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GreenPeak launches GP410 – ZigBee PRO Green Power chip

December 21, 2012

21 December 2012 – Utrecht – The Netherlands – GreenPeak Technologies, a leading Smart Home RF-communication semiconductor company, today announced its new GP410 chip offering the new ZigBee PRO Green Power feature for low cost energy harvesting and ultra-long battery life ZigBee applications for the Smart Home.

The GP410 IEEE 802.15.4 ZigBee PRO Green Power controller is a fully integrated system-on-chip solution for power harvesting end nodes for light switches, smart home devices, or for applications designed to run on a single battery for … Read More → "GreenPeak launches GP410 – ZigBee PRO Green Power chip"

Mentor Graphics Enables Smart Device Development for M2M Applications with Support for Zero Configuration Networking

December 20, 2012

WILSONVILLE, Ore., December 20, 2012—Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced a solution to design network-based devices for machine-to-machine (M2M) and smart energy applications with the latest release of the Mentor® Embedded Nucleus® Real Time Operating System (RTOS) platform. Embedded developers can design auto configuring network devices for environments without supporting infrastructure, such as network servers, with the addition of mDNS and DNS-Service Discovery (SD) support to the Nucleus RTOS.

Devices can connect to the network automatically without network servers or manual configuration by using the Nucleus RTOS networking middleware which manages IP address … Read More → "Mentor Graphics Enables Smart Device Development for M2M Applications with Support for Zero Configuration Networking"

Plessey to Demonstrate Ground-breaking imPart™ Contactless Gesture Recognition Technology at CES 2013, Las Vegas, 8-11 January 2013

December 20, 2012

Plymouth, ENGLAND – 20 December 2012 – Plessey announced today that they will be demonstrating their new, low cost, Contactless Gesture Recognition technology called imPart™ at CES 2013. The imPart technology is designed to fit around computer monitors, portable laptop computers, ultra books and tablets and provides the user with the ability to activate and use devices, without having to touch them, via gestures such as swipe, flick, up and down. A simple ‘left-click’ function has been incorporated by hovering the hand at any required point for more than 0.5s.

It uses Plessey’s award-winning EPIC™ sensors, which … Read More → "Plessey to Demonstrate Ground-breaking imPart™ Contactless Gesture Recognition Technology at CES 2013, Las Vegas, 8-11 January 2013"

Samsung and Synopsys Collaborate to Achieve First 14-nanometer FinFET Tapeout

December 20, 2012

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Dec. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ —

Highlights:

Milestone helps accelerate adoption of FinFET technology for faster and more power efficient Systems on Chips (SoC)s
Collaboration delivers foundation for 3D device modeling and physical design rule support
Test chip qualifies FinFET process and Synopsys^® DesignWare^® Embedded Memories

Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a global leader providing software, IP and services used to accelerate innovation in chips and electronic systems, today announced that its multi-year collaboration with Samsung on FinFET technology has … Read More → "Samsung and Synopsys Collaborate to Achieve First 14-nanometer FinFET Tapeout"

Kuwait University and imec to Collaborate on Advanced Silicon Solar Cell Technology

December 19, 2012

December 19, 2012 (Leuven, Kuwait) – World-leading nanotechnology research centre imec (Belgium) and Kuwait University signed a long term collaboration agreement for research and development on innovative silicon solar cell technologies. The agreement has been signed on Wednesday, Dec.19, 2012, in Kuwait City during a ceremony in the presence of the Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Deputy-Prime Minister, Didier Reynders, and Kuwait University President, Prof. Abdullatif Al-Bader, and Director General of Kuwait Foundation for Advancement of Sciences, Dr. Adnan Shihab-Eldin.

The basis of the collaboration between imec and Kuwait University is imec’s wafer-based silicon solar cell industrial … Read More → "Kuwait University and imec to Collaborate on Advanced Silicon Solar Cell Technology"

GreenPeak facilitates Green Power

December 19, 2012

19 December 2012 – Utrecht – The Netherlands – GreenPeak Technologies, a leading Smart Home RF-communication semiconductor company, today announced its support for the ZigBee PRO Green Power feature, which adds support for energy harvesting and battery-free applications as part of the ZigBee 2012 standard. GreenPeak also announces achieving ZigBee Certified and Golden Unit status for its Green Power product.

Green Power is the newest feature for the ZigBee PRO feature set. Green Power gives battery-free, energy-harvesting devices the ability to join ZigBee PRO 2012 … Read More → "GreenPeak facilitates Green Power"

Eclipse IDE now available for users of IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM

December 19, 2012

Uppsala, Sweden—December 19, 2012—Today, IAR Systems® announced that a complete integration with the Eclipse IDE is available for the high-performance development tool suite IAR Embedded Workbench® for ARM®. With this integration, IAR Systems offers Eclipse support as an alternative to the IAR Embedded Workbench IDE, providing its customers with the possibility to use its world-leading build tools and debugger within the Eclipse IDE.

While the proprietary IAR Embedded Workbench IDE is tailor-made for embedded development, intuitive and easy-to-use, the open-source Eclipse IDE provides flexibility through its extensible framework and the ability to interoperate … Read More → "Eclipse IDE now available for users of IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM"

Agilent Technologies Unveils New IC-CAP Platform for Device Characterization and Modeling Software Includes Angelov-GaN Modeling and Python Scripting

December 19, 2012

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec.18, 2012 – Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced the latest release of its device modeling software platform, the Integrated Circuit Characterization and Analysis Program (IC-CAP).

With IC-CAP 2013.01, Agilent introduces major improvements to its flagship product for high-frequency device modeling. One key improvement is turnkey extraction of the Angelov-GaN model, the industry standard compact device model for GaN semiconductor devices.

GaN technology is becoming commonplace in today’s high-power RF communication … Read More → "Agilent Technologies Unveils New IC-CAP Platform for Device Characterization and Modeling Software Includes Angelov-GaN Modeling and Python Scripting"

DSM Computer’s slot CPU brings Intel® Core™ i7 power to the PICMG 1.0 bus

December 19, 2012

Munich, December 2012 – DSM Computer’s new industrial slot CPU 96M4297o conforms to the long-proven PICMG 1.0 standard still used in many applications. To provide high computing and graphical performance on this standard bus (16-bit ISA / 32-bit PCI), the compact plug-in card is equipped with high-performance second generation Intel^® Core™ processors.

The industrial slot CPU 96M4297o integrates the Intel^® Core™ i7-2600 (3.4 GHz) processor with four computer cores in the highest-performance variant. Alternatively, the slot CPU can also be equipped with the Intel^® Core™ i5-2400 (3.1 … Read More → "DSM Computer’s slot CPU brings Intel® Core™ i7 power to the PICMG 1.0 bus"

Digia launches Qt 5 cross-platform application development and UI framework

December 19, 2012

December 19, 2012 — Digia has announced the launch of Qt 5.0, a major new version of the popular cross-platform application and user interface development framework for desktop, embedded and mobile applications. Qt 5 delivers a step function increase in performance, functionality and ease of use and will be the platform on which full Android and iOS support will be delivered during the coming year.

Digia has stated its intention to make Qt the world’ … Read More → "Digia launches Qt 5 cross-platform application development and UI framework"

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