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Miniature Logic from Diodes Incorporated Extends Portables’ Battery Life

Plano, Texas – September 13, 2012 – Diodes Incorporated has introduced a family of single gate logic devices designed to save power and space in a broad range of portable consumer electronic products, including cell phones, e-readers and tablet computers.  Manufactured on a 3V advanced ultra low-power CMOS process, the 74AUP1G logic is pin compatible with industry-standard parts while offering a package height advantage through its miniature DFN package options.

Fourteen of the most common logic functions are being provided in three different packages: the tiny footprint DFN1010 and DFN1410, both with an off-board height of just 0.4 … Read More → "Miniature Logic from Diodes Incorporated Extends Portables’ Battery Life"

Oski Technology Beats 72-Hour Clock in Formal Verification Challenge

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. — September 12, 2012 — Formal verification services provider Oski Technology (www.oskitech.com) is celebrating success after beating the 72-hour clock in the Oski Live Verification Challenge held during this year’s Design Automation Conference (DAC) in June.

“We showed that formal verification is a proven technology,” affirms Vigyan Singhal, Oski’s president and chief executive officer, whose team successfully delivered formal verification results on a … Read More → "Oski Technology Beats 72-Hour Clock in Formal Verification Challenge"

ADLINK Introduces High-Density Simultaneous 8-channel 100MS/s 14-Bit PXI Express Digitizer

September 11, 2012 – AUTOTESTCON – ANAHEIM, CA – ADLINK Technology, Inc. announces the release of its new PXI Express (PXIe) digitizer, the PXIe-9848, an 8-channel, 14-bit, 100 MS/s digitizer delivering both high-accuracy measurement results and high-dynamic performance. With a PXI Express bus interface and ample onboard acquisition memory up to 512 MB, the PXIe-9848 can easily manage simultaneous 8-CH data streaming. Highdensity and highspeed digitizer features ideally position … Read More → "ADLINK Introduces High-Density Simultaneous 8-channel 100MS/s 14-Bit PXI Express Digitizer"

Sidense Exhibiting at MemCon

Ottawa, Canada and Santa Clara, Calif.

What

Sidense will be exhibiting at MemCon and discussing its low-cost, secure and reliable 1T-OTP non-volatile memory (NVM), which provides a field-programmable alternative solution to Flash, mask ROM and eFuse in many OTP and MTP applications. 

Where

Santa Clara Convention Center 
5001 Great America Parkway 
Santa Clara, CA 9505 

When

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

8:30AM to 7:00PM

Who

Jim Lipman, Marketing Director

For more information … Read More → "Sidense Exhibiting at MemCon"

Renesas Electronics America and Micrium Bring Portable, Scalable and More Affordable MCU Design to Embedded Developers with RTOS and Middleware Bundle

SANTA CLARA, Calif., September 10, 2012 – The #1 Microcontroller supplier in the world and the leading embedded software solution provider have partnered to bundle the power of microcontrollers with a real-time operating system. Renesas Electronics America Inc. and Micrium today announced that embedded developers designing with Renesas’ flagship RX or RL78 MCUs can get a free, single production license for Micrium’s real-time deterministic multi-tasking kernel (RTOS) and middleware (TCP/IP, USB, File System and others) along with one year of maintenance and support from Micrium.

“While some in the industry have focused mainly on the CPU core instruction set, … Read More → "Renesas Electronics America and Micrium Bring Portable, Scalable and More Affordable MCU Design to Embedded Developers with RTOS and Middleware Bundle"

Xilinx Highlights All Programmable FPGAs and SoCs at Carrier Ethernet World Congress 2012

SAN JOSE, Calif. Sept. 12, 2012 – Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) will feature the advantages of its All Programmable technologies for carrier-class optical networking at the Carrier Ethernet World Congress 2012 in Barcelona, Spain. Demonstrations of Xilinx’s product portfolio for Carrier Ethernet applications delivering system integration for the next-generation networks of carrier grade high-bandwidth communication platforms with 40G to 400G high port density will be highlighted.

What: Carrier Ethernet World Congress 2012

Where:  Hotel Fira Palace, … Read More → "Xilinx Highlights All Programmable FPGAs and SoCs at Carrier Ethernet World Congress 2012"

Ramtron Announces F-RAM Memory Module for Use with the Popular Freescale Tower System

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO — September 12, 2012 — Ramtron International Corporation (Nasdaq: RMTR), a leading developer and supplier of nonvolatile ferroelectric random access memory (F-RAM) and integrated semiconductor products, today announced immediate availability of its new F-RAM memory module (TWR-FRAM) that is compatible for use with Freescale Semiconductor’s popular Tower System development platform. Populated with a superset of Ramtron F-RAM core memory and integrated products, the TWR-FRAM offers engineers that develop with Freescale’s ARM® Cortex™-based Kinetis® and i.MX, ColdFire®, PowerQUICC™, QorIQ®, and other microcontroller and microprocessor solutions an easy-to-use platform to demonstrate, evaluate, and develop Ramtron’s F-RAM into … Read More → "Ramtron Announces F-RAM Memory Module for Use with the Popular Freescale Tower System"

Agilent Technologies Announces Industry-First Compliance Test Suite for DDR4 and LPDDR3 Logic Analysis

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 10, 2012 – Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced the industry’s only test suite for compliance testing of computer and embedded DDR/2/3/4 and LPDDR/2/3 memory applications. With this software suite and an Agilent logic analyzer, digital designers can monitor DDR/2/3/4 or LPDDR/2/3 systems in real time to identify elusive, intermittent violations in protocol or bus-level timing.

The new software allows users to customize tests, either by adding to existing test groups or by defining unique test groups of valid logic analyzer triggers for protocol or bus-level timing violations. Customized real-time compliance tests can be … Read More → "Agilent Technologies Announces Industry-First Compliance Test Suite for DDR4 and LPDDR3 Logic Analysis"

Starts Foundry Service to Offer Direct Access to Open-Platform 3-Axis Inertial Sensor Process

Erfurt, Germany – Sept. 12, 2012 – X-FAB Silicon Foundries, which has shipped more than a billion MEMS devices, today announced the industry’s first open-platform MEMS 3D inertial sensor process available directly from a high-volume pure-play foundry. With access to the new 3D inertial sensor process, fabless and other companies will be able to apply their own design or use X-FAB’s design partner, and immediately run wafer volumes without long and costly process development. X-FAB’s open-platform process results in … Read More → "Starts Foundry Service to Offer Direct Access to Open-Platform 3-Axis Inertial Sensor Process"

TI’s PMBus™ server power management and protection IC delivers most accurate power monitoring for Intel® Node Manager capable server platforms

DALLAS (Sept. 11, 2012) – Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NASDAQ: TXN) today introduced a new server monitoring, protection and control IC with on-chip PMBus™ support. The LM25066IA is fully compliant to Intel® Node Manager 2.0 and provides designers of servers with a system power management and protection solution that interfaces directly with the Intel management engine. The LM25066IA delivers 1-percent current measurement accuracy and 2-percent power measurement accuracy over the server operating temperature range, enabling these dynamic server platforms to implement power capping schemes that minimize operating expense and improve reliability in data centers. For more information and samples, … Read More → "TI’s PMBus™ server power management and protection IC delivers most accurate power monitoring for Intel® Node Manager capable server platforms"

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