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Microchip’s New 8-bit PIC® Microcontrollers Combine High Integration, Low Power and a Highly Efficient Method to Implement Touch Sensing

September 25, 2012

CHANDLER, Ariz., Sept. 24, 2012 [NASDAQ: MCHP] — Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller, analog and Flash-IP solutions, today announced the expansion of its 8-bit eXtreme low Power (XLP) Enhanced Midrange Core PIC^®microcontrollers (MCUs), with the new PIC16F1512/13 devices.

These new 28-pin MCUs offer a combination of advanced digital and analog peripherals, along with XLP for the extended battery life that many applications require. These features make the general-purpose PIC16F1512/13 MCUs ideal for a … Read More → "Microchip’s New 8-bit PIC® Microcontrollers Combine High Integration, Low Power and a Highly Efficient Method to Implement Touch Sensing"

Xilinx Honored with Outstanding Achievement at e-Legacy Awards 2012 for Robotic-assisted Surgical Application

September 25, 2012

LONDON, Sept. 25, 2012 – Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) is proud to announce that it was been presented with an Outstanding Achievement award at the Electronic Product Design e-Legacy Awards 2012 event in London earlier this month. Xilinx was recognized in the Medical Advances category for the inventive use of FPGAs in a robot-assisted, minimally invasive surgical application for 3D vision and precise control by longtime customer, Intuitive Surgical, in its popular da Vinci® … Read More → "Xilinx Honored with Outstanding Achievement at e-Legacy Awards 2012 for Robotic-assisted Surgical Application"

Mouser Stocks Freescale® Kinetis® L Series 32-Bit MCUs Built on the ARM® Cortex™-M0+ Processor

September 25, 2012

September 25, 2012 – Mouser Electronics, Inc. is now stocking the industry’s most energy-efficient processor from … Read More → "Mouser Stocks Freescale® Kinetis® L Series 32-Bit MCUs Built on the ARM® Cortex™-M0+ Processor"

Symtavision launches SymTA/S 3.2 and TraceAnalyzer 3.2

September 24, 2012

Braunschweig, Germany – 20^th September 2012. Symtavision, the global leader for timing design and timing verification for embedded real-time systems, has launched SymTA/S 3.2, its market-leading system-level tool suite for planning, optimizing and verifying embedded real-time systems. SymTA/S 3.2 now featuresSystem-Level Distribution Analysis and AUTOSAR 4.x support. TraceAnalyzer 3.2 now includes scripting support and can be fully integrated with SymTA/S.

The new System-Level Distribution Analysis in SymTA/S 3.2 covers entire systems and gives users the ability to undertake Typical Case analysis where communication paths are not safety critical. As an intermediate analytical step between load analysis and … Read More → "Symtavision launches SymTA/S 3.2 and TraceAnalyzer 3.2"

Imec and SolarWorld present ultra-thin PERC-based PV module that achieves Class A module efficiencies

September 24, 2012

EU PVSEC 2012 (Frankfurt, Germany) – September 24, 2012 – At this week’s European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition (27^th EU PVSEC, 24/08-28/08), imec and SolarWorld will present ultra-thin (100µm), large-area (156x156mm²) PERC-type mono-silicon solar cells integrated in a 255Wp class A module. The PERC-based modules, developed by imec and SolarWorld, were manufactured on SolarWorld’s fully automated production line without significant wafer breakage. This feat proves the robustness of the PERC technology and the high quality of SolarWorld’s module manufacturing. PERC-type silicon solar cells are promising candidates for next generation solar cell concepts for mass … Read More → "Imec and SolarWorld present ultra-thin PERC-based PV module that achieves Class A module efficiencies"

EMA Automates the Library Creation Process For Engineers and PCB Designers

September 24, 2012

Rochester, NY – EMA Design Automation™ (ema-eda.com), one of the world’s largest Electronic Design Automation Value Added Resellers, announced the release of EDABuilder, an application automating the creation of both schematic symbols and the corresponding PCB footprints / land patterns, reducing library creation to a fraction of the time.

“Creating schematic symbols and PCB footprints is a constant challenge,” said Manny Marcano, president and CEO of EMA. “The traditional process is laborious, time consuming, and error … Read More → "EMA Automates the Library Creation Process For Engineers and PCB Designers"

Synopsys Extends Mobile Storage Leadership with UFS and MIPI Alliance UniPro Controller IP

September 24, 2012

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Sept. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ —

Highlights:

Comprehensive mobile storage solution supporting new JEDEC UFS v1.1 interface standard includes Synopsys’ DesignWare® MIPI® UniPro^SM and Universal Flash Storage (UFS) Controllers and DesignWare MIPI M-PHY
Highly configurable DesignWare MIPI UniPro controller enables area- and feature-optimized host and device implementations for mobile storage (UFS), camera (MIPI CSI-3) and future display (MIPI DSI-2) SoCs
Single-vendor UniPro IP platform simplifies integration and reduces implementation risk

Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq:SNPS), a global leader accelerating innovation in the design, verification … Read More → "Synopsys Extends Mobile Storage Leadership with UFS and MIPI Alliance UniPro Controller IP"

Logic PD leverages IAR Embedded Workbench for MCU design and development

September 24, 2012

Uppsala, Sweden—September 24, 2012—IAR Systems announced today that Logic PD is leveraging IAR Embedded Workbench® for many of its design and development projects spanning industries such as industrial agriculture, consumer, and medical, to name a few. Logic PD, known for its product innovation, has been using the best-of-breed Read More → "Logic PD leverages IAR Embedded Workbench for MCU design and development"

Innovative Wireless Companies Line up for Discovering Start-Ups 2012 Competition

September 24, 2012

24th September 2012, Cambridge, UK – The finals of the free-to-enter Discovering Start-Ups 2012 take place on 21st November when entrants will have the unique opportunity to pitch their ideas, technologies and business plans to an impressive line-up of some 25 leading investors and industry figures from companies including Orange Labs, RIM, Qualcomm, Vodafone Ventures and Google. The pitch event will be hosted at the flagship London headquarters of the legal firm Taylor Wessing and is also sponsored by Google, Rohde & Schwarz and SETsquared Partnership.

The competition has already attracted a wide range of entrants that include … Read More → "Innovative Wireless Companies Line up for Discovering Start-Ups 2012 Competition"

Tanner EDA Releases HiPer Silicon(TM) v15.23

September 24, 2012

MONROVIA, California – Sept 24, 2012 – Tanner EDA, the catalyst for innovation for the design, layout and verification of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs) and MEMS devices, has released version 15.23 of its full-flow analog and mixed-signal design suite: HiPer Silicon(TM). The addition of HiPer Simulation(TM) AFS to version 15.23 gives designers added capabilities for front-end design flow, including schematic capture, dual circuit simulators and waveform probing.

HiPer Silicon version 15.23 includes Tanner Analog FastSPICE (T-AFS), which integrates the Berkeley Design Automation Analog FastSPICE(TM) Platform with Tanner EDA’s S-Edit(TM) schematic capture and W-Edit(TM) … Read More → "Tanner EDA Releases HiPer Silicon(TM) v15.23"

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