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Sigrity Introduces XcitePI Chip IO Interconnect Model Extraction and Assessment Tool

CAMPBELL, Calif. – May 14, 2012 – Sigrity, Inc., the market leader in signal and power integrity solutions, today introduced XcitePI IO Interconnect Model Extraction as part of the company’s comprehensive suite of high-speed analysis software products. This breakthrough technology generates precise chip IO power/ground and signal interconnect models for accurate system-level analysis of high-speed channels and buses. Unique built-in IO quality assessment capabilities enable designers to quickly check IO power/ground robustness and signal electrical performance to identify … Read More → "Sigrity Introduces XcitePI Chip IO Interconnect Model Extraction and Assessment Tool"

Chomerics Europe starts production at its advanced shielded cast window manufacturing cell

Chomerics Europe – a division of Parker Hannifin, has set-up and begun production at a new manufacturing cell at its facility in Grantham, UK. The specialist cell provides a unique and advanced resource to support the manufacture of shielded cast windows.  These are required to provide crucial EMI protection and help ensure compliance with EMC regulations in a wide range of equipment in sectors including military / aerospace, instrumentation & control and life sciences.

Chomerics’ cast windows manufactured in the new cell utilise advanced proprietary techniques … Read More → "Chomerics Europe starts production at its advanced shielded cast window manufacturing cell"

Satin Technologies to Introduce Automated Design Monitoring at DAC 2012

MONTPELLIER, France – May 14, 2012 – Satin Technologies, the company that reinforces design flows with flexible and automated monitoring capabilities, will introduce a new product at DAC 2012 —  SatinTech MS™. SatinTech MS is a software solution that allows companies to create an automated monitoring environment for existing design and delivery practices and to make this environment available to designers with no impact on overhead.

With SatinTech MS, methodologists and project leads can quickly build multiple checklists to reflect existing design processes, and then designers can run these checklists at any design step, in association with their current log files and other … Read More → "Satin Technologies to Introduce Automated Design Monitoring at DAC 2012"

30MHz to 1.4GHz Wideband I/Q Demodulator with IIP2 Optimization & DC Offset Cancellation Improves Zero-IF Receiver Performance

MILPITAS, CA – May 14, 2012 – Linear Technology announces the LTC5584, an ultrawide bandwidth direct conversion I/Q demodulator with outstanding linearity of 31dBm IIP3 and 70dBm IIP2. The device offers
best-in-class demodulation bandwidth of over 530MHz, supporting the latest generation of LTE multimode, LTE Advanced receivers, as well as digital predistortion (DPD) receivers. The I/Q demodulator operates over a wide frequency range from 30MHz to 1.4GHz, covering a broad range … Read More → "30MHz to 1.4GHz Wideband I/Q Demodulator with IIP2 Optimization & DC Offset Cancellation Improves Zero-IF Receiver Performance"

Fast Processor Models of MIPS Technologies New Aptiv Generation Cores Released by Imperas and Open Virtual Platforms

OXFORD, United Kingdom, May 10, 2012 – Imperas is releasing the Open Virtual Platforms (OVP) Fast Processor Models for MIPS Technologies new Aptiv(tm) Generation of processor cores. Example virtual platforms are also being released, as well as support for the cores in Imperas M*SDK advanced software development tools. MIPS Technologies has verified the functionality of the Aptiv models under the MIPS-Verified(tm) program. 

The processor core models and example platforms are available from the Open Virtual Platforms website, http://www.OVPworld.org/MIPS. The models … Read More → "Fast Processor Models of MIPS Technologies New Aptiv Generation Cores Released by Imperas and Open Virtual Platforms"

Ingenico Selects Atmel maXTouch Touchscreen Controllers for Ultra-Compact Portable Payment Terminals

San Jose, CA, May 14, 2012 – Atmel® Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), a leader in microcontroller and touch technology solutions, today announced that Ingenico, a world leader in payment solutions, has selected Atmel maXTouch® touchscreen controllers for its Ingenico iWL200 Series portable payment terminals with touch capability.

The new Ingenico terminals are the most compact touchscreen-based systems on the market, delivering the advanced audio, video and touchscreen functionality that merchants need to transform a point-of-sale opportunity into a point-of-services for their customers. The Ingenico iWL200 terminals are ideal for merchants in retail, catering, transportation, gaming and home deliveries. … Read More → "Ingenico Selects Atmel maXTouch Touchscreen Controllers for Ultra-Compact Portable Payment Terminals"

X-FAB Joins the IPL Alliance and Announces iPDK Availability

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — The Interoperable PDK Libraries (IPL) Alliance announced today that X-FAB Silicon Foundries has joined the IPL Alliance, a standards organization whose charter is to establish an interoperable custom design ecosystem. X-FAB, the leading foundry group for analog/mixed-signal semiconductor applications, is making interoperable process design kits (iPDKs) available for its most popular foundry processes ranging from 0.6 to 0.13 micrometers.

The IPL Alliance, which includes major electronic design automation (EDA), semiconductor and foundry companies, released the industry’s first open standard for iPDKs for analog/mixed-signal designs in 2010. The iPDK standard is based on … Read More → "X-FAB Joins the IPL Alliance and Announces iPDK Availability"

Allinea Software unlocks Blue Waters’ full potential

Champaign, Illinois, 2012-05-14 – The Blue Waters project is now well underway with a completion date of Fall 2012. As one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, its immense computational power and stability will allow scientists to make breakthroughs in a diverse range of fields. Allinea DDT is the debugger they call on to help them fix their bugs at full scale and exploit the maximum computational power.

The Blue Waters machine aims to deliver breakthroughs in nearly all areas of science and engineering – to enable discoveries into real-world science and engineering, from … Read More → "Allinea Software unlocks Blue Waters’ full potential"

Netronome Reaps Significant Power, Performance and Area Benefits With Cadence Encounter Digital Technology

SAN JOSE, CA–(Marketwire – May 14, 2012) – Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS), a leader in global electronic design innovation, announced today that Netronome, the leading developer of intelligent network flow processors (NFP), gained a significant performance advantage on its low-power “green” SoCs by using the Cadence® Encounter® RTL-to-GDSII flow. In addition to increased chip performance, Netronome engineers using the latest Encounter 11.1 technology achieved a 29% reduction in power consumption, smaller design area and faster overall time to market compared to their former flow, for SoCs targeting the … Read More → "Netronome Reaps Significant Power, Performance and Area Benefits With Cadence Encounter Digital Technology"

TI gives $2.2 million to re-energize introductory electronics courses at UC Berkeley

DALLAS and SANTA CLARA (May 10, 2012) — Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NASDAQ: TXN) today announced a $2.2 million gift to support engineering education at the University of California, Berkeley. The university will use the gift to transform its traditional introductory Electronic Design Laboratory into a dynamic learning environment for undergraduate students.

“With TI’s expanded Silicon Valley research and development base in Santa Clara, this gift represents another step in our commitment to fostering the innovation ecosystem in this region and around the world,” said Gregg Lowe, senior vice president of TI’s Analog business. “The gift also dovetails with … Read More → "TI gives $2.2 million to re-energize introductory electronics courses at UC Berkeley"

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