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Analog Audacity

Some dreams die hard. While digital FPGAs, structured ASICs/gate arrays, and other such configurable chips are commonplace, an analog equivalent remains a vision as yet unrealized to the same extent. Sure, there have been attempts – Actel has devices on the market, although the content is primarily digital; Lattice even tried once upon a time, but without leaving a clear mark. Standard FPGAs have increased their analog content with high-speed I/O circuitry, but that’s all carefully hand-crafted, with a narrowly controlled range … Read More → "Analog Audacity"

Timing Closure Methodology for Advanced FPGA Designs

Today’s design application and performance requirements are more challenging due to increased complexity. When performance requirements for any part of a design are not completely satisfied, the system fails to function as desired. Whether using application specific standard products (ASSPs), application specific integrated circuits (ASICs), or field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), timing closure poses a challenge for system design.

What Makes a Design Complex?

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Simplifying Multi-Rail Power Management for FPGA designers

Designers of today’s networking equipment are being pushed to increase the data throughput and performance of their systems, as well as add functionality and features that differentiate them from competitors. There is also pressure to decrease the overall power consumption while remaining the same physical size. And, everyone is “going green.” These systems require many ASICs, DSPs and processors with multiple voltage rails—line cards with 30 to 40 rail voltages are not uncommon.

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Ramtron Expands Global Distribution with Future Electronics

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO – January 12, 2010 – Ramtron International Corporation (Nasdaq: RMTR), the leading developer and supplier of nonvolatile ferroelectric random access memory (F-RAM) and integrated semiconductor products, today announced that it has agreed to expand its global sales reach with Montreal-based Future Electronics to include key markets in Europe, Japan, and Asia. The agreement authorizes Future Electronics to globally distribute Ramtron’s full line of F-RAM memory devices … Read More → "Ramtron Expands Global Distribution with Future Electronics"

ITTIA and Trident Infosol partnership delivers lightweight embedded RDBMS for the Indian market

January 12, 2010 — Bellevue, WA — ITTIA, a global supplier of embedded lightweight relational database software, has appointed Trident Infosol as its representative in the Indian software market. Trident Infosol, with six offices across India, offers extensive in-depth expertise to software application developers for embedded systems and devices. ITTIA’s partnership with Trident Infosol will assist I! ndian companies to build applications for embedded systems and devices that are faster, more reliable and more capable at a lower cost.

Access to expertise and cost savings compels more and more companies to establish … Read More → "ITTIA and Trident Infosol partnership delivers lightweight embedded RDBMS for the Indian market"

Frontier‘s network audio technology is the global first to pass Microsoft’s Windows 7 logo program for Network Media Devices and Digital Media Renderers

London – 12th January 2010: Frontier Silicon, the market-leading supplier of digital radio technology worldwide, has become the first company to achieve certification under the latest Windows 7 logo program. Version 1.5 was launched by Microsoft Corp. in December and in less than a month; Frontier successfully certified its Venice 6.2 module and associated streaming audio software. In doing so, Frontier became the first company in the world to have its Network Media Device (NMD) and Digital Media Renderer (DMR) solutions certified by Microsoft.

Frontier Silicon’s streaming audio solution enables listener’ … Read More → "Frontier‘s network audio technology is the global first to pass Microsoft’s Windows 7 logo program for Network Media Devices and Digital Media Renderers"

CMX Systems announces CMX-RTX and CMX-TINY+ Real-Time Operating Systems support for Energy Micro’s EFM®32 Family

Jacksonville, FL and Oslo, Norway – January 7, 2010– CMX Systems today announced the availability of its widely deployed CMX-RTX and CMX-Tiny+ RTOSes for Energy Micro’s ultra low energy 32-bit EFM®32 Gecko microcontroller family based on the ARM Cortex-M3 Microcontroller Core.  

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Green Hills Software Joins ARM Solution Center For Android

SANTA BARBARA, CA — January 12, 2010 – Green Hills Software, Inc., the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutions and member of the ARM® Connected Community™, today announced corporate engineering support for the ARM Solution Center for Android, a collaborative resource for designers and developers of ARM technology-based products running on Android, the open source platform from the Open Handset AllianceTM. Green Hills Software provides INTEGRITY® Secure Virtualization (ISV) coupled with a complete ecosystem of software solutions that enable developers of Android-based devices to achieve higher levels of security, reduced power consumption, faster time-to-market, and more flexible … Read More → "Green Hills Software Joins ARM Solution Center For Android"

IEC Commends Most Valuable Contributions to Electronic Design with Announcement of 2010 DesignVision Awards Finalists

CHICAGO – January 11, 2010 – The International Engineering Consortium (IEC) today announced the finalists of its 2010 DesignVision Awards program naming the design tools and products judged as the most unique and beneficial to the semiconductor industry.

The finalists were selected by the DesignCon 2010 Technical Program Committee, consisting of industry experts in the semiconductor and electronic design engineering community. The IEC will announce winners on < … Read More → "IEC Commends Most Valuable Contributions to Electronic Design with Announcement of 2010 DesignVision Awards Finalists"

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