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Teledyne LeCroy Showcases World’s First SAS 4.0 (24 Gb/s) Live Demonstration at DesignCon 2017

Santa Clara, CA January 31, 2017 – Teledyne LeCroy, a worldwide leader in serial data test solutions, will showcase the world’s first Serial Attached SCSI 4.0 (SAS) live technology demonstration at DesignCon 2017. The next evolution of the enterprise storage standard, SAS 4.0 doubles the effective bandwidth over the current 12Gb/s SAS specification yet preserves backward compatibility to enable easier data center adoption. The Teledyne LeCroy exhibit will feature the Sierra T244 Protocol Analyzer platform, the first commercially available solution for testing and validating SAS 4.0 protocol.

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Cavium Deploys the Cadence Palladium Z1 Enterprise Emulation Platform

SAN JOSE, Calif., January 31, 2017—Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) today announced that Cavium, Inc. has now deployed the Cadence® Palladium® Z1 enterprise emulation platform to work toward increasing verification throughput for complex designs. After conducting an extensive evaluation, Cavium decided to deploy the Palladium Z1 platform for production use. For more information on the Palladium Z1 platform, please visit Read More → "Cavium Deploys the Cadence Palladium Z1 Enterprise Emulation Platform"

Imec Introduces Snapscan: the First Hyperspectral Imaging Camera that Fuses the Benefits of Snapshot and Linescan technologies

SAN FRANCISCO (USA) – Feb. 1st, 2017 – At this week’s SPIE Photonics West in San Francisco, imec, the world-leading research and innovation hub in nano-electronics and digital technologies, will introduce the snapscan camera: a proprietary breakthrough system concept platform that combines a good signal to noise ratio with spatial and spectral resolution advantages of linescan hyperspectral imaging technology and the ability to acquire data-sets as easily as with a snapshot camera.

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PAM4 Analysis, SAS 4.0 Analysis, USB 3.1 Compliance, DDR Memory Validation, and Digital Power Management and Integrity Test Capabilities to be Showcased at DesignCon 2017

Chestnut Ridge, NY and Santa Clara, CA, January 31, 2017 Teledyne LeCroy, a longtime Diamond Sponsor of DesignCon, will once again showcase the latest innovations in test technology on the exhibition floor, Booth 733 in Santa Clara, February 1-2. Product exhibits include the HDO family of 12-bit high definition oscilloscopes; PAM4 signal analysis; digital power management IC, power sequencing, and power-integrity testing; USB 3.1 and Power Delivery compliance test over Type-C; MIPI M-PHY physical- and protocol-layer test; PCI Express Tx/Rx compliance; DDR compliance and … Read More → "PAM4 Analysis, SAS 4.0 Analysis, USB 3.1 Compliance, DDR Memory Validation, and Digital Power Management and Integrity Test Capabilities to be Showcased at DesignCon 2017"

Reflective optical sensor provides robust reliability and versatility along with market leading ambient light immunity

Woking, UK – February 1, 2017 – TT Electronics, a global provider of engineered electronics for performance critical applications, today introduced its Photologic® V OPB9000 reflective optical sensor for industrial and medical applications. The sensor provides dependable edge and presence detection of reflective media under a wide range of ambient light conditions.

The OPB9000, under the OPTEK brand, is suitable for a variety of applications including: industrial printing, dispensing, manufacturing automation, safety and security devices, portable lab/medical equipment.

“In designing and … Read More → "Reflective optical sensor provides robust reliability and versatility along with market leading ambient light immunity"

300MHz to 6GHz Dual Wideband Mixer with Programmable Gain Amplifiers Enables 5G Wireless Access

MILPITAS, CA – February 1, 2017 – Linear Technology introduces the LTC5566, a new wideband, high dynamic range dual channel mixer with integrated programmable variable gain IF amplifiers. This dual mixer has a very wide, 300MHz to 6GHz input frequency range, specifically optimized and with extensive characterization at the emerging 3.6GHz and 4.5GHz 5G bands, as well as the established 4G bands. Moreover, the device supports bandwidths up to 400MHz to meet the needs of the growing sub-6GHz 5G wireless access equipment. This dual mixer has outstanding dynamic range, with Input P1dB of +11.5dBm and Input IP3 of +25.5dBm at 3.6GHz. … Read More → "300MHz to 6GHz Dual Wideband Mixer with Programmable Gain Amplifiers Enables 5G Wireless Access"

SP Devices launches the world’s first 14-bit digitizer with 10 GS/s sampling rate

Following the success of SP Devices’ ADQ14 digitizer, the ADQ7 has been optimised to provide a higher sampling rate, larger Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), increased memory and data transfer rate and a higher bandwidth analog front-end. The ADQ7’s unique combination of high bandwidth and high dynamic range makes it ideal for demanding applications such as LIght Detection And Ranging (LIDAR), radar, mass spectrometry, radio frequency sampling and recording and Automated Test Equipment (ATE).

The ADQ7 hosts a powerful Xilinx Ultrascale XCKU060 FPGA which is made available to the user through a firmware development kit. In … Read More → "SP Devices launches the world’s first 14-bit digitizer with 10 GS/s sampling rate"

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