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Cypress Simplifies Design of USB-C Hosts, Accessories and Power Adapters with New EZ-PD CCG3 Controller

SAN JOSE, Calif., February 17, 2016—Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: CY), the market’s leading USB innovator, today announced availability of a new USB-C controller with Power Delivery (PD) that streamlines the design of USB-C accessories, such as adapter dongles, power adapters and power banks. The new EZ-PD™ CCG3 controller offers an unparalleled level of integration that minimizes bill-of-material costs and simplifies designs, replacing multiple discrete components with a single-chip solution.

The EZ-PD CCG3 controller supports direct 3.3-V to 20-V operation. It integrates independent 20-V VBUS gate drivers for provider and consumer power paths, two 1-W … Read More → "Cypress Simplifies Design of USB-C Hosts, Accessories and Power Adapters with New EZ-PD CCG3 Controller"

STMicroelectronics Releases Your Creativity in Showcase of Solutions around STM32, Secure Microcontrollers, and Near Field Communication

Geneva, February 17, 2016 – At Embedded World 2016 in Nuremberg, Germany, STMicroelectronics will present a broad range of solutions for embedded designs across the full range of applications, including industrial, medical, consumer, and automotive. The comprehensive showcase will include demos, technical seminars, and hands-on workshops, hosted by experts who can help attendees release their creativity with ST’s latest embedded technologies, products, and tools. Videos, produced during the event, will be available from February 24, 2016 at www.youtube.com/stonlinemedia/EW2016

ST invites Embedded World 2016 attendees to … Read More → "STMicroelectronics Releases Your Creativity in Showcase of Solutions around STM32, Secure Microcontrollers, and Near Field Communication"

Self-locating Fathom™ Hub Puts Itself at Center of IoT Market

PRESSWIRE] Vancouver, Canada – 16.02.16 — Fathom™, a new business unit of Rx Networks, redefines the beacon and IoT space with the launch of the Fathom™ suite of products – a hardware and software system designed to address the challenges of managing large-scale beacon deployments.

The Fathom™ Hub transforms existing, stand-alone Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons into a managed proximity network, reporting on the location and status of all beacons in the coverage area. If beacons are moved, lost, or if the battery runs low, an alert is triggered and updates are displayed in the cloud-based Fathom™ Control panel in real-time. … Read More → "Self-locating Fathom™ Hub Puts Itself at Center of IoT Market"

Mentor Graphics Announces Open Manufacturing Language, an Open Internet of Manufacturing Standard for PCB Assembly

Wilsonville, Ore., Feb. 16, 2016 — Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced the launch of the Open Manufacturing Language (OML) initiative that directly addresses the longstanding need and urgent calls from the industry for a printed circuit board (PCB) assembly-specific Internet of Manufacturing solution. For the first time, IT teams, solution providers, and equipment providers can easily integrate shop-floor data to create or enhance added-value manufacturing execution solutions based on a single, normalized, vendor-neutral communication interface. This minimizes development and support effort while ensuring optimum data accuracy, timeliness … Read More → "Mentor Graphics Announces Open Manufacturing Language, an Open Internet of Manufacturing Standard for PCB Assembly"

Semtech Announces Production Release of 14Gbps Chipset for Multi-channel Optical Communications

CAMARILLO, Calif. – February 16, 2016 – Semtech Corporation (Nasdaq: SMTC), a leading supplier of analog and mixed-signal semiconductors, announced the production release of its industry leading GN1090 and GN1190 chipset for quad channel SR optical interconnects operating from 1Gbps up to 14.5Gbps.

The GN1090 is a quad channel transimpedance amplifier (TIA), and the GN1190 is a quad channel … Read More → "Semtech Announces Production Release of 14Gbps Chipset for Multi-channel Optical Communications"

High-performance Atmel SAMA5D2 Xplained Ultra from element14 for fast prototyping and evaluation

Feb. 15, 2016 – CHICAGO – element14 and Atmel today announced the launch of Atmel’s new SAMA5D2 Xplained Ultra evaluation kit, a high-performance, fast prototyping and evaluation platform for the Atmel | SMART SAMA5D2 Series of microprocessors. The board offers multiple memories including eMMC, DDR3 and QSPI as well as a comprehensive set of connectivity options.

With its secure design architecture, cryptographic acceleration engines, and secure boot loader, the SAMA5D2 is the ideal solution for point-of-sale (POS), Internet of Things (IoT) and industrial applications requiring anti-cloning, data protection and secure communication transfer.

The Atmel | SMART SAMA5 … Read More → "High-performance Atmel SAMA5D2 Xplained Ultra from element14 for fast prototyping and evaluation"

Pentair Introduces Cost-effective Baseboard Management Controller Solution with Advanced Features

Warwick, RI (February 15, 2016) – To satisfy the need for hardware management on server baseboards across a wide range of computer platforms from embedded to scaled out server markets, Pentair has developed the Schroff Pigeon Point BMR-AST-BMC solution, which enables a server baseboard developer to quickly and cost-effectively add advanced hardware management features, including “out-of-band” management access to the baseboard management controller (BMC) of the server even when the main server CPU(s) are not powered.

A BMC is defined in the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) architecture as a separately powered controller that can manage the operation of … Read More → "Pentair Introduces Cost-effective Baseboard Management Controller Solution with Advanced Features"

Ranplan launches iBuildNet 3.0 at Mobile World Congress

February 16, 2016: At next week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Ranplan will be showcasing the latest release of iBuildNet, its all-in-one, heterogeneous network planning, optimisation and simulation solution for small cell, DAS and WiFinetworks, across both indoor and outdoor environments. iBuildNet 3.0 adds a range of new features including enhancedWiFi</ … Read More → "Ranplan launches iBuildNet 3.0 at Mobile World Congress"

Renesas Electronics Releases R-Car D1 Series of Automotive SoCs Specialized for 3D Graphics Clusters

Düsseldorf, February 16, 2016 – Renesas Electronics, a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced the availability of the R-Car D1 Series, as the first member of system-on-chips (SoCs) in the R-Car Family specialized for 3D instrument cluster systems. Leveraging its deep knowledge and expertise as the market leader in the automotive semiconductor market (Note 1), Renesas is introducing the new series to provide a smooth migration path for automotive system manufacturers as more automotive systems are expected to shift to 3D graphics instrument cluster systems in the near future.

Read More → "Renesas Electronics Releases R-Car D1 Series of Automotive SoCs Specialized for 3D Graphics Clusters"

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