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Bluetooth® Innovation Series is ‘Can’t Miss’ Training on Wireless Connectivity for the Internet of Things

Kirkland, Washington – April 22, 2014 – The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) is proud to announce the Bluetooth Innovation Series, providing developers interested in wireless connectivity with in-depth knowledge on how to implement Bluetooth hardware and software in a concise one-day format. Upcoming dates and locations include May 15 in San Jose, CA; June 4 in Beijing, China; and June 19 in London, UK. Registration for all three events is currently open at Bluetooth.org.

Bluetooth Smart technology is fuelling the explosive … Read More → "Bluetooth® Innovation Series is ‘Can’t Miss’ Training on Wireless Connectivity for the Internet of Things"

VESA® and MIPI® Alliance Announce the Adoption of VESA?s New Display Stream Compression Standard

NEWARK, CA (April 22, 2014) ?The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA®), working in liaison with the MIPI® Alliance, announce the finalization and availability of the Display Stream Compression (DSC) Standard, version 1.0. 

VESA developed the DSC standard as an industry-wide compression standard for video interfaces, offering visually lossless performance and low latency. DSC has been adopted into VESA?s embedded DisplayPort (eDP?) v1.4 and into MIPI Display Serial Interface (DSI) Specification v1.2, which are used for embedded display interfaces within mobile systems, including smartphones, tablets and laptops. It is anticipated that the DSC … Read More → "VESA® and MIPI® Alliance Announce the Adoption of VESA?s New Display Stream Compression Standard"

Hillcrest Labs Selected by Lenovo to Bring Motion, Gesture and Cursor Control to Smart TVs

Rockville, MD — April 22, 2014 — Hillcrest Labs announced today that Lenovo’s new line of Smart TVs is using Hillcrest’s patented Freespace(R) in-air pointing and motion control software. Freespace enables point-and-click, gesture and motion control of Smart TVs through simple in-air movements of a remote control. Lenovo’s Freespace-enabled Smart TVs include the new S9 Smart TV that was unveiled on April 16 for sale across China.

Freespace will form the foundation of Lenovo’s Smart TV user experience and enable improved content … Read More → "Hillcrest Labs Selected by Lenovo to Bring Motion, Gesture and Cursor Control to Smart TVs"

High Gain Amplifiers for Commercial and Military Radar Released by Pasternack

April 22, 2014 – Irvine, CA – Pasternack Enterprises, Inc., an industry leading manufacturer and supplier of RF, microwave and millimeter wave products, releases a new portfolio of L and S band high gain amplifiers covering 1.2 – 1.4 GHz and 3.1 – 3.5 GHz specifically used for commercial and military radar applications as well as observation satellites and communications systems.

Pasternack’s new high gain amplifier modules are optimized for 1.2 – 1.4 GHz and 3.1 – 3.5 GHz radar applications, packaged in hermetically-sealed metal enclosures and exhibit outstanding performance in high gain, gain flatness, high output power and … Read More → "High Gain Amplifiers for Commercial and Military Radar Released by Pasternack"

Cadence to Expand Verification Solution with Acquisition of Jasper Design Automation

  • Increasing verification complexity is driving the need for multiple complementary verification approaches including formal analysis
  • Jasper is a leader in the fast-growing formal analysis sector and targets a broad range of complex verification challenges
  • The combination will expand differentiation of the industry’s strongest and broadest system verification offering

San Jose, CA., April 21, 2014 – Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CDNS), a leader in global electronic design innovation, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Jasper Design Automation, Inc., a leading provider of formal analysis solutions, for … Read More → "Cadence to Expand Verification Solution with Acquisition of Jasper Design Automation"

New ATCA System Management Software from Artesyn Embedded Technologies Could Accelerate Integration of Complex Systems by up to 40 Percent

Tempe, Ariz. [22 April, 2014] —Artesyn Embedded Technologies, formerly Emerson Network Power’s Embedded Computing & Power business, today announced a powerful new software solution for its ATCA® systems, which Artesyn believes could save up to 40 percent of customers’ time-to-market.

System Services Framework (SSF) is a complete system management suite for Artesyn ATCA systems, allowing users or applications to configure and monitor the hardware and software elements of a single … Read More → "New ATCA System Management Software from Artesyn Embedded Technologies Could Accelerate Integration of Complex Systems by up to 40 Percent"

Altera Changes the Game for Floating Point DSP in FPGAs

San Jose, Calif., April 22, 2014– Altera Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR) today changed the game as it relates to floating-point DSP performance in an FPGA. Altera is the first programmable logic company to integrate hardened IEEE 754-compliant, floating-point operators in an FPGA, delivering unparalleled levels of DSP performance, designer productivity and logic efficiency. The hardened floating point DSP blocks are integrated in Altera’s 20 nm Arria 10 FPGAs and SoCs – currently shipping – as well as 14 nm Stratix 10 FPGAs and SoCs. Integrated hardened floating-point DSP blocks, combined with an advanced high-level tool flow, enable customers to use Altera’s FPGAs and SoCs to address … Read More → "Altera Changes the Game for Floating Point DSP in FPGAs"

Xilinx and Open-Silicon Announce Hybrid Memory Cube Controller IP for All Programmable FPGAs

Apr 21, 2014 – SAN JOSE, Calif.April 21, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) and Open-Silicon, Inc., both founding developer members of the Hybrid Memory Cube Consortium (HMCC), today announced Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) controller IP for Xilinx Virtex®-7 FPGAs. The high-performance nature of Virtex-7 FPGAs enables system developers to take advantage of the ultra-high memory bandwidth of the Hybrid Memory Cube and utilize the host-side IP to decrease time to market while providing over 1 Tb/s of serial bandwidth.

Neuropro SHOWCASES Next Generation eeg monitoring Products based on imec technology

London (UK) —Apr. 21, 2014— NeuroPro, a developer of innovative solutions for capture, analysis and visualization of brain signal data for medical and non-medical applications, today announced a novel electroencephalogram (EEG) headset, NeuroTrail, at the conference “Imagining the Future of Medicine” at London’s Royal Albert Hall. Developed in partnership with Belgian-based nanoelectronics research center imec and Swiss-based innovation house Creaholic, the headset integrates imec and Holst Centre’s cutting-edge technology in Body Area Networks (BANs) for highly accurate real-time wireless EEG monitoring with an original design developed … Read More → "Neuropro SHOWCASES Next Generation eeg monitoring Products based on imec technology"

Icon Labs Products Immune to the Heartbleed SSL Bug

West Des Moines, Iowa, April 21, 2014 – Icon Labs (www.iconlabs.com), a leading provider of embedded networking and security technology, today announced that its Iconfidant SSL product, a leading SSL solution for embedded devices, is not affected by the Heartbleed SSL bug.  Heartbleed is a serious vulnerability in OpenSSL, a popular version of SSL—the technology that security professionals rely on to protect the most critical data exposed on the Internet.  Icon Labs Iconfidant SSL is an SSL solution utilized in embedded devices that power many of the systems we use … Read More → "Icon Labs Products Immune to the Heartbleed SSL Bug"

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