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Cadence Releases Verification IP for USB SuperSpeed Inter-Chip Specification

SAN JOSE, CA–(Marketwire – January 31, 2013) – Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS), a leader in global electronic design innovation, today announced production-proven verification IP (VIP) for the new USB SuperSpeed Inter-Chip (SSIC)specification, enabling customers to thoroughly verify designs deploying the latest extension of the USB 3.0 protocol.

The SSIC specification combines the MIPI Alliance physical … Read More → "Cadence Releases Verification IP for USB SuperSpeed Inter-Chip Specification"

Imec First to Introduce Hyperpectral CMOS Camera for Snapshot and Video

San Francisco (USA) and Leuven (Belgium) – January 31, 2013 – At SPIE Photonics West 2013, imec presents a prototype hyperspectral imager for snapshot and video acquisition. Being fast, compact and cost-efficient, imec’s CMOS-based imaging systems with integrated hyperspectral filters are suited for multiple industrial vision applications. Imec is currently sampling the line scan version of its hyperspectral imaging solution, offering a ready-to-use evaluation kit to the industry to line scan and analyze specific sample material.

Imec’s prototype hyperspectral imager for snapshot and video captures an entire multispectral image at one discrete point in time. The imager … Read More → "Imec First to Introduce Hyperpectral CMOS Camera for Snapshot and Video"

Imagination Technologies ships Caustic Series2 R2500 and R2100 ray tracing acceleration boards

January 31st 2013: Imagination Technologies, a leading multimedia technologies company, is now shipping its Caustic Series2 PC boards, the R2500 and R2100, which accelerate PowerVR OpenRL applications including the Caustic Visualizer™ viewport plug-ins for Autodesk® Maya® and 3ds Max® and the Neon viewport inRhinoceros 5 from Robert McNeel and Associates.

The Caustic Series2 is the first family of high performance ray tracing accelerator PC boards using Imagination’s unique ray tracing technologies in the world’s first chipset dedicated to high performance, fully interactive ray tracing in a workstation environment.

The Caustic R2500 OpenRL PC … Read More → "Imagination Technologies ships Caustic Series2 R2500 and R2100 ray tracing acceleration boards"

ITTIA DB SQL Leverages New Features of Qt 5.0

Thursday, January 31, 2013 — Bellevue, WA — The ITTIA DB SQL Qt driver is now compatible with Qt 5.0.0, a major renovation of the popular application development framework. The integration of these technologies allows software developers for embedded systems and devices to take advantage of flexible embedded data management software and an elegant GUI framework. Features such as replication, data distribution, concurrency, logging, and change notification offer applications a unique competitive edge and enable rapid development of user-friendly data-driven applications with a level of performance that is only possible in native code.

With this update, the Qt driver for ITTIA DB … Read More → "ITTIA DB SQL Leverages New Features of Qt 5.0"

EEMBC® Undertakes Development of Industry-Standard Ultra-Low Power Microcontroller Benchmarks

EL DORADO HILLS, Calif. — January 30, 2013 — The Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC) today announced its intent to create a standardized, industry-endorsed method to evaluate the energy efficiency of ultra-low power (ULP) microcontrollers. To date, the industry has lacked a common method to test, validate, and compare the real-world energy consumption of these microcontrollers that target applications such as portable medical devices, security systems, building automation, smart metering, and also applications using energy harvesting devices.

EEMBC was formed in 1997 to develop performance … Read More → "EEMBC® Undertakes Development of Industry-Standard Ultra-Low Power Microcontroller Benchmarks"

Freescale expands data center focus with C29x crypto coprocessors

AUSTIN, Texas – Jan. 30, 2013 – Underscoring its continued focus on the fast-growing data center market, Freescale Semiconductor introduces the C29x family of crypto coprocessors – a new lineup of security accelerators engineered to help the world’s top data center equipment manufacturers efficiently scale to handle dramatic increases in secure network traffic.

The new C29x crypto coprocessors enable multi-chip, single PCI-E card solutions providing more than 120K RSA 2048 operations/second and delivering more than 3x the performance of more expensive PCI-E options currently available from today’s market share leader.

“Internet traffic security requirements are increasingly … Read More → "Freescale expands data center focus with C29x crypto coprocessors"

Imagination Technologies Selects Synopsys as Advanced Verification Technology Partner

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Jan. 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNPS), a global leader providing software, IP and services used to accelerate innovation in chips and electronic systems, today announced Imagination Technologies has deployed Synopsys’ C–to-RTL formal consistency checking technology, named HECTOR, to verify its PowerVR family of semiconductor IP cores for graphics, video and display processing applications. Following a multi-year collaboration with Synopsys, Imagination Technologies is utilizing HECTOR to enhance its verification environment with the ability to verify and debug corner cases.

“ … Read More → "Imagination Technologies Selects Synopsys as Advanced Verification Technology Partner"

PLS’s Universal Debug Engine (UDE) 4.0.2: Optimized debugging solution for the new ARM® Cortex™-M0 core-based XMC1000 microcontroller family of Infineon

Lauta, January 30, 2013 –  PLS Programmierbare Logik & Systeme presents an optimized test and debugging solution, the Universal Debug Engine (UDE) version 4.0.2, for the new ARM® Cortex™-M0 core-based 32-bit microcontroller family XMC1000 of Infineon Technologies that delivers 32-bit performance at 8-bit prices.

Both the UDE 4.0.2 and PLS’s Universal Access Device family seamlessly support the internal debugging resources and peripheral units of the highly integrated XMC1000 components developed for use in intelligent sensor and actuator applications, LED controls, digital power conversion, and controllers for low-end electric motors, for example. The integrated FLASH/OTP programming functionality of the UDE … Read More → "PLS’s Universal Debug Engine (UDE) 4.0.2: Optimized debugging solution for the new ARM® Cortex™-M0 core-based XMC1000 microcontroller family of Infineon"

140V Precision Op Amp Features 3pA Bias Current, 3.5µVP-P Noise for High Gain Applications

MILPITAS, CA – January 30, 2013 – Linear Technology announces the LTC6090, a precision operational amplifier that operates on a supply voltage up to 140V (or ±70V). Its combination of rail-to-rail output, 3pA (typical) input bias current, 1.6mV maximum input offset voltage and 3.5µVP-P low frequency noise delivers the precision required for high performance ATE, piezo driver, and DAC buffer applications. An enhanced slew rate of 19V/µ … Read More → "140V Precision Op Amp Features 3pA Bias Current, 3.5µVP-P Noise for High Gain Applications"

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