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Tensilica to Feature Customer Innovations in Smartphones and Home Entertainment at CES 2013

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – December 18, 2012 –Tensilica®, Inc. today announced that it will feature innovations from customers that use the company’s dataplane processors (DPUs) in Smartphones, digital televisions (DTVs), and home entertainment systems at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show (CES). In all of these cases, customers use Tensilica DPUs to differentiate their products, providing lower power, higher performance and unique features to stand out from their competition. Tensilica’s booth with a demo area and three meeting rooms is located in the South Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center in Meeting Room 25060. To schedule a meeting, please email < … Read More → "Tensilica to Feature Customer Innovations in Smartphones and Home Entertainment at CES 2013"

Terminal Post Connections Solutions for Audio, Power and Instrumentation Applications

Cliff Electronics extensive range of UK designed and manufactured terminal posts includes single terminal binding posts and multiple binding post assemblies in a number of different designs and configurations for consumer and professional applications, including those in audio, engineering, instrumentation, medicine, lighting and vending.

Rated up to 60A, the binding posts are also available in fully insulated, touch-proof and 4mm versions for test and instrumentation applications, with solid brass, gold-plated models for use in Hi-Fi speaker applications also available. Cliff manufactures dual binding post assemblies in a variety of designs in either standard or custom configurations.

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Plessey makes home health ECG monitoring an affordable reality — imPulse™ on show at CES 2013

London, ENGLAND – 18 December 2012 – Plessey will be demonstrating its innovative handheld ECG monitor at CES 2013 on booth 73506 at the Venetian Hotel. The imPulse™ uses Plessey’s award winning EPIC sensors to detect the ECG of the user, which is displayed as a trace on a Smartphone or tablet via a Bluetooth link.

The user simply touches the two contact pads with both thumbs. The EPIC sensors detect the changes in the electric potential of the body and the raw data is then transmitted to a laptop or smartphone where the software turns this into a clear trace for … Read More → "Plessey makes home health ECG monitoring an affordable reality — imPulse™ on show at CES 2013"

HDL Design House MIPI M-PHY and D-PHY Solutions available in 40nm and 65nm

Belgrade, Serbia – December 18th, 2012 – HDL Design House, provider of high performance digital and analog IP cores and SoC design and verification services, today announced availability of MIPI M-PHY and D-PHY solutions in advanced technology nodes. MIPI M-PHY and D-PHY solutions are fully compliant with the MIPI Alliance M-PHY and D-PHY specifications version 1.0, as the latest addition to HDL Design House FlexIP core library. These IP solutions can be combined with HDL Design House MIPI DSI and CSI-2 IP cores. As a MIPI Alliance Contributor member since 2010, HDL Design House offers high quality, … Read More → "HDL Design House MIPI M-PHY and D-PHY Solutions available in 40nm and 65nm"

LDRA tool suite offers compliance to DO-178B/C and IEC 61058 for radiation-hardened processors

Wirral, UK. December 18, 2012?LDRA, the leading provider of automated software verification, source code analysis and test tools, offers validation from requirements through to certification for radiation-hardened environments where radiation anomalies (single event upsets) can disrupt system functionality causing catastrophic results. Such environments demand the most rigorous compliance standards for industrial safety (IEC 61508) and Read More → "LDRA tool suite offers compliance to DO-178B/C and IEC 61058 for radiation-hardened processors"

New Software Development Kit Brings SMART Board® Usability to Web Applications

Calgary, AB — December 18, 2012 — SMART Technologies, a world leader in interactive collaboration technologies and maker of the world’s most popular interactive whiteboard, has released a new SMART Board software development kit (SDK) that allows developers to build web applications that sense user actions on a SMART Board interactive display. The applications have embedded intelligence to recognize if the user is touching the interactive display to move an object, sketch with a pen or to perform other physical interactions with the large screen device. SMART is the first interactive technology manufacturer to release an SDK that communicates hardware events directly … Read More → "New Software Development Kit Brings SMART Board® Usability to Web Applications"

New Book Demystifies Black Art of Analog Design

WALTHAM, MA – December 18, 2012 – Newnes Press, an imprint of Elsevier, today announced the release of Analog Circuit Design, Volume 2, Immersion in the Black Art of Analog Design by Bob Dobkin and Jim Williams. A companion volume to Analog Circuit Design: A Tutorial Guide to Applications and Solutions, this edition includes new application notes on power management, … Read More → "New Book Demystifies Black Art of Analog Design"

Tektronix Delivers First Automated Test Solution for MHL CTS 2.0 Spec

BEAVERTON, Ore., Dec 18, 2012 – Keeping pace with rapidly evolving standards, Tektronix, Inc., the world’s leading manufacturer of oscilloscopes, today announced immediate availability of an automated test solution for the latest Mobile High-Definition Link (MHL) Compliance Test Specification (CTS) 2.0 covering transmitter (Tx), receiver (Rx) and dongle testing for both physical (PHY) and protocol layers. The solution features a unique one box solution for PHY and protocol testing coupled with a direct synthesis based solution for Rx testing that reduces errors.

Developed by the MHL Consortium, the MHL … Read More → "Tektronix Delivers First Automated Test Solution for MHL CTS 2.0 Spec"

Imec and Altera Broaden Strategic Collaboration

Leuven (Belgium) – December 18, 2012 – Imec and Altera Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR) announced today a broadening of their strategic research collaboration in the framework of imec’s INSITE program. Initially focusing on technology insight into 3-D process technologies, collaboration between imec and Altera will now be broadened toward pathfinding process development kits (PDKs) for logic technology.

Altera’s participation in imec’s industrial affiliation program INSITE is focused on the evaluation of 3D technologies and its impact on Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) products. Altera and imec are extending their research collaboration agreement to include 14/10nm CMOS … Read More → "Imec and Altera Broaden Strategic Collaboration"

Cypress’s 2.4-GHz WirelessUSB™-NL Radio-on-a-Chip Powers ITON’s Turnkey Module for Wireless Mice

SAN JOSE, Calif., December 13, 2012 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: CY) today announced that ITON Technology, Ltd., a leading PC peripheral and component manufacturer in China, has selected Cypress’s 2.4-GHz WirelessUSB™-NL radio-on-a-chip for its complete module for wireless mice. The module includes firmware, providing customers with a turnkey solution to create their own end-products. The low power consumption of the WirelessUSB-NL solution helps the module enable mice to operate for up to three years on two AA batteries. WirelessUSB-NL also delivers a long operating range of up to 20 … Read More → "Cypress’s 2.4-GHz WirelessUSB™-NL Radio-on-a-Chip Powers ITON’s Turnkey Module for Wireless Mice"

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