Kirkland, WA – 7 December 2009 – Impulse Accelerated Technologies today announced that it has delivered an FPGA-based financial feed and network packet parsing solution to Athena Capital Research LLC, a quantitative investment manager based in New York City. 

Impulse offers customer-programmable feed handling solutions for use in automated trading, arbitrage and real-time analytics. “FPGAs are increasingly finding their way into financial feed management operations due to their inherently deterministic behavior and ability to support ultra-low latency and reduced … Read More → "Impulse C Announces Customizable FPGA-Based Financial Feed Handling Solutions"

SAN JOSE, Calif. – December 07, 2009 – CEVA Inc, [(NASDAQ: CEVA); (LSE: CVA)], a leading licensor of silicon intellectual property (SIP) platform solutions and DSP cores, today introduced the industry’s first integrated optimizing toolchain that enables an end-to-end, fully C-based development flow for licensable DSP cores. Available as part of the CEVA-Toolbox^TM Software Development Environment, the Application Optimizer allows application developers to easily develop software for CEVA’s DSPs purely in C-Level, eliminating any hand-written assembly coding. This results in significantly better overall performance and a shorter design cycle for SoC designs.

Substantial Performance Advantages … Read More → "CEVA Unveils Industry’s First C-Based Application Optimization Toolchain for Licensable DSPs"

LPRS, Europe’s leading supplier of short-range radio solutions, has been selected by robot designer Peter Reynolds to provide wireless communication to a robot that could interact with celebrities backstage at the 2009 Brit Awards, Europe’s premier music show. The show’s production company gave Peter a brief that offered open access to the entire back-stage area, allowing the robot to roam around at will, interviewing the stars featured in the show as they got ready to perform. The producer envisioned a humanoid robot that could approach artists backstage and engage them in conversation, recording … Read More → "LPRS’ easy-Radio wireless modules bring robotic TV presenter to life"

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., December 7, 2009 – Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced that Hisilicon Technologies Co., Ltd., a worldwide provider of ASICs and solutions for communication network and digital media, and a subsidiary of Huawei Technologies, has established Synopsys as its primary EDA partner across its implementation and verification design flows. Hisilicon has signed an expanded business agreement to extend its use of Synopsys’ IC Compiler place-and-route technology and DesignWare(R) IP as well as other tools from the broad spectrum of Synopsys’ Galaxy(TM) Implementation and … Read More → "Synopsys chosen as primary EDA partner by Hisilicon"

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 7, 2009 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — National Instruments (NASDAQ:NATI) today announced the release of LabWindows/CVI 2009, the latest version of the ANSI C development environment for building reliable test and measurement solutions. The software delivers support for new PC technologies including the C Interface to LabVIEW FPGA, which makes it possible for LabWindows/CVI host applications to communicate with field-programmable gate array (FPGA)-based hardware, Microsoft Windows 7 and 64-bit operating systems for simplified development and deployment. Engineers and scientists can further increase … Read More → "National Instruments LabWindows(TM)/CVI 2009 Increases Developer Productivity and Application Reliability"

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Dec. 7 /PRNewswire/ — Actel Corporation successfully held its Actel Space Forum (ASF) in Israel.

Attendees of the one-day event heard in-depth technical presentations from members of Actel’s executive management and engineering teams. The presentations discussed contemporary topics relevant to using Actel FPGAs in space-flight applications. During this interactive event, designers gained knowledge and an understanding of how to optimize space applications using Actel FPGAs for high-reliability, high-performance, and low-power applications.</ … Read More → "Actel Space Forum Lands in Israel"

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Dec. 7 /PRNewswire/ — Actel Corporation successfully held its Actel Space Forum (ASF) in Israel.

Attendees of the one-day event heard in-depth technical presentations from members of Actel’s executive management and engineering teams. The presentations discussed contemporary topics relevant to using Actel FPGAs in space-flight applications. During this interactive event, designers gained knowledge and an understanding of how to optimize space applications using Actel FPGAs for high-reliability, high-performance, and low-power applications.</ … Read More → "Actel Space Forum Lands in Israel"

Grenoble, France, December 4th, 2009 – … Read More → "Evatronix USB-IF verified USB 3.0 Device Controller achieves over 430 mb/s"

MILPITAS, CA – December 3, 2009 – Linear Technology Corporation announces the LT3686, a 1.2A, 37VIN step-down switching regulator

The LT3686 operates within a VIN range of 3.6V to 37V with overvoltage lockout, protecting the regulator and load from transients as high as 55V, making it ideal for load dump and cold-crank conditions commonly found in automotive applications as well as 24V industrial supplies. Its internal 1.85A switch can deliver up to 1.2A of continuous output current at voltages as low as 0.8V. Its low minimum on-time enables it to offer high switching frequencies even with high step-down ratios. For example, … Read More → "37VIN, 1.2A(IOUT), 2.5MHz Step-Down DC/DC Converter Withstands 55V Transients"