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Innovative Wireless Companies Line up for Discovering Start-Ups 2012 Competition

September 24, 2012

24th September 2012, Cambridge, UK – The finals of the free-to-enter Discovering Start-Ups 2012 take place on 21st November when entrants will have the unique opportunity to pitch their ideas, technologies and business plans to an impressive line-up of some 25 leading investors and industry figures from companies including Orange Labs, RIM, Qualcomm, Vodafone Ventures and Google. The pitch event will be hosted at the flagship London headquarters of the legal firm Taylor Wessing and is also sponsored by Google, Rohde & Schwarz and SETsquared Partnership.

The competition has already attracted a wide range of entrants that include … Read More → "Innovative Wireless Companies Line up for Discovering Start-Ups 2012 Competition"

Tanner EDA Releases HiPer Silicon(TM) v15.23

September 24, 2012

MONROVIA, California – Sept 24, 2012 – Tanner EDA, the catalyst for innovation for the design, layout and verification of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs) and MEMS devices, has released version 15.23 of its full-flow analog and mixed-signal design suite: HiPer Silicon(TM). The addition of HiPer Simulation(TM) AFS to version 15.23 gives designers added capabilities for front-end design flow, including schematic capture, dual circuit simulators and waveform probing.

HiPer Silicon version 15.23 includes Tanner Analog FastSPICE (T-AFS), which integrates the Berkeley Design Automation Analog FastSPICE(TM) Platform with Tanner EDA’s S-Edit(TM) schematic capture and W-Edit(TM) … Read More → "Tanner EDA Releases HiPer Silicon(TM) v15.23"

New Atmel Cortex-M4 MCUs Consume 66% Less Power, Provide Highest Efficiency

September 24, 2012

San Jose, CA, September 24, 2012 – Atmel® Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML), a leader in microcontroller and touch technology solutions, today set new low-power and efficiency standards for ARM® Cortex(TM)-M4 processor-based microcontrollers (MCUs) with the launch of the new SAM4L family of devices, based on industry-recognized benchmarks.

Incorporating the company’s proprietary ultra-low power picoPower® technology used in the hundreds of millions of Atmel AVR® MCUs in the market today, the SAM4L family consumes just one-third the power of current solutions.

The Atmel SAM4L family is the industry’s … Read More → "New Atmel Cortex-M4 MCUs Consume 66% Less Power, Provide Highest Efficiency"

PC/104 DC/DC Supplies Provide Complete Power Management for Renewable Energy Sources for Off-Grid Computing

September 21, 2012

September 20, 2012, Arlington, TX – WinSystems today introduced PC/104 and PC/104-Plus highly integrated, “green energy” power supply modules for remote applications requiring renewable power sources. The PS394 series of DC/DC supplies support two inputs from solar panels, wind turbines, or other DC sources. Also included is a controller for battery charging and uninterruptable power supply (UPS) operation. These products are designed for applications not able to run off the standard AC power grid. They require only convection cooling and do not require a fan or heat sink … Read More → "PC/104 DC/DC Supplies Provide Complete Power Management for Renewable Energy Sources for Off-Grid Computing"

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"

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