REDMOND, Wash., Dec. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — In response to widespread interest from consumer device-makers around the world, Microsoft Corp. is announcing a flexible licensing program for its Extended File Allocation Table (exFAT) technology. The latest generation of Microsoft’s file system, exFAT delivers a significant leap forward in terms of the size of files that can be stored on a broad range of consumer electronic devices, and the speed with which they can be accessed. The exFAT technology is already being adopted by partners in the industry, and these manufacturers are using the licensing program to deliver a … Read More → "Microsoft’s Latest Flash Memory Technology Now Available for License"

(Sacramento, USA: December 10, 2009) The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world’s premier Linux certification organization (http://www.lpi.org), announced that it had expanded its training partner program to include 44 nations–up from 33 a year ago.  In addition the organization has increased the number of LPI-Approved Training Partners (LPI-ATP) and LPI-Approved Academic Partners (LPI-AAP) to a total of 242 partners — up 10% from this time last year.

Jim Lacey, president and CEO of LPI credited the continuing growth to the increased participation … Read More → "LPI Expands Training Partner Program to include 44 nations"

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Dec. 10 /PRNewswire/ — Denali Software, Inc., a world-leading provider of electronic design automation (EDA) software and intellectual property (IP), today revealed a new phase PHY technology for DDR SDRAM physical interfaces, delivering memory system performance up to 1066 MHz clock speeds (or DDR-2133 data rates) on 65-nanometer foundry process nodes or lower. Denali’s phase PHY technology applies a high-speed oversampling architecture paired with per-bit data capture and calibration mechanism to achieve GHz clock rates. This third-generation DDR PHY technology is delivered as a fully-synchronous design which benefits design teams with the configurability needed to satisfy their physical … Read More → "Denali Announces State-of-the-Art GHz DDR PHY Technology"

December 10, 2009 – Uppsala, Sweden. IAR Systems today announced the availability of IAR KickStart kit for NXP LPC1114. This is believed to be the world’s first commercial starter kit for ARM Cortex-M0-based microcontrollers.

The strong partnership and tight cooperation during the development project between NXP and IAR Systems has led to IAR Systems latest starter kit being the first in the market.  One of the features which enabled the speedy development of this kit was the fact that the NXP LPC11xx Cortex-M0 family is 100% pin compatible with the NXP LPC13xx Cortex-M3 family.  “This … Read More → "IAR Systems introduces world’s first starter kit for ARM Cortex-M0"

December 10, 2009 – Uppsala, Sweden. IAR Systems today announced the availability of IAR KickStart kit for NXP LPC1114. This is believed to be the world’s first commercial starter kit for ARM Cortex-M0-based microcontrollers.

The strong partnership and tight cooperation during the development project between NXP and IAR Systems has led to IAR Systems latest starter kit being the first in the market.  One of the features which enabled the speedy development of this kit was the fact that the NXP LPC11xx Cortex-M0 family is 100% pin compatible with the NXP LPC13xx Cortex-M3 family.  “This … Read More → "IAR Systems introduces world’s first starter kit for ARM Cortex-M0"

MILPITAS, CA – December 10, 2009 – Linear Technology announces the LTC®6801, a high voltage battery stack fault monitor that operates without a microprocessor, and without the need for optocouplers or isolators. An LTC6801 can monitor up to 12 series-connected battery cells for overvoltage and undervoltage conditions. Multiple LTC6801 devices can be daisy chained, providing a method to monitor each individual cell in very long battery strings. When connected in a daisy-chain, a single differential clock output confirms that all cells in the stack are within the defined operating range. This clock interface provides high noise immunity and ensures that fault conditions are … Read More → "Battery Stack Fault Monitor Provides Independent Supervision of High Voltage Li-Ion Strings"

MILPITAS, CA – December 10, 2009 – Linear Technology announces the LTC®6801, a high voltage battery stack fault monitor that operates without a microprocessor, and without the need for optocouplers or isolators. An LTC6801 can monitor up to 12 series-connected battery cells for overvoltage and undervoltage conditions. Multiple LTC6801 devices can be daisy chained, providing a method to monitor each individual cell in very long battery strings. When connected in a daisy-chain, a single differential clock output confirms that all cells in the stack are within the defined operating range. This clock interface provides high noise immunity and ensures that fault conditions are … Read More → "Battery Stack Fault Monitor Provides Independent Supervision of High Voltage Li-Ion Strings"

CAMBRIDGE, England–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Maia EDA has today announced the availability of the Maia functional verification tool. Maia uses a description of the expected behavior of a device to automatically create a complete self-checking reactive testbench, so freeing engineers from the time-consuming, complex, and error-prone task of manual testbench creation. The tool has been designed to enable both engineers and non-engineers to quickly verify modules and sub-systems, and is initially being offered without cost by the company, allowing trial without registration or risk.

Maia is primarily targeted at hardware engineers … Read More → "Maia EDA Launches New Automated Verification Tool"

HONG KONG, Dec. 10 /PRNewswire-Asia/ — Avnet Electronics Marketing and Xilinx have Asia clearly in their sights for X-Fest 2010. The global seminar series will kick-off its Asia leg in Beijing on 12 January 2010, before moving on to 10 cities in Mainland China, Taiwan, Korea, Singapore, Australia and India.

The 11 Asian sites are part of a 37-location global X-Fest tour. In each of these venues, technical seminars provide practical, how-to training for FPGA, DSP and embedded systems designers. These one-day … Read More → "X-Fest Targets Asia in January 2010"

MILPITAS, CA – December 9, 2009 – Linear Technology Corporation introduces the LTC2635 quad 12-bit, 10-bit and 8-bit rail-to-rail digital-to-analog converters (DACs), which integrate a precision 10ppm/ºC reference in tiny 3mm x 3mm QFN and MSOP packages. Ordering options include 2.5V (LTC2635-L) and 4.096V (LTC2635-H) DAC full-scale outputs. In addition to offering power-on reset to zero and mid-scale options, the LTC2635-L also includes ordering options for high impedance outputs at power-on reset and during shutdown. This allows the DAC to be used in applications such as power supply margining where the DAC outputs must be electrically isolated from … Read More → "Quad 12-Bit/10-Bit/8-Bit Rail-to-Rail I2C DACs with Internal Reference Include Reset to High Impedance Outputs for Power Supply Margining"