September 16, 2014 – Mouser Electronics, Inc. has signed a global distribution agreement withRead More → "Mouser Signs Global Distribution Agreement with Eurotech, an Intel IoT Solutions Alliance Member"
Cambridge, UK – September 17, 2014 – The Weightless SIG today announced the launch of Weightless-N, a breakthrough and complementary open standard for IoT.
The vision of the Weightless SIG is to deliver the wide-area machine connectivity standard that enables the 95% of the IoT opportunity denied by the high cost and power consumption characteristics of traditional cellular alternatives. Today’s announcement delivers on this vision and complements the existing Weightless-W standard through extension into … Read More → "New Weightless-N IoT Standard launches"
Imec’s investment arm Fidimec and the Flemish spin-off investment fund SOFI I are investing EUR 340k in Luceda Photonics, a joint spin-off from Ghent University, the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and imec. Luceda Photonics will use this financing to start commercialization of its photonics design software and to continue to invest in R&D for new product features.
LUCEDA Photonics was founded in June 2014 as a spin-off from Ghent University (UGent), the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and imec. The core of Luceda Photonics’ product offering is the IPKISS design framework. It covers the complete photonic … Read More → "Luceda Photonics receives growth finance for the development and marketing of its advanced framework for photonic IC design"
DALLAS (Sep. 15, 2014) – Texas Instruments (TI) (NASDAQ: TXN) today introduced seven SIMPLE SWITCHER regulators that simplify wide VINsynchronous power supply design and help engineers create energy-efficient, electromagnetic interference (EMI) compliant products. The easy-to-use LM43600/1/2/3 and LM46000/1/2 DC/DC converters feature an input voltage range of up to 60 V for high reliability in rugged systems, and 27 micro amps of standby current that minimizes power consumption at light load. The unique synchronous power stage architecture reduces radiated emissions for EMC compliance in a variety of industrial, automotive and communications applications. For more information, samples and evaluation modules, visit< … Read More → "TI makes wide VIN power supply design easier with synchronous SIMPLE SWITCHER® DC/DC regulators"
PHOENIX—September 15, 2014—Avnet Embedded, a division of Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas, a business region of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: Read More → "Avnet Embedded, TrueUC Solutions LLC Bring Cloud-Based Unified Communications Solutions to Global Market"
16 September 2014 – Yokohama, Japan; Munich, Germany; and Westford, MA, USA – Zuken Inc. has announced that major Taiwanese Design and Manufacturing Services (DMS) company has built a new design environment centering on CR-8000 Design Force based on a technical partnership with Zuken.
Pegatron adopted Zuken’s CR-8000 in 2012, and through technical … Read More → "Major Taiwanese DMS Company Pegatron Establishes New PCB Design Flow through Technical Cooperation with Zuken"
Leoben, Austria and Genève, Switzerland, 16 September 2014 – AT&S, a leader in advanced packaging solutions, Soundchip SA, a Swiss-based innovator in wearable sound technology, and STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, today announced their collaboration in innovating a bionic hearing module that, when installed into a personal audio device, delivers an amazing wearable sound experience controlled at the ear by the wearer and software intelligence.
Personal audio devices, like an MP3 player or smartphone, equipped with the bionic hearing module, provide wearers with the ability to electronically “ … Read More → "AT&S, Soundchip, and STMicroelectronics Craft Innovative Bionic Ear"
Tokyo, Japan, September 16, 2014 – eSOL, a leading developer of real-time embedded software solutions, announced that it joins the Urban Driving Working Group (UDWG) that was launched in the Internet ITS Consortium today. eSOL aims at adapting the eSOL eMCOS many-core real-time operating system (RTOS), the world’s first commercial RTOS for embedded many-core processors, to the autonomous driving technology platform. With eMCOS, and the expertise and abundant experience of developing the highly reliable RTOS platform for automotive systems including Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), eSOL will contribute … Read More → "eSOL Adapts their Many-core OS to the Autonomous Driving Technology Platform"
Fairport, NY, USA. Sept.12, 2014: Saelig Company, Inc. announces the world’s first dedicated USB Power Delivery Analyzers and Exercisers. Designed for FSK and Baseband variants of USB Power Delivery, the Packet-Master USB-PDA is a Power Delivery Analyzer, and thePacket-Master USB-PDA-E is a Power Delivery Exerciser and Analyzer. Each is supplied with a PC-based Windows application called GraphicUSB for capturing and displaying PD interactions.
“USB Power Delivery” is a specification allowing USB to provide power in a more flexible and adaptable way. The FSK version uses two-way signaling superimposed on the existing VBUS wire in the USB … Read More → "Saelig Debuts Packet-Master ‘USB Power Delivery’ Testers"
San Jose, Calif., September 15, 2014 – Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) today announced its Arria® V FPGAs are delivering the high performance needed for Dolby Laboratories’ innovative Dolby® VisionTM imaging technology for ultra-high definition (UHD) displays. The Dolby Vision value proposition is to deliver a dramatically different visual experience to TV displays, enabling content creators and television manufacturers to deliver greater brightness while also providing much deeper, more nuanced darks, and a fuller palette of colors. Dolby Laboratories reports that Dolby Vision can deliver signals that offer 40 times brighter … Read More → "Altera FPGAs Enable Dolby Vision for Ultra-HD TVs"
