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smx® Scheduler Upgrade

October 12, 2011

Costa Mesa, California, October 11, 2011 — Micro Digital, Inc. is pleased to announce a new scheduler for its smx real-time multitasking kernel. The new scheduler has been designed to make smx easier to port to new processor architectures. In the process of improving the code, code size has been reduced by 30% and performance has been improved by 50%. In addition, stack overflow testing and stack high watermark recording have been improved and simplified.

Releasing a new smx scheduler is part of a long-term process at Micro Digital to steadily add new features to smx and to make it a more … Read More → "smx® Scheduler Upgrade"

austriamicrosystems announces industry’s highest light output photo-flash LED driver family with smallest device footprints

October 12, 2011

Unterpremstaetten, Austria (October 12, 2011) – austriamicrosystems (SIX: AMS), a leading global designer and manufacturer of high-performance analog ICs today announced its new AS364x series family of LED flash drivers for mobile phones, cameras and other portable devices. The high level of integration and 4 MHz operation of the DC-DC boost converter enable the industry’s smallest device sizes, yet still maintains the highest accuracy to ensure the best picture and video quality. Expanding the company’s extensive photo-flash offering, the new driver family supports output currents from 320 mA up to 2 A providing optimal solutions … Read More → "austriamicrosystems announces industry’s highest light output photo-flash LED driver family with smallest device footprints"

Telit Launches Ultra-Compact Standalone A-GPS Modules

October 12, 2011

CTIA Enterprise & Applications, Booth #435– October 12, 2011 – Telit Wireless Solutions, an internationally leading specialist in machine-to-machine (M2M) technology, launches the SE868 and SL868 – two state-of-the-art 48-channel standalone A-GPS modules for Telit Read More → "Telit Launches Ultra-Compact Standalone A-GPS Modules"

Altera Embeds Synopsys’ Virtual Prototyping Technology in New ARM-based SoC FPGA Offering

October 12, 2011

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 12, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP used in the design, verification and manufacture of electronic components and systems, today announced the use of its comprehensive and proven Virtual Prototyping Solution in Altera Corporation’s (Nasdaq: ALTR) newly announced SoC FPGA Virtual Target software development platform. The Virtual Target enables engineers to begin writing software for systems based on Altera’s SoC FPGAs months before hardware availability, reducing development time and costs. Altera chose to leverage Synopsys’ … Read More → "Altera Embeds Synopsys’ Virtual Prototyping Technology in New ARM-based SoC FPGA Offering"

State-of-the-art integrated IR-UWB enabling global high-quality low-power mobile applications

October 12, 2011

Leuven, Belgium – October 11, 2011 – Imec and Holst Centre present a fully chip-integrated ultralow-power IR-UWB (impulse-radio ultra-wideband) solution for use in the worldwide available 6-10GHz band. The radio delivers high-quality communication for battery-operated mobile and sensing applications. It operates fade-resilient and interference-free.

With its first ultralow-power integrated solution for the 6-10GHz band, imec and Holst Centre now make UWB communication available for battery-operated applications in the area of personal area networks and positioning sensors worldwide. Examples are short-range video streaming or around-the-body audio streaming (e.g. between a headset and a smartphone). When using the … Read More → "State-of-the-art integrated IR-UWB enabling global high-quality low-power mobile applications"

MOST Cooperation Support for Academia

October 12, 2011

Karlsruhe (Germany), October 12, 2011 – The MOST Cooperation (MOSTCO) – the standardization organization for the leading automotive multimedia network Media Oriented Systems Transport (MOST) – enhances its partnership with academic institutions. “Academia is one essential partner of the MOST Cooperation in setting up the future roadmap for MOST Technology,” stated Dr. Wolfgang Bott, Technical Coordinator of the MOST Cooperation. “In order to stay ahead with this innovative automotive network technology we will provide instructional material to support training on automotive network technologies. In addition, we are intensifying our partnership by collaborating more closely in research and development as well as validations and verifications … Read More → "MOST Cooperation Support for Academia"

MoSys Announces Bandwidth Engine Development Kits

October 12, 2011

SANTA CLARA, Calif., October 12, 2011 – MoSys, Inc., (NASDAQ: MOSY), a leading provider of serial chip-to-chip communications solutions that deliver unparalleled bandwidth performance for next generation networking systems and advanced system-on-chip (SoC) designs, announces the availability of its Bandwidth Engine® FPGA Companion Kit and Characterization Kit.

These Bandwidth Engine development kits allow system designers to evaluate and develop code for next-generation networking systems that incorporate Bandwidth Engine ICs. The FPGA Companion Kit includes a … Read More → "MoSys Announces Bandwidth Engine Development Kits"

Agilent Technologies’ Latest RF Design and 3-D EM Simulation Platforms Enhance Multi-technology Design, Speed Simulation

October 12, 2011

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 10, 2011 – Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced new versions of its Advanced Design System and Electromagnetic Professional software.

ADS 2011.10, the latest release of Agilent’s flagship RF design software, and EMPro 2011.11, the company’s updated 3-D modeling and simulation platform, both feature enhancements to further speed and improve RF design and verification.

Agilent will demonstrate ADS 2011.10 and EMPro 2011.11, along with other products and services … Read More → "Agilent Technologies’ Latest RF Design and 3-D EM Simulation Platforms Enhance Multi-technology Design, Speed Simulation"

Cypress Adds SmartSense™ Auto-Tuning To PSoC® 3 Programmable System-on-Chip to Simplify Design of Capacitive Touch Buttons, Sliders and Touchpads

October 12, 2011

SAN JOSE, Calif., October 12, 2011 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: CY) the market leader in touch-sensing, today introduced the PSoC 3^® CapSense^® Plus capacitive touch-sensing solution for buttons, sliders, touchpads, and proximity sensing. It’s the industry’s best capacitive-sensing solution that can also perform general system control functions. To accomplish this task, the new product combines two premier Cypress product offerings, the PSoC 3 programmable system-on-chip and the industry-leading CapSense capacitive touch control technology.

PSoC 3 CapSense Plus lowers system design cost and eases the design process … Read More → "Cypress Adds SmartSense™ Auto-Tuning To PSoC® 3 Programmable System-on-Chip to Simplify Design of Capacitive Touch Buttons, Sliders and Touchpads"

Compact Fuel-Gauge Increases Li+ Battery Runtime, Provides Most Accurate State of Charge and Time-to-Empty in Portable Applications

October 12, 2011

SUNNYVALE, CA—October 12, 2011—Maxim Integrated Products (NASDAQ: MXIM) introduces the MAX17047 fuel gauge for single-cell Li+ battery packs. Featuring the company’s new ModelGauge m3 algorithm, the MAX17047 is the industry’s only coulomb-counting fuel gauge that does not suffer from the abrupt corrections that occur with traditional coulomb-counter algorithms. Compared to other coulomb-counters, this ModelGauge m3 IC uses a smaller current-sense resistor and fewer external components. This saves both space and cost. The IC is ideal for fuel-gauging handheld single-cell and multicell Li+ batteries in a wide range of portable applications, including wireless handsets, smartphones, tablets, … Read More → "Compact Fuel-Gauge Increases Li+ Battery Runtime, Provides Most Accurate State of Charge and Time-to-Empty in Portable Applications"

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