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Murata 2 Watt DC-DC converter shrinks footprint by 50% of industry norm

Hoofddorp, Netherlands: Murata today announced the MTU2 series of ultra miniature surface mounted 2 W DC-DC converters from Murata Power Solutions. Believed to be the industry’s smallest 2W converter and measuring just 8.2 x 8.4 x 8.5 mm with a 0.69 cm2 footprint, it is 50% smaller than the current 1.67 cm2 industry standard. With a typical conversion efficiency of 85% across the full load range and a power density of 3.403 Watts/cm3, the MTU2 series is available with either a single or dual output voltage. Input voltages cover the popular nominal inputs from 3.3 to 24 VDC. Output voltage options include 5, 12, or 24 VDC. Dual output models … Read More → "Murata 2 Watt DC-DC converter shrinks footprint by 50% of industry norm"

Advantech Lifts Packet Processing Throughput to New Highs

March 18, 2014, Irvine, CA – Advantech today announced a pioneering high performance network application platform designed for maximum packet processing throughput using a unique method to balance network traffic from eight PCIe Gen 3 Network Mezzanine Cards (NMC) across four Intel® Xeon® processors. The FWA-6512 platform is fully compatible with the Intel® Xeon® processor E5-4600 v2 product family, a die-shrink of the microarchitecture built on Intel’s advanced 22nm Tri-gate manufacturing process. It offers the ideal performance, scalability, memory flexibility and network capacity for managing the most demanding packet processing workloads in a compact 2U form factor.

Innovative … Read More → "Advantech Lifts Packet Processing Throughput to New Highs"

STMicroelectronics Empowers Frog by Wyplay with Reference Hardware for Satellite Broadcast

LONDON, UK — March 19, 2014 — Wyplay, creator of software solutions for leading pay-TV operators, and STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, today announced the availability of a satellite broadcast-enabled reference implementation of the open-source Frog by Wyplay set-top-box middleware for ST’s range of system-on-chip processors based on ARM® architectures (Cannes, Liege2, Monaco, and Orly).

Frog is an initiative built around Wyplay’s software solutions, made available under a shared-source model for a growing community of companies across the entire digital-TV ecosystem which includes chipset vendors, device manufacturers, … Read More → "STMicroelectronics Empowers Frog by Wyplay with Reference Hardware for Satellite Broadcast"

EMA Offers Expanded Power IC Model Library for Cadence PSpice

Rochester, NY (March 18, 2014) – EMA Design Automation™ (ema-eda.com), a full-service provider of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) solutions, and AEi Systems, a world leader in power electronics modeling, analysis and design, today announced version 4.1 of the AEi Systems’ Power IC Model Library for the Cadence® PSpice® simulator with over 550 high fidelity and correlated simulation models for power electronic designs.  “A lot of our customers simulate power supplies and other types of high powered circuitry,” said Manny Marcano, president and CEO of EMA.  “This update to the power IC model … Read More → "EMA Offers Expanded Power IC Model Library for Cadence PSpice"

GainSpan Announces New Family of Application Development Kits based on GS2000 Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n Chip

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 19, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — GainSpan® Corporation, a leader in low-power Wi-Fi for the Internet of Things (IOT), today announced a new family of Application Development Kits (ADKs) built on its new GS2000 Wi-Fi/ZigBee chip. The new ADKs leverage the higher data rates and high speed serial interfaces such as SDIO offered by the GS2000 SOC. The new family will enable a whole slew of IOT applications including full … Read More → "GainSpan Announces New Family of Application Development Kits based on GS2000 Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n Chip"

Altium Unveils Automotive Safety Support Program for ISO 26262 Certification

Sydney, Australia – March 19, 2014 – <http://www.altium.com/> Altium Limited <http://www.altium.com/> , a global leader in Smart System Design Automation, 3D PCB design (Altium Designer <http://products.live.altium.com/> ) and embedded software development (TASKING <http://www.tasking.com/> ), announces the immediate availability of … Read More → "Altium Unveils Automotive Safety Support Program for ISO 26262 Certification"

Intersil Introduces Digital Power Modules That Speed Time to Market and Eliminate Need for Complex Power Circuit Design

MILPITAS, Calif., March 17, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Intersil Corporation (Nasdaq:ISIL), a leading provider of innovative power management and precision analog solutions, today announced the ISL8270M/71M family of digital power modules that dramatically reduce customer design complexity and accelerate time to market. Designed for 25/33 Amp applications, the ISL8270M/71M product family is based on Intersil’s fourth generation digital power controller, reflecting the company’s continued leadership and expertise in advanced digital power technology.

Experts estimate that for every dollar spent on data center hardware, another $0.66 is … Read More → "Intersil Introduces Digital Power Modules That Speed Time to Market and Eliminate Need for Complex Power Circuit Design"

Imagination and Unity Partner to Bring Imagination’s Breakthrough Ray Tracing Technology to Real Time, Interactive Games

SAN FRANCISCO, March 18, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — GAME DEVELOPERS CONFERENCE — Imagination Technologies (IMG.L) and Unity Technologies are broadening their partnership with a new multi-faceted agreement around Imagination’s groundbreaking PowerVR Ray Tracing technology and Unity’s industry leading game development engine that will bring photorealistic graphics to the mainstream gaming experience across a wide range of devices.

In an industry first, Unity has chosen Imagination’s real-time ray tracing … Read More → "Imagination and Unity Partner to Bring Imagination’s Breakthrough Ray Tracing Technology to Real Time, Interactive Games"

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