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Leti Reports FinFET Feasibility and Circuit Design for Better Area, Speed and Power Trade-offs with CoolCube Technology

July 13, 2015

GRENOBLE, France – July 13, 2015 – CEA-Leti today announced its first results towards the demonstration of CoolCube’s feasibility in FinFET technology on its 300mm production line, and new CoolCubeTM circuit designs that improve the trade off between area, speed and power.

Key process steps developed on 300mm wafers show progress in closing the gap between the demonstration of a single device and taking the technology to fabrication.

CoolCubeTM is Leti’s sequential integration technology that enables the stacking of active layers of transistors in the third dimension. Under development for eight … Read More → "Leti Reports FinFET Feasibility and Circuit Design for Better Area, Speed and Power Trade-offs with CoolCube Technology"

Keysight Technologies’ EDA Simulation Tools Seminar Details Solutions for Solving Signal/Power Integrity Challenges

July 13, 2015

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This free seminar will discuss the new features included in Keysight’s EEsof EDA simulation tools and how the software helps engineers, focused on high-speed digital electronics, solve their toughest design challenges. The seminar will look at all stages of the pre-layout, post-layout and measurement design flow.

Tools featured in the seminar include: ADS, ADS Controlled Impedance Line Designer (CILD), SI S-Parameter analysis tools, and the ADS PCIe and USB Test Benches used with Keysight real-time oscilloscope … Read More → "Keysight Technologies’ EDA Simulation Tools Seminar Details Solutions for Solving Signal/Power Integrity Challenges"

Renesas Electronics and Audi Agree on Strategic Partnership for Audi’s Progressive SemiConductor Program

July 13, 2015

Düsseldorf, July 13, 2015 – Renesas Electronics, the world’s leading provider of microcontrollers and highly-advanced automotive semiconductor solutions, today announced that Renesas and Audi have established a strategic relationship as part of the Audi Progressive SemiConductor Program (PSCP) to accelerate automotive innovation. This strategic relationship covers traditional automotive control areas such as powertrain, chassis, body and safety; driver infotainment and driver assistance systems; and newer application areas including automated drive, connected car and the electrical vehicle.

“Renesas Electronics is a … Read More → "Renesas Electronics and Audi Agree on Strategic Partnership for Audi’s Progressive SemiConductor Program"

Two New Probe Adapters Support Third-Party Probe and Current Sensor Use with Teledyne LeCroy Oscilloscopes

July 10, 2015

Chestnut Ridge, NY, July 9, 2015 –Teledyne LeCroy today introduces two new products that provide simple and easy interface of third-party probes and current measurement devices to Teledyne LeCroy oscilloscopes. The first — the TPA10 TekProbe® Probe Adapter — adapts a wide variety of Tektronix® voltage and current probes and the second — the CA10 Current Sensor Adapter — adapts a wide variety of third-party current measurement devices. Both adapters attach to the Teledyne LeCroy ProBus probe interface, a standard probe interface for 20+ years that is present on the vast majority of … Read More → "Two New Probe Adapters Support Third-Party Probe and Current Sensor Use with Teledyne LeCroy Oscilloscopes"

Mouser Electronics Adds Home and Factory Automation to Its Industrial Applications Site

July 10, 2015

July 9, 2015 – Mouser Electronics, Inc. has announced a new update to its Industrial Applications Site by featuring new resources devoted to the popular topic of home and factory automation. This exciting addition to the applications site provides electronic design engineers with information, resources, and technologies related to the latest advances in home and factory automation, including the newest components available from Mouser for building leading-edge automation systems. The timely site update coincides with the recent launch of Mouser’s latest Empowering Innovation Together™ Series with Grant Imahara on Factory and Home Automation.

AutomationThe new updates to the Industrial … Read More → "Mouser Electronics Adds Home and Factory Automation to Its Industrial Applications Site"

Algo-Logic Systems Launches 40Gbps TCP Endpoint on ReFLEX XpressGX5-LP FPGA Board

July 10, 2015

Santa Clara and Paris, July 10, 2015 – Algo-Logic Systems, a recognized leader in providing hardware-accelerated, deterministic, ultra-low-latency products, systems and solutions for accelerated finance, datacenter acceleration, and embedded system industries, today announced availability of their new 5th Generation 40G TCP Endpoint running on ReFLEX’s XpressGX5-LP platform.  The IP-Core enables FPGA-implemented logic to directly communicate over 40 Gigabit Ethernet networks with remote hardware or software devices and includes easy to use hardware application programming interface that supports multiple real-world accelerated datacenter use cases.

Their network-tested 40G TCP Endpoint delivers ultra-low-latency of 96.0 nanoseconds at full duplex rates of 80 Gbps.  This 40 … Read More → "Algo-Logic Systems Launches 40Gbps TCP Endpoint on ReFLEX XpressGX5-LP FPGA Board"

Bidirectional Switches from Diodes Incorporated Protect 1-Cell and 2-Cell Lithium Batteries During Charging

July 9, 2015

Plano, Texas – July 9th, 2015 – The DMN2014LHAB and DMN2011UFX dual N-channel enhancement mode MOSFETs introduced by Diodes Incorporated provide a compact, bi-directional low-loss switch for battery-charging circuits. End-markets include chargers for portable devices such as smartphones, tablets, cameras and media players, which use 1-cell and 2-cell lithium batteries.

The DMN2014LHAB and DMN2011UFX are configured as dual common-drain MOSFETs and, when switched on, these devices allow bi-directional current flow for charging or operational use. When switched off they protect the … Read More → "Bidirectional Switches from Diodes Incorporated Protect 1-Cell and 2-Cell Lithium Batteries During Charging"

Keysight Technologies Introduces World’s Smallest BGA Interposer Solution for Probing DDR4 x16 Designs with a Logic Analyzer Solution Designed to Help Engineers with Tight Space Restrictions

July 9, 2015

SANTA ROSA, Calif., July 7, 2015 – Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS) today introduced a BGA (ball grid array) interposer solution for testing DDR4 x16 DRAM (dynamic random access memory) designs with a logic analyzer. Using the Keysight W4636A DDR4 x16 BGA interposer solution, engineers can quickly and accurately capture address and command signals, and a subset of data signals, for debugging designs and performing functional validation measurements for data rates up to 2,400 Mb/s.

The Keysight W4636A BGA interposer is the world’s smallest DDR4 … Read More → "Keysight Technologies Introduces World’s Smallest BGA Interposer Solution for Probing DDR4 x16 Designs with a Logic Analyzer Solution Designed to Help Engineers with Tight Space Restrictions"

Pasternack Introduces New Portfolio of Millimeter Wave Directional Waveguide Couplers

July 9, 2015

Irvine, CA – Pasternack, a leading manufacturer and supplier of RF, microwave and millimeter wave products, unveils a brand new family of instrumentation grade directional waveguide couplers boasting accurate performance up to 110 GHz. These ultra-high frequency waveguide couplers are commonly used for signal sampling and other general purpose applications in wireless transmit/receive systems, test benches, satellite communications, radar systems, point-to-point backhaul and telecom.

In this latest release of waveguide directional couplers from Pasternack are 28 unique models spanning a frequency range of 18 GHz to 110 GHz in seven popular frequency bands including K, Ka, Q, U, … Read More → "Pasternack Introduces New Portfolio of Millimeter Wave Directional Waveguide Couplers"

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