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Honeywell Introduces SMART Position Sensor, Rotary Configuration

July 24, 2012

MINNEAPOLIS, July 24, 2012 – Honeywell (NYSE: HON) is rounding out its SMART position sensor portfolio with the new Rotary Configuration that provides 360° non-contact angular position sensing. With this product, Honeywell offers a SMART Position Sensor that encompasses the most basic geometric configurations: lines, angles, and circles. The new sensor is highly durable, accurate, and cost-effective, enabling design engineers to replace an optical encoder, or to utilize a sensor instead of a resolver which can be expensive and difficult to integrate into a system. 

The SMART Position Sensor utilizes non-contact magnetoresistive ( … Read More → "Honeywell Introduces SMART Position Sensor, Rotary Configuration"

Zuken Introduces E³.series Industry Editions

July 24, 2012

July 24, 2012 – Munich, Germany and Westford, MA, USA – Zuken announces E³.series industry editions, which are now available with E³.series 2012 – its leading electrical and fluid CAD software. E³.series 2012 has many enhancements and includes specially configured packages for key industries.

E³.series industry editions are offered in the following configurations:

Synopsys Mixed-Signal IC Design Solution Qualified for TowerJazz Power Management Reference Flow 2.0

July 24, 2012

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. and MIGDAL HAEMEK, Israel, July 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, and TowerJazz (NASDAQ: TSEM, TASE: TSEM), the global specialty foundry leader, today announced that they have qualified Synopsys’ unified mixed-signal IC design solution for TowerJazz’s power management analog/mixed-signal reference design flow (Reference Flow 2.0) and 180-nanometer (nm) Power Management (PM) interoperable process design kit (iPDK). Synopsys’ tool suite, the foundry iPDK and reference design flow are verified to seamlessly work together to enable designers to quickly become productive.

Synopsys’ unified … Read More → "Synopsys Mixed-Signal IC Design Solution Qualified for TowerJazz Power Management Reference Flow 2.0"

RFPA2089 0.25W, 50MHz to 2700MHz InGaP HBT POWER AMPLIFIER

July 24, 2012

RFMD’s new RFPA2089 is a single-stage InGaP HBT power amplifier specifically designed for wireless infrastructure applications. It offers high-gain linear operation at a comparably low DC power making it ideal for next generation radios requiring high efficiency. Its external matching allows for use across various radio platforms.

Features

  • -60dBc ACPR at 13dBm WCDMA
  • 0.25W OP1dB
  • Excellent Linearity-to-DC Power Ratio
  • 17.6dB Gain at 2.65GHz
  • Single-Supply 5V Operation
  • Class 2 (2000V) HBM ESD

Applications

Latest Synopsys Virtualizer Release Speeds Virtual Prototype Creation by up to 3X

July 24, 2012

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., July 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Highlights:

  • Enhanced model authoring capability speeds the creation of SystemC-based transaction-level models used to build virtual prototypes
  • New import function reduces modeling effort and errors by automating model generation from IP specifications captured in popular formats such as IP-XACT, Excel, Word and PDF
  • New simulation profiler quickly identifies execution bottlenecks to enable faster prototype simulation performance
  • Deeper integration with popular software debuggers such as ARM Development Studio 5 (DS-5™) and Lauterbach TRACE32 System helps identify difficult bugs through multicore and context-aware debugging</ … Read More → "Latest Synopsys Virtualizer Release Speeds Virtual Prototype Creation by up to 3X"

Ramtron and ROHM Sign F-RAM Product Manufacturing Agreement

July 23, 2012

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO — July 23, 2012 — U.S. semiconductor maker Ramtron International Corporation (Nasdaq: RMTR), a leading developer and supplier of low energy nonvolatile ferroelectric random access memory (F-RAM) and integrated semiconductor products, announced today that it has entered into a Manufacturing and License Partnering Agreement with ROHM Co., Ltd. of Japan. Under the long-term agreement, ROHM will manufacture F-RAM-based semiconductor products for Ramtron on ROHM’s established F-RAM manufacturing line.

Initial low-density F-RAM products have already been qualified for commercial production and Ramtron expects to receive and begin selling the first devices produced on ROHM’s manufacturing line … Read More → "Ramtron and ROHM Sign F-RAM Product Manufacturing Agreement"

Surge Stopper Integrates Ideal Diode for Comprehensive Protection Against Transient Voltages, Currents & Reverse Inputs & Outputs

July 23, 2012

MILPITAS, CA – July 23, 2012 – Linear Technology Corporation introduces the LTC4364, a surge stopper with ideal diode, providing compact and low-loss protection for 4V to 80V electronics in automotive, avionics and industrial systems. The surge stopper shields downstream electronics from input overvoltages and overcurrent, enabling continuous operation through transient surges. Overcurrent limiting protects the system and supply from  short-circuits at the load. Unique to the LTC4364 is ideal … Read More → "Surge Stopper Integrates Ideal Diode for Comprehensive Protection Against Transient Voltages, Currents & Reverse Inputs & Outputs"

Arasan Chip Systems Announces support of new JEDEC standard; eMMC 4.51

July 23, 2012

San Jose, California – July 20, 2012 – Arasan Chip Systems, Inc. (“Arasan”), a leading provider of Total IP Solutions, announced today the support of the new standard eMMC 4.51 in their SD4.0/SDIO4.0/eMMC4.51 andSD3.0/SDIO3.0/eMMC4.51 Host Controller IP.  

JEDEC published JESD84-B451: Embedded MultiMediaCard (eMMC), Electrical Standard (Version 4.51) in June 2012. Continuing the evolution of eMMC as an industry-leading memory standard for embedded non-volatile storage of system code, software applications and user data, the new v4.51 is a replacement of v4.5.

Arasan’s SD4.0/SDIO4.0/eMMC4.51 and SD3.0/SDIO3.0/ … Read More → "Arasan Chip Systems Announces support of new JEDEC standard; eMMC 4.51"

CES-Creative Electronic Systems Selects Green Hills Software’s INTEGRITY RTOS for VPX SBC Family

July 23, 2012

SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA and GENEVA, SWITZERLAND — July 23, 2012 — Green Hills Software, the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutions, and CES-Creative Electronic Systems SA, a worldwide provider of aerospace and defense boards and systems, announced today that CES has selected Green Hills Software’s INTEGRITY®-11 real-time operating system (RTOS) to be hosted on its newest 3U VPX single board computer (SBC) family (RIOV-2473 and RIOV-2478). The boards feature Freescale QorIQ™ P4080 processors, providing enormous flexibility of high-speed serial connections including PCI Express, serial RapidIO and 10 Gigabit Ethernet.

“Creative Electronic Systems chose INTEGRITY-11 to tap … Read More → "CES-Creative Electronic Systems Selects Green Hills Software’s INTEGRITY RTOS for VPX SBC Family"

SoCIP 2012 Conference Addressed Next Generation SoC Challenges

July 23, 2012

Shanghai, China – July 23, 2012 – S2C Inc., the organizer of the SoCIP show, announced that the SoCIP 2012 show  held in Shanghai and Beijing was a success, with over 300 qualified attendees. The conference addressed many new design and verification challenges arising from building the next generation SoC such as for mobile computing, consumer electronics and communication systems.  A series of seminar sessions were presented throughout the day by SpringSoft, Tensilica</ … Read More → "SoCIP 2012 Conference Addressed Next Generation SoC Challenges"

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