San Jose, Calif., February 1,Read More → "Altera Unveils Innovations for 28-nm FPGAs"

San Jose, CA, January 26, 2010 – Atmel® Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), the leader in microcontroller and touch-based solutions, and Micro Digital, Inc. today announced immediate availability of a complete out-of-the-box board support package for Atmel’s AT91CAP9 starter and development kits. In this complete solution, Micro Digital will provide the board support package, while Atmel provides the AT91CAP9 (CAP9) starter and development kits. Micro Digital software includes SMX® RTOS, USB stacks, TCP/IP stack, File System, and WiFi support targeting the industrial and consumer markets to enable an easier, higher performing design.

“We are excited to … Read More → "Atmel and Micro Digital, Inc. Offer Complete Solution To Support Customizable Microcontroller Projects"

KAWASAKI (Japan), SANTA CLARA (USA), DUESSELDORF (Germany), January 29, 2010– NEC Electronics (TSE: 6723) today announced the availability of twelve new 16-bit All Flash™ microcontrollers (MCUs) with built-in Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0 function and industry-leading low power consumption. The new offering includes six 48-pin MCUs (78K0R/KC3-L) and six 64-pin MCUs (78K0R/KE3-L).

USB 2.0 is an interface standard used in PCs and peripherals. With its fast data transfer and connectivity, USB 2.0 is now also widely used in consumer electronics devices such as digital audio visual (A/V) appliances and healthcare appliances, as well as … Read More → "NEC Electronics Introduces Twelve New 16-bit Microcontrollers with USB 2.0 functionality"

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 27, 2010 — Agilent Technologies Inc.(NYSE: A) today announced the availability of an NXP Semiconductors’ design kit for RF small-signal products within Agilent’s Advanced Design System (ADS). The design kit provides NXP’s customers with easy access to comprehensive libraries of models within ADS for NXP’s RF wideband devices, diodes, junction FET’s, dual-gate MOSFET’s and MMIC’s. With the new design kit, customers can run simulations in ADS prior to moving to prototype. This significantly accelerates project development with NXP’s components and speeds time-to-market.

“We are excited to have … Read More → "Agilent Technologies Announces NXP Semiconductors’ Design Kit for RF Small Signal Products in Advanced Design System"

SAN JOSE, Calif – San Jose, Calif. – Feb. 1, 2010 – Infinisim Inc. announced today that Mixel®, a leading provider of silicon-proven mixed-signal Intellectual Property (IP) cores, used Infinisim’s RASER mixed-signal simulator to verify the functionality of a programmable 3.2Gbps quad-lane SerDes chip, demonstrating RASER’s unprecedented capacity and accuracy to handle a full-chip mixed-signal design.

The 3.2Gbps quad-lane SerDes IP is capable of supporting 1.0 to 3.2 Gbps operation in each of four channels. It is compatible with router-backplane links, PCI … Read More → "Mixel® Achieves Full-Chip Verification of a Programmable 3.2Gbps Quad Transceiver IP with Infinisim RASER™"

HILLSBORO, OR — FEBRUARY 1, 2010 — Lattice Semiconductor (NASDAQ: LSCC) today announced that eVision Systems GmbH will represent Lattice and its full range of products in the Central European video and surveillance market.

“eVision Systems is excited to work with Lattice as one of its dedicated business partners,” said Michael Geissel, eVision Systems cofounder and Director of Business Development. “Through this agreement, Lattice has demonstrated its commitment to the video and surveillance market, and Lattice’s innovative technology and products will enable us to offer leading FPGA-based solutions to our customers. Lattice will be a strategic partner that complements our … Read More → "Lattice Semiconductor And eVision Systems GmbH To Serve The Video & Surveillance Market"

MILPITAS, CA – February 1, 2010 – Linear Technology Corporation announces the LT3060, a high voltage, low noise, low dropout voltage linear regulator. The IC delivers up to 100mA continuous output current with a 300mV dropout voltage at full load. The LT3060 features a wide input voltage range of 1.6V to 45V, delivering adjustable output voltages from 0.6V to 44.5V. A single capacitor provides both programmable ultra-low noise operation — only 30µVRMS across a wide bandwidth of 10Hz to 100kHz – and reference soft start functionality, preventing output voltage overshoot at turn-on. The LT3060’s output voltage tolerance is highly accurate at ±2% over … Read More → "45V Input 100mA LDO Offers 30µVRMS Noise & Output Down to 0.6V"

MILPITAS, CA – February 1, 2010 – Linear Technology Corporation announces the LT3060, a high voltage, low noise, low dropout voltage linear regulator. The IC delivers up to 100mA continuous output current with a 300mV dropout voltage at full load. The LT3060 features a wide input voltage range of 1.6V to 45V, delivering adjustable output voltages from 0.6V to 44.5V. A single capacitor provides both programmable ultra-low noise operation — only 30µVRMS across a wide bandwidth of 10Hz to 100kHz – and reference soft start functionality, preventing output voltage overshoot at turn-on. The LT3060’s output voltage tolerance is highly accurate at ±2% over … Read More → "45V Input 100mA LDO Offers 30µVRMS Noise & Output Down to 0.6V"

SANTA CLARA and LAKE FOREST, Calif., Jan. 29, 2010

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) and DeMille Research Inc (DRI)., a leader in software solutions for in-circuit test, announced they have signed a value-added reseller agreement that allows Agilent to offer DRI’s TestSight Developer software to its Medalist i3070 and Medalist i1000 in-circuit test (ICT) customers.

TestSight Developer offers a suite of software tools to help test engineers and designers maximize the effectiveness and minimize the life-cycle costs of ICT systems. An important core function is the ability to import and convert raw CAD data into ICT … Read More → "Agilent Technologies, DeMille Research Inc. to Offer CAD Translation, Test Development Tools for Agilent Medalist In-Circuit Testers"

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 18, 2010 — Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced the N4876A 2:1 Multiplexer, extending the generator data rate of the J-BERT N4903B and ParBERT 81250A up to 28 Gb/s. Design and test engineers in the semiconductor, communications, storage, and computing industries now can accurately characterize the next generation of serial interfaces to optimize their design margins. The first public showing of the N4876A is January 20 at the Fiber Optics Expo 2010, Agilent Booth EAST 1-43.

New SERDES physical interconnects, electrical interconnects in backplanes, and communication or storage networks will operate at data rates far … Read More → "Agilent Technologies Introduces 28 Gb/s Multiplexer for J-BERT, ParBERT"