Altera’s Stratix IV FPGAs to Power XDI’s dbX Analytics Appliance
December 2, 2009
San Jose, Calif., December 2,< … Read More → "Altera’s Stratix IV FPGAs to Power XDI’s dbX Analytics Appliance"
Dawn of a New Day
December 1, 2009
Somebody said that it couldn’t be done
But he with a chuckle replied
Embedded Display Control Applications Using FPGAs
December 1, 2009
Embedded LCD Control Applications Requirements
Graphical LCD displays are increasingly designed into demanding embedded display control and video applications such as Human Machine Interfaces (HMI) for industrial consoles, vending machines, automotive and marine dashboard clusters, household appliances, medical devices and gaming machines. A key requirement for efficient controller design is effective solution scaling as well as optimization for both cost and performance. Designers often need to integrate third-party display control solutions into their own designs, which require … Read More → "Embedded Display Control Applications Using FPGAs"
Synthesizing a New Category
December 1, 2009
It started more or less like any typical press briefing. OK, slightly less typical because we were live in a conference room instead of doing things by conference call. But that’s not unheard of; it’s just hard to do on a regular basis in these far-flung times.
I was there with Oasys’s Sanjiv Kaul and Paul van Besouw. And as the conversation got started, Paul launched something on his laptop, and we continued the conversation for a few minutes.
I honestly don’t remember … Read More → "Synthesizing a New Category"
Ultralow Voltage 20mV Step-Up Converter & Power Manager for Energy Harvesting Applications
December 1, 2009
MILPITAS, CA – December 1, 2009 – Linear Technology announces the LTC3108, a highly integrated step-up DC/DC converter designed to start-up and run from extremely low input voltage sources such as thermoelectric generators (TEGs), thermopiles and small solar cells. Its self-resonant topology steps up from input voltages as low as 20mV. Small temperature differences can be harvested and used to generate system power instead of traditional battery power. Energy harvesters are designed for applications requiring very low average power, but require periodic pulses of higher load current. For example, in many wireless sensor applications the circuitry is only powered to take measurements … Read More → "Ultralow Voltage 20mV Step-Up Converter & Power Manager for Energy Harvesting Applications"
Mitsubishi Electric Selects Analog Devices’ SHARC Processor For Its Automotive Digital Process Center
December 1, 2009
NORWOOD, MA – December 1, 2009 – Analog Devices, Inc. today announced that Mitsubishi Electric has selected ADI’s SHARC processor as the digital signal processing engine within its DIATONE® DA-PX1 Digital Process Center, the company’s aftermarket automotive audio amplifier. Leveraging ADI’s 32-bit, floating point < … Read More → "Mitsubishi Electric Selects Analog Devices’ SHARC Processor For Its Automotive Digital Process Center"
Safety and Aristotle
December 1, 2009
Most news groups seem to have the same cast of characters: there is the long-winded one (or more than one), the aggressive one, the flippant one, several intense people, the obsessive one, the know-it-all, and so on. The York University Safety Critical Mailing List (http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/hise/sc_list.php) has its share of these types, of course, but it also has a … Read More → "Safety and Aristotle"
One Less Custom PCB to Design for Prototypes
December 1, 2009
SYDNEY, Dec. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Altium has released a new prototyping peripheral add-on board for its NanoBoard FPGA-based development boards.
The new board works with both the fixed-FPGA NanoBoard 3000 and the fully-configurable NanoBoard NB2. It will be available from December from Altium’s on-line distribution partners, in packs of either three or 20.
The board does away with having to create special, custom PCBs for circuit prototyping. A single on-board connector plugs into the NanoBoard to give direct access to the I/O on the host NanoBoard FPGA and common NanoBoard resources, including power and JTAG lines. Designers … Read More → "One Less Custom PCB to Design for Prototypes"
Pentek Introduces First Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGA Module with High-Performance Features Invaluable for Radar and Telemetry Applications
December 1, 2009
WASHINGTON, DC, Software Defined Radio Forum–December 1, 2009–Pentek is introducing its 71620, a multichannel, high-speed data converter XMC module suitable for connection to HF or IF ports for communications, radar, telemetry and medical systems. This new module is the first member of Pentek’s Cobalt™ family of products slated to employ Xilinx’s new Virtex-6 family. With greater than two times more resources than previous Virtex generations, including … Read More → "Pentek Introduces First Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGA Module with High-Performance Features Invaluable for Radar and Telemetry Applications"
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