PHOENIX — February 10, 2010 — The Avnet Electronics Marketing operating group of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), announces the availability of the Xilinx^® Virtex^®-6 FPGA DSP Development Kit as part of the Xilinx Targeted Design Platform for DSP design. Order entry is now open for the $2,995 kit that includes a device-locked version of ISE^® Design Suite: System Edition 11.4, which can be downloaded today so developers can quickly get started on their designs.

Wireless, aerospace and … Read More → "Avnet Virtex-6 FPGA DSP Development Kit Jump Starts DSP Designs With Industry’s Most Widely-Adopted DSP Design Flows"

PHOENIX — February 10, 2010 — The Avnet Electronics Marketing operating group of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), announces the availability of the Xilinx^® Virtex^®-6 FPGA DSP Development Kit as part of the Xilinx Targeted Design Platform for DSP design. Order entry is now open for the $2,995 kit that includes a device-locked version of ISE^® Design Suite: System Edition 11.4, which can be downloaded today so developers can quickly get started on their designs.

Wireless, aerospace and … Read More → "Avnet Virtex-6 FPGA DSP Development Kit Jump Starts DSP Designs With Industry’s Most Widely-Adopted DSP Design Flows"

February 9 2010 – Lauterbach and Cortus are pleased to announce that the Lauterbach TRACE32® Power Tools now fully support the Cortus APS3 family of processors.

The power of Lauterbach’s TRACE32 Power Tools is now available for the Cortus APS3 family of ultra low power embedded CPUs. Non-intrusive debugging over JTAG is supported giving engineers full visibility of program execution and profiling analysis enhancing product development times. It offers full support for the Cortus On-Chip debugging hardware and all processor features.

Lauterbach’s TRACE32 PowerDebug for the Cortus APS3 family of … Read More → "Cortus APS3 CPU family now has full support from Lauterbach TRACE32 Power Tools"

San Jose, CA, February 9, 2010 – Atmel© Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML), a leader in microcontroller and touch solutions, today announced a new family of single-key touch controllers for the portable device market. This new family offers designers power consumption of below 17 µA for next-generation portable touch devices, including power buttons, hearing devices, consumer toys and proximity sensors. The embedded low-power features in Atmel’s new family of single-key touch controllers also enable longer battery life for these portable devices.

Based on Atmel’s patented QTouch® capacitive touch technology for buttons, wheels and sliders, the new family of … Read More → "Atmel Targets Portable Devices with Low-power, Flexible Single-key Capacitive Touch Controllers"

Leuven, Belgium and Eindhoven, The Netherlands, February 9, 2010 – At today’s International Solid State Circuit Conference, imec and Holst Centre report a 2.4GHz/915MHz wake-up receiver which consumes only 51µW power. This record low power achievement opens the door to battery-less or energy-harvesting based radios for a wide range of applications including long-range RFID and wireless sensor nodes for logistics, smart buildings, healthcare etc.

Today’s battery-operated wireless communication systems consume a lot of power at times when the radio does not have to transmit or receive data. This means that most of their … Read More → "Imec and Holst Centre achieve breakthrough in battery-less radios"

Duisburg, Germany – 9 February, 2010 – mimoOn, a pioneer in LTE software implementation for programmable radio platforms, announced that it will be demonstrating LTE for pico base stations at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona next week.  mimoOn will showcase its advanced LTE PHY implementation running on TI’s DSPs, February 15-18, 2010, in the mimoOn booth 2B17 at MWC.

mimoOn’s mi!PicoPHY™ base station software has been integrated on TI’s TMS320TCI648x highly flexible, scalable processors targeting LTE products.  The fully featured PHY software is certified based on the latest versions of the 3 … Read More → "mimoOn demonstrates LTE for pico base stations based on Texas Instruments’ DSPs at Mobile World Congress 2010"

KAWASAKI, Japan, DUESSELDORF, Germany, SANTA CLARA (U.S.A.), February 8, 2010?NEC Electronics (TSE:6723) today announced the availability of new system-on-chips (SoCs) in the EMMA Mobile™ series. EMMA Mobile /EV is capable of processing high-definition (HD) content and 3D graphics with very low power consumption.

XP Power today announced the introduction of the SHP650 and MHP650 series of single output high power density fan cooled AC/DC power supplies. The MHP650 range meets the IEC60601-1 safety specification for medical equipment while the SHP650 range compiles with the IEC60950 standard for IT and industrial equipment. Both series are highly efficient, typically 86%, and have a high power density of 8.2 Watts/cubic inch.

Three mechanical mounting formats are available to provide design-in flexibility. Two fan-cooled formats provide the option of having the fan mounted internally on the top or externally mounted on the end … Read More → "XP Power introduces compact 650W AC/DC power supply for medical or industrial applications"

(WALTHAM, Mass. and SACRAMENTO, CA, USA: February 9, 2010) Novell Inc. and The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) today announced an international partnership to standardize their entry-level Linux certification programs on LPIC-1. Under this program, Linux professionals who have earned their LPIC-1 status will also satisfy the requirements for the Novell® Certified Linux Administrator (CLA) certification. In addition, Novell Training Services has formally agreed to include required LPIC-1 learning objectives in its CLA course training material.

“As a proven provider of enterprise software and services for more than 25 years, and the provider of the most interoperable Linux platform, Novell … Read More → "Novell and LPI Partner on Linux Training and Certification"

CINCINNATI, Feb. 8 /PRNewswire/ — Treck, a leading provider of embedded Internet protocols, has announced the availability of their new high performance networking reference design for the Xilinx Spartan®-6 FPGA Embedded Platform that includes the SP605 board. The new MicroBlaze™ soft processor-based implementation of the Treck TCP/IP stack achieves upwards of 475 Mbps TCP payload throughput on a Gigabit Ethernet link. This performance is facilitated by zero-copy Treck stack implementation and the Spartan-6 FPGA which includes a hard memory controller that supports DDR3 memory interface at 800Mbps.

Treck provides demos including support for using the … Read More → "Treck Releases High Performance TCP/IP Stack Implementation for the Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA Embedded Platform"