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Cadence Physical Verification System Certified for GLOBALFOUNDRIES 65nm to 14nm FinFET Processes

March 11, 2014

Highlights:

Certification ensures no compromise in accuracy and includes advanced technologies for physical verification signoff for 65nm to 14nm FinFET processes
Mutual customers can design and verify layouts via the seamless integration in Cadence Virtuoso and Cadence Encounter platforms

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 11, 2014—Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS), a leader in global electronic design innovation, announced today that GLOBALFOUNDRIES certified the Cadence® Physical Verification System (PVS) for custom/analog, digital and mixed-signal design physical signoff … Read More → "Cadence Physical Verification System Certified for GLOBALFOUNDRIES 65nm to 14nm FinFET Processes"

Customize and simulate analog designs with TI’s WEBENCH® Schematic Editor

March 10, 2014

DALLAS (Mar. 10, 2014) – Texas Instruments (TI) (NASDAQ: TXN) today unveiled WEBENCH^® Schematic Editor, a new editing and simulation feature that enables engineers to customize power management designs and simulate the circuit created within the WEBENCH environment. For more information or to start a design, visit www.ti.com/webencheditor-pr.

Isolated Flyback Regulator Eliminates Opto-Coupler & Delivers up to 6 Watts

March 10, 2014

MILPITAS, CA – March 6, 2014 – Linear Technology Corporation announces the LT8301, a monolithic flyback regulator that significantly simplifies the design of isolated DC/DC converters. By sampling the isolated output voltage directly from the primary-side flyback waveform, the part requires no opto-isolator or third … Read More → "Isolated Flyback Regulator Eliminates Opto-Coupler & Delivers up to 6 Watts"

MathWorks Announces Release 2014a of the MATLAB and Simulink Product Families

March 10, 2014

NATICK, Mass. – (7 March, 2014): MathWorks today announced Release 2014a (R2014a) of its MATLAB and Simulink product families. R2014a includes new … Read More → "MathWorks Announces Release 2014a of the MATLAB and Simulink Product Families"

Allied Electronics to Sponsor Gadget Freak Smackdown at EE Live! 2014

March 10, 2014

FORT WORTH, Texas, March 10, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Allied Electronics, a trading brand of Electrocomponents plc (LSE:ECM), announced today that the company will sponsor EE Times Gadget Smackdown at this year’s EE Live! 2014 conference to be held March 31 to April 3 in San Jose, California.

“The concept behind Gadget Freak Smackdown represents exactly what we stand for at Allied, so the opportunity to … Read More → "Allied Electronics to Sponsor Gadget Freak Smackdown at EE Live! 2014"

NeoPhotonics Adds Integrated Coherent Transmitter (ICT) To Its Suite of Next Generation PIC-Based Optical Components for 100G Coherent Transport

March 10, 2014

San Francisco, CA – March 10, 2014 – NeoPhotonics Corporation (NYSE: NPTN), a leading designer and manufacturer of photonic integrated circuit, or PIC, based optoelectronic modules and subsystems for bandwidth intensive high speed communications networks, today announced that it is adding an Integrated Coherent Transmitter (ICT) to its suite of next generation small form factor Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) based optical components for 100G Coherent Transport. These products utilize Photonic Integration to reduce the size and power requirements of 100G coherent optics to enable higher port densities on linecards and in transponders. NeoPhotonics’ products for 100G will be on exhibit at the Optical … Read More → "NeoPhotonics Adds Integrated Coherent Transmitter (ICT) To Its Suite of Next Generation PIC-Based Optical Components for 100G Coherent Transport"

Complete Ride-Through DC/DC IC Provides 1A of Uninterrupted Output Current from Main Input or Single Supercapacitor Backup Supply

March 10, 2014

MILPITAS, CA – March 10, 2014 – Linear Technology Corporation introduces the LTC3355, a complete ride-through DC/DC system IC. The LTC3355 features a main buck regulator with a built-in … Read More → "Complete Ride-Through DC/DC IC Provides 1A of Uninterrupted Output Current from Main Input or Single Supercapacitor Backup Supply"

Facilitates software quality assurance and certification to ISO Standard 26262

March 10, 2014

Lauta (Germany), March 10, 2014 – Tests directly on the target hardware with PikeTec‘s TPT model-based software tool are now possible as a result of coupling with the PLS (Programmierbare Logik & Systeme) Universal Debug Engine (UDE). The UDE provides the necessary functionality such as connection to the target system, FLASH programming, process control and reading and writing programme data etc. via the standard Component Object Model (COM) interface.

TPT (Time Partition Testing) is an especially efficient method for automated software testing or software verification of embedded control systems. TPT supports all important areas of the test process such … Read More → "Facilitates software quality assurance and certification to ISO Standard 26262"

Electronic Dice Bring Board Games and Games of Chance into the Electronics Age

March 10, 2014

Geneva, Switzerland; Poznan, Poland, March 10, 2014 – STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, and Game Technologies S.A. have revealed details of the ST technologies that power DICE+, a revolutionary device that allows people to enjoy digital versions of their favorite board games while allowing them to continue to experience the pleasure and excitement of rolling the dice.

Board games have been a part of human culture for over five thousand years^{^[1]</ …} Read More → "Electronic Dice Bring Board Games and Games of Chance into the Electronics Age"

CogniVue Introduces Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) Application for 2nd Generation APEX™ Image Cognition Processor

March 6, 2014

OTTAWA, ONTARIO–(Marketwired – March 4, 2014) – CogniVue Corporation, who introduced the world’s first Image Cognition Processor (ICP) in 2010, announced today release of the first in a series of ADAS vision based demonstration applications, Lane Departure Warning (LDW) for 2^nd Generation of APEX™ Image Cognition Processor cores (G2 APEX ICP). CogniVue’s APEX ICP core technology drives a greater than 100x processing advantage vs conventional processing architectures for embedded vision applications. CogniVue has had early success in automotive, starting with the introduction of a range of ADAS application demonstrations (LDW, Forward … Read More → "CogniVue Introduces Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) Application for 2nd Generation APEX™ Image Cognition Processor"