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Zuken reduces manufacturing costs with latest E³.series release

1 July 2014 – Munich, Germany and Westford, MA, USA – Zuken announces manufacturing cost reductions through enhanced electrical design. The latest version of E³.series – Zuken’s industry-leading electrical and fluid CAD software – contains integration with B&R Automation Studio, data export for drilling and milling machines, XVL output for Lattice viewer, and enhanced support for Komax and eCl@ss. Support … Read More → "Zuken reduces manufacturing costs with latest E³.series release"

VadaTech Announces 100G Processor Board in AMC Format

Henderson, NV – June 25, 2014 – VadaTech, a manufacturer of embedded boards and complete application-ready platforms, now offers an Advanced Mezzanine Card (AMC) processor with a CFP2 front panel port for 100G capabilities.       

The AMC738 Processor AMC features a Cavium™ Octeon II CN6880 multi-core processor and a Virtex-7™ FPGA.  The CFP2 port can utilize 4 x 25Gbps lanes or 10 x 10Gbps lanes.   The AMC board comes in the double module, full size.   Other features include several banks of DDR3 memory, Serial over LAN capabilities, and a true hardware Random Number Generator.  There is also an on-board SDHC socket for mass storage.</ … Read More → "VadaTech Announces 100G Processor Board in AMC Format"

Renesas Electronics Europe: TES Electronic Solutions’ Guiliani Graphical User Interface Software Now Supports Renesas’ RZ/A1 Microprocessors (MPU)

Dusseldorf, June 27, 2014 – Renesas Electronics Europe, a premier provider of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced the availability of Guiliani graphical user interface software from TES Electronic Solutions for the RZ/A1 “Renesas Starter Kit” (RSK) development suite.

Renesas’ RZ/A1 microprocessor (MPU) has been designed to give an optimal cost / performance balance for Human Machine Interface (HMI) applications. In contrast to a standard microprocessor architecture, … Read More → "Renesas Electronics Europe: TES Electronic Solutions’ Guiliani Graphical User Interface Software Now Supports Renesas’ RZ/A1 Microprocessors (MPU)"

New Range of Military Spec DC-DC Converters From Stadium Power

Stadium Power, the leading UK based provider of power supply solutions, has introduced a range of military specification DC-DC converters. The BOA Series are fully compliant Military/COTS, low profile, baseplate cooled converters with fully regulated outputs of up to 500W.

Four models are available; The BOA100m which has an input voltage range from 9V to 38 VDC and an output power of 100W, the 150W BOA150m with an input voltage range from 18 to 75 VDC, the BOA200m 200W output version with an input range of 9 to 75VDC and the BOA350m 350W output model which … Read More → "New Range of Military Spec DC-DC Converters From Stadium Power"

Altera Delivers the Industry’s Fastest Compile Times with Quartus II Software Version 14.0

San Jose, Calif., June 30, 2014 – Altera Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR) today released its Quartus® II software version 14.0, the FPGA industry’s #1 software in performance and productivity. Altera maintains its software leadership position for FPGA and SoC designs with this latest release by delivering 2X faster compile times on average over the closest competitor’s design tool suite.

Quartus II software version 14.0 allows users to be more productive and achieve the fastest FPGA … Read More → "Altera Delivers the Industry’s Fastest Compile Times with Quartus II Software Version 14.0"

Quantum Materials Secures Uncloneable Anti-Counterfeiting 3D Printing Technology

SAN MARCOS, TexasJune 30, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Quantum Materials Corporation (OTCQB:QTMM) announces securing 3D printing and additive manufacturing anti-counterfeiting quantum dot detection technology developed at the Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science and the Design, Research, and Education for Additive Manufacturing Systems (DREAMS) Laboratory at Virginia Tech.

The technology embeds quantum dots within objects being 3D printed to produce a unique, physically uncloneable signature known only to the object’s manufacturer. … Read More → "Quantum Materials Secures Uncloneable Anti-Counterfeiting 3D Printing Technology"

Synopsys and IIT Bombay Collaborate on Reliability Modeling of Advanced Transistors

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. and MUMBAI, India, June 30, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a global leader providing software, IP and services used to accelerate innovation in chips and electronic systems, and the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, today announced a collaboration to advance the modeling of negative bias temperature instability (NBTI), a key reliability concern for advanced CMOS devices. NBTI has become more critical with the introduction of high-k metal gate (HKMG) processes and is a dominant reliability concern for FinFET devices, contributing to the degradation of threshold voltage, current, … Read More → "Synopsys and IIT Bombay Collaborate on Reliability Modeling of Advanced Transistors"

Altera SDK for OpenCL Development Flow Delivers Prototypes in Minutes

San Jose, Calif., June 30, 2014 – Altera Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR) today dramatically simplified a programmer’s ability to accelerate algorithms in FPGAs. The Altera SDK for OpenCL version 14.0 includes a programmer-familiar rapid prototyping design flow that enables users to prototype designs in minutes on an FPGA accelerator board. Altera, along with its board partners, further accelerate the development of FPGA-based applications by offering reference designs, reference platforms and FPGA development boards that are supported by Altera’s OpenCL solution. These reference platforms also streamline the development of custom … Read More → "Altera SDK for OpenCL Development Flow Delivers Prototypes in Minutes"

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