SAN DIEGO and HSINCHU, TAIWAN, R.O.C., Jan. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Qualcomm Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM), a leading developer and innovator of advanced wireless technologies, products and services, today announced that the Company is working closely with foundry partner Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) on 28 nanometer (nm) process technology. The advanced process node enables more features to be integrated into smaller chips with a high level of cost efficiency, accelerating the expansion of wireless into new market segments.

Small form factor and low power consumption are important features of Qualcomm’s next generation of system-on-a-chip (SoC) … Read More → "Qualcomm and TSMC Collaborating on 28nm Process Technology"

San Jose, CA – January 7, 2010 – Alpha Data, a leading supplier of COTS board solutions, today announced the release of its first Virtex-6^TM FPGA based platform, the ADM-XRC-6TL XMC card.

The card is fully compliant with the VITA 42.3 industry standard (PCI-Express^® backplane) and delivers unprecedented levels of digital signal processing capability making it an ideal platform for the development of the most demanding ELINT and Image Processing applications.

The flexible board architecture … Read More → "Alpha Data Releases New High-Performance Virtex-6 FPGA Based XMC Card"

INTERNATIONAL CES, LAS VEGAS, Nev. – January 5, 2010 – MIPS Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: MIPS), a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for digital consumer, home networking, wireless, communications and business applications, today announced it is working with leading providers of key IP for the connected digital home—including audio, video, graphics and security functionality—to help SoC developers get to market quickly with … Read More → "MIPS Technologies and Partners Accelerate SoC Design for Android™-Based Devices"

LAS VEGAS, Nev., January 7, 2010 – At the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) today, Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) introduced the first market-specific Targeted Design Platform optimized for creating state-of the-art digital television (DTV) solutions with the low-cost, low- power Xilinx® Spartan®-6 field programmable gate array (FPGA) family. The Xilinx Consumer DTV Targeted Design Platform streamlines development of advanced video
algorithms with the latest video interface standards, including DisplayPort, V-by-One®HS, HDMI, and LVDS.

DTV OEMs can now bring consumer digital displays to market quickly with high definition picture quality and greater feature differentiation. The … Read More → "Xilinx Expands Programmable Advantage for Consumer Digital TV Displays"

LAS VEGAS, Nev., January 7, 2010 – At the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) today, Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) introduced the first market-specific Targeted Design Platform optimized for creating state-of the-art digital television (DTV) solutions with the low-cost, low- power Xilinx® Spartan®-6 field programmable gate array (FPGA) family. The Xilinx Consumer DTV Targeted Design Platform streamlines development of advanced video
algorithms with the latest video interface standards, including DisplayPort, V-by-One®HS, HDMI, and LVDS.

DTV OEMs can now bring consumer digital displays to market quickly with high definition picture quality and greater feature differentiation. The … Read More → "Xilinx Expands Programmable Advantage for Consumer Digital TV Displays"

MILPITAS, CA – January 7, 2010 – Linear Technology announces the LTC3588-1, a complete energy harvesting solution optimized for low energy sources, including piezoelectric transducers. The LTC3588-1 integrates a low-loss, full-wave bridge rectifier with a high efficiency buck converter to harvest ambient vibrational energy via piezoelectric transducers and then convert it to a well-regulated output to power application microcontrollers, sensors, data converters and wireless transmission components. The LTC3588-1 operates from an input voltage range of 2.7V to 20V, making it ideal for a wide array of piezoelectric transducers, as well other high output impedance energy sources. Its high efficiency buck … Read More → "Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Power Supply"

MILPITAS, CA – January 7, 2010 – Linear Technology announces the LTC3588-1, a complete energy harvesting solution optimized for low energy sources, including piezoelectric transducers. The LTC3588-1 integrates a low-loss, full-wave bridge rectifier with a high efficiency buck converter to harvest ambient vibrational energy via piezoelectric transducers and then convert it to a well-regulated output to power application microcontrollers, sensors, data converters and wireless transmission components. The LTC3588-1 operates from an input voltage range of 2.7V to 20V, making it ideal for a wide array of piezoelectric transducers, as well other high output impedance energy sources. Its high efficiency buck … Read More → "Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Power Supply"

Deggendorf, January 7th, 2010 * * * congatec AG extends its COM Express product family with the highest performance module conga-BM57. It features the latest Intel® Core™ i7-620M processor with a core speed of 2.66 GHz, with 4 MByte L2 cache and up to 8 GByte fast (1066 MT/s) dual channel DDR3 memory. The conga?BM57 is a two chip solution which utilizes the powerful Mobile Intel® QM57 Express Chipset. The integrated graphics controller is supporting the Intel® Flexible Display Interface (FDI) in order to allow for two independent video channels on VGA, LVDS, HDMI, DisplayPort or SDVO interfaces.</ … Read More → "congatec announces new COM Express small form factor module based on latest Intel® Core™ i7 processor"

OTTAWA, ONTARIO -January 6, 2010 — Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VME, VPX, OpenVPX™, VXS, and CompactPCI products for the rugged embedded and rugged deployed aerospace and defense (A&D) markets, has introduced the new 3U VPX VPX3-216 ExpressReach^TM carrier card to speed and ease the integration of XMC mezzanine cards (VITA 42.4) into embedded systems designed to be complaint with the OpenVPX™ (VITA 65) standard.

“The VPX3-216 ExpressReach switchless carrier further expands our unmatched portfolio of VPX solutions,” said Lynn Patterson, vice president and … Read More → "Curtiss-Wright Controls Debuts OpenVPX™ Compliant Rugged 3U VPX Carrier Card for XMC Mezzanine Modules"

Beltsville, MD, January 6, 2010- Empress Software, embedded database developer central and home of the Empress Embedded Database, announces immediate availability of the latest Empress release, Empress Ultra Embedded Database v10.20 for Windows CE.  A popular foundation for small footprint devices, Windows CE is an open, scalable embedded, real-time operating system from Microsoft(R).  Empress Embedded Database and Windows CE can be used for diverse embedded systems with deterministic requirements such as industrial controllers, communications hubs, point-of-sale terminals, and consumer products, such as cameras, Internet appliances, karaoke handheld terminals … Read More → "Empress Embedded Database for Windows CE Gets an Ultra Boost"