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mCube Unveils Its First Ultra-Low Power Accelerometer Family Optimized for Wearables and the “Internet of Moving Things”

  • Lowers the sensor power consumption by up to 3X
  • Reduces the sensor footprint required by up to 3X
  • Leverages monolithic single-chip technology proven in mass-volume mobile devices
  • Speeds product prototyping with ready-to-use evaluation board

SAN JOSE, CA – JUNE 16, 2015 – mCube, provider of the world’s smallest MEMS motion sensors, today introduced the company’s first family of accelerometers optimized for wearables and the “Internet of Moving Things (IoMT)”. The MC3600 family of ultra-low power, high-performance 3-axis accelerometers is built upon mCube’ … Read More → "mCube Unveils Its First Ultra-Low Power Accelerometer Family Optimized for Wearables and the “Internet of Moving Things”"

Green Hills Software to Present and Exhibit at Freescale Technology Forum 2015 in Austin, TX

SANTA BARBARA, CA — June 15, 2015 — Green Hills Software, the largest independent software vendor for the Internet of Things and the largest independent provider of embedded software to Freescale customers, will exhibit and deliver technology presentations at the Freescale Technology Forum, JW Marriott, Austin, TX, June 22 – 25, 2015. Green Hills Software will discuss new products and technology plus roadmaps for newly announced Freescale processors in automotive, consumer, industrial, IoT, medical, military/aerospace and networking.

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EDA Playground adds Synopsys VCS support to serve its growing user base

Ringwood, UK, & San Jose, USA, 9 June 2015 – Following its acquisition of EDA Playground earlier this year, Doulos is pleased to announce extended support for its growing community of users worldwide with the addition of the Synopsys VCS® Functional Verification Solution.

“EDA Playground has a significant part to play in Doulos’ commitment to invest in training the next generation of electronic system designers. EDA Playground is a free-to-access online learning resource where engineers can practice their coding skills and share code snippets with others in the community,” says Rob Hurley
Doulos CEO.</ … Read More → "EDA Playground adds Synopsys VCS support to serve its growing user base"

SEL brings performance-based optical networking to wider range of applications

PULLMAN, Wash. — Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. (SEL) today announced a new addition to the SEL wired communications product line. Designed to cut the rack-mount space in half, the SEL ICON cube chassis offers the same functionality as the full-sized, 19-inch ICON chassis, but with a smaller footprint. Its reduced size allows wide-area communications to be brought to locations that are space-constrained, such as pad mounts, repeater sites and oil/gas platforms.

The SEL ICON offers a new approach to solving voice and data communications network design. The ICON combines superior deterministic SONET transport technology with flexible Ethernet … Read More → "SEL brings performance-based optical networking to wider range of applications"

Synopsys’ IC Compiler II Accelerates Silicon Validation of Imagination’s Ground-breaking PowerVR® Ray Tracing IP

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 15, 2015 /PRNewswire/ —

Highlights:

  • IC Compiler II’s game-changing capacity, turnaround time and productivity help shrink Imagination’s IMGworks Platform IP Group schedules from concept to silicon
  • Mutual customers to benefit from Imagination’s fully validated IC Compiler II reference flows in future DOK’s (Design Optimization Kits)
  • Up to 10X improvement in design planning throughput (compared to previous production environment) and accelerated block implementation help deliver best-in-class SoC implementation flow

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Renesas Electronics Delivers Game-Changing New Platform to Accelerate Development of Innovative, Differentiated Solutions for IoT and Industrial Markets

Düsseldorf, June 15, 2015 — Renesas Electronics, a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced the Renesas Synergy™ Platform, a new, easy-to-use, qualified platform designed to accelerate time to market, reduce total cost of ownership and remove many of the obstacles engineers face as they develop products for the growing Internet of Things (IoT) and industrial markets. The Renesas Synergy Platform achieves this by using an innovative approach to new product … Read More → "Renesas Electronics Delivers Game-Changing New Platform to Accelerate Development of Innovative, Differentiated Solutions for IoT and Industrial Markets"

VadaTech Releases Two New Virtex-7 FPGA Carriers

Henderson, NV – June 9, 2015 – VadaTech, a manufacturer of embedded boards and complete application-ready platforms, has new Virtex-7 690T FPGA carriers in the AMC format.  

VadaTech’s new Virtex-7 FPGA carriers utilize the 690T device providing over 693K logic cells and 3600 DSP slices.  The AMC516 has banks of 64-bit and 16-bit DDR3 memory and an on-board P2040 PowerPC.  The AMC527 is a similar Virtex-7 690T FPGA, except it has 3 banks of 144 Mb QDR-II memory and does not have a PowerPC.  The FPGA carriers have a slot to accept an FPGA Mezzanine Card (FMC) per VITA 57.  

Both modules … Read More → "VadaTech Releases Two New Virtex-7 FPGA Carriers"

Tektronix, IEMN Collaborate to Demonstrate World’s Fastest Wireless to Optical Bridge

BEAVERTON, Ore. June 9, 2015 ­- Tektronix, the world’s leading manufacturer of oscilloscopes, and IEMN, a major French research laboratory, today announced the world’s first demonstration of a wireless system capable of transmitting data at 400 GHz (0.4 THz) using advanced signal coding (up to QAM-16) and key advanced THz devices.

Using a combination of optical coherent technologies and THz transceivers, the demonstration showcases the advances being made toward operational wireless links with THz frequencies and optical-equivalent data rates. The demonstration involved sending 32 Gbit/s signals over distances of 25 m and will provide the basis for … Read More → "Tektronix, IEMN Collaborate to Demonstrate World’s Fastest Wireless to Optical Bridge"

Altium Announces New Feature Updates to Enterprise Data Management Solution for Enhanced Design Data Management

San Diego, Calif. – June 9, 2015 Altium Limited has announced the release of a major update to their enterprise PCB design data management solution – Altium Vault <http://www.altium.com/altium-vault/overview> . This new update includes a number of new features to improve the automation and management of design data, with updates to every major feature category including component management, data management, project collaboration, and infrastructure management. Altium Vault 2.5 is available now to all Altium Vault Subscription customers.

“We’ … Read More → "Altium Announces New Feature Updates to Enterprise Data Management Solution for Enhanced Design Data Management"

Cavium Announces New Low Power 16-core OCTEON® III SoC Processors for Next Generation Enterprise, Data Center and Service Provider Infrastructure

SAN JOSE, CA, June 10, 2015 – Cavium, Inc., (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, cloud, wired and wireless networking, today announced the addition of two new pin-compatible families CN73XX and CN72XX to its leading OCTEON® III MIPS64® multi-core processor line, providing a powerful solution for mid-range performance points spanning 4 to 16 cores. 

These new low-power processor families deliver industry-leading compute and packet performance for devices in this class, along with powerful networking, virtualization and multi-layer security acceleration, while meeting the stringent power requirements of … Read More → "Cavium Announces New Low Power 16-core OCTEON® III SoC Processors for Next Generation Enterprise, Data Center and Service Provider Infrastructure"

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