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Embedded Virtual Prototype Kits Offer Unified HW-SW Debug and Analysis

January 20, 2015

WILSONVILLE, Ore., January 20, 2015 —Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced the availability of Mentor® Embedded Virtual Prototype Kits (VPKs) in the Mentor Graphics® Vista™ and Sourcery™ CodeBench Virtual Edition products. This enables embedded developers to integrate, execute, validate and optimize software on various platforms. This solution is ideal for automotive in-vehicle infotainment (IVI), electronic control unit (ECU) networks, medical and industrial, networking, and military and aerospace product development.

Software debug and analysis, particularly for multicore heterogeneous systems, requires understanding complex hardware and … Read More → "Embedded Virtual Prototype Kits Offer Unified HW-SW Debug and Analysis"

Avnet Joins OpenPOWER Foundation

January 19, 2015

PHOENIX—January 15, 2015—Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), a leading global technology distributor, … Read More → "Avnet Joins OpenPOWER Foundation"

STARCHIP® Announces Its Third Generation of SIM Controllers

January 19, 2015

StarChip®, experts in designing, qualifying and industrializing Smart Card integrated circuits (IC), today announced the addition of a new generation of controllers intended for SIM/USIM/M2M applications. The SCFXXXI series is the third generation of StarChip controllers optimized through enhanced design features providing tremendous cost-savings. These devices bring the best power, cost, and performance trade-off to the Telecom market. The SCF400I, the first member of the SCFXXXI, is designed to aggressively tackle 3G Java applications that require more powerful, cost-effective and energy-efficient chips. It will be followed by many other devices, under qualification or development, which … Read More → "STARCHIP® Announces Its Third Generation of SIM Controllers"

Ambiq Micro’s Apollo microcontrollers redefine ‘low power’ with up to 10x reduction in energy consumption

January 19, 2015

Austin, TX (19 January 2015) Ambiq Micro, a leader in ultra-low power integrated circuits, today announced the Apollo family of four 32-bit ARM® Cortex-M4F microcontrollers (MCUs). In real-world applications, their energy consumption is typically 5 to 10 times lower than that of MCUs of comparable performance, resulting in far longer battery life in wearable electronics and other battery-powered applications. The dramatic reduction in energy consumption is achieved using Ambiq’s patented Subthreshold Power Optimized Technology (SPOT) platform.

Wearable devices that might otherwise run for days … Read More → "Ambiq Micro’s Apollo microcontrollers redefine ‘low power’ with up to 10x reduction in energy consumption"

TI’s NexFET™ N-channel power MOSFETs achieve industry’s lowest resistance

January 19, 2015

DALLAS (January 19, 2015) – Texas Instruments (TI) (NASDAQ: TXN) today introduced 11 new N-channel power MOSFETs to its NexFET™ product line, including the 25-V CSD16570Q5B and 30-V CSD17570Q5B for hot swap and ORing applications with the industry’s lowest on-resistance (Rdson) in a QFN package. In addition, TI’s new 12-V FemtoFET™ CSD13383F4 for low-voltage battery-powered applications achieves the lowest resistance at 84-percent below competitive devices in a tiny 0.6 mm by 1 mm package. For more information, samples or a reference design, visit Read More → "TI’s NexFET™ N-channel power MOSFETs achieve industry’s lowest resistance"

Aldec Delivers Unprecedented Scalability and Verification Acceleration with the Latest Release of HES-DVM™

January 19, 2015

Henderson, NV – January 15, 2015 – Aldec, Inc. delivers new functionality to existing hardware resources and enables unprecedented scalability with the latest release of its hardware emulation solution software, HES-DVM™ 2014.12. The unique emulation solution, which can be used with in-house developed boards or off-the-shelf solutions such as HES-7™SoC and ASIC prototyping boards, offers a higher speed of emulation and ease of use via System Verilog DPI interface that enables scalability and acceleration of verification process for modern SoC projects.

HES-DVM delivers significant improvements to SCE-MI Function Based emulation flows. Users can now enable hardware emulation into their OVM/UVM … Read More → "Aldec Delivers Unprecedented Scalability and Verification Acceleration with the Latest Release of HES-DVM™"

SmarTune™ RF MEMS Tuners Surpass 100 Billion Cycles Lifetime Testing

January 16, 2015

San Jose, Calif. – January 14, 2015 – Cavendish Kinetics, the leader in high-performance RF MEMS tuning solutions for mobile and wearable devices, today announced that the company’s SmarTune™ RF MEMS tuners have surpassed 100 billion cycle lifetime testing, without a single part failure.

“Passing 100 Billion cycle lifetime testing has proven that our RF MEMS SmarTune products have the reliability required for large-scale adoption,” said Lars Johnsson, Vice President Product Marketing, Cavendish Kinetics. “The commercial launch of the nubia Z7 LTE Smartphone for China Mobile in October has highlighted our accomplishments in 2014, and we’ … Read More → "SmarTune™ RF MEMS Tuners Surpass 100 Billion Cycles Lifetime Testing"

Xilinx SDAccel Development Environment for OpenCL, C, and C++, Achieves Khronos Conformance

January 16, 2015

SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 14, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced that the SDAccel™ development environment for OpenCL™, C, and C++ is now Khronos OpenCL 1.0 standard compliant. The OpenCL standard provides a uniform programming environment for software developers to write efficient, portable code enabling a rich range of algorithms to be easily accelerated on Xilinx FPGAs. SDAccel, the newest member of the SDx™ family, includes an architecturally optimizing compiler for OpenCL, C, and C++ and is proven to deliver up to 25X … Read More → "Xilinx SDAccel Development Environment for OpenCL, C, and C++, Achieves Khronos Conformance"

eInfochips and Toshiba Unveil Development Kits to Accelerate Development of Google Project Ara Modular Smartphones

January 15, 2015

Mountain View (CA), January 14, 2014: eInfochips, a leading product engineering services company, and Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC) today unveiled the ARTOS12 Development Kit at the Project Ara Module Developers Conference 2015. Devices on Google [NASDAQ: GOOG] Project Ara specifications are expected to transform the smartphone experience. Ara modular smartphone users will be able to pick the camera they like, rather than picking a phone for its camera. They could add a sensor to test if water is clean. They could have a battery that lasts for days. They could have a louder speaker, gaming console, or use the smartphone … Read More → "eInfochips and Toshiba Unveil Development Kits to Accelerate Development of Google Project Ara Modular Smartphones"

Adafruit Products Now Available from Digi-Key

January 15, 2015

THIEF RIVER FALLS, Minnesota, USA – Global electronic components distributor Digi-Key Corporation, the industry leader in electronic component selection, availability and delivery, today announced the addition of Adafruit’s board-level products to its portfolio. Adafruit, the popular online resource for designers using electronic components-, was recently ranked #11 in the top 20 USA manufacturing companies and #1 in New York City by Inc. 5000 “fastest growing private companies.”

“I’ve been a Digi-Key fan since MIT,” commented Limor “Ladyada” Fried, Founder of Adafruit. “And, we have many, many customers interested in being able to purchase Adafruit products from Digi-Key. … Read More → "Adafruit Products Now Available from Digi-Key"

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