DALLAS, TX (March 2, 2010) – Committed to solving the growing performance and efficiency challenges of the 8-bit market, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) today announced the MSP430 microcontroller (MCU) Value Line that offers superior 16-bit MCU performance and industry leading ultra-low power consumption at ultra-low 8-bit MCU prices. Starting at 25 cents, the Value Line ensures 8-bit developers no longer need to sacrifice performance, power efficiency or scalability because of price. The roadmap includes more than 100 MCUs to be released over the next 15 months, providing developers with a broad portfolio to best fit their memory, peripheral and packaging configuration needs. … Read More → "Starting at 25 cents, TI’s new MSP430™ MCU Value Line gives 8-bit developers up to 10X performance and 10X battery life"

EMBEDDED WORLD 2010, Nuremberg, Germany, March 3, 2010 – Atmel® Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), a leader in microcontroller and touch solutions, today announced that the Atmel QTouch Suite will be available with additional functionality to provide third party CAD developers easy access to QTouch® technology. By offering Atmel’s QTouch Suite with CAD software tools, designers will now have  an easy approach  to add touch buttons, sliders and wheels during schematics, PCB layout design and prototyping stage. In addition, designers can develop low-power applications with touch functionality using any of Atmel’s industry-leading AVR® microcontrollers.

Designers continue … Read More → "Atmel Low-power Microcontroller Platforms Accelerate Designs with Enhanced QTouch Development Suite"

HIGH WYCOMBE, UK – March 2, 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, VXS, and CompactPCI products for the aerospace and defense (A&D) market, has announced the availability of a higher performance, faster version of its ADC510 FPGA Mezzanine Card (FMC/VITA 57) module. Now, featuring two enhanced Texas Instruments ADC devices, the ADC510 delivers sampling performance increased to 550MSPS with analog bandwidths >1.7GHz. Available in both air-cooled and conduction-cooled rugged versions, … Read More → "Curtiss-Wright Controls Boosts Speed on ADC FMC Card"

HIGH WYCOMBE, UK – March 2, 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, VXS, and CompactPCI products for the aerospace and defense (A&D) market, has announced the availability of a higher performance, faster version of its ADC510 FPGA Mezzanine Card (FMC/VITA 57) module. Now, featuring two enhanced Texas Instruments ADC devices, the ADC510 delivers sampling performance increased to 550MSPS with analog bandwidths >1.7GHz. Available in both air-cooled and conduction-cooled rugged versions, the ADC510 is aimed at DSP applications … Read More → "Curtiss-Wright Controls Boosts Speed on ADC FMC Card"

EMBEDDED WORLD 2010, NUREMBERG, GERMANY, March 3, 2010 – Atmel® Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), a leader in microcontroller and touch solutions, today announced several new and existing device and software product that will enable designers to easily implement capacitive touch functionality to buttons, sliders and wheels for applications in the consumer, industrial and white goods markets.

Atmel uses its proprietary AVR capacitive touch microcontroller technology as a foundation for these products and offers a complete portfolio of devices and software for applications that require touch enabled buttons, sliders and wheels and touch screens. At Embedded World 2010, Atmel is introducing solutions that … Read More → "Atmel Expands Touch Portfolio to Offer More Functionality to Everyday Applications"

DAYTON, OH – March 2, 2010 — Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems, a business group of Curtiss-Wright Controls and a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed systems for the aerospace and defense market, has introduced the new Vortex Compact Network Storage (CNS), a rugged conduction-cooled network attached storage (NAS) solution. The small Vortex CNS package is designed for mounting in an ARINC tray on deployed platforms and provides 512GB of solid state storage, with growth to 1TB in early 2010. The CNS is “protocol-flexible” and supports CIFS, NFS, HTTP, FTP and PXE protocols on up to … Read More → "Curtiss-Wright Controls Introduces 512GB Rugged Network Attached Storage (NAS) Solution"

SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 2, 2010 — Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) today introduced its second-generation FlexRay measurement option (Option FLX) on its popular InfiniiVision 5000, 6000 and 7000 Series oscilloscopes. In response to customer feedback on its first-generation.

FlexRay oscilloscope option, Agilent enhanced the measurement capabilities for testing the physical-layer robustness of FlexRay networks in Option FLX and significantly lowered the price for an entry-level FlexRay physical-layer test solution. 

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SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 2, 2010 — Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today added 14 new models to its InfiniiVision 7000 Series mixed-signal and digital-storage oscilloscope portfolio. These new scopes offer bandwidths from 100 MHz up to 1 GHz. In addition to traditional analog signal representation, the scopes provide digital signal capture and serial bus triggering and decode. Custom integrated circuits deliver hardware-accelerated operation and put up to 100,000 waveforms on screen each second to help designers capture rich signal detail and intermittent events.

Electronic design and test teams in nearly every electronic industry, including computer, … Read More → "Agilent Technologies Introduces Oscilloscopes with Industry’s Biggest Display, Hardware-Accelerated"

March 2nd 2010, Embedded World, Nuremberg – Future Technology Devices International (FTDI) today announced the launch of their Vinculum VNC2 user programmable dual USB 2.0 Host/Slave intelligent SOC controller.

Building on FTDIs competitive advantage of fully supporting designers and customers by delivering a complete solution, VNC2 enhances the initial member of the Vinculum family, the VNC1L, by reducing the device cost as well as introducing the capability for designers to develop their own application firmware and programme the host controller themselves.

VNC2 comes with a royalty free software development environment – the Integrated Design Environment (IDE) which … Read More → "Programmable dual USB 2.0 host/slave SOC assists in lowering design component count and reduces costs"