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CoventorWare 2012 Software Increases 3D Simulation Capacity And Accuracy To Ease Verification Of Complex MEMS Devices

CARY, North Carolina – January 30, 2012 – At the IEEE MEMS 2012 Conference today, Coventor®, Inc., the leading supplier of software for developing micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), introduced the 2012 release of its best-in-class CoventorWare® solution for MEMS design verification and optimization. CoventorWare 2012 capitalizes on increased computing power and software algorithm advancements to enable more complete and accurate verification of state-of-the-art MEMS designs.

CoventorWare 2012 continues to set the standard … Read More → "CoventorWare 2012 Software Increases 3D Simulation Capacity And Accuracy To Ease Verification Of Complex MEMS Devices"

Tilera Leaps Forward With the Breakthrough TILE-Gx Family, Design Wins and Welcomes Back Co-Founder as CEO

SAN JOSE, CA–(Marketwire – Jan 30, 2012) –

  • Tilera announces the immediate availability of the 36 and 16-core TILE-Gx™ 64-bit processors and evaluation systems
  • Shattering performance and performance per-watt benchmarks
  • More than 80 customers lined up, including Harmonic and Mercury Computer Systems
  • Devesh Garg, co-founder of Tilera, rejoins the company as CEO

Tilera® Corporation, the leader in manycore microprocessors, today announced several significant steps for the company including the immediate general availability of two of its highly anticipated, low-power, high-performance 64-bit processors — TILE-Gx36™ and TILE-Gx16™ — as well as … Read More → "Tilera Leaps Forward With the Breakthrough TILE-Gx Family, Design Wins and Welcomes Back Co-Founder as CEO"

QuickLogic Introduces New Background Color Compensator for Pico Projectors

Sunnyvale, CA – January 31, 2012 — QuickLogic Corporation (NASDAQ: QUIK), the leader in low power Customer Specific Standard Products (CSSPs), is proud to announce availability of a new Proven System Block (PSB) called the Background Color Compensator (BCC.)   This technology allows pico projected-content to be correctly viewed on projected surfaces of various colors. 

Hard-mounted projectors, such as those found in movie theatres and conference rooms, nearly always project onto a white screen.& … Read More → "QuickLogic Introduces New Background Color Compensator for Pico Projectors"

Mentor Graphics Announces Major New Functionality in HyperLynx Release 8.2

DESIGNCON 2012, SANTA CLARA, Calif., January 30, 2012 — Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced the release of version 8.2 of the HyperLynx® suite of analysis tools offering significant new functionality for optimizing printed circuit board (PCB) designs, including 3D full-wave field solving, and integrated thermal/power co-simulation analysis capabilities. Analysis of today’s multi-GHz SERDES channel interconnects—such as PCIe-Gen 3—requires specialized 3D modeling for accurate signal integrity analysis.

< … Read More → "Mentor Graphics Announces Major New Functionality in HyperLynx Release 8.2"

Altium collaborates with Altera to release new online component resources and software support

Karlsruhe, Germany, 30 January 2012 – Altium, developer of next-generation electronics design software and services, announces new devices and updates to the board-level components from Altera’s Stratix® IV FPGA and MAX® V CPLD device families available in its online content delivery ecosystem, Altium. The release coincides with the inclusion of Altera Stratix IV FPGA and MAX V CPLD device support in the latest update for Altium Designer <http://products. … Read More → "Altium collaborates with Altera to release new online component resources and software support"

SiSoft Presents Tutorial on IBIS-AMI Model Quality

Santa Clara, CA – January 30, 2012 – Signal Integrity Software, Inc. (SiSoft™) will present a tutorial entitled “IBIS-AMI Models – How to Tell a Peach from a Lemon” at DesignCon 2012 today.  The tutorial will cover basic concepts behind IBIS-AMI models, real-world examples of IBIS-AMI model problems and how to use a publicly available test bench.

“We’re working to raise awareness of IBIS-AMI model … Read More → "SiSoft Presents Tutorial on IBIS-AMI Model Quality"

Microsemi Introduces Energy-efficient PoE (EEPoE) Midspans at Cisco Live London Show

ALISO VIEJO, Calif. and LONDON—Jan. 30, 2012—Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq:MSCC), a leading provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance, today announced its new high-efficiency Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) midspans at the Cisco Live London show. The new PoE devices reduce energy consumption on network cables by as much as 50 percent compared to alternative midspans and PoE network switches. The Microsemi PowerDsine® PD-5524G EEPoE midspan complies with IEEE802.3at 2009 standards for delivering up to 30 watts (W) of power to network devices including IP cameras, access control systems and thin clients, over the same … Read More → "Microsemi Introduces Energy-efficient PoE (EEPoE) Midspans at Cisco Live London Show"

Lockheed Martin’s Mission Systems and Sensors Division Selects LynuxWorks LynxOS RTOS for UK AWACS

SAN DIEGO, CA, AFCEA West–January 25, 2012–LynuxWorks, Inc. announced that the Mission Systems and Sensors Division (MS2) of Lockheed Martin in Owego, NY, has selected the LynxOS real-time operating system (RTOS) and Luminosity Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for use in conjunction with the United Kingdom (UK) Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS).

The UK’ … Read More → "Lockheed Martin’s Mission Systems and Sensors Division Selects LynuxWorks LynxOS RTOS for UK AWACS"

Marsh Bellofram Announces Global Market Introduction of UPA-200 High-Voltage Power Alert Series

January 25, 2012, Newell, West Virginia, USA – The Diversified Electronics division of Marsh Bellofram Corporation(www.marshbellofram.com), a member of the Marsh Bellofram Group of Companies, has announced the global market introduction of the UPA-200 high-voltage universal power alert series, available beginning in March 2012.

The UPA-200 series is a reliable safety tool for pre-verification of the presence or absence of residual electrical power or charges, or as a zero energy indicator, both before or during mechanical lock out/tag out ( … Read More → "Marsh Bellofram Announces Global Market Introduction of UPA-200 High-Voltage Power Alert Series"

Agilent Technologies Introduces Industry’s First Reference Clock Multiplier for Receiver Test

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 24, 2012 – Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced the industry’s first reference clock multiplier. The Agilent N4880A reference clock multiplier enables R&D and test engineers to lock the pattern generator clock of the J-BERT N4903B and the ParBERT 81250A  to reference clocks from the system under test.

The new solution supports multiple reference clock rates … Read More → "Agilent Technologies Introduces Industry’s First Reference Clock Multiplier for Receiver Test"

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