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XMOS Simplifies High Speed USB Audio Design

March 20, 2012

Bristol, UK and Burlingame, Calif. (March 20, 2012) – XMOS®, developer of the industry’s first event-driven 32-bit embedded processor, announces the release of its third generation family. The XS1-S Family delivers up to 700 MIPS of real-time performance per core combined with integrated analog functionality, enabling the highest quality, multi-channel USB audio applications. Combined with XMOS industry standard USB audio IP, the XS1-S Family of devices deliver the lowest latency digital audio interfaces. The first two products available in the XS1-S … Read More → "XMOS Simplifies High Speed USB Audio Design"

Xilinx Inaugurates Expanded Site in Hyderabad for R&D, Technical Support

March 20, 2012

HYDERABAD, India, Mar. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today underscored its commitment to the emerging, high-growth market and its growing employee base in India with the inauguration of a new, expanded Xilinx India site in Hi-Tech city. The 131,000 square-foot office building is more than double the size of the previous site to accommodate engineering labs and collaboration space for end-to-end product development, a larger, energy-efficient data center, and expanded facilities for customer and employee events.

Hosted by Xilinx& … Read More → "Xilinx Inaugurates Expanded Site in Hyderabad for R&D, Technical Support"

Molex Debuts Next Generation MobliquA™ Bandwidth Enhancing Antenna Technologies

March 19, 2012

LISLE, IL – March 19, 2012 – Molex Incorporated has released details about their development of innovative new technologies for antennas. The MobliquA™ antenna technology incorporates proprietary bandwidth enhancing technologies, which have been used successfully in Molex standard and custom antenna designs. The MobliquA technology is designed to improve impedance bandwidth in any application with a wireless … Read More → "Molex Debuts Next Generation MobliquA™ Bandwidth Enhancing Antenna Technologies"

Altium and Microchip Technology collaborate on new board-level design content

March 19, 2012

Karlsruhe, Germany – 19 March 2012 – Altium <http://www.live.altium.com/> , developer of next-generation electronics design software and services, a substantial expansion in the range of Microchip Technology Inc.’s board-level components available through AltiumLive <http://www.live.altium.com/> , Altium’s online content delivery system.

Developed by the Altium Content Development Center in collaboration with Microchip, this new set of high-quality board-level components include Microchip’s Linear, … Read More → "Altium and Microchip Technology collaborate on new board-level design content"

Cymbet Launches EnerChip CBC3105 Uninterruptible Power Supply in a Chip

March 19, 2012

Minneapolis, March 15, 2012 – Cymbet Corporation today announced the availability of the EnerChip™ CC CBC3105 smart solid state battery. The CBC3105 combines the award winning EnerChip battery with integrated input power conversion, battery management and regulated output capabilities. The Cymbet EnerChip™ CC is a smart rechargeable solid state battery Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) in a chip that provides power backup to microelectronic devices when main power fails. The EnerChip CC provides power supply monitoring and switches over to the internal solid state backup battery when the supply drops below a set threshold. The EnerChip CC product … Read More → "Cymbet Launches EnerChip CBC3105 Uninterruptible Power Supply in a Chip"

Innovative Antenna Design Offers Exceptional Multi-Band Performance

March 19, 2012

Nether Wallop, UK, March 19, 2012 — A novel and low cost antenna design offering efficient performance across multiple frequency bands is available from Ploughshare Innovations – the company that licenses intellectual property developed by the UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory. With a bill of materials (BOM) cost that is expected to be under 10 cents in volume, the new component can replace several antennas, to save on both the BOM and manufacturing costs of new generations of radio-equipped products.

The patented new design concept was created to eliminate the proliferation of antennas on military equipment, and … Read More → "Innovative Antenna Design Offers Exceptional Multi-Band Performance"

Cypress TrueTouch® Touchscreen Solution Drives “Floating Touch” Navigation Feature in New Xperia™ sola Smartphone from Sony Mobile Communications

March 19, 2012

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 19, 2012 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: CY) today announced that its TrueTouch^® controllers drive the “floating touch™” navigation feature for magic web browsing on the hot new Xperia™ sola smartphone from Sony Mobile Communications.

The Xperia sola’s floating touch is the world’s first smartphone to allow users to navigate by hovering a finger above the screen so it acts like a moving cursor without actually touching the screen. Once the … Read More → "Cypress TrueTouch® Touchscreen Solution Drives “Floating Touch” Navigation Feature in New Xperia™ sola Smartphone from Sony Mobile Communications"

New Pico Zenigata LED Line Up with 15 – 72.5 lumens

March 19, 2012

Hamburg, 19 March 2012 – With the new Pico Zenigata LED series, Sharp completes its portfolio for high-performance LEDs. With just a single LED, the types of the GM2BBxxQK1C series achieve luminous flux levels of up to 24.5 lumens and an efficiency of up to 125 lm/watt. Luminous flux and efficiency of the other two series were improved accordingly: above all the GM2BBxxQKAC (2 LED dies) reaches up to 46.7 lumens with an effective power of up to 120 lm/W; the GM2BBxxQK0C (3 LED dies) radiate up to 72.5 lumens at an efficiency level of up to 120 lm/W. All three … Read More → "New Pico Zenigata LED Line Up with 15 – 72.5 lumens"

Cadence to Keynote, Present Papers at ISQED

March 19, 2012

SAN JOSE, CA–(Marketwire – March 19, 2012) –

WHEN: March 19 to March 21Tom Beckley, senior vice president of Research and Development, Custom IC and Signoff, Silicon Realization Group at Cadence Design Systems, Inc, (NASDAQ: CDNS), will deliver a keynote on advanced node chip design at the International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED). In addition, Cadence engineers … Read More → "Cadence to Keynote, Present Papers at ISQED"

Renesas Electronics Introduces High-Performance and Compact SoC for High-End Hybrid Set-Top Box

March 19, 2012

Dusseldorf, March 19, 2012 – Renesas Electronics , a premier provider of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced the availability of its new system-on-chip (SoC) for high-end set-top boxes (STBs) the R-Home S1, supporting both worldwide digital TV broadcast reception and Internet content distribution.

Renesas positions SoCs for STBs as strategic products in its SoC business and have been aggressively promoting this business. In February 2011, the total shipments of Renesas’ STB SoCs reached 100 million units. At the same time, services that integrate communications, broadcasting, and Internet … Read More → "Renesas Electronics Introduces High-Performance and Compact SoC for High-End Hybrid Set-Top Box"