rugged VXS Multi-Channel Data Recorder with Solid State Drives"

Curtiss-Wright Controls Introduces New Rugged VXS Multi-Channel Data Recorder with Solid State Drives

DAYTON, OH – March 24, 2010 — Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems, a business group of Curtiss-Wright Controls and a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed subsystems for the aerospace and defense market, has introduced the new Vortex VR-6511S8, a 6U VXS (VITA 41) multi-channel data recorder with solid state drives. This recording engine board features a Power® Architecture processor and a Xilinx® FPGA, and supports up to eight (8) SATA controllers that can be striped together to create a high-speed rugged data recording system. The VR-6511S8 enables system designers to easily and rapidly … Read More → "Curtiss-Wright Controls Introduces New Rugged VXS Multi-Channel Data Recorder with Solid State Drives"

Curtiss-Wright Controls Doubles Memory on Buffer Memory XMC Card and Passes Rugged Qualification

CHATSWORTH, CA -March 25, 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 doubled the memory from 4G to 8G on the MM-6171, its first high-density, high-speed DDR2 SDRAM Buffer Memory XMC card. The rugged, small form factor mezzanine module, available in air- and now conduction-cooled variants, supports the latest high-speed serial fabrics, such as PCI Express® (PCIe) and Serial RapidIO® (SRIO), to deliver higher bi-directional … Read More → "Curtiss-Wright Controls Doubles Memory on Buffer Memory XMC Card and Passes Rugged Qualification"

Curtiss-Wright Controls Doubles Memory on Buffer Memory XMC Card and Passes Rugged Qualification

CHATSWORTH, CA -March 25, 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 doubled the memory from 4G to 8G on the MM-6171, its first high-density, high-speed DDR2 SDRAM Buffer Memory XMC card. The rugged, small form factor mezzanine module, available in air- and now conduction-cooled variants, supports the latest high-speed serial fabrics, such as PCI Express® (PCIe) and Serial RapidIO® (SRIO), to deliver higher bi-directional … Read More → "Curtiss-Wright Controls Doubles Memory on Buffer Memory XMC Card and Passes Rugged Qualification"

MOST150 Broadens In-car Multimedia

Karlsruhe (Germany) March 23, 2010 – The MOST Cooperation is pleased about the milestones the latest MOST Technology has accomplished: MOST150 now offers the technology and full audio/video capability for next generation automotive infotainment features and devices such as Head Units, Rear Seat Entertainment, amplifiers, TV-tuners and video displays. Based on the technology specification by the organization, through which the leading automotive multimedia network Media Oriented Systems Transport (MOST) is standardized, MOST150 solutions are being tailored to the five major fields of in-car use cases: entertainment, information, mobile connectivity, connected services, and driver assistance. Entertainment applications, in particular, have taken a … Read More → "MOST150 Broadens In-car Multimedia"

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