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Miniature LDO from Diodes Incorporated Features Low Noise, Small Footprint and Accuracy Advantages

October 31, 2013

Plano, Texas – October 30th, 2013 – With a high PSRR of 75dB at 1kHz and a low-noise performance of 60µVrms over the 10Hz to 100kHz range, the AP7340 low-dropout regulator from Diodes Incorporated ensures a high-quality supply for analog circuits in noise-sensitive audio, video and RF applications.  With its 1.0mm x 1.0mm DFN1010-4 package, the AP7340 suits the highest density portable product designs.

This miniature, low-noise LDO produces a 150mA output current for a wide input voltage range, starting from as low as 1.7V and extending up to a maximum of 5.25V.  It comprises a … Read More → "Miniature LDO from Diodes Incorporated Features Low Noise, Small Footprint and Accuracy Advantages"

ViaSat and Green Hills Software Team to Deliver Secure Android Smartphone

October 31, 2013

SANTA CLARA, CA — October 30, 2013 — ARM TechCon 2013, Booth #512 — Green Hills Software, the largest independent vendor of embedded and mobile virtualization solutions, today announced an agreement to team with ViaSat Inc. to deliver military-grade security for Android smartphones and tablets. The INTEGRITY® Multivisor™ separation-kernel has been selected as the hypervisor solution for the ViaSat Secured, a mobile enterprise system that addresses the stringent security, privacy, manageability, and usability demands for dual-use – personal and business – smartphones and tablets.  ViaSat Secured offers a carrier-agnostic suite of the latest and most popular mobile devices so that users may switch between personal and corporate … Read More → "ViaSat and Green Hills Software Team to Deliver Secure Android Smartphone"

Class-D stereo amplifier triples power output for ultrabooks and Bluetooth speakers

October 31, 2013

DALLAS (October 31, 2013) – Texas Instruments (TI) (NASDAQ: TXN) today introduced a Class-D stereo amplifier that produces size-defying sound for ultrabooks, Bluetooth® speakers, and tablet and ultrabook docking stations. The TPA3131D2 is the industry’s first Class-D amplifier to deliver 7 W from a miniature QFN package. It produces more than three times the power output compared to high definition audio (HDA) codecs, and it’s half the package size of discrete amplifiers with comparable output, while delivering longer standby battery life. For more information and to order samples, … Read More → "Class-D stereo amplifier triples power output for ultrabooks and Bluetooth speakers"

Synopsys Extends Performance Exploration Solution for ARM AMBA 4 Interconnect-based Multicore SoCs

October 30, 2013

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ —

Highlights:

  • Exploration of ARM CoreLink NIC-400 performance parameters with instrumentation for simulation and analysis easily identifies performance bottlenecks
  • Enables fast transaction-level simulation, with fully cycle-accurate model validated against the ARM® CoreLink™ NIC-400 RTL
  • Efficient hand-off to RTL implementation by sharing the optimal interconnect configuration with ARM AMBA® Designer tool
  • Seamless sharing of system-level performance constraints with Synopsys’ Discovery™ Verification IP platform ensures consistency of performance requirements specification through functional … Read More → "Synopsys Extends Performance Exploration Solution for ARM AMBA 4 Interconnect-based Multicore SoCs"

Atmel Sensor Hub Solution Drives Lower Power for the KMX61G Micro-Amp Magnetic Gyro

October 30, 2013

Ithaca, NY, USA – Kionix, Inc., a top-tier supplier of MEMS inertial sensors and software solutions, today announced that the company has partnered with Atmel in their sensor hub ecosystem program with its KMX61G Micro-Amp Magnetic Gyro.  Building on Kionix’s existing relationship with Atmel, this partnership enables Kionix to leverage Atmel’s vast ultra-low power microcontroller expertise to provide customers with an ultra-high performance … Read More → "Atmel Sensor Hub Solution Drives Lower Power for the KMX61G Micro-Amp Magnetic Gyro"

videantis announces computer vision partner program

October 30, 2013

Santa Clara, United States, October 30, 2013 – Today at the ARM TechCon conference, German video IP and solution provider videantis announced its computer vision partner program, including its first three partners: ViNotion, PathPartner, and nViso.

Augmented reality, gesture interfaces, and automotive driver assistance systems enable novel user experiences, safer rides, and new usage models, but require a power-efficient architecture and many billions of operations per second of processing. Videantis delivers this low-power, high-performance processing solution in its v-MP4000HDX scalable unified video/vision processor, enabling a slew of new computer vision applications for mobile, automotive, consumer electronics, and surveillance … Read More → "videantis announces computer vision partner program"

Mentor Graphics Introduces New Valor Supply Chain Tools for Electronics Manufacturing

October 30, 2013

WILSONVILLE, Ore., October 30, 2013 —Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced the Valor® Information Highway and the Valor Warehouse Management products, two supply chain-focused tools designed to enhance Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) effectiveness and assist electronics manufacturers in reducing material costs. Materials accuracy is a critical factor in PCB assembly operation since materials make up the bulk of manufacturing costs. At the same time, it presents a challenge to traditional ERP where inventory discrepancies compromise materials ordering and planning operations. Mentor Graphics has developed key supply chain … Read More → "Mentor Graphics Introduces New Valor Supply Chain Tools for Electronics Manufacturing"

IAR Systems releases new version of leading development tools for ARM

October 30, 2013

ARM TechCon, Santa Clara, CA—October 30, 2013—Today, IAR Systems® announces the availability of version 6.70 of the complete C/C++ development toolchain IAR Embedded Workbench® for ARM®. The version brings improved integrations and new functionality as well as new device support.

News include on-demand download of example projects. In the web-based Information Center in IAR Embedded Workbench, users can select to download example projects for their microcontroller vendor of choice. This new functionality increases the flexibility and makes the download and installation of the … Read More → "IAR Systems releases new version of leading development tools for ARM"

Green Hills Software and Imation to Provide Interoperable Data-at-Rest Protection on IronKey Encrypted USB Drives

October 30, 2013

SANTA CLARA, CA — October 30, 2013 — ARM TechCon 2013, Booth #512 — Green Hills Software, the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutions, and Imation Corp. (NYSE: IMN), a global data storage and information security company, today announced that Green Hills Software’s INTEGRITY® RTOS now can support secure file access on Imation’s IronKey™ encrypted USB storage platform.

INTEGRITY RTOS, a platform-independent real-time operating system, is built upon a partitioning architecture to provide embedded systems that deliver maximum reliability, security, and real-time performance across a variety … Read More → "Green Hills Software and Imation to Provide Interoperable Data-at-Rest Protection on IronKey Encrypted USB Drives"

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