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Danger to Life and Property – IECQ CAP Wages War Against Counterfeit Components

Geneva, Switzerland, 2013-07-24 – In response to the growing demand and need of the electronics supply chain, IECQ, the IEC Quality Assessment System for Electronic Components, launched a programme designed to address the international counterfeit crisis faced by the aerospace, defense and high performance (ADHP) sectors.

Counterfeiting has proven to be a viable and lucrative industry in many areas of the world, specifically the counterfeiting of microcircuits used in electronic devices. These counterfeit components often originate from material meant to be recycled from e-waste programmes. The fraudulent components are often … Read More → "Danger to Life and Property – IECQ CAP Wages War Against Counterfeit Components"

RealVNC delivers MirrorLink™ Certified product for in-car connectivity on Texas Instruments processors

RealVNC, the global provider of VNC®, and Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) have integrated remote access technology from RealVNC with the DRA64x and DRA65x automotive infotainment processors. The inclusion of VNC Automotive, a MirrorLink™ Certified product, delivers high quality in-vehicle entertainment and telematics capabilities to both drivers and passengers alike. 

The integrated solution enables automatic detection, screen replication and control of virtually any mobile device from a vehicle touch-screen or fixed-input controls such as steering-wheel switches and head-unit buttons. Safe and seamless access to content, such as navigation applications, traffic updates, music libraries … Read More → "RealVNC delivers MirrorLink™ Certified product for in-car connectivity on Texas Instruments processors"

Samsung Brings Enhanced Mobile Graphics Performance Capabilities to New Exynos 5 Octa Processor

SEOUL, South Korea — Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a world leader in advanced semiconductor solutions, today introduced the latest addition to the Exynos product family with top level of graphic performance driven by a six-core ARM® Mali™-T628 GPU processor for the first time in the industry. With mobile use case scenarios becoming increasingly complex, Samsung’s newest eight-core ARM Cortex™-based application processor gives designers a powerful, energy efficient tool to build multifaceted user interface capabilities directly into the system architecture. Samsung will demonstrate the new Exynos 5 family at SIGGRAPH 2013 in the ARM booth, #357; Exhibit … Read More → "Samsung Brings Enhanced Mobile Graphics Performance Capabilities to New Exynos 5 Octa Processor"

Automotive Rectifiers from Diodes Incorporated Provide up to Ten Times Greater Avalanche Capability

Plano, Texas – July  24th, 2013 – Diodes Incorporated has introduced a family of its Super Barrier Rectifiers (SBR®) qualified to the AECQ101 high-reliability automotive standard and backed by PPAP level 3 documentation.  The parts are 100% avalanche tested and proven to deliver a reverse-avalanche capability of between three to ten times greater than competing Schottky alternatives.

Due to the SBR’s unique patented structure, its high-reverse avalanche performance ensures greater guardbanding against negative spikes and inductive load surges, thereby raising the ruggedness and reliability of automotive products.  In a typical single-pulse avalanche test, avalanche energy measurements for Schottky … Read More → "Automotive Rectifiers from Diodes Incorporated Provide up to Ten Times Greater Avalanche Capability"

Imagination’s Design Optimisation Kits (DOKs) deliver substantial silicon PPA gains while reducing design cycle times

London, UK – 24th July, 2013 – Imagination Technologies (IMG.L), a leading multimedia, processor, communications and cloud technologies company, announces it is launching new Design Optimisation Kits (DOKs) to provide customers with the flexibility to optimise for power, performance and area (PPA) in its GPUs, CPUs and other IP core families. Imagination DOKs are comprised of optimised reference design flows, tuned libraries from partners, characterisation data and documentation.

The first Imagination DOK, which will be available later this year, enables customers using Imagination’s PowerVR Series6 ‘Rogue’ GPUs … Read More → "Imagination’s Design Optimisation Kits (DOKs) deliver substantial silicon PPA gains while reducing design cycle times"

STMicroelectronics Extends Market-Leading MEMS Portfolio with World’s Smallest eCompass Module for Smoother and Smarter Functionality

Geneva, July 24, 2013 – STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, the world’s top MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) manufacturer, and the leading supplier of MEMS devices for consumer and mobile applications[1], has leveraged its investment in advanced MEMS technology to create the world’s smallest eCompass combining a 3-axis accelerometer and 3-axis magnetometer in a single package.

Measuring just 2mm x 2mm, the tiny chip, used for advanced navigation and motion-sensitive features in products … Read More → "STMicroelectronics Extends Market-Leading MEMS Portfolio with World’s Smallest eCompass Module for Smoother and Smarter Functionality"

Bosch Motorsport Uses Zynq All Programmable SoCs to Win on the Race Track

SAN JOSE, Calif., July 24, 2013 – Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced that Bosch Motorsport, part of Bosch Engineering Group, based in Abstatt, Germany, is using Xilinx Zynq®-7000 All Programmable devices in its latest engine ECU (Engine Control Unit) processing core called HEL (High Efficiency Logic). The HEL based ECUs are plugged into the LMP1 race cars of a German OEM participating in the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC).The performance and robustness of the Zynq SoC-based Bosch-ECU enabled the race team to take on the podium multiple times, honored with first place at every race of … Read More → "Bosch Motorsport Uses Zynq All Programmable SoCs to Win on the Race Track"

Blue Pearl Software Suite is now available for purchase through the Embedded Software Store

Santa Clara, California – June 03, 2013 — Blue Pearl Software, the provider of EDA software that accelerates FPGA verification, today announced it is making its software available for purchase via the Embedded Software Store. Launched in 2011 by Avnet Electronics Marketing and ARM, the Embedded Software Store enables embedded designers to evaluate and purchase leading software products to accelerate their ARM processor-based design. With its addition to the Embedded Software Store, users can now easily purchase the Blue Pearl Software Suite to increase design productivity.

“Avnet is one of the world’s largest distributors of electronic components and embedded solutions and … Read More → "Blue Pearl Software Suite is now available for purchase through the Embedded Software Store"

Impulse C helps Software Developers Simulate Hardware Accelerating C Algorithms on Solarflare’s ApplicationOnload Engine (AOE), FPGA-enabled Programmable Networking Interface Card

Dateline 23 July, Bellevue Washington. Impulse announced the availability of “Experimenter’s Simulation Software” which enables developers to quickly evaluate the architecture offered by Solarflare’s new ApplicationOnload™ Engine (AOE). FPGAs are effective offload engines for some CPU bottlenecks. Shifting critical code to the FPGA’s massively parallel architecture enables critical paths to run as multiple streaming processes, accelerating computations by 10x or more over CPUs.

The software will be familiar to C programmers. It runs within Visual Studio, GCC or the like and provides the pragmas and extensions that enable C algorithms to be … Read More → "Impulse C helps Software Developers Simulate Hardware Accelerating C Algorithms on Solarflare’s ApplicationOnload Engine (AOE), FPGA-enabled Programmable Networking Interface Card"

Microchip’s New SuperSpeed Certified USB3 Controller Hubs Are World’s First With On-Chip Programmable Memory

CHANDLER, Ariz., July 22, 2013 [NASDAQ:  MCHP] — Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash-IP solutions, today announced its third-generation USB3 Controller Hubs (UCH3s)—the four-member USB553XB-5000 family, which is SuperSpeed Logo Certified by the USB Implementers Forum and is the world’s first to integrate OTP Flash configuration memory.  This UCH3 family is also the industry’s most flexible, as it includes a seven-port hybrid version with a certified four-port … Read More → "Microchip’s New SuperSpeed Certified USB3 Controller Hubs Are World’s First With On-Chip Programmable Memory"

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