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Green Hills Software Achieves More Processor Performance Records

April 3, 2012

SAN JOSE, CA — March 27, 2012 — DESIGN West/ESC 2012, Booth #1227 — Green Hills Software, the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutions, today announced the highest compiler performance scores ever certified by EEMBC® CoreMark™, outperforming the nearest competing compilers by 35.5%. Higher performing processors mean embedded device designers gain a larger performance budget on the same core, enabling them to add new features, make existing features run faster and improve user interface response time without the need to add a faster or more expensive core.

The Green Hills Compiler 2012 achieved the highest ever … Read More → "Green Hills Software Achieves More Processor Performance Records"

ITTIA DB SQL and IAR Embedded Workbench® Make Embedded Development Smarter

April 3, 2012

March 28, 2012 — Bellevue, WA — ITTIA DB SQL is now available for IAR Embedded Workbench® and allows developers of embedded system and device applications to benefit from a complete leading-edge relational embedded database and comprehensive embedded workbench tools, empowering them with flexibility and ease of use.

ITTIA’s next generation embedded database technology, ITTIA DB SQL, delivers capabilities culminated from decades of database evolution in a compact, self-managing software library. IAR Embedded Workbench® is a high-performance C/C++ compiler and debugger tool suite for applications based on a variety of controllers. This combination opens … Read More → "ITTIA DB SQL and IAR Embedded Workbench® Make Embedded Development Smarter"

Green Hills Software’s MULTI Integrated Development Environment Selected by Nintendo for Wii U Development

April 3, 2012

SAN JOSE, CA — March 27, 2012 — DESIGN West/ESC 2012, Booth #1227 — Green Hills Software, the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutions, has entered into a global license agreement that will enable Nintendo Co., Ltd. to provide Green Hills Software’s MULTI® integrated development environment (IDE) to developers that are creating video game software for the upcoming Wii U platform, which is scheduled to be launched later this year.

“We selected the Green Hills Software solution because it generates highly optimized code, and Green Hills provides excellent global support,” commented … Read More → "Green Hills Software’s MULTI Integrated Development Environment Selected by Nintendo for Wii U Development"

flow90 – The power module of choice for 90-degree mounting from Vincotech

April 3, 2012

March 30th 2012 – Vincotech offers a wide range of power modules, one line of which is the perfect match for book-sized inverters and 19-inch rack-mounted power supplies with a 90-degree angle between the heat-sink and PCB. Called flow90 and featuring pins arrayed at a 90-degree angle, these modules are available as standard products with CON, PIM, and PACK configurations. Furthermore customized topologies like for switching mode power supplies and battery chargers are also commonly used in this package. This concept gets rid of flexible PCBs. The use of flow90 … Read More → "flow90 – The power module of choice for 90-degree mounting from Vincotech"

Dialog Semiconductor And TSMC Create A Process Platform To Advance BCD Power Management Leadership

April 3, 2012

Kirchheim/Teck, Germany and Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C, 29 March 2012 – Dialog Semiconductor plc (FWB: DLG), a provider of highly integrated innovative power management, audio and short range wireless technologies, today announced it is working closely with TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) to develop its next generation of bipolar-CMOS-DMOS (BCD) technology specifically tailored to high-performance power management ICs (PMICs) for portable devices.

The BCD process can support the integration of advanced logic, analogue and high-voltage features, including FET type transistors. It will also enable Dialog to create even more highly integrated, smaller form factor single … Read More → "Dialog Semiconductor And TSMC Create A Process Platform To Advance BCD Power Management Leadership"

Embedded Processors for ‘The Internet of Things’ must have highly integrated connectivity and supporting Cloud, portal technologies, says Imagination

April 3, 2012

DesignWest / ESC Silicon Valley Expo, San Jose, USA 26th March 2012: Imagination Technologies, a leading multimedia and communications technologies company, says that technology vendors targeting ‘The Internet of Things’ need to  provide far more than small conventional microcontrollers if products are to deliver the promise of everything being truly internet connected.

Tightly integrated Wi-Fi functionality, ready-made baseline and value-added internet services and cloud portal technology specifically designed to service the needs of the embedded community, all brought together as a tightly-integrated turnkey package, will become … Read More → "Embedded Processors for ‘The Internet of Things’ must have highly integrated connectivity and supporting Cloud, portal technologies, says Imagination"

Rainbow Brings A New Dimension to Displays

April 3, 2012

Glasgow, 2 April 2012: PCB technology company Rainbow Technology has developed a revolutionary new method for manufacturing touch-screen displays which it claims is more cost-effective, faster and greener than traditional methods.

The Rainbow Process Unit has been developed for PCB production but the technology can be equally applied to touchscreen displays as the technology is capable of producing very fine line circuitry (down to five microns).  The unit incorporates coating, imaging and developing of PCBs in one compact, automated unit.  Central to the success of the Rainbow Process is the proprietary etch wet resist which does … Read More → "Rainbow Brings A New Dimension to Displays"

Agilent Technologies Introduces Industry’s Widest-Bandwidth MIMO PXI Vector Signal Analyzer for Wireless Chipset Design and Verification

April 3, 2012

SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 27, 2012 – Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced the availability of a wideband MIMO PXI vector signal analyzer that delivers the industry’s highest-bandwidth signal analysis. The new analyzer enables R&D and test engineers to validate their MIMO 802.11ac designs with a unique combination of accuracy, speed, bandwidth and scalability in a small form factor.

Specifically designed for flexibility and growth, the wideband MIMO PXI vector signal analyzer (based on the Read More → "Agilent Technologies Introduces Industry’s Widest-Bandwidth MIMO PXI Vector Signal Analyzer for Wireless Chipset Design and Verification"

austriamicrosystems’ new RFID reader ICs fit power, size and cost constraints of embedded and consumer applications

April 3, 2012

Unterpremstaetten, Austria (April 3, 2012) – Two new RFID reader chips from austriamicrosystems (SIX: AMS), a leading global designer and manufacturer of high performance analog ICs, combine low-power operation, small size and low cost to offer an attractive route to RFID implementation in embedded, portable and consumer devices.

The AS3993 is an EPC Class 1 Gen 2 RFID reader IC which implements all the relevant protocols, including ISO 18000-6C, the ISO 29143 air-interface protocol for mobile RFID interrogators, and ISO 18000-6A/B (for operation in direct mode). Highly integrated – it includes an on-chip VCO and power amplifier – … Read More → "austriamicrosystems’ new RFID reader ICs fit power, size and cost constraints of embedded and consumer applications"

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