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Elliptic Labs Launches First Multi Layer Interaction Making Mobile Devices More Intuitive to Use

San Francisco, CA and CEATEC, Japan – October 6, 2014 – Elliptic Labs, the leader in ultrasonic touchless gesturing for consumer electronic devices, today announced a market first; “Multi Layer Interaction.” It enables mobile devices to display different content depending on the location and distance a user’s hand is from a device. Visitors to CEATEC Japan, October 7-11 will have a chance to try out the technology live for the first time at the Murata booth #6K197. See video.

“The new Multi Layer Interaction brings users the latest advance in intuitive device interactions. Without touching the device, as your hand … Read More → "Elliptic Labs Launches First Multi Layer Interaction Making Mobile Devices More Intuitive to Use"

Pentek Doubles Down on Preconfigured A/D XMC Modules for Radar, Communications and Data Acquisition Applications

  • 3 or 4 channel 200 MHz 16-bit A/D converter
  • Digital down converter (DDC), interpolation and beamforming IP
  • GateFlow Design Kit  for Xilinx Virtex-7 FPGA custom IP development
  • Advanced GateXpress technology for FPGA reconfiguration across PCIe

UPPER SADDLE RIVER, NJ–SEPTEMBER 30, 2014–Pentek, Inc., today announced the newest members of its highly popular Onyx® family of high-speed data converter XMC FPGA modules: the 3-channel Onyx Model 71721 and the 4-channel Onyx Model 71761, 200 MHz 16-bit A/D XMC modules based on the high density Xilinx Virtex-7 … Read More → "Pentek Doubles Down on Preconfigured A/D XMC Modules for Radar, Communications and Data Acquisition Applications"

RFEL adds new Wideband DDC to its signal processing range

Newport, Isle of Wight, UK – 3rd October 2014 – RFEL has announced the latest addition to its range of award winning FPGA based signal processing solutions. The flexible Wideband Digital Down-Converter (Wideband DDC) IP core is designed to accept wideband digitised data at sample rates of up to 3.6GS/s, supporting first or second Nyquist bandwidths of up to 1.8GHz.

Signals with bandwidths as high as 180MHz can be down-converted to complex baseband (I/Q) from anywhere within the chosen input Nyquist band, within … Read More → "RFEL adds new Wideband DDC to its signal processing range"

ARM Achieves 50X Faster OS Boot-Up on Mali GPU Development using Cadence Palladium XP Platform with ARM Fast Models

SAN JOSE, Calif., October 1, 2014— Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS), a leader in global electronic design innovation, today announced that ARM® utilized Cadence® Palladium® Hybrid technology and ARM Fast Models to achieve a 50X faster OS boot-up during the development of its ARM Mali™-T760 GPU.

Compared to the previous emulation only solution, this resulted in up to 10X speed-up of overall hardware-software testing. This increased speed reduced ARM’s time from OS boot-up to test from hours to minutes, improving turnaround time and system quality.

“Early hardware-software co-development is … Read More → "ARM Achieves 50X Faster OS Boot-Up on Mali GPU Development using Cadence Palladium XP Platform with ARM Fast Models"

Mobiles Hear Better in Loud Environments with Advanced MEMS Microphone from STMicroelectronics

Geneva, October 1, 2014 – The STMicroelectronics MP23AB02B MEMS microphone maintains ultra-low distortion at less than 10% up to very high external sound-pressure levels, enabling equipment such as smartphones and wearable devices to perform better when placing calls or recording audio in loud environments.

