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Lynx Software Technologies Announces Security Product Support for New ARM-based IoT Designs

NUREMBERG, GERMANY, Embedded World–February 25, 2015–Lynx Software Technologies, Inc., a world leader in real-time security technologies, today announced that both its LynxOS 7.0 RTOS and its LynxSecure separation kernel hypervisor are moving to new ARM®-based processors. The development allows the military-grade security offered by these products to be applied to the protection of ARM-based embedded designs addressing IoT markets such as industrial control, factory automation, connected automotive, smart energy, medical and transportation.

Gurjot Singh, CEO of Lynx Software Technologies, said, “The next generation of connected embedded systems being designed using ARM-based processors will need … Read More → "Lynx Software Technologies Announces Security Product Support for New ARM-based IoT Designs"

Semitrex Addresses Global Energy Crisis with Game-Changing Technology for More Efficient Power Consumption

LAGUNA BEACH, Calif., February 24, 2015 – It’s simple supply and demand: According to the Department of Energy (DOE), a worldwide energy shortage is upon us. There just isn’t enough power in the grid to supply everyone  all the time. Semitrex, a fabless semiconductor company, is addressing energy consumption through its highly energy efficient Power Supply System(s)  on a Chip™ (PSSoC).  This family of chips is called TRONIUM™\’tron-‘E-“um\, and it represents the first comprehensive power conversion breakthrough in decades.

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The energy crisis packs a one-two punch. The … Read More → "Semitrex Addresses Global Energy Crisis with Game-Changing Technology for More Efficient Power Consumption"

Cypress’s New $10 PSoC 5LP Prototyping Kit Gives Designers Access to Unmatched Processing Power in a One-Chip Solution

NUREMBERG, Germany, February 26, 2015 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: CY) today introduced a new, low-cost prototyping kit that gives engineers unprecedented access to design with the powerful 32-bit ARM® Cortex®-M3 core in Cypress’s PSoC® 5LP programmable system-on-chip architecture. The $10 CY8CKIT-059 Prototyping Kit delivers PSoC 5LP’s ability to reduce systems costs by integrating analog front-ends, digital logic and user interface ICs with the architecture’s programmable analog and programmable digital blocks. PSoC 5LP also simplifies … Read More → "Cypress’s New $10 PSoC 5LP Prototyping Kit Gives Designers Access to Unmatched Processing Power in a One-Chip Solution"

STMicroelectronics Introduces Digital UV Sensor for Mobile, Wearable, and IoT Applications

Geneva, February 24, 2015 – STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, has expanded its portfolio of environmental sensors with the introduction of the UVIS25, the world’s first sensor to provide a direct digital output of the Ultraviolet Index (UVI), the international measurement of the strength of ultraviolet (UV) radiation, primarily from the sun, at a given place and time.

Exposure to UV radiation can affect people in ways that range from temporary sunburn to more serious conditions. UVI was developed, adopted, and standardized in the mid ‘90s by the World … Read More → "STMicroelectronics Introduces Digital UV Sensor for Mobile, Wearable, and IoT Applications"

SmartDV Announces Addition of Six New Verification IPs to their Product Portfolio

SAN DIEGO, CA – February 27, 2015 – SmartDV Technologies, the verification intellectual property (VIP) company, has added six new VIPs to an already extensive VIP portfolio. The new additions include USB-Power Delivery, MIPI-CPHY, MIPI-DBI, AMBA5 CHI, LPDDR4 and DDR4. The company has been successful in speeding up VIP development through their compiler technology, which accelerates development, customization, feature enhancements and support turnaround through unprecedented automation. This technology improves performance by a factor of 2-4x compared with VIP from competing vendors.

SmartDV’s VIP portfolio now stands at over 75, a testament to the company’s commitment to develop … Read More → "SmartDV Announces Addition of Six New Verification IPs to their Product Portfolio"

Imec and Panasonic Present breakthrough in CMOS-based Transceivers for mm-Wave Radar Systems

SAN FRANCISCO (ISSCC 2015, International Solid State Circuits Conference) – Feb. 22, 2015— Today, at the 2015 International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), imec and Panasonic presented a transceiver chip for phase-modulated continuous-wave radar at 79GHz. This achievement demonstrates the potential of downscaled CMOS for cheap millimeter-wave (mm-wave) radar systems that can be used for accurate presence and motion detection.

Mm-wave radar technology is used in advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) to improve safety in blurry conditions such as dust, fog and darkness, where image-based driver assistance systems lack robustness. It also offers longer range, higher precision and invisible … Read More → "Imec and Panasonic Present breakthrough in CMOS-based Transceivers for mm-Wave Radar Systems"

Keysight Technologies Introduces Bandwidth Enhanced InfiniiMax III+ Probes, Accessories for High-Speed Bus Testing

SANTA ROSA, Calif., Feb. 26, 2015 – Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS) today introduced the bandwidth enhanced N7000A InfiniiMax III+ differential probes for general-purpose, high-speed differential bus probing. The company also introduced an active termination adapter that provides ultra-low noise voltage termination to a non-ground signal, and QuickTip accessories for InfiniiMax I/II probes to help engineers make quick and reliable measurements.

The InfiniiMax III+ probes work with the full array of InfiniiMax III probe heads, including a wide range of solder-in probe heads, a browser head, ZIF ( … Read More → "Keysight Technologies Introduces Bandwidth Enhanced InfiniiMax III+ Probes, Accessories for High-Speed Bus Testing"

PRO DESIGN Unveils New Virtex® UltraScale™ 440 FPGA Based Prototyping Solution

San Jose, 27 February 2015 – PRO DESIGN, veteran in the E²MS and EDA industry, today announced the launch of its new proFPGA quad VUS 440 System, the next generation of its modular and scalable high performance/capacity FPGA Prototyping solution based on the latest Xilinx Virtex® UltraScale™ FPGA technology.

Assembled with 4 pluggable Xilinx Virtex® UltraScale™ XCVU440 based FPGA modules the quad system offers a capacity of up to 120 M ASIC gates, which is nearly a factor of 2.5 more compared to the previous Virtex® 7 based generation. Up to five proFPGA quad systems with overall 20 FPGA … Read More → "PRO DESIGN Unveils New Virtex® UltraScale™ 440 FPGA Based Prototyping Solution"

Altera and Escape Communications Announce High-capacity Turn-key Modem Solution for E- and V-band Microwave Radios

San Jose, Calif., —Feb 26, 2015– Altera Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR) and Escape Communications today announced the availability of a high-performance, cost-effective and scalable microwave modem solution that that enables rapid system development and accelerates production shipments for microwave backhaul and fronthaul applications.

•       The turn-key platform includes an Arria V FPGA, host processor, Ethernet PHY, and Texas Instruments (TI) analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) and digital-to-analog converters (DACs).

•       The platform includes both copper and SFP Ethernet ports and supports CPRI over SFP up to 3 Gbps.  For E- and V-band applications, the solution supports up to 256 … Read More → "Altera and Escape Communications Announce High-capacity Turn-key Modem Solution for E- and V-band Microwave Radios"

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