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Micro Digital Announces smxWiFi Upgrade

Costa Mesa, California, November 16, 2009 – Micro Digital Inc. is pleased to announce that smxWiFi, first released in June of 2008, has been upgraded to support 802.11n (high speed) and additional chips sets from Ralink. smxWiFi now provides support for USB WiFi dongles using the Ralink RT2500, 2573, and 2870 chipsets. In addition, it now supports PCI bus WiFi cards using the Ralink RT2860 and 2760 chipsets. Support for other chipsets can be added.

This software package is IEEE 802.11 a, b, g, i and n compliant and supports connection to an Access Point (AP) or peer to peer connection. smxWiFi … Read More → "Micro Digital Announces smxWiFi Upgrade"

Atmel AVR Microcontroller Targets High-volume USB Smart Card Reader Applications

AT90SCR050 provides cost-effective solutions, complete tool set and support for various programming mechanisms in the consumer, corporate and government sectors

CARTES, France, November 17, 2009 – Atmel® Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), a leader in microcontroller-based solutions, today announced a new Atmel AVR® microcontroller designed for the smart card reader market. Targeting the low-cost, high volume market, Atmel’s new AT90SCR050 is a complete system solution that enables designers to bring their products faster-to-market.

The AT90SCR050 includes an industry-proven Atmel AVR microcontroller, 16 KB of ROM, USB FS2.0 and smart card interface with an integrated … Read More → "Atmel AVR Microcontroller Targets High-volume USB Smart Card Reader Applications"

Nallatech Announces Next Generation Xilinx® Virtex-5™ PCI Express FPGA Accelerators

CAMARILLO, California, November 16, 2009 – Nallatech, a leading supplier of high-performance COTS FPGA solutions, today announced two new PCI Express accelerator products featuring Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGAs. The PCIe-280 and PCIe-180 are the latest products to be introduced to Nallatech’s highly successful Embedded PCI Series of FPGA COTS solutions.

PCIe-280 next generation FPGA accelerator card:

8-lane PCI Express 2.0 host interface
Up to 5GBytes/sec sustained host bandwidth
Xilinx Virtex-5 user FPGA (up to LX330T-2)
Multiple independent banks of DDR2 SDRAM and QDR-II SRAM memory
32-lanes of off-card high speed serial … Read More → "Nallatech Announces Next Generation Xilinx® Virtex-5™ PCI Express FPGA Accelerators"

Mitrionics and GiDEL Announce Joint Reseller Partnership for FPGA-Based Accelerated Computing Development Tools & PCI Cards

Successful Technology Integration and Collaboration Led to Business Partnership 

SUPERCOMPUTING 2009, November 16, 2009 – Mitrionics, Inc, the technology leader in FPGA-based hybrid computing, today announced it has signed a joint reseller agreement with GiDEL Ltd., a leading supplier of FPGA-based accelerated computing systems and cards, whereby both companies will resell each other’s FPGA-based accelerated computing hardware and software. The companies began working together collaboratively to integrate their technologies in early 2009 on a research project with the University of Florida. The successful integration of their products led to this mutually beneficial business partnership. Products from both companies … Read More → "Mitrionics and GiDEL Announce Joint Reseller Partnership for FPGA-Based Accelerated Computing Development Tools & PCI Cards"

Taking Exception

The problem with computers is that they have no common sense. They can’t simply do the normal thing in a normal situation, whatever that might be. High in a rarified Manhattan skyscraper, the team of architects bemoaned the brain-deadness of their building design tools. One of the more tech-savvy of the architects noted that it would be so awesome if someone could invent a “common sense” module for computers. You would access it using the “duh” function. Like, “if <condition> Read More → "Taking Exception"

Redtree Solutions Ltd Named Representative For Lattice Semiconductor in France, Benelux, The UK and Ireland

— Lattice is Flagship Partner of Redtree Solutions Ltd, A Pan-EMEA Representative Company —

HILLSBORO, OR — NOVEMBER 17, 2009 — Lattice Semiconductor (NASDAQ: LSCC) today announced that Redtree Solutions Ltd will represent Lattice and its full range of products in France, Benelux, the UK and Ireland.

“Redtree Solutions is very excited to partner with Lattice and serve as its extended field sales force,” said Jean-Marie Houillon, Co-founder and Director of Redtree Solutions Ltd. “Our collaboration will accelerate the development of new business opportunities for both companies in France, Benelux, the UK and Ireland. Lattice& … Read More → "Redtree Solutions Ltd Named Representative For Lattice Semiconductor in France, Benelux, The UK and Ireland"

Confronting Manufacturing Closure at 32nm and Below

The problems of managing manufacturing variability, which began at the 45nm node, grow even more severe with the move to 32nm and could now pose a significant threat to design schedules, IC performance, and the bottom line. As the features get smaller, but the light wavelength used in lithography stays the same, the significant variations in line width, thickness, etc., have a greater effect on the yield and performance of ICs. Addressing this process-design gap – the gap between the feature size, 32nm, and the light used to etch those features, 193nm – is the … Read More → "Confronting Manufacturing Closure at 32nm and Below"

Intel, AMD, Patents, and Punishment

What would you do with $1.25 billion?

You could buy a large yacht – and a Caribbean island to moor it on. You could keep a lifetime supply of Ferraris for you and all of your newly found friends. You could acquire several small companies. You could settle into a dozen houses along the fairways at Pebble Beach, hitting balls through the windows all day.

Or if you’re Intel, you write a big check to AMD. … Read More → "Intel, AMD, Patents, and Punishment"

Atmel Introduces Turnkey Security Modules for Femtocells, Smart Meters, Telehealth, USB Token and Gaming Platforms

VaultIC460 first to provide hardware and firmware solution with multiple interfaces for Embedded Security

CARTES, France, Nov. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Atmel® Corporation (NASDAQ:ATML) today announced its new VaultIC(TM) family of security modules for applications including femtocells, smart meters, telehealth, USB token and gaming platforms. The VaultIC460 is the first security module available on the market that provides a secure microcontroller with multiple interfaces and bundled firmware. Based on Atmel’s AT90SO secureAVR® microcontrollers, this new family enables higher levels of security and provides a secure turnkey solution for system designers. The VaultIC460 provides 128 … Read More → "Atmel Introduces Turnkey Security Modules for Femtocells, Smart Meters, Telehealth, USB Token and Gaming Platforms"

Mitrionics Presents Early Scaling Results for Portable Parallel Code on FPGAs, Multi-Cores and Clusters at SC09

 

SUPERCOMPUTING 2009, Portland, OR, November 16, 2009 – Mitrionics, Inc, the technology leader in FPGA-based hybrid computing, today announced its experimental work on a new proof-of-concept compiler for portable parallel programming. Early scalability results will be presented in a talk at SC09 by Mitrionics’ Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer Stefan Möhl. The proof-of-concept compiler is a test-bench to prove that a Mitrion-C program will automatically scale, not only on FPGAs, but also on multi-core systems and clusters, without changing the source code between the radically diverse architectures. Mitrion-C as a commercial product has already been proven … Read More → "Mitrionics Presents Early Scaling Results for Portable Parallel Code on FPGAs, Multi-Cores and Clusters at SC09"

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