PHOENIX—August 23, 2011 — For a full 24 hours Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas, a business region of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), will be hosting its virtual Read More → "Avnet Electronics Marketing Delivers Solutions for Power Design in Virtual Power Forum"
Founded in 2003 by a team of engineers highly experienced in developing volume Consumer Premises Equipment (CPE) since the dawn of digital TV, Red Embedded provides strategic, design and integration services to clients across a variety of technology sectors. The award-winning, Yorkshire-based company consults on CPE products for some of the world’s largest TV operators including DirecTV in the US and the UK’s BSkyB.
Having strengthened their design capability, Red Embedded can provide quick access … Read More → "Red Embedded offer High Speed FPGA/ASIC Design Resource"
Munich, July 2011 – DSM Computer’s 19-inch Infinity® 96M1595 industrial computer is based on a powerful industrial ATX mainboard with Intel® Q57 chipset. To provide high performance, it is equipped with an Intel® Core™ i7 quad-core processor or i5 dual-core processor and main memory that can be … Read More → "DSM Computer: 4-U Q57 industrial computer in a short 19-inch housing"
SAN JOSE, Calif., August 22, 2011 – Magma® Design Automation (Nasdaq: LAVA), a provider of chip design software, today announced Chrontel, a leading provider of display interface ICs for personal computers, portable media players and smartphones, has standardized on the Titan™ Mixed-Signal Design Platform, FineSim™ SPICE and FineSim Pro circuit simulation, and Quartz™ DRC and Quartz LVS physical verification products. Chrontel selected the Magma software after an extensive evaluation and benchmarking of the Titan-based flow against other EDA flows resulted in a 50 percent improvement in productivity.
“To keep up with the changing demands … Read More → "Chrontel Standardizes on Magma to Accelerate Development of Analog/Mixed-Signal ICs"
SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 22, 2011 – Magma® Design Automation (Nasdaq: LAVA), a provider of chip design software, today announced that Open-Silicon has standardized on SiliconSmart® ACE for standard cell and I/O cell characterization and modeling. A long-time user of SiliconSmart, Open-Silicon upgraded to SiliconSmart ACE to leverage the tool’s proven ability to quickly and accurately characterize libraries for multiple process, voltage and temperature (PVT) corners which will enable them to maximize power savings and performance on advanced-node designs. Open-Silicon uses SiliconSmart ACE in particular for characterization of new cells created with its patented CoreMAX™ … Read More → "Open-Silicon Adopts Magma’s SiliconSmart ACE for Standard Cell and I/O Cell Characterization and Modeling to Maximize Performance on Advanced-node Designs"
OTTAWA, ON – August 17, 2011 – Protecode Inc., a leading provider of open source license management solutions, today announced several major enhancements to its existing Protecode System 4™ license management software. System 4 now fully supports the Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) standard, and also includes a package pre-approval workflow application, Code Administrator™.</ … Read More → "Protecode Announces Full Support of SPDX Standard by its Leading Open Source License Management Tools"
Pittsford, NY, USA: GALEP-5is a new, diminutive, palm-sized programmer with a 60,000 device output. Its high speed allows it to double as a fast production programmer in ganged arrays, while its JTAG debugging capabilities enable GALEP-5 to be used for microcontroller development.
GALEP-5 is a universal programmer for a wide range of device types: EPROM, EEPROM, FLASH memory, serial EEPROM, NV-RAM, LPC, FPGA, PLD, EPLD, GAL, PALCE, PIC, Microcontroller (MCU). More than 60,000 device algorithms are currently supported. Additionally, GALEP’s JTAG player can program SVF/JAM data into all existing and future devices that have a … Read More → "GALEP-5 Universal Device Programmer from Conitec"
SUNNYVALE, Calif. – August 18 – eSilicon Corporation today announced that, together with TSMC, they will provide long-life process technology support for customer products, while continuing to produce products on latest generation process technologies, including 28nm. eSilicon is a member of the TSMC Value Chain Aggregator (VCA) partnership program.
The TSMC VCA partnership program enables customers to more fully benefit from TSMC’s technology by leveraging VCA partner expertise to support customers’ semiconductor needs. VCA … Read More → "eSilicon and TSMC Support Long Lifecycle Products"
Milpitas, Calif. – Aug. 18, 2011 – Touchstone Semiconductor, Inc., a developer of high-performance analog integrated circuit solutions, and Future Electronics, a leader in the distribution and marketing of semiconductors and electronic components, today announced the winner of their ‘TS1001 Coolest Op Amp’ Design Competition.
Eric John Holland, a senior electronics design engineer at Avery Weigh-Tronix, was awarded the top prize of $1,000 for his design of a working, low-power 555 timer using Touchstone’s TS1001 op amp. The TS1001 is the industry’s first 0.8V, 0.6µA op amp cutting power requirements at … Read More → "Touchstone Semiconductor and Future Electronics Announce ‘TS1001 Coolest Op Amp’ Design Competition Winner"
SAN DIEGO, CA, NDIA Navy Gold Coast Conference−August 19, 2011−Fritz Technologies Corporation has completed work for the Department of Defense (DoD) and U.S. intelligence community to develop a trusted computing solution using state-of-the-art, commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) LynxSecure software from LynuxWorks, Inc. This Multiple Independent Levels of Security (MILS) solution allows access to unclassified, secret and top secret applications and data to be maintained in separate domains on a single server, or workstation, and supports strictly controlled sharing between those domains.
Fritz designed and delivered the prototype system that demonstrates the consolidation of multiple physical servers … Read More → "Fritz Technologies Uses LynxSecure to Develop Assured Sharing Platform Services – Server Separation Development (ASPS-SSD)"
