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Design engineers from around the world are test driving the Freescale Freedom development platform on element14

September 21, 2012

LONDON –20 SEPTEMBER 2012 – element14, the first collaborative community and electronics store for design engineers and electronics enthusiasts and a part of global electronics distributor Premier Farnell [LON:PFL],today announced that the Freescale Freedom hardware for Kinetis KL25 MCUs is available for same-day shipping through element14, the first distributor to stock it globally prior to the official market launch later this month. Five engineers have been selected for a … Read More → "Design engineers from around the world are test driving the Freescale Freedom development platform on element14"

Saelig Announces SENTRY Counterfeit IC Detector – automatically verifies IC types from database or known sample

September 21, 2012

Pittsford, NY, USA: Saelig Company, Inc. (www.saelig.com) has introduced ABI Sentry, a simple to use Counterfeit IC Detector. This unique solution quickly and easily detects the authenticity of ICs and components. ABI Sentry uses a combination of electronic parameter settings (voltage, frequency, source resistance and waveform) to generate aPinPrint for each pin of the IC being checked. It then compares the unique electrical signature … Read More → "Saelig Announces SENTRY Counterfeit IC Detector – automatically verifies IC types from database or known sample"

Energy Micro to demonstrate real-world applications for world’s most energy-friendly microcontrollers

September 21, 2012

Oslo, Norway, 21 September, 2012 – Energy Micro, the energy friendly microcontroller and radio company, will display a range of real-world applications for its EFM32 Gecko families of ARM®-based microcontrollers (MCUs) at Electronica 2012. The company will demonstrate how its low-power devices greatly extend battery life of a variety of portable electronic products.

The products on show will include two for mobile health applications. The first is a hand-held heart pacemaker monitor in which the MCU manages the communications protocol, monitors the sensors and controls the user interface. The second is a sensor powered that attaches to … Read More → "Energy Micro to demonstrate real-world applications for world’s most energy-friendly microcontrollers"

TI introduces the first wide-input voltage, high-power LED driver with multiple dimming control modes

September 20, 2012

DALLAS (Sept. 20, 2012) – Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NASDAQ: TXN) today introduced a six-channel LED driver with dynamic headroom control for high-power applications, which accurately and efficiently drives up to six strings of LEDs. The LM3463 is the industry’s first wide-input voltage LED driver with multiple dimming control modes that maximizes system efficiency and reduces complexity in LED area lighting applications, such as street, high-bay and ceiling lights. For more information and samples, visit www.ti.com/lm3463-pr.

The LM3463 is a 12-V to 95 … Read More → "TI introduces the first wide-input voltage, high-power LED driver with multiple dimming control modes"

CUI Signs License Agreement for Advanced Bus Converter Products

September 20, 2012

TUALATIN, Ore. — September 20, 2012 — CUI Inc, a subsidiary of CUI Global, Inc. (NASDAQ: CUI), has entered into a license agreement with Ericsson, the world’s leading provider of technology and services to telecom operators, for their 32-bit processor-based FRIDA II 3E digital Advanced Bus Converter (ABC) family, including the newly released BMR456 quarter brick and BMR457 eighth brick series. The license agreement will enable original equipment makers (OEMs) to address interoperability … Read More → "CUI Signs License Agreement for Advanced Bus Converter Products"

Zuken incorporates Würth Elektronik design for manufacturing rules into CADSTAR

September 20, 2012

20 September 2012 – Munich and Niedernhall, Germany; and Westford, MA, USA – Zuken, a leader in PCB Systems and IC Package design and Würth Elektronik, Europe’s leading manufacturer of PCBs, announce that design principles and layer stacks from Würth products will be incorporated into the next version of CADSTAR as part of a new collaboration that will help create higher quality PCB designs.

By including Würth Elektronik’s latest design rules inCADSTAR, Zuken’s desktop powerful … Read More → "Zuken incorporates Würth Elektronik design for manufacturing rules into CADSTAR"

Ramtron F-RAM Technology Enables Greener Wireless Sensor Applications

September 20, 2012

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO — September 20, 2012 — Ramtron International Corporation (Nasdaq: RMTR), a leading developer and supplier of nonvolatile ferroelectric random access memory (F-RAM) and integrated semiconductor products, revealed today that the Zurich University of Applied Sciences Institute of Embedded Systems (ZHAW InES) recently presented a paper summarizing research conducted with Ramtron F-RAM designed into a battery-free wireless sensor node. The research, presented this summer at the European ZigBee® Developers Conference in Munich, Germany, demonstrated that the use of F-RAM nonvolatile memory in energy harvesting applications can reduce energy consumption of the wireless sensor node by over 40 percent while reducing the total … Read More → "Ramtron F-RAM Technology Enables Greener Wireless Sensor Applications"

Synopsys Outreach Foundation Achieves Major Science and Math Education Milestone

September 20, 2012

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

Highlights:

Synopsys Outreach Foundation has provided more than one million individual experiences to students and teachers participating in its various science programs since 1999
Foundation to celebrate this milestone by recognizing teachers who have made significant contributions to the program:
- Gloria Hayes-Perkins, Horace Cureton Elementary School
- Amy Brindos-Reeber, Buchser Middle School
- Bruce Kawanami, Monta Vista High School (retired)
Celebration and teacher recognition ceremony to take place Monday, September 24, 2012, from 5:00-8:00 p.m. at the … Read More → "Synopsys Outreach Foundation Achieves Major Science and Math Education Milestone"

Xylon logicBRICKS Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) Now Runs on the ZedBoard Development Kit from Avnet Electronics Marketing

September 20, 2012

Zagreb, Croatia, September 20, 2012 – Xylon d.o.o., a leading provider of advanced FPGA application solutions and IP cores, today announced the availability of the 2D and 3D Graphics Processing Units (GPU) logicBRICKS reference design for Xilinx® Zynq™-7000 All Programmable SoC based ZedBoard™ development kit from Avnet Electronics Marketing.

This pre-verified reference design provides system designers with everything needed to develop and display graphics on a PC monitor or other type display connected to the ZedBoard.

New LDRA Point Tool Enforces Programming Rules, Improving Software Quality and Consistency

September 19, 2012

Boston, MA, DESIGN East. September 18, 2012. LDRA, the leading provider of automated software verification, source code analysis and test tools, announces LDRArules™, a programming rule checker that brings together a collection of rules from a broad spectrum of programming standards. Implemented as a stand-alone product, LDRArules enables development teams to improve their software quality by selecting and adhering to relevant industry programming standards. Companies can easily … Read More → "New LDRA Point Tool Enforces Programming Rules, Improving Software Quality and Consistency"