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Allegro MicroSystems, LLC Announces New 3.0 A Buck Regulator With Low VIN Dropout And Enhanced Idle/Stop/Start Recovery Operation

Worcester, MA – January 12, 2015 – Allegro MicroSystems, LLC announces a new buck regulator IC to add to its industry leading lineup of automotive regulators. Allegro’s A8590 has been designed to provide the power supply requirements of next generation car audio and infotainment systems. The A8590 provides all the control and protection circuitry to … Read More → "Allegro MicroSystems, LLC Announces New 3.0 A Buck Regulator With Low VIN Dropout And Enhanced Idle/Stop/Start Recovery Operation"

Keysight Technologies Expands Use of its FPGA Development Kit for Full Range of High-Speed Digitizers

SANTA ROSA, Calif., Jan. 9, 2015 – Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS) introduced today an updated version of its U5340A FPGA development kit. The new version allows for expanded deployment of on board IP signal processing across the full range of Keysight PCIe high-speed digitizers and the 12-bit AXIe 8-channel wideband … Read More → "Keysight Technologies Expands Use of its FPGA Development Kit for Full Range of High-Speed Digitizers"

eSOL Supports Developers to Comply with IEC 61508 Industrial Safety Standard

Tokyo, Japan. January 9, 2015 ? eSOL, a leading developer of real-time embedded software solutions, today announced that they will offer the eT-Kernel Platform Industrial Safety Package to users of the eT-Kernel real-time operating system (RTOS) platform to facilitate the process of conformance to the IEC61508 industrial safety standard. eSOL expects to obtain third-party IEC 61508 Safety Integrity Level 3 (SIL 3) certification for the eT-Kernel RTOS and eBinder integrated development environment (IDE), which is a core part of the eT-Kernel Platform. The eT-Kernel Platform Industrial Safety Package consists of documents, including … Read More → "eSOL Supports Developers to Comply with IEC 61508 Industrial Safety Standard"

Keysight Technologies Introduces First Mainstream Oscilloscopes with Capacitive Touch Screens, Zone Triggering

SANTA ROSA, Calif., Jan. 8, 2015 – Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS) today introduced InfiniiVision 3000T X-Series digital-storage and mixed signal oscilloscopes with intuitive graphical triggering capability. This new oscilloscope series delivers capacitive touch screens and zone triggering to the mainstream oscilloscope market for the first time. The scopes help engineers overcome usability and triggering challenges and improve their problem-solving capability and productivity.

As digital speeds and device complexity continue to increase, signals under test are getting more complex, and engineers are more challenged to isolate anomalies in their … Read More → "Keysight Technologies Introduces First Mainstream Oscilloscopes with Capacitive Touch Screens, Zone Triggering"

ISSI to License Spansion HyperFlash™ Memory and HyperBus Interface

MILPITAS, Calif and SUNNYVALE, Calif., January 8, 2015  – Integrated Silicon Solution, Inc. (NASDAQ: ISSI), a leader in advanced memory solutions, and Spansion (NYSE: CODE), a global leader in embedded systems solutions, today announced a licensing agreement that provides ISSI access to Spansion’s HyperFlash™ memory and HyperBus™ technology portfolio, as well as access to MirrorBit™ technology in Spansion’s foundries. The agreement will expand Spansion’s licensing revenue from Spansion’s MirrorBit technology, HyperFlash memory and HyperBus interface licensing program. The agreement provides additional IP rights to ISSI to expand its flash product portfolio for automotive and industrial customers, as well … Read More → "ISSI to License Spansion HyperFlash™ Memory and HyperBus Interface"

Mini FETs from Diodes Incorporated Use 40% Less Space

Plano, Texas – January 8th, 2015 – Diodes Incorporated has extended its line of ultra-small discrete products for space-critical product design.  The company has announced a trio of small-signal MOSFETs in the tiny DFN0606 package: 20V and 30V rated N-channel transistors and a 30V rated P-channel part.  With a footprint measuring only 0.6mm x 0.6mm, each device takes 40% less board space than the commonly used DFN1006 (aka SOT883) packaged MOSFETs, making them an ideal choice for next-generation wearable tech, tablets and smartphones.

Able to deliver better or equivalent electrical performance than many of the larger package parts, … Read More → "Mini FETs from Diodes Incorporated Use 40% Less Space"

HARMAN Clari-Fi Music Restoration Technology Now Available on Cadence Tensilica HiFi Audio/Voice DSP Family

SAN JOSE, Calif., 06 Jan 2015 – Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) today announced that HARMAN’s Clari-Fi™ music restoration technology has been ported to the Cadence® Tensilica® HiFi Audio/Voice digital signal processor (DSP) family. 

For more information on Tensilica HiFi Audio/Voice DSPs, visit www.cadence.com/news/dsp/harman

Designed to enhance music playback on devices including smartphones, home audio products, and … Read More → "HARMAN Clari-Fi Music Restoration Technology Now Available on Cadence Tensilica HiFi Audio/Voice DSP Family"

Mistral announces Ultra Small Rugged 8-Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch from Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions

Bangalore, 8th January, 2014:  Mistral Solutions Pvt. Ltd., a leading technology design and product realization company, announced the availability of the new miniature Parvus DuraNET 20-11 subsystem from Curtiss-Wright, which is the industry’s smallest and lightest rugged 8-Port Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) Switch subsystem. This fully managed Layer 2+ switch is optimized for deployed defense, aerospace and civil ground vehicle and aircraft platforms that require extremely low size, weight and power (SWaP).

This highly rugged unit simplifies the integration of modern network architectures into manned and unmanned platforms that must endure harsh environmental and noisy electrical conditions. … Read More → "Mistral announces Ultra Small Rugged 8-Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch from Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions"

Green Hills Software Announces Support for Texas Instruments’ TDA2x ADAS Processor Family

LAS VEGAS, NV — January 8, 2015 — Consumer Electronics Show (CES) — Green Hills Software, the largest independent software vendor for the Internet of Things (IoT), today announced that it has made available its industry-leading automotive safety and security products, including the INTEGRITY real-time operating system and INTEGRITY Multivisor virtualization solution, for the Texas Instruments (TI) TDA2x processor product family and TI’s Vision SDK, targeting Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS).

Green Hills Software has delivered software and services to the world’s leading automotive … Read More → "Green Hills Software Announces Support for Texas Instruments’ TDA2x ADAS Processor Family"

INLYNK Software partners up with Octopart and Altium and to introduce Optymo 4.3

Montreal – January 7, 2015 – INLYNK ™, a premier software solutions provider for the electronics industry, today, announced the release of version 4.3 of its flagship product. Optymo is a sophisticated BOM and Parts management solution that helps organizations to better manage their design and production steps. This new version is the result of a very successful collaboration between Altium®, Octopart and INLYNK.

In this new version, the interface between Altium Designer® users and Optymo has been dramatically improved. Not only can OPTYMO share the operational data with Altium Designer® but it is now possible to share a BOM between the two … Read More → "INLYNK Software partners up with Octopart and Altium and to introduce Optymo 4.3"

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