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EMA Automates the Library Creation Process For Engineers and PCB Designers

Rochester, NY (February 21, 2012) – EMA Design Automation™ (www.ema-eda.com), one of the world’s largest Electronic Design Automation Value Added Resellers, announced the release of EDABuilder, an application automating the creation of both schematic symbols and the corresponding PCB footprints / land patterns, reducing library creation to a fraction of the time.

“Creating schematic symbols and PCB footprints is a constant challenge,” said Manny Marcano, president and CEO of EMA. “ … Read More → "EMA Automates the Library Creation Process For Engineers and PCB Designers"

Quad Digital Power Supply Manager with Powerful GUI Speeds Development

MILPITAS, CA – February 21, 2012 – Linear Technology Corporation introduces the LTC2974 power supply manager with EEPROM for complete digital management of power supply systems with four or more power rails. The LTC2974 utilizes an I²C interface and PMBus command set to monitor and control positive or negative supplies, providing rapid troubleshooting and debug capabilities during power system design, development, production … Read More → "Quad Digital Power Supply Manager with Powerful GUI Speeds Development"

Molex Presents Global Distributor of the Year Award to Avnet Electronics Marketing

Molex Incorporated today announced that it has awarded the 2011 Global Distributor of the Year award to Avnet Electronics Marketing, a leading global distributor of electronic parts and embedded subsystems. Avnet Electronics Marketing is an operating group of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT – News), The Phoenix, Arizona-based firm accepted the award at a meeting in Phoenix. The Molex Global Distributor of the Year award recognizes valued partners demonstrating financial, operational and executive management excellence. 

“We are proud to recognize Avnet’s significant contribution to our global distribution results in 2011,” stated Graham Brock, president, sales and … Read More → "Molex Presents Global Distributor of the Year Award to Avnet Electronics Marketing"

yaSSL Offers New Open-Source Security Tools

San Francisco, CA ? February 21, 2011 ? yaSSL, the open-source, embedded SSL provider, has made IT-level security tools available for the Open Source Community, ensuring that mature, advanced security tools like Kerberoswpa_supplicant, and OpenSSH are readily available for devices. By making security services commonly used for enterprise authentication and encryption available for Android and other device platforms, yaSSL … Read More → "yaSSL Offers New Open-Source Security Tools"

Cadence Expands Proven Ethernet IP Offering With 40/100 Gigabit Ethernet Solution

SAN JOSE, CA–(Marketwire – February 21, 2012) – “For over a decade, Cadence has worked with the industry’s largest semiconductor companies to design leading Ethernet SoCs for networking and high-performance computing applications, while also helping drive the development of Ethernet standards,” said Vishal Kapoor, vice president, product marketing, SoC Realization at Cadence. “As large scale data centers begin their transition to 40/100 GbE over the next three years, we want to empower our customers with the tools they need to take advantage of the anticipated rapid growth in the ultra high-speed Gigabit Ethernet market.”Ethernet Technology Summit, Booth #306 — Cadence Design … Read More → "Cadence Expands Proven Ethernet IP Offering With 40/100 Gigabit Ethernet Solution"

TouchNetix robust capacitive touchscreen module suits full multi-touch applications in extreme EMC environments

London, UK 21st February 2012– TouchNetix today announced the first product in their Brilliance series of projected capacitive touchscreen modules. The TNxBR-104A001 is a complete 10.4 inch multi-touch module comprising a 2 mm chemically strengthened and abrasion resistant front glass, ITO on PET sensor, PCB flex tail for connectivity and a driver IC. Designed specifically for use in mission critical and high performance applications where conducted EMC is often high, the module complies with the rigorous requirements of the EN61000 4-6 Class A EMC specification. Typical end products that experience high levels of conducted EMC and dictate the need … Read More → "TouchNetix robust capacitive touchscreen module suits full multi-touch applications in extreme EMC environments"

Atollic TrueSTUDIO adds support for NXP microcontrollers

Jonkoping, Sweden, 21st February 2012 – Atollic® today announced the addition of target support for NXP’s family of ARM Cortex™-M0 and Cortex-M3-based microcontrollers in its award-winning Atollic TrueSTUDIO® for ARM® C/C++ development environment.

“Atollic continues to deliver full-featured development tools to serve the needs of professional embedded engineers,” says Gene Carter, International Product Manager, Business Line Microcontrollers, NXP Semiconductors. “Their highly integrated tools complement the features in our LPC1000 microcontroller product range, and our close working relationship with them secures the early addition … Read More → "Atollic TrueSTUDIO adds support for NXP microcontrollers"

poLight and Movidius partner to bring new digital camera experience and 3D to camera phones

Horten (Norway) and Dublin (Ireland), February 21, 2012 – poLight, the world leader in very high-speed and ultra low power autofocus actuated lenses, announced today that its actuator is enabling an enhanced experience of camera phone photography – bringing the experience closer to that of a digital still or video camera. poLight is working with multi-core processor specialist Movidius to demonstrate its capabilities at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona from 27th February.

poLight has developed three new actuated autofocus devices based on a patented technology using optical MEMS and polymer technology. This technology enables camera … Read More → "poLight and Movidius partner to bring new digital camera experience and 3D to camera phones"

Integrating models and code with new Visual Studio extension

Jyväskylä , Finland—February 21, 2012—MetaCase (www.metacase.com), provider of the leading domain-specific modeling (DSM) environment, MetaEdit+®, today announced a new extension for Microsoft Visual Studio. The extension allows users to work with MetaEdit+ models directly from Visual Studio. It also automatically imports source code generated from the MetaEdit+ models into Visual Studio, and builds and runs it there. 

Unlike other modeling approaches, Domain-Specific Modeling utilizes high-level models which describe things in the … Read More → "Integrating models and code with new Visual Studio extension"

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