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Ayla’s Agile Mobile Application Platform (AMAP) Launched to Accelerate Mobile Control of Connected Devices

IoT WORLD CONFERENCE, SAN FRANCSICO, May 12, 2015 – Ayla Networks, whose agile Internet of Things (IoT) platform enables manufacturers to create secure connected products easily and make better product decisions as a result of being connected, today announced the Agile Mobile Application Platform (AMAP). Manufacturers of connected products can license the Agile Mobile Application Platform to create mobile apps to control their products, getting to market four to six times faster than is possible with alternative approaches.

Designed for IoT solutions using the Ayla cloud, AMAP provides the 85 percent of coding and development work common to any high-performing, reliable … Read More → "Ayla’s Agile Mobile Application Platform (AMAP) Launched to Accelerate Mobile Control of Connected Devices"

Artila Release RIO-2018 Web enabled Thermocouple Input module

Taipei, Taiwan – June 2015 — Artila Electronics, the leading designer and manufacturer of embedded device networking and computing, is proud to release RIO-2018, the new generation of web enabled thermocouple input module. RIO-2018 is powered by ARM Cortex M3 and FreeRTOS operating system and features three thermocouple input channels, one 10/100Mbps Ethernet port, two isolated digital input channels and one relay output .

RIO-2018 is equipped with MAXIM MAX31855 cold junction compensation thermocouple converter and an industrial grade OMEGA connector is applied to ensure a seamless signal connection. The converter resolves temperature to 0.25°C allows readings as high as +1800°C … Read More → "Artila Release RIO-2018 Web enabled Thermocouple Input module"

Diodes Incorporated’s 1.9W Class-D Audio Amplifier Delivers High SPL and Extends Battery Life

Plano, Texas – May 14th, 2015 – Aimed at smartphones operating from a single-cell lithium-ion battery, the PAM8905 from Diodes Incorporated is a 1.9W class-D audio amplifier designed for audio systems that need to deliver a high sound pressure level (SPL) output from a low supply voltage. It achieves this with a built-in boost converter that generates the voltage rail for the output stage while using a battery-tracking automatic gain control (AGC) to adjust the gain and limit battery current when the battery voltage is low, thus prolonging battery … Read More → "Diodes Incorporated’s 1.9W Class-D Audio Amplifier Delivers High SPL and Extends Battery Life"

Texas Instruments announces DesignDRIVE, a new evaluation platform to explore numerous industrial drive subsystems and motor control topologies

HOUSTON (May 13, 2015) – Texas Instruments (TI) (NASDAQ: TXN) today announced DesignDRIVE — a single hardware and software platform that makes it easier for engineers to develop and evaluate solutions for many industrial drive and servo topologies. The DesignDRIVEkit and example software offer an easy path to begin exploring a wide variety of motor types, sensing technologies, encoder standards and communications networks, as well as easy expansion to develop with real-time Ethernet communications and functional safety topologies, enabling more comprehensive, integrated system solutions. Based on the real-time control … Read More → "Texas Instruments announces DesignDRIVE, a new evaluation platform to explore numerous industrial drive subsystems and motor control topologies"

Synopsys and Broadcom Expand Collaboration to Deploy ARC Processors in Multimedia and Networking Solutions

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 14, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq:SNPS), today announced that Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM) extended its license agreement providing access to Synopsys’ DesignWare® ARC® Processors for an expanded range of advanced multimedia and networking system-on-chip (SoC) designs. Broadcom standardized on ARC processors to deliver advanced video compression capabilities in its SoCs for high-volume consumer devices. Deploying optimized video compression technology is increasingly important to conserve network bandwidth as global service … Read More → "Synopsys and Broadcom Expand Collaboration to Deploy ARC Processors in Multimedia and Networking Solutions"

Zuken Empowers Collaboration for Product-centric Design with CR-8000 Advanced PCB Solutions

12 May 2015 – Munich, Germany and Westford, MA, USA – Zuken continues to make team collaboration even more straightforward with powerful functionality available in the latest version of its CR-8000 single and multi-board design solution. Zuken’s CR-8000 is the industry’s only next-generation, product-centric design solution for creating complex product designs.

Kazuhiro Kariya, Zuken Inc. Chief Technology Officer, said: “We launched CR-8000 with a vision that design processes are moving from a traditional PCB-centric approach … Read More → "Zuken Empowers Collaboration for Product-centric Design with CR-8000 Advanced PCB Solutions"

Vector Software Announces Advanced Integration with Lauterbach’s TRACE32® powerful suite of development tools

Providence, RI – 5/12/2015 – Vector Software, the world’s leading provider of innovative software solutions for robust embedded software quality, announced today an advanced integration with the Lauterbach TRACE32 product. The leading Test Automation Platform, VectorCAST, now enables development, test, and certification teams, to set and continuously collect, practically unlimited volumes of test data from RAM constrained embedded systems.

This latest integration benefits customers in Aerospace, Defense, Automotive, Medical … Read More → "Vector Software Announces Advanced Integration with Lauterbach’s TRACE32® powerful suite of development tools"

Sonics Introduces Semiconductor IP Industry’s First Power Management Solution Combining Fine-Grain Partitioning and Autonomous Control

Milpitas, Calif. – May 12, 2015 – Sonics, Inc., the world’s foremost supplier of on-chip network (NoC) technologies and services, today introduced the ICE-Grain (Instant Control of Energy) Power Architecture for system-on-chip (SoC) design teams that require an automated power management solution with “worry-free implementation” at the highest level of abstraction. Sonics’ ICE-Grain Power Architecture is the semiconductor IP industry’s first and only complete power management sub-system comprised of configurable hardware IP blocks, embedded … Read More → "Sonics Introduces Semiconductor IP Industry’s First Power Management Solution Combining Fine-Grain Partitioning and Autonomous Control"

UMC Certifies ANSYS Power Integrity and Electromigration Solutions for 28 AND 40nm Technologies

PITTSBURGH – May 12, 2015 – ANSYS (NASDAQ: ANSS) simulation tools, which deliver needed accuracy and reduced turnaround time, while ensuring power integrity and electromigration (EM) reliability, have been certified by UMC 28 and 40-nanometer (nm) technologies.

As the world’s appetite for smart products continues to grow, 28-nanometer process technology is becoming the workhorse for most of the mobile, computing and Internet of Things applications, while 40-nanometer is becoming the lead technology for such automotive applications as microcontrollers. UMC, a leading … Read More → "UMC Certifies ANSYS Power Integrity and Electromigration Solutions for 28 AND 40nm Technologies"

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