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Compact vibration harvester power supply with highest efficiency opens door to “fix-and-forget” sensor nodes

LEUVEN (Belgium) – July 23, 2014 – OMRON and Holst Centre/imec have unveiled a prototype of an extremely compact vibrational energy harvesting DC power supply with worlds’ highest efficiency. The prototype will be demonstrated at the TECHNO-FRONTIER2014 exhibition in Tokyo from July 23rd tillJuly 25th. Combining OMRON’s electret energy harvester with a Holst Centre/imec power management IC, it can convert and store … Read More → "Compact vibration harvester power supply with highest efficiency opens door to “fix-and-forget” sensor nodes"

Intersil Announces Highly Accurate Digital Power Monitor Capable of Industry’s Widest Common Mode Input Voltage Range

Milpitas, Calif. – July 21, 2014 – Intersil Corporation (NASDAQ: ISIL), a leading provider of innovative power management and precision analog solutions, today announced the ISL2802x family of digital power monitors capable of supporting a wide common mode input voltage range of 0V to 60V. The ISL2802x family is comprised of three devices offering a range of capability including full featured bi-directional, high-side and low-side digital current sense and voltage monitors with a serial interface with a high level of integration. Precision measurements are enabled by an integrated 16-bit ADC. Available in a tiny solution footprint and with a wide … Read More → "Intersil Announces Highly Accurate Digital Power Monitor Capable of Industry’s Widest Common Mode Input Voltage Range"

ASSET and SoftIron collaborate on rapid debugging for 64-bit ARM-based enterprise servers using AppliedMicro’s X-Gene technology

Richardson, TX, and Southhampton, UK (July 23, 2014) ? ASSET® InterTech (www.asset-intertech.com) collaborated with SoftIron® Ltd., Southampton, UK, to quickly debug and bring up the industry?s first 64-bit ARM server motherboard based on AppliedMicro?s X-Gene® Server on a Chip?. SoftIron?s 64-0800 is an ultra-low power, high-performance server motherboard for the enterprise computing and data center market. 

The development team at SoftIron selected ASSET?s SourcePoint? debugger because it gives … Read More → "ASSET and SoftIron collaborate on rapid debugging for 64-bit ARM-based enterprise servers using AppliedMicro’s X-Gene technology"

Best-in-Class Rad-Hard Devices from STMicroelectronics Boast Qualification for Use in US Projects

Geneva, July 21, 2014 – STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, today announced that it has added to its available JANS / JANSR[1] products a range of DLA (Defense Logistics Agency)-qualified JANSR bipolar transistors with additional up-screening at the recent Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC) in Paris. Best-in-class radiation hardness makes ST’s new transistors ideal for aerospace and Hi-Rel systems, including satellites, as well as nuclear physics and medical applications.</ … Read More → "Best-in-Class Rad-Hard Devices from STMicroelectronics Boast Qualification for Use in US Projects"

Real Intent Unveils Debug Enhancements in New Version of Ascent IIV for Static Verification of Digital Designs

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – July 22, 2014 – Real Intent, Inc., a leading provider of EDA software products today announced a new version of its Ascent Implied Intent Verification (IIV) tool for static functional analysis of digital IC designs, delivering new debug enhancements for users. Ascent products find elusive bugs and eliminate sources of uncertainty that are difficult to uncover using traditional Verilog or VHDL simulation, leading to both improved QoR and productivity of design teams.

New Read More → "Real Intent Unveils Debug Enhancements in New Version of Ascent IIV for Static Verification of Digital Designs"

5th International Workshop on Bismuth-containing Semiconductors hosted by the Tyndall National Institute

July 21st 2014 – From the 21st to the 23rd July, Professor Eoin O’Reilly, Chief Scientist of the Tyndall National Institute, Cork, will chair the 5th International Workshop on Bismuth-containing Semi-conductors, bringing together over fifty physicists, chemists, material scientists and engineers from around the world to discuss this emerging academic and industrial area. 

The workshop is sponsored by the EU FP7 project, BIANCHO (Bismide and Nitride Components for High Temperature Operation). BIANCHO is a four-year, €2.19m European research project, working to tackle the energy challenges presented by the exponential growth … Read More → "5th International Workshop on Bismuth-containing Semiconductors hosted by the Tyndall National Institute"

Spansion Expands Power Management Family with New 3-Channel DC-to-DC PMIC in Single-Chip Solution

SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 22, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Spansion Inc. (NYSE: CODE), a global leader in embedded systems, today started shipping samples of the Spansion® S6AP412A series of multi-channel DC-to-DC power management ICs (PMICs).

The S6AP412A series—an expansion of the Spansion MB39C031 family of DC-to-DC buck-converter, programmable PMICs—supplies three channels of power on a single chip to cutting-edge system-on-chip (SoC) products, memory and peripheral products that make up the core … Read More → "Spansion Expands Power Management Family with New 3-Channel DC-to-DC PMIC in Single-Chip Solution"

Microchip’s MOST® ToGo Reference Designs Make Creating Automotive Infotainment Systems Easy

CHANDLER, Ariz., July 22, 2014 [NASDAQ:  MCHP] — Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash-IP solutions, today announced its MOST® ToGo Reference Designs, which make it easy for designers to learn and implement the provenMOST technology in their automotive infotainment systems.  MOST ToGo enables designers to leverage Microchip’s extensive experience and focus on their application software development, rather than studying the vast MOST specifications.  Included in both reference designs are … Read More → "Microchip’s MOST® ToGo Reference Designs Make Creating Automotive Infotainment Systems Easy"

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