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Microchip Expands USB Portfolio With Fifteen New 8-bit PIC® MCUs

September 17, 2012

CHANDLER, Ariz., Sept. 17, 2012 [NASDAQ: MCHP] — Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller, analog and Flash-IP solutions, today announced from the DESIGN East/ESC Boston Conference the expansion of its certified Full-Speed USB 2.0 Device PIC^® microcontroller portfolio with three new Enhanced Midrange 8-bit families comprising 15 scalable MCUs ranging from 14 to 100 pins with up to 128 KB of Flash. All feature internal clock sources with the 0.25% clock accuracy necessary for USB communication, which saves up to $0.15 by eliminating the need for an external crystal. Additionally, all three … Read More → "Microchip Expands USB Portfolio With Fifteen New 8-bit PIC® MCUs"

Tektronix Adds Critical Support for 100G Communications Test

September 17, 2012

BEAVERTON, Ore., September 17, 2012 – Tektronix, Inc., the world’s leading manufacturer of oscilloscopes,today announced a significant expansion of its BERTScope Bit Error Rate Tester Series to meet growing 100G testing requirements. With the introduction of the new Tektronix BSA286C BERTScope,Tektronix becomes the first test equipment manufacturer to offer complete support for standards-compliant testing up to 28.6 Gb/s, including error detection, pattern generation and clock recovery.

As service providers struggle to meet global bandwidth demands, development labs face time-to-market challenges such as extremely small timing and … Read More → "Tektronix Adds Critical Support for 100G Communications Test"

Aldec Enters ASIC Prototyping Market with HES-7™ Leveraging Xilinx’s Virtex®-7, HES-7 expands up to 96m ASIC Gate Capacity

September 17, 2012

Henderson, NV – September 17, 2012 – Aldec, Inc., today announces the immediate availability of HES-7, a scalable ASIC prototype system that lowers the cost of today’s ASIC prototype process. HES-7 takes advantage of the Xilinx® Virtex-7 2000T 3D IC, which enables design capacity up to 24 million ASIC gates on a single HES-7 board. HES-7 utilizes a non-proprietary high-speed backplane connector that enables easy expansion of custom daughter boards or can enable up to four (4) HES-7 boards to interconnect – which provides design capacity up to 96 million ASIC gates.

“Today’s SoC/ASIC prototype … Read More → "Aldec Enters ASIC Prototyping Market with HES-7™ Leveraging Xilinx’s Virtex®-7, HES-7 expands up to 96m ASIC Gate Capacity"

Avnet Embedded Extends Offering to Americas Customers with Line of Computer-on-Modules from congatec, Inc.

September 14, 2012

San Diego, California – September 13, 2012 – congatec, Inc., a leading manufacturer of embedded computer modules announced today it has inked a distribution agreement with Avnet Embedded, a division of Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas, a business unit of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT). Avnet will now offer its Americas customers congatec’s complete line … Read More → "Avnet Embedded Extends Offering to Americas Customers with Line of Computer-on-Modules from congatec, Inc."

Cortus APS3 Processor Deployed in Selected Discretix CryptoCell® Security Platforms

September 14, 2012

Montpellier, France, 14th September 2012. Cortus, a technology leader in ultra-low power, silicon efficient 32-bit processor IP today announced that the Discretix has licensed the APS3 processor core. Utilized in selected versions of the Discretix CryptoCell embedded security platforms, the APS3 core has been deployed in high volumes for a variety of smartphones, tablets and home devices.

The small silicon footprint, low power consumption and high performance of the APS3 have assisted Discretix in providing optimized, cost effective security co-processor design to its IC platform customers that do not use an ARM TrustZone host processor.

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Wireless Raspberry Pi Modules Now Available From LPRS

September 13, 2012

YouTube demo of the easyRadio CONNECT2-Pi Raspberry Pi Wireless Dongle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8U5afdb_LM&feature=em-share_video_user

LPRS, Europe’s leading supplier of short-range radio devices has introduced the eRA-Connect2-PI, a USB module that provides a simple wireless bridge between two Raspberry Pi’s (Pi2Pi), or a Raspberry Pi and a PC … Read More → "Wireless Raspberry Pi Modules Now Available From LPRS"

World’s smallest 5 & 10 Watt AC-DC power supplies

September 13, 2012

XP Power today announced the launch of what are believed to be the world’s smallest 5 & 10 Watt single output AC-DC power supplies. Measuring just 1 x 1 x 0.6 inches, (25.4 x 25.4 x 15.24 mm) the miniature 5 Watt ECE05 series of encapsulated board mount power supplies are ideal for end-product designs where the available board space is at a premium and a low power high power density supply is required. Complementing the ECE05 series, the ECE10 series provides 10 Watt output from an equally compact encapsulated package measuring just 1.5 x 1 x 0.6 inches (38.1 x 25.4 x 15.24 mm).

Both series comprise seven … Read More → "World’s smallest 5 & 10 Watt AC-DC power supplies"

Cadence Hosts Mixed-Signal Technology Summit

September 13, 2012

SAN JOSE, CA–(Marketwire – September 13, 2012) – Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS), a leader in global electronic design innovation, is hosting its second Mixed-Signal Technology Summit, providing a venue for customers and partners to learn about and discuss the latest technologies and methodologies for mixed-signal design. Professor Ali Niknejad, University of California at Berkeley, will deliver an academic keynote, and Chris Collins, director, Analog EDA and Design Services at Texas Instruments, will deliver an industry keynote. There is no fee to attend.

WHERE: </ … Read More → "Cadence Hosts Mixed-Signal Technology Summit"

Nordic Semiconductor and ANT Wireless are developing nRF51 Series multi-protocol combo solution for seamless and concurrent ANT+ and Bluetooth low energy connectivity to smartphones, tablets and PCs

September 13, 2012

Oslo, Norway / Cochrane, Alberta – September 13, 2012 – Ultra low power (ULP) RF specialist Nordic Semiconductor ASA (OSE: NOD) and ANT Wireless (“ANT” www.thisisant.com), a division of Dynastream Innovations Inc., today announce the joint development of a multi-protocol ANT+™ and Bluetooth® low energy combo single chip solution.

The new IC will join Nordic Semiconductor’s recently released nRF51 Series and complement the company’s already released standalone … Read More → "Nordic Semiconductor and ANT Wireless are developing nRF51 Series multi-protocol combo solution for seamless and concurrent ANT+ and Bluetooth low energy connectivity to smartphones, tablets and PCs"

Agilent Technologies to Showcase High-Performance 32-Gb/s Bit Error Ratio Tester at ECOC

September 13, 2012

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 11, 2012 – Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced it will demonstrate a 32-Gb/s bit error ratio tester at ECOC (Amsterdam RAI, Hall 1, Stand 712) in Amsterdam, Sept. 17-19.

The N4960A high-performance modular bit error ratio tester (BERT) is suitable for product design, device characterization and production test of devices and systems operating up to 32 Gb/s. The instrument is available in 17-Gb/s and 32-Gb/s configurations. The N4960A is excellent for 100G Ethernet, CEI 28G VSR and 32G Fibre … Read More → "Agilent Technologies to Showcase High-Performance 32-Gb/s Bit Error Ratio Tester at ECOC"