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MSC Embedded Expands its COM Express Modules Offering With Two New Modules and Corresponding Evaluation Board

San Bruno, California – September 4, 2012 – MSC Embedded Inc., manufacturer of highly integrated standard board level products and customer-specific boards and systems, today announced it has added two new, performance-enhanced, cost-optimized modules to its high-performance MSC C6B-7S COM Express™ module product line-up.  The compact embedded modules feature an integrated Dual-Core Intel® Celeron™ 847E processor with 1.1 GHz or a Single-Core Intel® Celeron™ 827E processor (1.4 GHz).  Both modules comply with the type 6 pin-out of the current COM Express™ standard and support two independent displays.

MSC Embedded developed the MSC C6-MB-EVA evaluation board to enable … Read More → "MSC Embedded Expands its COM Express Modules Offering With Two New Modules and Corresponding Evaluation Board"

STMicroelectronics Continues to Drive MEMS Market and Application Development With Innovative Technology

TAIPEI, TAIWAN–(Marketwire – Sep 4, 2012) – STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications and the world’s top MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) manufacturer[1], today announced that Benedetto Vigna, Executive Vice President, General Manager, Analog, MEMS and Sensors Group, will deliver a keynote speech at the SEMICON Taiwan 2012 MEMS Forum to address the key factors of ST’s leadership and the new trends in MEMS for the smart phone and tablet market.

The phenomenal success of motion-sensing applications in … Read More → "STMicroelectronics Continues to Drive MEMS Market and Application Development With Innovative Technology"

Lite-On Adopts Cypress’s Low-Power 2.4-GHz WirelessUSB™-NL Solution For Wireless Mouse and Keyboard Set

SAN JOSE, Calif., September 4, 2012 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: CY) today announced that Lite-On Technology Corporation, a leading PC peripheral and component manufacturer in Taiwan, has selected Cypress’s 2.4-GHz WirelessUSB™-NL radio-on-a-chip for its next-generation wireless keyboard and mouse set. WirelessUSB-NL’s low power consumption enables two AA batteries to power the mouse and keyboard for up to three years. The long range of WirelessUSB-NL also enables the wireless mouse and keyboard set to operate at a distance of up to 30 meters. Lite-On will also use Cypress’s enCoRe™ II and enCoRe V low-voltage companion microcontrollers for the USB  … Read More → "Lite-On Adopts Cypress’s Low-Power 2.4-GHz WirelessUSB™-NL Solution For Wireless Mouse and Keyboard Set"

3-Day Short Course on Digital Signal Processing

Starnberg (Germany) September 3, 2012 – qaqadu event gmbh, expert for technical education, again offers a technical short course on digital signal processing. The course DSP Theory, Algorithms and Architectures on November 6 to 8, 2012 will take place in Munich, Germany. The syllabus of this three day training spans all the way from the basics of signal processing and the generic DSP system via frequency domain analysis, digital filtering, DSP software/hardware, DSP audio/baseband processing, signal (audio) source coding, adaptive DSP algorithms, computationally efficient DSP linear systems, digital communications, DSP for mobile and wireless down to DSP (software) enabled radio architectures and … Read More → "3-Day Short Course on Digital Signal Processing"

Green Hills Software to Exhibit at Intel Developer Forum at Moscone Center, San Francisco

SANTA BARBARA, CA  September 4, 2012  Green Hills Software, the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutionswill demonstrate its latest scalable embedded software solutions for Intel® Atom™ and Intel® Core™ processors in booth #236 at the Intel Developer Forum, September 11 – 13, 2012. </ … Read More → "Green Hills Software to Exhibit at Intel Developer Forum at Moscone Center, San Francisco"

Cadence Announces Industry’s First DDR4 Design IP Solutions Are Now Proven in 28nm Silicon

SAN JOSE, CA–(Marketwire – September 04, 2012) – Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS), a leader in global electronic design innovation, today announced that the first products in the Cadence DDR4 SDRAM PHY and memory controller design intellectual property (IP) family have been proven in silicon on TSMC’s 28HPM and 28HP process technologies.

Extending its leadership in advanced DRAM interface IP technology, Cadence has received and characterized multiple versions of its DDR PHY and controller IP in 28nm silicon based on advanced drafts of the … Read More → "Cadence Announces Industry’s First DDR4 Design IP Solutions Are Now Proven in 28nm Silicon"

Monitech Announces Zero-Installation Tracking System for Automotive Industry Based on Telit’s Advanced GPS, M2M technologies and m2mAIR Services

Raleigh, NC – September 4, 2012 – Monitech Sp. z o.o. a Poland-based tracking technology innovator and Telit Wireless Solutions (AIM: TCM), a leading global provider of high-quality machine-to-machine (M2M) modules and value-added services, today announced the launch of Monitech’s Car Lighter Tracker or CLT, a zero-Installation compact tracking device based on Telit’s cellular M2M, GPS+GLONASS satellite location module technologies, … Read More → "Monitech Announces Zero-Installation Tracking System for Automotive Industry Based on Telit’s Advanced GPS, M2M technologies and m2mAIR Services"

Xilinx SVP to Deliver Keynote at SEMICON Taiwan 2012 3D IC Technology Forum

SAN JOSE, Calif., August 30, 2012 – Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced its participation in SEMICON Taiwan 2012 at the 3D IC Technology Forum | SiP Global Summit 2012, taking place at the Taiwan World Trade Center (TWTC) Nangang Exhibition Hall in Taipei, Taiwan from September 5- 7, 2012.

On Thursday, September 6, 2012, Vincent Tong, Xilinx senior vice president of worldwide quality and new product introductions, will deliver a keynote entitled, “The Evolution of 3D ICs: Leaping Ahead of Moore’s Law to Deliver … Read More → "Xilinx SVP to Deliver Keynote at SEMICON Taiwan 2012 3D IC Technology Forum"

LDRA Tool Suite Selected by Esprit Lean to Prove IEC 62304 Medical Compliance

Wirral, UK. August 30, 2012. LDRA, the leading provider of automated software verification, source code analysis and test tools, has been selected by Esprit Lean to prove compliance of medical technology being developed to assist in cancer treatment. Esprit Lean chose the LDRA tool suite to provide the static analysis and standards verification needed to achieve compliance to IEC 62304.

Esprit Lean, a France-based company focused … Read More → "LDRA Tool Suite Selected by Esprit Lean to Prove IEC 62304 Medical Compliance"

Energy Micro delivers proof that faster processing with EFM32 Gecko microcontroller delivers lower energy consumption

Oslo, Norway, 30 August, 2012 – Energy Micro, the energy friendly microcontroller and radio company, announces that in an evaluation using IAR Systems’ tools, Energy Micro’s 32-bit EFM32 Gecko microcontroller has demonstrated the industry’s best CoreMark number for a device based on the feature-rich ARM Cortex-M3 core. The EFMTG840F32 achieved a score of 15.4 CoreMark/mA using IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM version 6.40, over 20 percent more efficient in active mode than even the Cortex-M0+ devices (a less powerful processor) recently launched by a major semiconductor company. The Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC), a non-profit organisation founded in 1997, developed CoreMark processor … Read More → "Energy Micro delivers proof that faster processing with EFM32 Gecko microcontroller delivers lower energy consumption"

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