PHOENIX—April 20, 2015—Avnet Electronics Marketing, an operating group of Avnet, Inc</ … Read More → "Avnet Electronics Marketing Releases New Xilinx Kintex UltraScale FPGA DSP Development Kit"
Thalwil, Switzerland – April 17, 2015 – u-blox, a global leader in wireless and positioning modules and chips, announces the CAM-M8C, a small, low profile GNSS positioning module with an integrated wideband chip antenna for reception across the entire L1 band. The module offers simultaneous GNSS operation for GPS/GLONASS, GPS/BeiDou, or GLONASS/BeiDou to deliver accurate, jamming-resistant and reliable positioning anywhere in the world. Featuring industry-leading sensitivity, the CAM-M8C integrates a u-blox M8 satellite receiver, crystal oscillator, SAW filter and low-noise amplifier. It also has an … Read More → "u-blox tiny surface-mount GNSS global positioning module supports all satellites and concurrent operation"
MENLO PARK, California– April 17, 2015 – TE Connectivity (TE), a world leader in connectivity, introduces its FASTON terminal solution made with an F-spring contact that offers improved retention, insertion, and contact-stability benefits compared with other solutions on the market. The terminal’s ergonomic features can help manufacturers provide safe and efficient assembly, which in turn results in end-product reliability and customer satisfaction. The F-spring contact FASTON terminal is suitable for large and small appliances, power tools, electric motors, air conditioning, lighting, automotive, high-temperature designs and many other applications that require long-life … Read More → "TE Connectivity’s F-Spring Contact FASTON Terminal Combines Low Insertion Force With High Performance"
Wilmington, MA, — April 16, 2015 — Security Innovation’s Aerolink™ software has been selected by INTEGRITY Security Services (ISS), a Green Hills Software company, for Vehicle to Everything (V2X) communications security. Aerolink will be incorporated into the ISS Automotive Security Development Toolkits.
Aerolink will be the default message security implementation when organizations plan to leverage the superior security and functionality of INTEGRITY Security Services for their V2X application. In addition, Security Innovation has incorporated the ISS native FIPS 140-2 compliant, embedded Cryptographic Library into Aerolink.
As a leading provider of software … Read More → "INTEGRITY Security Services (ISS) Chooses Security Innovation as the Strategic Security Partner for “Connected Cars”"
CHANDLER, Ariz., April 16, 2015 [NASDAQ: MCHP] — Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash-IP solutions, today announced the LAN9252 stand-alone EtherCAT® slave controller with two 10/100 PHYs. This highly integrated device’s dual 10/100 Ethernet transceivers support both fiber and copper, along with cable diagnostics capabilities. The LAN9252 supports traditional Host Bus and SPI/SQI™ communication, along with standalone digital I/O interfaces, providing system designers the flexibility to select from a wide range of microcontrollers when implementing the real-time EtherCAT communications standard. Additionally, … Read More → "Microchip Introduces EtherCAT® Slave Controller With Integrated PHYs for Industrial Ethernet and Internet of Things Applications"
Düsseldorf, April 16, 2015 – Renesas Electronics, a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced the availability of the CC-RL C compiler (Note 1), a development environment for the RL78 Family 16-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) widely used in the home appliances, industrial, and automotive systems.
Recently, increased diversity and performance of functions provided by systems that include motors, such as home appliances or industrial equipment, have become strongly desired. This has resulted in demand for increased processing speed in the MCUs used. At the same time, since even longer operating times … Read More → "Renesas Electronics Introduces Development Environment that Increases the Performance of Systems Based on RL78 Family of Microcontrollers"
PHOENIX—April 14, 2015—Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), a … Read More → "Avnet Announces Winners of 10th Annual Avnet Tech Games"
Wokingham, UK – 14th April 2015. EnSilica, a leading independent provider of semiconductor IP and services, has added to its family of eSi-RISC processor cores with the launch of the eSi-3260 targeted at IoT sensing nodes and always-on applications. The eSi-3260 combines advanced DSP functionality with the characteristic eSi-RISC small footprint and extremely low power consumption.
The inclusion of a 64-bit precision, fully-pipelined MAC unit makes the eSi-3260 ideal for audio, high-accuracy sensor hub, motion control and touch screen applications. In addition to 32-bit data, the MAC unit supports dual 16-bit SIMD (single instruction multiple data) multiply … Read More → "EnSilica launches eSi-3260 processor core with comprehensive SIMD DSP extensions targeting IoT sensing nodes and always-on applications"
SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 14, 2015 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: CY) today introduced a Bluetooth® Smart module that provides an end-to-end Bluetooth Low Energy solution. The new, small-form-factor EZ-BLE™ PRoC™ module—based on Cypress’s PRoC BLE Programmable Radio-on-Chip solution—includes Bluetooth 4.1 qualification and worldwide … Read More → "Cypress Enables Fast and Easy Bluetooth Low Energy Connectivity With Fully-Certified, Small-Form-Factor Bluetooth Smart Module"
Munich and Hannover, Germany – April 14, 2015 – On occasion of the Hannover Messe, Infineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX / OTCQX: IFNNY) today announced its new XMC4800 series of 32-bit microcontrollers with on-chip EtherCAT® (Ethernet for Control Automation Technology) node. With its outstanding real-time capability the XMC4800 series will drive networked industrial automation and Industry 4.0 applications.
Infineon is the first semiconductor company to offer … Read More → "Infineon Drives Advancement of Networked Industrial Automation: New XMC4800 Microcontrollers with EtherCAT® Technology Support Industry 4.0"
