Oslo, Norway, 25th January 2010 – Energy Micro, the energy friendly microcontroller company, has announced it is to begin development of a companion range of low power RF transceiver products.  In line with its successful microcontroller design philosophy, Energy Micro is aiming to produce RF devices consuming a quarter of the energy of existing leading edge products.

Energy Micro President and CEO, Geir Førre commented, “In terms of energy consumption, RF products have simply not improved over the last five years.  Sure, they’ve evolved to become better integrated and more sophisticated, but energy consumption … Read More → "Energy Micro to enter low power RF arena"

DÜSSELDORF (Germany), January 25, 2010 — NEC Electronics Europe today announced the release of its 78K0/Ix2 LED microcontroller (MCU) demonstration kit based on NEC Electronics’ 78K0/Ix2 lighting ASSP.

The kit demonstrates how an efficient and intelligent LED driver design can be implemented without any additional driver ICs … Read More → "NEC Electronics Europe Introduces New 78K0/Ix2 LED Microcontroller Demonstration Kit"

Highlights

• Fully compliant with HDMI 1.4 and High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) 1.4 specifications
• Support for all key features including HDMI Ethernet and Audio Return Channel (HEAC), 3D modes, 4K resolution, additional colour spaces and more
• Superior analogue front end supporting up to 20 feet category 2-certified HDMI cables, while maintaining high performance
• HDMI PHY IP available in more than 10 processes from 90nm to 40nm

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., JANUARY 25, 2010 – Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq:SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today … Read More → "Synopsys launches DesignWare HDMI 1.4 Tx/Rx controller and PHY IP solutions for 40nm process technologies"

FRAMINGHAM, MA,  January 25, 2010 – Robotics Trends, a division of EH Publishing, Inc., today announced the date of the firstRobotics Summit Virtual Conference for 2010.  Scheduled to be held June 16, 2010, this one-day event will consist of dynamic keynote presenters, in-depth conference sessions delivered in two tracks, online discussions, networking, and the opportunity to interact with an international audience from the robotics, intelligent systems, and  enabling technologies industries.  The event will be free for attendees and accessible by archive for three months after the live event.</ … Read More → "RoboBusiness & RoboDevelopment Conferences Converge as Robotics Summit Virtual Conference Series for 2010"

FRAMINGHAM, MA,  January 25, 2010 – Robotics Trends, a division of EH Publishing, Inc., today announced the date of the firstRobotics Summit Virtual Conference for 2010.  Scheduled to be held June 16, 2010, this one-day event will consist of dynamic keynote presenters, in-depth conference sessions delivered in two tracks, online discussions, networking, and the opportunity to interact with an international audience from the robotics, intelligent systems, and  enabling technologies industries.  The event will be free for attendees and accessible by archive for three months after the live event.</ … Read More → "RoboBusiness & RoboDevelopment Conferences Converge as Robotics Summit Virtual Conference Series for 2010"

MILPITAS, CA – January 25, 2010 – Linear Technology introduces the LT6350, a 33MHz, low noise, rail-to-rail input and output ADC driver that settles to 16-bits in just 350ns. It is suitable for driving the latest highest performance SAR ADCs such as the LTC2393-16. The LT6350 incorporates two op amps and matched resistors to create a differential output from a single-ended high impedance input. As a result, a differential gain of 2 is achieved with no external feedback resistors, and higher gain can be obtained by using feedback resistors. Each of the two internal op amps achieve a low 1.9nV/√Hz input-referred … Read More → "Rail-to-Rail Single-Ended to Differential Amplifier Drives High Speed 16- to 18-bit SAR ADCs"

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – January 25, 2010 – Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced the addition of silicon-proven DesignWare(R) MIPI IP consisting of 3G DigRF Controllers and PHY, Camera Serial Interface 2 (CSI-2) Host Controller and D-PHY to its IP portfolio. The Mobile Industry Processor Interface (MIPI) Alliance defines a set of standard hardware interfaces between mobile baseband processors, RF integrated circuits (ICs) and peripherals typically found in smartphones and multimedia handheld devices. Leading providers of system-on-chips (SoCs) are adopting these standards to improve interoperability and reduce system cost for … Read More → "Synopsys expands DesignWare IP portfolio with MIPI IP solutions"