SUNNYVALE, California, February 27, 2012 – InvenSense, Inc. (NYSE: INVN), the leading provider of Read More → "Invensense® Launches MotionApps™ 5.0 Software For High Performance Location Based Services, Gesture Recognition, And Imaging Applications"
IPC APEX EXPO 2012, SAN DIEGO, Calif., February 27, 2012–The ODB++ Solutions Alliance has been established today to provide an open forum for implementers and developers of the ODB++ format, an intelligent, single-data structure for transferring printed circuit board (PCB) designs into fabrication, assembly and test. Introduced in 1995 by Valor Computerized Systems, ODB++ was the industry’s first open format for unified data exchange globally between PCB design and manufacturing companies. The proven and available ODB++ format … Read More → "ODB++ Solutions Alliance Established to Support Best Practices in Implementing PCB Design-Through-Manufacturing Flow"
SANTA CLARA, Calif., – February 27, 2012 – Calypto® Design Systems, Inc., the leader in Electronic System Level (ESL) hardware design and Register Transfer Level (RTL) power optimization, today announced bus interface libraries that connect hardware subsystems implemented with Calypto’s High Level Synthesis product (HLS), Catapult® Synthesis, with AMBA® AXI™ bus interfaces. The libraries include master and slave interfaces with both Transaction … Read More → "Calypto Delivers Bus Interface Libraries to Easily Connect High Level Synthesis Models to ARM Platform"
Stutensee, Germany – Today, at the Embedded World tradeshow, the founding of the Standardization Group for Embedded Technologies (‘SGET’ for short) has been announced. Leading embedded computer manufacturers, namely Advantech, congatec, Data Modul, Kontron, MSC, SECO, and the publishers WEKA Fachmedien and Vogel Business Media have announced to be among the founding members.
The SGET will hold its inaugural meeting at the beginning of March and will be committed to developing and maintaining worldwide valid embedded computing specifications, in order to propel new embedded technology standardizations meeting the demands of the markets. </ … Read More → "New embedded consortium for standardization management"
BARCELONA, SPAIN–(Marketwire – February 27, 2012) – GSMA Mobile World Congress — Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for networking, communications, and the digital home, today announced that Cavium will showcase the industry’s highest performing processors optimized for LTE Mobile Infrastructure, that scale from small cell base stations to the Evolved Packet Core (EPC). Cavium will demonstrate a line-rate LTE small cell base station solution based on the Read More → "Cavium Showcases Industry-Leading Mobile Infrastructure and Device Solutions Ranging From Small Cell Base Stations to Evolved Packet Core and Wireless Display for Smartphones at Mobile World Congress 2012"
Dusseldorf, February 27, 2012 – Renesas Electronics , a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced the RL78/L12 Group of ultimate-low-power microcontrollers (MCUs) with on-chip liquid crystal display (LCD) controller that reduce current consumption by approximately 30 percent compared to earlier Renesas products (Note 2). The new 16-bit MCUs are designed for products equipped with small LCD panels, including portable household appliances, healthcare devices, building management systems, and industrial applications, that require improved user interfaces and ultimate low power.
< … Read More → "Renesas Electronics Announces New Ultimate-Low-Power RL78 Microcontrollers with Built-in LCD Controller"HILLSBORO, OR – FEBRUARY 28, 2012 – Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC) today announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain the adoption of the MIPI Battery Interface (BIF) standard within the iCE40TM mobileFPGATM family of products. As an industry-created and adopted standard, the MIPI BIF single-wire specification accelerates the design and use of smart batteries in mobile devices.
Optimized for the iCE40 devices, Lattice’s MIPI BIF Master solution allows rapid support of this standard by existing mobile product chipsets and application processors. The Lattice … Read More → "Lattice Announces Support For Recently Released MIPI BIF Standard"
SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 27, 2012 – Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced participation at the Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exposition 2012 in Los Angeles, from March 6-8, at the Los Angeles Convention Center, Booth #737. At the conference, attendees will see how Xilinx® 7 series FPGAs, including the Virtex®-7 2000T device, the world’s highest capacity FPGA, can reach new levels of IP core integration to improve overall BOM … Read More → "Best-in-Class Transceivers and Market-Leading IP Cores Provide Optical System Vendors and Next-Generation 100G Optical Module Suppliers with High Bandwidth Communication Platforms"
SAN JOSE, Calif., February 26, 2012 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: CY) today unveiled the industry’s first single-layer touchscreen sensor solution with multitouch capability. The new SLIM® (Single-Layer Independent Multitouch) sensor delivers high-performance touchscreen accuracy and responsiveness with a true single-layer sensor panel, drastically reducing the cost of the most expensive component of the touchscreen. It enables low-cost touchscreen phones to offer users the ability to perform gestures such as pinch, zoom, flick, drag, swipe and other gestures requiring more than two fingers.
Increasingly, capacitive touchscreens are viewed as a … Read More → "Cypress Introduces Industry’s First True Single-Layer Sensor With Multitouch Capability"
SAN FRANCISCO (RSA Conference 2012) – Feb. 27, 2012 – Freescale Semiconductor is expanding its successful VortiQa networking software product line beyond traditional security and networking functionality. To help speed development and boost performance of embedded software for Freescale’s highly advanced multicore QorIQ and QorIQ Qonverge products, Freescale is introducing the VortiQa™ Platform Services Package (PSP), the industry’s first comprehensive embedded networking software framework for programming in the Linux® user space.
VortiQa PSP streamlines development by minimizing bare-metal coding tasks and shifting more application development to the familiar Linux user space. … Read More → "Freescale expands VortiQa networking software to include industry’s first comprehensive user space software framework for embedded Linux software development"
