PHOENIX— July 17, 2013 — Avnet Embedded, a division of Read More → "Avnet Embedded to Distribute Onyx Healthcare USA’s Medical Computing Platforms in the Americas"
SAN JOSE, Calif., July 17, 2013 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: CY) today announced the availability of a new development kit that speeds design of digital audio accessories for Apple’s iPhone, iPad, and iPod products. The CY8CKIT-033A PSoC® 3 MFi Digital Audio Development Kit for Lightning includes license-free reference hardware, firmware, and iOS app software, providing the tools to develop MFi (Made for iPod | iPhone | iPad) digital audio accessories that are fully compatible with Apple’s all-digital Lightning connector, which is used for iPhone 5, iPad … Read More → "Cypress Accelerates Designs for Apple’s All-Digital Lightning Connector With New Development Kit for iPhone, iPad and iPod Audio Accessories"
Karlsruhe, Germany – 18 July 2013 – Altium Limited <http://www.altium.com/> , a global leader in Smart System Design Automation and provider of solutions for 3D PCB design (Altium Designer <http://products.live.altium.com/> ) and embedded software development (TASKING <http://www.tasking.com/> ), has released a new range … Read More → "Silicon Labs and Altium Release Design Content for EFM32 Gecko MCUs"
DALLAS (July 18, 2013) – Texas Instruments (TI) (NASDAQ: TXN) today expanded its high-speed amplifier portfolio with two new differential amplifiers that offer the industry’s best power-to-performance ratio. The single-channel THS4531A and dual THS4532 achieve seven times the bandwidth with one-fourth of the input referred noise while also reducing power consumption by 80 percent, compared to the nearest competitor. The devices are designed for low-power data acquisition systems and high-density applications where power consumption and dissipation is critical, such as test and measurement equipment, and digital and ultrasonic water flow meters. … Read More → "New high-speed differential amplifiers deliver best power-to-performance ratio with 80-percent power savings"
Hannover, Germany, July 18, 2013 – German video IP and solution provider videantis announced today its new unified vision and video coding solution for mobile, home and automotive applications. The solution combines the company’s low-power, scalable v-MP4000HDX processor IP core family with an accelerated OpenCV library, and a suite of Full HD and 4K video encoders and decoders. This licensable solution enables a slew of new applications for mobile, gaming and TV platforms: augmented reality, gesture interfacing, depth mapping and computational photography enable new user experiences and … Read More → "New low-power unified computer vision and video processing solution from videantis"
TOKYO, Japan, July 18, 2013 – Seiko Epson Corporation (TSE: 6724, “Epson”) has developed two inertial measurement units (IMU)*1. Housing a new type of high-performance gyroscopic sensor*2, the new M-G352 and M-G362 offer improved basic performance. Epson plans to begin shipping samples of the M-G362 and M-G352 in August and October of 2013, respectively.
The M-G352 IMU supports a wide dynamic range. It has a larger measurement range (±450 deg/s for the gyroscopic sensor and ±6 G for the accelerometers*3) than the M-G350 yet maintains the same basic performance level (6 deg/hr gyro … Read More → "Epson Expands its Lineup of IMUs for Industrial Applications"
July 18, 2013 – SAN JOSE, CA – ADLINK Technology announces the release of its first SDI video/audio capture card, the PCIe-2602. Based on the PCI Express x4 interface, unparalleled features enable 2-channel acquisition of 3G-SDI for low latency and uncompressed video data signals up to 1920x1080p/60fps, providing lossless full color 4:4:4 video and up to 12-bit video data for critical applications such as medical imaging, intelligent video surveillance and analytics, … Read More → "ADLINK Launches PCIe-2602 Dual Channel 3G-SDI Video/Audio Capture Card"
July 16, 2013 – DxO Labs announces the immediate availability of DxO Analyzer v5’s new exposure time measurement setup. With this new feature, DxO Analyzer v5, thereference solution for measuring still and video image quality, now provides the first automated solution for measuring exposure time, shutter lag, ERS delay, vertical blanking, frame time, frame rate, and missing frames for both still and video CMOS-based camera products, whether equipped with a touch-screen or a standard mechanical shutter.
All CMOS sensors feature an Electronic Rolling Shutter (ERS), which introduces many kinds of artifacts and … Read More → "DxO Analyzer v5 introduces the first automated solution for characterizing Electronic Rolling Shutter for video and still cameras"
SAN JOSE, Calif. – July 17, 2013 – Power supply designers for server, tablet, notebook, telecom, gaming and general purpose point of load (POL) regulation applications are constantly looking for ways to improve efficiency in their designs in order to meet energy standards, extend battery life and reduce total cost of ownership. To help designers meet this challenge, Fairchild Semiconductor (NYSE: FCS) developed the next generation TinyBuck™ regulator family, consisting of integrated POL regulators that incorporate a constant on-time PWM controller and driver with high-side and low-side MOSFETs.
SAN JOSE, CA, July 17, 2013—Atmel Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML), a leader in global microcontroller (MCU) and touch technology solutions, today announced Samsung has selected Atmel’s maXTouch® mXT336S to power the touchscreen for its recently launched Galaxy S4 Mini smartphone.
Powered by a 1.7GHz dual-core processor and running the Android 4.2.2 operating system, the Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini features a 4.3-inch high-definition super AMOLED display and touchscreen powered by Atmel’s maXTouch solution. The mXT336S controller delivers the ultimate human touch interface with its feature-rich solution by enabling thinner stylus and thicker glove support, … Read More → "Atmel maXTouch S Controller Powers Touchscreen For Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini"