With acoustic overload level of 125dBSPL and signal-to-noise ratio of 64dBA, the 3.35mm x 2.5mm x 0.98mm microphone delivers market-leading performance for its minuscule size. The key is ST’s dedicated pre-amplifier design, which … Read More → "Mobiles Hear Better in Loud Environments with Advanced MEMS Microphone from STMicroelectronics"

Atmel Samples New Family of High-performance ARM Cortex-M7-based MCUs Enabling Next-Generation IoT, Industrial and Automotive Applications

  • Expanding the Atmel | SMART Portfolio, First Devices Run up to 300MHz and Include Up to 384kByte SRAM Configurable as Tightly Coupled Memory (TCM) or System Memory and Up to 2Mbyte On-chip Flash
  • Combination of Ethernet AVB and Media LB Peripherals with the Cortex-M7 DSP Extensions Make Them Ideal for Automotive Connectivity and Audio Applications 

San Jose, Calif., October 2, 2014 – Today at ARM® TechCon 2014Atmel Corporation ( … Read More → "Atmel Samples New Family of High-performance ARM Cortex-M7-based MCUs Enabling Next-Generation IoT, Industrial and Automotive Applications"

Keithley Provides Full, Wafer-Level Support Including High Voltage Capacitance-Voltage Testing for Its Parametric Curve Tracer Configurations

CLEVELAND, OH – October 1, 2014 – Keithley Instruments, Inc., a world leader in advanced electrical test instruments and systems, today introduced new enhancements to its Parametric Curve Tracer (PTC) configurations that incorporate high power SourceMeter® Source Measure Unit (SMU) instruments. For test engineers responsible for configuring high power semiconductor test systems, the new Keithley Model 8020 High Power Interface Panel improves connectivity and simplifies complex measurements like high voltage capacitance-voltage (C-V) measurements. The Model 8020 reduces set-up times, minimizes opportunities for connection errors, improves operator and … Read More → "Keithley Provides Full, Wafer-Level Support Including High Voltage Capacitance-Voltage Testing for Its Parametric Curve Tracer Configurations"

Altera Programmable Logic Inspires Innovation at 2014 Maker Faire Europe

October 3, 2014 – Altera Corporation, a world-leading semiconductor company headquartered in San Jose, California, in collaboration with ipTronix, a design house and Altera Design Services Network (DSN) partner headquartered in Rome, Italy, are displaying FPGA-based solutions at the 2nd annual Maker Faire Europe being held at the Rome Auditorium on October 3-5. In the demonstration ipTronix engineers will be on hand in the Expo Hall (Gutemberg Area, Zone M) to showcase the flexibility, performance and versatility of FPGAs.</ … Read More → "Altera Programmable Logic Inspires Innovation at 2014 Maker Faire Europe"

Dramatically Reduce Time to Market and R&D Costs with Mobile POS reference Platform

San Jose, CA—October 1, 2014—With the MPOS-STD2 Mobile Point of Sale (MPOS) reference platform by Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. (NASDAQ: MXIM), payment terminal providers can enable customers of all sizes and security expertise levels to address the emerging mobile payment market. This allows them to significantly reduce R&D costs while simultaneously achieving faster time to market by rapidly moving through product design and PCI certification.

The MPOS-STD2 reference platform includes an EMV L1 stack, Bluetooth and NFC integration, a complete hardware-accelerated crypto library, and an extensive set of security measures that have been pre-evaluated by … Read More → "Dramatically Reduce Time to Market and R&D Costs with Mobile POS reference Platform"

New Enterprise Access Point for IoT

September 30, 2014: 1248 has announced the first ARM-powered®, standards-based, 6LoWPAN wireless access point designed to IoT-enable enterprise networks. HyperWeave provides full IP-to-the-edge connectivity from low power Internet of Things (IoT) devices to corporate and cloud networks. Developed in partnership with ARM, HyperWeave will be launched at this week’s ARM TechCon 2014 in Santa Clara.

Targeted at enterprise users, HyperWeave is as easy to deploy as a standard WiFi router to IoT-enable existing IT networks. “Until now, IoT edge devices have connected to the Internet using a wide range of incompatible protocols such as EnOcean, Wireless HART/KNX/M-Bus and … Read More → "New Enterprise Access Point for IoT"

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