June 26, 2012 – Mouser Electronics, Inc., regarded as a top design engineering resource and global distributor for semiconductors and electronic components, launched a new technology site on Mouser.com covering Read More → "Mouser Raises Overall IQ on Smart Grid Technology with Launch of New Technology Site"
SAN JOSE, Calif., June 27, 2012 – Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced its solution for designs using the Virtex®-7 field programmable gate array (FPGA) integrated block for PCI Express® x8 Gen3 with DDR3 external memory, providing developers with all the building blocks needed to get started on PCI Express Gen3-based designs immediately. The Xilinx® integrated blocks for the PCI Express Gen3 standard along with support for 1866 Mb/s high speed memory interfaces in mid-speed grade devices allow users to design systems that meet high system bandwidth … Read More → "Xilinx Integrated Block for the PCI Express Gen3 Standard Accelerates Productivity and Increases System Performance"
San Jose, CA—June 26, 2012—Maxim Integrated Products (NASDAQ: MXIM) announces several essential HetNet solutions needed for next-generation base-station equipment. The solutions include single-chip multiband radio transceivers, broadband gain blocks, direct RF synthesis DACs, and intelligent, digital, point-of-load controllers.
The cellular radio access network (RAN) is evolving to a heterogeneous network that demands a set of diverse analog and mixed-signal base-station solutions required for the main radio signal paths, baseband processing support, and power-conversion nodes. Maxim has anticipated the HetNet evolution and offers new solutions that deliver dense analog integration with high dynamic performance, low … Read More → "Maxim’s Essential Solutions Anticipate the Next-Generation Cellular Network"
MILPITAS, Calif. – June 26, 2012 – Touchstone Semiconductor, a developer of high-performance, low power analog integrated circuit solutions, today announced the new TS12001 voltage detector, which combines a 0.58V reference and a resettable latched comparator in a single package.
The TS12001 operates from a single 0.65V to 2.5V power supply and consumes less than 1µA total supply current. This device produces a reset signal whenever the monitored voltage drops below an internally preset 0.78V threshold or below an external, resistor-programmable reset threshold voltage.
The TS12001’s internal comparator exhibits ±10mV of hysteresis for clean, chatter-free output switching. The … Read More → "Touchstone Semiconductor Announces Its Newest 0.65µW Voltage Detector with Dual Outputs"
HSINCHU, Taiwan, June 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Global Unichip Corp. (GUC), the Flexible ASIC Leader(TM), today announced the availability of its second generation silicon-proven 10GBase-KR Multi-Standard SerDes IP (MSKR SerDes).
GUC’s MSKR SerDes meets the needs of today’s most demanding high-end networking and computing applications, operating at speeds ranging from 1.25Gb/s to 12.5Gb/s. It supports a number of standards including 10GBase-KR, XFI, CEI-11G/6G, XAUI, RXAUI and 1 GbE.
Designed in TSMC’s 40nm CMOS technology, GUC’s MSKR SerDes IP has achieved industry leading jitter generation (< 400fs) and jitter tolerance (> 0.75 … Read More → "GUC Announces 10GBase-KR, Multi-Standard SerDes IP"
DALLAS (June 26, 2012) – Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NASDAQ:TXN) today introduced three analog-input class-D stereo amplifiers for use in soundbars, after-market automotive solutions, portable audio docks, and LCD televisions. The TPA3116D2, TPA3118D2 and TPA3130D2 feature the industry’s highest programmable switching rate and widest power supply range, enabling audio output that is both high quality and highly efficient. The devices are pin-to-pin and software compatible and can support a single-layer printed circuit board (PCB), enabling cost savings by allowing designers to reuse a single layout for multiple designs. For more information and to order samples, visit Read More → "TI class-D audio amplifiers provide industry-leading supply range, switching rates"
June 26, 2012 — Bellevue, WA — ITTIA is expanding its database offering with support for Hibernate Java object persistence. Hibernate is popular open source object relational mapping tool for the Java platform and a new ITTIA DB Hibernate dialect provides powerful, high performance relational persistence and query options for Java applications. Developers of embedded systems and devices can now develop high-level database-driven applications easily with Hibernate and ITTIA DB SQL.
The ITTIA DB JDBC driver includes a Hibernate dialect that developers can use to quickly set up the Hibernate environment. In addition, ITTIA DB SQL supports a rich set of … Read More → "Hibernate and ITTIA DB SQL Provide Embedded Java Persistence"
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. –– June 26, 2012 –– Breker Verification Systems today announced that its TrekSoC™ software has been selected by STMicroelectronics’ Automotive Product Group (APG) toautomate the generation of self-verifying C test cases for multi-threaded system-on-chip (SoC) … Read More → "Breker Verification Systems’ TrekSoC chosen by STMicroelectronics Automotive Products Group"
Leuven (Belgium) – June 26, 2012 – Imec and Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. announce that they have entered into a three year research collaboration on reconfigurable radio IC design. By joining forces, Murata will gain insight and better understanding in technology solutions and challenges for cognitive reconfigurable radio front-end. This will enable them to better assess the impact on antenna interface components. Murata’s expertise on components and system will fuel imec’s research towards fully reconfigurable radios.
The trend in wireless communication to have ubiquitous access to a multitude of services drives the development of reconfigurable radios … Read More → "Murata Joins imec’s Research Platform on Reconfigurable radios"
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – June 26, 2012 – CEVA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CEVA), the leading licensor of silicon intellectual property (SIP) platform solutions and DSP cores, and eyeSight Mobile Technologies, a leader in touch-free interfaces, today announced the availability of an optimized software-based gesture recognition solution for the CEVA-MM3101 imaging and vision platform. The combined solution is targeted at a broad range of smart devices including smartphones, tablets smart TVs, automotive infotainment systems and more. eyeSight’s software leverages the CEVA-MM3101 to offer substantial competitive advantages over alternative implementations of gesture recognition-based technology. As … Read More → "CEVA and eyeSight Announce Availability of Software-based Gesture Recognition Solution for the CEVA-MM3101 Imaging and Vision Platform"
