Newport Beach, California – December 17, 2009 – Signatec Inc. today announced the PX1500-4 high-speed digitizer, the most advanced PCIe-based wideband A/D board on the market.  The PX1500-4 captures four synchronized channels at sampling rates up to 1.5 GHz, or two synchronized channels up to an amazing 3 GHz when interleaving the … Read More → "Signatec Releases PX1500-4, Its 4-Channel, 1.5 GHz Per Channel / 2-Channel, 3 GHz Per Channel PCI-Express Digitizer with Two Virtex-5 FPGAs"

SafeRTOS is a small, robust real-time operating system designed for critical applications and is supplied with an independently validated certification pack for Industrial and Medical devices.

Using a mature process first certified by TÜV SÜD in 2007, SafeRTOS has been specially developed to ease the path to certification and offers a low risk approach to bring the benefits of off-the-shelf software to applications with safety implications or certification requirements.

The small footprint, efficient kernel uses less than 10k flash and a few hundred bytes of RAM and has certification packs tailored to … Read More → "SafeRTOS adds SIL3 and FDA support for STM32"

LAKE FOREST, Calif. and KAWASAKI, Japan – December 17, 2009 – WD ® (NYSE: WDC), the world’s leader in external storage solutionsRead More → "WD and NEC Electronics Collaborate to Promote SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Standard with New Storage Interface Technology"

DUESSELDORF (Germany), KAWASAKI (Japan), SANTA CLARA, (USA, Calif), December 18, 2009 — NEC Electronics (TSE: 6723) today announced the availability of eight new All Flash™ microcontrollers (MCUs) for safing microcontroller applications as well as low-end automotive systems, … Read More → "NEC Electronics Introduces Eight New 8-bit Body Control MCUs with Industry’s Leading Low Standby Power Consumption for Low-End Automotive Applications"

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., and ERFURT, Germany, December 17, 2009 – Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, and X-FAB Silicon Foundries, the leading analogue/mixed-signal foundry, today announced that X-FAB has expanded its support to include Synopsys’ Galaxy Custom Designer(TM) implementation solution. X-FAB now fully supports Synopsys’ Galaxy(TM) Implementation Platform across its wide range of advanced modular CMOS process technologies for analogue/mixed-signal (AMS) applications.

Custom Designer is a modern-era mixed-signal implementation solution that delivers superior ease-of-use and leverages Synopsys’ Galaxy Implementation Platform to … Read More → "X-FAB now supports Synopsys Galaxy Custom Designer"

SANTA CLARA, Calif., and FORT COLLINS, Colo., Dec. 16, 2009 — Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) and Derby Associates International Inc., a leader in Web-based decision support and data collection solutions, announced the signing of a joint marketing agreement that allows Agilent to offer a new Medalist i3070and 3070 in-circuit tester-based quality tool called “Web-Push Button Quality (Web-PBQ)” to its customers. Web-PBQ, a flexible and scalable solution, is based on Derby’s Web-native technology.

Web-PBQ running on Agilent’s in-circuit test (ICT) platforms enables electronics companies to address their test, data collection and quality management needs. It is a low-cost, … Read More → "Agilent Technologies, Derby Associates Announce Pact to Offer Derby Web-based Quality Management Tool with Agilent Medalist i3070 In-Circuit Testers"

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 16, 2009 — Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced an LTE test solution that combines the market-leading Agilent 89600 VSA LTE FDD and LTE TDD analysis software with the highest-performance member of the Agilent X-Series, the Agilent N9030A PXA signal analyzer.

       The PXA provides industry-leading RF performance that supports both LTE FDD and LTE TDD. It delivers up to 140 MHz analysis bandwidth and up to 75 dB of spurious-free dynamic range with typical flatness of ±0.4 dB, making it an ideal solution for 3G, 4G and beyond. LTE Advanced, one of the … Read More → "Agilent Technologies Extends Leadership in LTE Test Capability with PXA Signal Analyzer"

SUNNYVALE and SANTA CLARA, Calif. – December 17, 2009 – MIPS Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: MIPS) and Tensilica® Inc. today announced they are working together to accelerate SOC (system-on-chip) design activity on the popular Android™ platform. Together, MIPS and Tensilica will help companies speed … Read More → "MIPS Technologies and Tensilica Team to Accelerate SOC Design Activity on Android™ Platform; Plan Joint Demos at CES"

SUNNYVALE Calif. and SAN JOSE Calif. – December 17, 2009 – eSilicon Corporation, a pioneering semiconductor value chain producer (VCP), and Achronix Semiconductor, makers of the world’s fastest field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), today revealed that they have successfully taken the Achronix Speedster 1.5 GHz FPGA to commercial production.  Achronix selected eSilicon to leverage eSilicon’s world-class physical design and supply chain expertise.Read More → "eSilicon Takes Achronix 1.5 GHz FPGA Design to Production"

Wirral, UK. 17 December 2009. LDRA, the leading provider of automated software verification, source code analysis, and test tools, has integrated the LDRA tool suite and Microchip Technology’s MPLAB … Read More → "LDRA Tool Suite Integrated into Microchip Technology’s PIC Family"