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Altera Showcases Its Industry-leading SoC Solutions at Embedded World

January 28, 2015

Nurnberg, Germany, Embedded World 2015, January 28, 2015 — Altera Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR) will showcase how it is further extending its leadership position in SoC solutions at Embedded World 2015. Demonstrations show how Altera’s industry-leading SoCs are enabling advanced embedded systems featured in automotive and industrial applications. Today, Altera offers the most comprehensive portfolio of SoC FPGAs based on a world-class architecture. At Embedded World 2015, Altera will display its second generation SoC family, Arria 10 SoCs, the only 20nm SoC FPGA family, which provide embedded developers access to a high-performance applications-class … Read More → "Altera Showcases Its Industry-leading SoC Solutions at Embedded World"

Altium and Valydate Announce Strategic Partnership with New Design Analysis and Verification Technology

January 28, 2015

San Diego, CA – January 28, 2015 – Altium Limited <http://www.altium.com> , a global leader in Electronic Design Automation and Valydate Inc. <http://www.valydate.com/> , the leader in Schematic, Signal and Power Integrity analysis, today announced a strategic partnership aimed at easing the time-consuming visual inspection and debugging process of electronic schematics with ValydateVERA, a powerful design analysis and verification tool, which will integrate seamlessly with Altium Designer. This new technology will be unveiled  … Read More → "Altium and Valydate Announce Strategic Partnership with New Design Analysis and Verification Technology"

Espressif Systems Internet of Things WiFi Chips Employ Cadence Tensilica Xtensa Low-Power Processor for Control and DSP

January 28, 2015

SAN JOSE, Calif., January 28, 2015 ? Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) today announced that Espressif Systems has utilized the Cadence® Tensilica® Xtensa® processor in its ESP8089 and ESP8266 WiFi chips that are optimized for Internet of Things (IoT) applications. The Xtensa processor, customized by Espressif to achieve the best power, performance and area results, is used both as a digital signal processor and control processor with a real-time operating system (RTOS) that runs Espressif’s WiFi and TCP/IP stacks and other application software.

For more information on the Xtensa processor, visit www.cadence.com/xtensa/espressif.

< … Read More → "Espressif Systems Internet of Things WiFi Chips Employ Cadence Tensilica Xtensa Low-Power Processor for Control and DSP"

HUBER+SUHNER Unveils High Speed 50 GHz/50 Gbps Digital Testing Solution at DesignCon Santa Clara

January 27, 2015

Global connectivity supplier HUBER+SUHNER will today unveil its new high speed digital testing solutions at DesignCon 2015. The company has chosen the Santa Clara event for the global launch of its MPX50 precision multicoax connector solution which combines the highest density, lowest loss and highest performance characteristics for cutting edge data rate testing in one testing solution.

Also on show for the first time at the company’s DesignCon booth #949 will be the SUCOFLEX 229 loss revolution for dynamic applications and the HUBER+SUHNER high signal fidelity testing solution, Minibend L/MMPX.

The products are part … Read More → "HUBER+SUHNER Unveils High Speed 50 GHz/50 Gbps Digital Testing Solution at DesignCon Santa Clara"

ANSYS Unveils Release 16.0

January 27, 2015

PITTSBURGH, Jan. 27, 2015 – From simulating the interactions between software and hardware that fuel the Internet of Things to better understanding the full spectrum of advanced structural materials, the newly released ANSYS® (NASDAQ: ANSS) 16.0 offers advanced functionality enabling engineers to rapidly innovate new products.

ANSYS 16.0 includes a variety of new functionality – including capabilities to verify electronics reliability and performance throughout the design process and complex electronics industry supply chains, which in turn helps to facilitate the Internet of Things

ANSYS 16.0 delivers major advancements across the company’s entire portfolio, including structures, fluids, electronics and systems engineering solutions – … Read More → "ANSYS Unveils Release 16.0"

Cadence Expands Sigrity 2015 Technology Portfolio with New Products, a Key Feature Update and Flexible Licensing Options

January 27, 2015
  • New Sigrity Parallel Computing 4-pack enables efficient product creation with 3X speedup in signoff-accurate PCB extraction
  • ? Updated power-aware system signal integrity (SI) feature now supports LPDDR4 analysis with full JEDEC compliance checking
  • ? Flexible licensing options available for small analysis teams with big analysis requirements

SAN JOSE, Calif., January 27, 2015?Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS), today announced an expanded Cadence® Sigrity? technology portfolio with the Sigrity Parallel Computing 4-pack and the Sigrity … Read More → "Cadence Expands Sigrity 2015 Technology Portfolio with New Products, a Key Feature Update and Flexible Licensing Options"

Renesas Electronics Unveils New Solution to Increase Productivity and Security for Industrial Internet of Things Applications

January 27, 2015

Düsseldorf, 27 January 2015 – Renesas Electronics, a premier provider of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced the availability of the RX71M Group as the new flagship product in the RX Family of 32-bit microcontrollers (MCUs). Developed for use in industrial equipment, the new series doubles the CPU operating frequency to 240 megahertz (MHz) from the 120 MHz of previous products and is available with up to 4 MB of on-chip flash memory.

Systems are more complex and larger in scale than previous versions while manufacturers are eager to adopt product development platforms … Read More → "Renesas Electronics Unveils New Solution to Increase Productivity and Security for Industrial Internet of Things Applications"

Keysight Technologies Announces 12-bit High-Speed Data Acquisition PCIe Card Available with Optical Coherence Tomography Technology

January 27, 2015

SANTA ROSA, Calif., Jan. 26, 2015 – Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS) today announced that the U5303A high-speed data acquisition 12-bit PCIe® card, in collaboration with YellowSys, a provider of IP processing firmware and software, is now available with an option dedicated to the optical coherence tomography (OCT) technology.

The Keysight data acquisition solution uses signal resampling which provides on-board … Read More → "Keysight Technologies Announces 12-bit High-Speed Data Acquisition PCIe Card Available with Optical Coherence Tomography Technology"

HyperLynx Alliance Accelerates High-Speed Design-Ins and Verification

January 27, 2015

DESIGN CON 2015 – SANTA CLARA, Calif., January 27, 2015

HyperLynx Alliance Program Highlights

•       HyperLynx® Alliance formed by Mentor Graphics and key industry partners provides free access to virtual reference designs plus tools, design data and identified best-practice methodologies for difficult SerDes and DDR design and verification challenges
•       Founding partners include Altera, PMC-Sierra, Samtec, Inc. and eASIC
•       New high-speed protocols are increasingly difficult to design and verify at multi-gigabit speeds The Alliance cloud platform provides quick access to … Read More → "HyperLynx Alliance Accelerates High-Speed Design-Ins and Verification"

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