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TI introduces lowest latency, highest ESD industrial Gigabit Ethernet PHYs, enabling real-time Industry 4.0 applications

DALLAS (Nov. 17, 2015) – Texas Instruments (TI) (NASDAQ: TXN) today introduced the industry’s lowest latency and highest electrostatic discharge (ESD) industrial Gigabit Ethernet physical layers (PHYs). The new family of six devices enables engineers to bring real-time industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) capabilities to rugged factory automation systems, motor drives, and test and measurement equipment. The new DP83867 family meets stringent electromagnetic interference (EMI) and electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) standards, reduces power consumption, and offers designers flexibility with multiple temperature, media access control (MAC) interface and packaging options. For more information, … Read More → "TI introduces lowest latency, highest ESD industrial Gigabit Ethernet PHYs, enabling real-time Industry 4.0 applications"

Mentor Graphics Analog FastSPICE Platform Selected by Terminus Technology for Analog, RF, and I/O IP

WILSONVILLE, Ore., November 17, 2015— Mentor Graphics Corp. (Nasdaq: MENT) today announced that Terminus Technology Inc., a leading provider of custom analog, RF, and I/O IP based in Taiwan, has selected the Mentor® Analog FastSPICE™ (AFS™) Platform for verification and device noise analysis of its data converter, power management, Wireless LAN, high-speed I/O and PLL circuits.

“We have stringent circuit verification and noise analysis requirements for our custom analog, RF, and high-speed I/O circuits,” said Mr. Yu-Kuo Chen, senior manager of R&D of Terminus Technology. “We selected the AFS Platform because … Read More → "Mentor Graphics Analog FastSPICE Platform Selected by Terminus Technology for Analog, RF, and I/O IP"

Universal Input Reference Design Provides Accuracy and Flexibility for Industrial Sensors

San Jose, CA—November 16, 2015—Industrial automation engineers can now achieve highly accurate measurements for their system designs with the MAXREFDES67# analog front end (AFE) universal input Micro PLC reference design from Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. (NASDAQ: MXIM).

For more information about MAXREFDES67#, visit http://bit.ly/MAXREFDES67.

As high-resolution systems move to higher bit counts, they become more sensitive to noise, making such systems difficult to build and maintain accuracy. MAXREFDES67# is a unique 24-bit AFE reference design that overcomes this challenge. Capable of accepting four different signals, … Read More → "Universal Input Reference Design Provides Accuracy and Flexibility for Industrial Sensors"

Latest VadaTech AMC Supports new 8-Core Intel Xeon Processor D Family

Henderson, NV – November XX, 2015 – VadaTech, a leading manufacturer of embedded boards, enabling software and application-ready platforms, today announced that its latest processor AdvancedMC (PrAMC), the AMC754, is available with either the new 8-core Intel® Xeon® processor D-1548 or 4-core Intel® Xeon® processor D-1520 and provides a migration path to next-generation 16-core processors expected to be available end of Q1 2016. The Intel Xeon processor D product family, based on the Intel DE microarchitecture, brings the performance of Intel Xeon processors into a dense, low power system-on-chip, ideally suited to lightweight hyperscale workloads both in the data center and the network … Read More → "Latest VadaTech AMC Supports new 8-Core Intel Xeon Processor D Family"

Ossia Inc. and Si-Ware Systems Introduce World’s First Fully-Integrated Remote Wireless Charging Chipset

CAIRO, Egypt, November 17, 2015 – Ossia Inc., the innovative developer of the award-winning Cota™ wireless charging technology, today unveiled its charging transmitter and “client” receiver chips developed by Cairo-based Si-Ware Systems (SWS). Unlike wireless charging on a pad, which requires close proximity, the Cota Wireless Charger, built around Si-Ware’s transmitter chip, powers all enabled mobile devices within a 30-foot radius. 

Remote wireless charging is seeing increasing demand as the mobile segment expands, wearable devices proliferate and the Internet of Things (IoT) brings “smart” networked appliances to home, office and industrial environments. The total market is expected to exceed $8.5 … Read More → "Ossia Inc. and Si-Ware Systems Introduce World’s First Fully-Integrated Remote Wireless Charging Chipset"

Sensory’s TrulySecure 2.0 Raises the Bar for Biometric Security

Santa Clara, Calif., – November 17, 2015 – Sensory, a Silicon Valley company enhancing user experience and security for consumer electronics, today announced the availability of TrulySecure 2.0, the next generation of FIDO Certified™ multimodal biometric authentication technology. Seamlessly fusing the two biometric modalities of face and voice, TrulySecure 2.0 builds on Sensory’s strengths in speech processing, computer vision, neural networks and deep learning to offer the most user-friendly, extremely secure and accurate multimodal authentication … Read More → "Sensory’s TrulySecure 2.0 Raises the Bar for Biometric Security"

TI’s smart diode controller realizes the power of zero

DALLAS (November 16, 2015) – Texas Instruments (TI) (NASDAQ: TXN) today introduced the industry’s first smart diode controller with zero quiescent current that provides better efficiency versus Schottky diodes and p-channel MOSFETs. The LM74610-Q1 provides lower power consumption and heat in a compact solution size, making it well-suited for reverse polarity protection in high-current industrial power tool and automotive applications. For more information, samples and an evaluation module, visit Read More → "TI’s smart diode controller realizes the power of zero"

STMicroelectronics Announces Most Advanced 32bit Secure Microcontroller

Geneva, November 17, 2015 – STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, has introduced the first member of the third generation of its industry-leading ST33 series of secure microcontrollers based on the 32-bit ARM® SecurCore® SC300™ processor.

The ST33J2M0 raises the bar in secure microcontrollers by providing the industry’s largest (2MByte) Flash program memory, nearly doubling the memory available in a secure microcontroller. Fully manufactured in ST’s advanced 40nm process technology for cost efficiency, the secure … Read More → "STMicroelectronics Announces Most Advanced 32bit Secure Microcontroller"

Alpha Data Announces the Release of its Industry Leading FPGA Accelerator Board for 100G/25G Network Processing at SC15

November 16, 2015: SC15 Austin, TX — Alpha Data, a leading supplier of high-performance FPGA solutions, will showcase the new ADM-PCIE-8V3 FPGA accelerator card at the Supercomputing Conference, November 16-19, in Austin. The ADM-PCIE-8V3, ideal for a variety of HPC applications, is a half-length, low profile, PCI Express add-in card designed to support the Xilinx Virtex® UltraScale™ VU095 FPGA in the FFVC1517 package. 

Key features of the ADM-PCIE-8V3 include the 16 lane PCIe Gen3-capable card edge, which allows for dual 8 lane endpoints in a bifurcated system for maximum data throughput. Additional front IO, supporting up to 4x100 … Read More → "Alpha Data Announces the Release of its Industry Leading FPGA Accelerator Board for 100G/25G Network Processing at SC15"

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