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Mentor Graphics Veloce VirtuaLAB Adds Next-Generation Protocols for Leading-edge Networking Designs

October 19, 2015

WILSONVILLE, Ore., Oct. 19, 2015  – Mentor Graphics Corp. (Nasdaq: MENT), today announced the Veloce® VirtuaLAB Ethernet environment with support for  25G, 50G and 100G Ethernet. This support enables highly efficient, emulation-based verification for the massive Ethernet-based designs being created today.  

The huge surge in demand for connectivity has had a profound effect on the size of switch and router designs, making them among the largest IC designs developed today. The sheer size of the designs, the pressure for early release, and the need to verify all paths are creating a methodology shift that moves verification from … Read More → "Mentor Graphics Veloce VirtuaLAB Adds Next-Generation Protocols for Leading-edge Networking Designs"

congatec introduces new Thin Mini-ITX motherboards with Intel® Pentium® and Celeron® processors

October 15, 2015

San Diego, CA, October 15, 2015 :   congatec Inc., a leading technology company for embedded computer modules, single board computers (SBCs) and embedded design and manufacturing (EDM) services, is extending its industrial-grade Thin Mini-ITX motherboard portfolio to include graphics-rich conga-IA4 boards with 14 nm Intel® Pentium® and Celeron® processors (codenamed Braswell) and full Windows 10 support. Compared to their predecessors, the new Thin Mini-ITX boards offer increased computing and graphics performance as well as support for up to three 4k displays. Despite the distinct performance gain, the power requirement has been lowered to 3 watt SDP (Scenario Design Power), which enables energy-saving, fanless system designs. … Read More → "congatec introduces new Thin Mini-ITX motherboards with Intel® Pentium® and Celeron® processors"

Green Hills Software Offers New Industrial Solutions Based on New TI Processors

October 15, 2015

SANTA BARBARA, CA — October 15, 2015 — Green Hills Software, the largest independent software vendor for the Internet of Things (IoT), today announced early support of its industry-leading industrial safety and security products featuring the safety-certified INTEGRITY® real-time operating system (RTOS) for the new Sitara™ AM57x family of processors from Texas Instruments. The Green Hills product and services portfolio also includes software development tools, cryptographic security products and safety services that when combined, enable device manufacturers to create and deploy secure and safe products for industrial control, factory communication, and smart grid technologies.

As today’s … Read More → "Green Hills Software Offers New Industrial Solutions Based on New TI Processors"

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

October 15, 2015

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

October 15, 2015

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

October 15, 2015

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

October 15, 2015

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

October 14, 2015

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 SmartFusion™2 system-on-chip (SoC) field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and IGLOO™2 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

October 14, 2015

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

October 14, 2015

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"

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