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Fairview Microwave Introduces New RF Power Combiners Operating Up to 6 GHz

Allen, TX – Fairview Microwave Inc., a supplier of on-demand microwave and RF components, introduces a new line of broadband RF power combiners. These new combiners are commonly deployed in systems using components such as power amplifiers, antenna feeds, attenuators and switches, often for combining individual power amplifiers together into a large power block in an amplifier system.

RF power combiners are devices that combine RF input signals into a common output, while maintaining the characteristic impedance of the inputs, in this case, 50 Ohms. As systems become more complex, choosing how best to combine two … Read More → "Fairview Microwave Introduces New RF Power Combiners Operating Up to 6 GHz"

RS Components extends range of credit-card-size mini-PLCs for new industrial applications

OXFORD, UK, 15 October, 2015 – RS Components (RS), the trading brand of Electrocomponents plc (LSE:ECM), the global distributor for engineers, has significantly extended its range of credit-card-size mini-PLCs (Programmable Logic Controllers) from Barth Elektronik with six new models and two starter kits.

Targeting machine and panel builders and opening up the possibilities for controlling new types of industrial applications, the Barth mini-PLCs can be battery powered and allow engineers to control small applications such as stand-alone machines or mobile applications. In addition, the PLCs can be directly integrated into machines, bringing the advantage of reduced … Read More → "RS Components extends range of credit-card-size mini-PLCs for new industrial applications"

u-blox connects the new smart IoT gateway of Liverock Technologies

Thalwil, Switzerland and Tokyo, Japan – October 15, 2015 – Liverock Technologies Inc., a Japanese company specializing in Internet of Things solutions for the industrial market, has announced the launch of a smart IoT gateway, developed in collaboration with u-blox, a global leader in wireless and positioning modules and chips. Coral Edge is ideally suited for industrial and IoT/M2M applications such as remote monitoring of parking lots and solar power generators.

“We needed to offer a reliable and stable IoT/M2M solution to our customers. Rugged industrial or automotive environments and harsh outdoor conditions require … Read More → "u-blox connects the new smart IoT gateway of Liverock Technologies"

Mentor Automotive announces Safety Certifiable Digital Instrument Cluster Solution

Electronics In Vehicles Congress, Baden-Baden, Germany, October 14, 2015 – Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced the availability of the Mentor® Automotive Safety Certifiable Digital Instrument Cluster solution enabling safety-critical driver information to be displayed simultaneously with rich 3D graphics on a single instrument cluster display.  The software architecture is implemented on a multi-core and even on single-core System-on-Chip, and features very fast boot time. This new solution addresses a key problem for the automotive OEMs: How to migrate safety-critical driver information to full-featured, graphically-rich digital instrument clusters and comply with safety standards including ISO 26262, without pushing up hardware or … Read More → "Mentor Automotive announces Safety Certifiable Digital Instrument Cluster Solution"

Microsemi and Athena Announce FPGA Cores with Strong DPA Countermeasures for Cryptography Users

ALISO VIEJO, Calif., Oct. 13, 2015 – Microsemi Corporation (MSCC), a leading provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance, and The Athena Group, Inc. (Athena), a leading provider of security, cryptography, anti-tamper and signal processing intellectual property (IP) cores, today announced a comprehensive portfolio of IP cores with state-of-the-art side channel analysis (SCA) and differential power analysis (DPA) countermeasures. The new portfolio, based on Athena’s TeraFire® cryptographic microprocessor family, is designed for users of Microsemi’s award-winning SmartFusion2 system-on-chip (SoC) field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and IGLOO2 FPGAs.

“DPA … Read More → "Microsemi and Athena Announce FPGA Cores with Strong DPA Countermeasures for Cryptography Users"

Keysight Technologies Expands its AXIe Wideband Digital Receivers’ On-Board, Real-Time, Signal Processing Capability

SANTA ROSA, Calif., Oct. 14, 2015 – Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS) today introduced an enhanced signal processing configuration for its M9703B 12-bit AXIe high-speed digitizer/wideband digital receiver. System architects and engineers can use this new bundle option, which is ideal for OEM and aerospace & defense applications, as a component of a larger system requiring extensive FPGA capabilities and a high number of customizable real-time IO interfaces. 

The M9703B-B01 bundle comes pre-configured with the following available options:

Avnet Opens Registration in the Americas for Introduction to Vivado Design Suite SpeedWay Design Workshop Series

PHOENIX—October 14, 2015—Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), a leading global technology distributor, today announced that registration is now open in the Americas for a series of SpeedWay Design Workshops™ featuring Avnet’s newly released ARTY Xilinx® Artix®-7 35T FPGA Evaluation Kit. 

Technical experts from Avnet will lead the full-day “Introduction to Vivado® Design Suite” SpeedWay Design Workshops, providing attendees with hands-on product experience that will help them accelerate designs with Xilinx hardware description language (HDL). Utilizing Xilinx Artix-7 hardware, attendees will be introduced to techniques for entering, building and … Read More → "Avnet Opens Registration in the Americas for Introduction to Vivado Design Suite SpeedWay Design Workshop Series"

Exostiv Labs announces the availability of its ‘EXOSTIV’ solution for FPGA debug

Exostiv Labs (formerly ‘Yugo Systems’) (www.exostivlabs.com) has launched ‘EXOSTIV’, the company’s flagship solution that provides a breakthrough visibility on FPGA during debug and verification in the lab.

During the first quarters of 2015, EXOSTIV was demonstrated to key players of the industry using FPGA as a target technology or as a prototyping solution for their products.

‘This has been an exciting year for us. We have met FPGA design teams worldwide.’ Frederic Leens, CEO of Exostiv Labs says. ‘It is extremely rewarding to see the … Read More → "Exostiv Labs announces the availability of its ‘EXOSTIV’ solution for FPGA debug"

Atmel Announces SOMNIUM’s DRT Software Tools Available in Atmel Studio 7

San Jose, CA, October 13, 2015Atmel® Corporation and SOMNIUM® Technologies today announced the availability of SOMNIUM® DRT as an extension to the recently launched Atmel® Studio 7—a fully integrated development environment (IDE) leveraging the Microsoft Visual Studio Shell.

The SOMNIUM®DRT Atmel Studio Extension is the only product that offers improved code generation while maintaining full compatibility with industry-standard GNU tools that are widely used by Atmel customers. DRT</ … Read More → "Atmel Announces SOMNIUM’s DRT Software Tools Available in Atmel Studio 7"

Renesas Electronics Releases First Products for Renesas Synergy™ Embedded Hardware/Software Platform

Düsseldorf, October 13, 2015 – Renesas Electronics, a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced availability of the first products in the company’s new Renesas Synergy™ Platform, a qualified, easy-to-use platform designed to accelerate time to market, reduce total cost of ownership and remove many of the obstacles engineers face when designing Internet of Things (IoT) and other embedded applications. The platform’s first products include the S7G2 and S3A7 microcontroller (MCU) groups, which target connected human machine interface (HMI) and power-efficient control applications used in industrial, healthcare, home appliance and metering products. Development kits featuring the … Read More → "Renesas Electronics Releases First Products for Renesas Synergy™ Embedded Hardware/Software Platform"

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