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New Super-Slim Rectifiers from STMicroelectronics Save Space, Weight, and Energy in Automotive and Outdoor Electronics

December 15, 2014

Geneva, December 15, 2014 – The extremely low profile and light weight of STMicroelectronics’ latest automotive-qualified high-voltage ultrafast rectifiers support space-efficient vehicle electronics by helping miniaturize electronic control modules, power converters, and motor drives.

The new rectifiers are packaged as SMBFlat devices that weigh only 50mg and, at 1mm-thick, are almost 60% thinner than the nearest competing rectifiers in standard 2.4mm-thick SMB packages. This helps designers create lighter and slimmer Electronic Control Units suitable for mounting in small spaces within the vehicle. The two-lead surface-mount SMBFlat package is footprint-compatible with standard SMB devices, which promotes ease of use in existing PC-board … Read More → "New Super-Slim Rectifiers from STMicroelectronics Save Space, Weight, and Energy in Automotive and Outdoor Electronics"

Altera Quartus II Software v14.1 Enables TFLOP Performance in Industry’s First FPGA with Hardened Floating Point DSP Blocks

December 15, 2014

San Jose, Calif., December 15, 2014 – Altera Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR) today released itsQuartus® II software v14.1 featuring expanded support for Arria® 10 FPGAs and SoCs, the FPGA industry’s only devices with hardened floating point DSP blocks and the industry’s only 20 nm SoC FPGAs that integrate ARM processors. Altera’s latest software release provides immediate support for the hardened floating point DSP blocks integrated in Arria 10 FPGAs and SoCs. … Read More → "Altera Quartus II Software v14.1 Enables TFLOP Performance in Industry’s First FPGA with Hardened Floating Point DSP Blocks"

ams expands family of power management ICs for Nvidia Tegra and other multi-core ARM processors

December 15, 2014

Unterpremstaetten, Austria (December , 2014), ams AG (SIX: AMS), a leading provider of high performance sensors and analog ICs, today added to its family of power management ICs (PMICs) for mobile multi-core ARM processors with the AS3722, which provides a complete power-control solution for Nvidia’s Tegra K1 mobile system-on-chip (SoC).

ams is also releasing today the AS3728, an 8A high-voltage power stage to complement the AS3722’s high-current DC-DC controllers. The AS3728 provides for a streamlined power architecture in embedded systems, since it can supply the high current required by processor cores directly from a 12V power rail. … Read More → "ams expands family of power management ICs for Nvidia Tegra and other multi-core ARM processors"

4DSP Brings Xilinx UltraScale FPGA Performance and Two VITA 57.1 FMC Sites to PCIe with the PC820

December 15, 2014

December 15, 2014 – Austin, TX – 4DSP today announced the release of the PC820, a high-performance PCI Express (PCIe) card with advanced Digital Signal Processing (DSP) capabilities and multiple I/O options. The card offers eight lanes of PCIe Gen 3 and up to two FMC (FPGA Mezzanine Card – VITA 57.1) sites that are closely coupled to the onboard Read More → "4DSP Brings Xilinx UltraScale FPGA Performance and Two VITA 57.1 FMC Sites to PCIe with the PC820"

STMicroelectronics, Clonit, and Institute Spallanzani Develop Accurate Point-of-Care Analyzer for Early Ebola Detection

December 12, 2014

Rome, Italy, December 10, 2014 – Driven by the ambitious objective to quickly detect the Ebola virus in the blood at a very early stage to minimize further transmission, STMicroelectronics and Clonit, in collaboration with Italy’s National Institute for Infectious Diseases Lazzaro Spallanzani, have developed, in a few weeks’ time, a prototype portable analyzer able to identify the presence of the Ebola virus in less than 75 minutes.

The portable analyzer is based on the Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) molecular biology technique. The next step in development of the analyzer is to optimize the point-of-care Ebola-detection solution for large-scale … Read More → "STMicroelectronics, Clonit, and Institute Spallanzani Develop Accurate Point-of-Care Analyzer for Early Ebola Detection"

Renesas Electronics Introduces High-Reliability Advanced Low-Power SRAM Products

December 12, 2014

Düsseldorf, 11 December 2014 – Renesas Electronics, a premier provider of advanced semiconductor solutions, today introduced 5 new product versions in the RMLV0816B and RMLV0808B series of Advanced Low-Power SRAM (Advanced LP SRAM), the company’s flagship SRAM (static random access memory) devices. The new memory devices have a density of 8 megabits (Mb) and utilize a fine fabrication process technology with a circuit linewidth of 110 nanometers (nm).

In the Advanced LP SRAM Series, which can achieve soft error (Note 1) free and latch-up (Note 2) free operation, Renesas started mass production … Read More → "Renesas Electronics Introduces High-Reliability Advanced Low-Power SRAM Products"

Leti Will Discuss CoolCubeTM Technology for 3D Transistor Stacking At Workshop Preceding IEDM 2014

December 12, 2014

GRENOBLE, France – Dec. 11, 2014 – CEA-Leti will present its latest results on CoolCube™, the technique for stacking transistors sequentially in the same process flow for 3D-VLSI, at a Dec. 14 workshop in San Francisco, Calif. The workshop precedes IEDM 2014, Dec. 15-17.

“The technology is designed to allow a connection of the stacked active layers on a nanometric scale, with a very high density, due to their alignment by a standard lithographic process,” said Maud Vinet, Leti’s advanced CMOS laboratory manager, who will give the presentation. “This 3D concept should allow a gain of 50 percent in area and 30 percent in … Read More → "Leti Will Discuss CoolCubeTM Technology for 3D Transistor Stacking At Workshop Preceding IEDM 2014"

Saelig Launches GDS-200 and GDS-300 Compact/Portable Digital Oscilloscopes

December 12, 2014

Fairport, NY, USA: Saelig Company, Inc. has introduced the GDS-200/300 series of battery-powered, compact 2-channel 1GSa/s digital oscilloscopes featuring a large 7″ touch panel LCD for portrait or landscape operation. Available in 70MHz, 100MHz and 200MHz bandwidth versions, the maximum sample rate per channel is 1GSa/s and memory depth is 5Mpts. These oscilloscopes feature a built-in digital multimeter (5,000 counts for GDS-200; 50,000 counts for GDS-300) which can simultaneously measure and monitor A.C. and D.C. voltage and current, and temperature. Trend plots over a long time allow engineers to effectively monitor standard electric parameters while measuring basic … Read More → "Saelig Launches GDS-200 and GDS-300 Compact/Portable Digital Oscilloscopes"

Rugged Compact PC from Aitech Improves Reliable, High Performance Computing in Harsh Environments

December 12, 2014

Chatsworth, Calif. December 2014 – Aitech Defense Systems Inc., a pioneer in true embedded and mission critical computing technologies for environmentally-demanding, mission-critical applications, now offers the extremely rugged and compact A171 computing system that ensures high computing performance under highly adverse conditions.

An environmentally-sealed (IP65) aluminum enclosure that withstands exceptional shock and vibration houses the A171’s Intel Core i7 processor board along with a highly integrated power interface board. The two … Read More → "Rugged Compact PC from Aitech Improves Reliable, High Performance Computing in Harsh Environments"

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