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Pasternack Announces a New and Improved Version of The Cable Creator™

Irvine, CA – Pasternack, a leading provider of in-stock and ready to ship RF, microwave and millimeter wave products, has just released an improved version of their popular online tool called The Cable Creator™. This new iteration allows the user to not only design and customize special cable configurations online in a few clicks, but also purchase their designs without the need to wait for a quote from the company’s sales team.

With a modernized look and feel, Pasternack’s Cable Creator enables engineers and buyers … Read More → "Pasternack Announces a New and Improved Version of The Cable Creator™"

Mentor Automotive Capital Products Compress Development Cycle Times and Boost Efficiency of General Motors Vehicles

WILSONVILLE, Ore., February 16, 2016 – Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced that General Motors is deploying Mentor® Capital® electrical systems design tools for its vehicle development projects.  The tools deliver cycle time reductions and support improved engineering processes, helping General Motors efficiently deliver the new electronic features demanded by the car-buying public.  This is achieved via the Capital suite’s powerful design asset re-use and correct-by-construction technology that automatically generates optimized platform-level wiring.

Electrical systems for new General Motors vehicles are now being … Read More → "Mentor Automotive Capital Products Compress Development Cycle Times and Boost Efficiency of General Motors Vehicles"

STMicroelectronics Releases New STM32L0 MCU Lines and Comprehensive Development Ecosystem, Bringing Even More Efficiency to Power-Conscious Devices

Geneva, February 16, 2016 – STMicroelectronics has announced volume production of its ultra-energy-efficient ARM®Cortex®-M0+ STM32L0 microcontrollers, with an extensive development ecosystem including minimal-cost boards and free software tools that help developers keep tight control of application power consumption and minimize time to market.

Ideal for energy-sensitive applications including wearables, medical monitors, industrial sensors, and smart-living devices, the STM32L0 microcontroller (MCU) series achieves class-leading energy efficiency of 135 ULPMark™ -C certified and 158.7 ULPMark -C with a DC/ … Read More → "STMicroelectronics Releases New STM32L0 MCU Lines and Comprehensive Development Ecosystem, Bringing Even More Efficiency to Power-Conscious Devices"

The NEO-M8P offers high precision technology in small design for applications such as unmanned vehicles and robotic guidance systems

Thalwil, Switzerland – February 15, 2016 – u-blox (SIX:UBXN), a global leader in wireless and positioning modules and chips, launched today the NEO-M8P GNSS receiver modules delivering high performance down to centimeter-level accuracy. 

Measuring merely 12.2 x 16 x 2.4 mm, NEO-M8P is the smallest high precision GNSS RTK (real time kinematic) module available on the market based on GPS and GLONASS satellite-based navigation systems. The rover with the u-blox NEO?M8P?0 receives corrections from the u-blox base receiver NEO-M8P-2 via a communication link that uses the RTCM (Radio Technical Commission for Maritime Services) protocol, enabling … Read More → "The NEO-M8P offers high precision technology in small design for applications such as unmanned vehicles and robotic guidance systems"

ip.access joins forces with CCS to simplify small cell deployment

Cambridge, UK, 15 February, 2016 –  ip.access, the world’s leading independent small cell product and solution provider, today announced that it has joined forces with CCS (Cambridge Communication Systems) to develop a new outdoor LTE small cell with integrated wireless backhaul, which will be unveiled at Mobile World Congress on stands 7C60 and 7B67.

With mobile data traffic continuing to soar, mobile operators are struggling to keep up with coverage and capacity demands, and small cells are accepted as the only viable solution to keep customers … Read More → "ip.access joins forces with CCS to simplify small cell deployment"

Imec Introduces Broad Spectrum Hyperspectral Imaging Solutions

SAN FRANCISCO (USA) and Leuven (Belgium) – Feb. 15, 2016 – At this week’s SPIE Photonics West, imec will present a new set of hyperspectral sensor and camera solutions with extended spectral range, going from the visible light (VIS) up to near infrared (NIR). The new line-scan VNIR (visible to near-infrared) sensor and snapshot mosaic VNIR camera outperform current solutions in spectral range and compactness.

Example applications for the line-scan sensor are machine vision and remote sensing applications, e .g. precision agriculture using UAVs and satellites. It features 140+bands in the 470-900nm range. Its small form … Read More → "Imec Introduces Broad Spectrum Hyperspectral Imaging Solutions"

DSP Algorithm Demos That Work With YOUR Hardware

Kane Computing are pleased to announce that a number of real-time demonstrations of Voice Quality Enhancement software libraries from DSP Soundware are now available running on PC or Texas Instruments processors, including Acoustic Echo Canceller and Noise Reduction. 

DSP Soundware’s new paradigm is to develop real-time demonstrations of their voice quality enhancement DSP software, running on either low-cost development boards or on Windows PCs, and connect them directly to user’s hardware using simple analog interfaces.

Using their new demos:

  1. Developers do not have to wait for prototype hardware.  (Maybe just … Read More → "DSP Algorithm Demos That Work With YOUR Hardware"

MicroEJ to Introduce Operating System for IoT at Embedded World

Nantes, France, February 11, 2016 – At EclipseCon Europe, MicroEJ® introduced MicroEJ Studio, its solution for application developers; at CES, it introduced the MicroEJ Application Store, its solution for delivering applications to IoT devices. At Embedded World in Nuremberg, Germany, MicroEJ will unveil the latest version of its MicroEJ Operating System (OS).

MicroEJ OS continues to address traditional resource-constrained embedded systems, while version 4 adds capabilities dedicated to IoT devices. IoT devices are embedded systems with strong performance, footprint and reliability constraints. In addition, IoT devices interact with cloud platforms by being connected to … Read More → "MicroEJ to Introduce Operating System for IoT at Embedded World"

Visualize & analyze large 3D CAD models faster: KISTERS 3DViewStation V2016

KISTERS has announced the release 2016 of the 3DViewStation Desktop version. The KISTERS 3DViewStation Desktop is known for its modern user-interface, high performance 3D-viewing, advanced analysis and Digital MockUp (DMU). 3DViewStation ships with current and mature CAD-importers for a broad range of formats including i.e. Catia, NX, Creo, SolidWorks, SolidEdge, JT, 3D-PDF and STEP plus an extensive set of functional tools to view, analyze and communicate 3D-data as i.e. STEP, JT or 3D-PDF.

Although KISTERS 3DViewStation Desktop has been very fast already before, the focus of the developments of 3DViewStation Desktop V2016 has been set to … Read More → "Visualize & analyze large 3D CAD models faster: KISTERS 3DViewStation V2016"

High Performance Video and Graphics in AMD-powered PMC Board from Aitech

Chatsworth, Calif. February 2016 – Aitech Defense Systems Inc. recently announced  the M598, the latest video and graphics PMC in its vast line of AMD-driven solutions, designed to simultaneously drive several independent video streams in a wide variety of outputs.  The versatile PMC uses the AMD Radeon E8860 (Andelaar) GPU, providing six independent graphics heads with 2 GB of GDDR5 operating … Read More → "High Performance Video and Graphics in AMD-powered PMC Board from Aitech"

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