Thursday, February 16, 2012 – THIEF RIVER FALLS, Minn., and THOUSAND PALMS, Calif., USA – Electronic components distributor Digi-Key Corporation, recognized by design engineers as having the industry’s Read More → "Digi-Key Corporation and Elektron Technology Expand Global Distribution Agreement to include Arcolectric"
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 15, 2012 – Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today introduced the industry’s most comprehensive compliance test application for systems using low-power double-data-rate 3 memory. In addition to accelerating the turn-on and debug of LPDDR3-based systems, the tool offers great flexibility to engineers working with nonstandard operating speeds and voltages, giving them an efficient way to characterize their LPDDR3 designs.
The Agilent U7231B LPDDR3 test application, which runs on Agilent Infiniium 9000, 90000A and 90000 X-Series oscilloscopes, provides LPDDR3 physical-layer compliance … Read More → "Agilent Technologies Introduces Industry’s Most Comprehensive LPDDR3 Compliance Test Application"
February 17th 2012 – Vincotech produces highly efficient power modules with various housings designed for a wide range of power and other applications. The offering extends beyond standard motor drive topologies such as CIB / PIM, PACK, and half-bridge modules to encompass products designed specifically for PFC, welding, solar, and UPS applications. This paper describes the underlying design concepts for Vincotech’s flow 0, flow 1 and flow 2 families, as well as flowSCREW 2s and the new flowSCREW w housings. It also discusses the pros and cons of Press-fit pins, DBC … Read More → "The Design Concept behind Vincotech Power Modules"
Leuven (Belgium) and Eindhoven (The Netherlands) – February 16, 2012 – At next week’s International Solid-State Circuits Conference (February 19-23, 2012, San Francisco, USA), imec and Holst Centre present 14 papers on low power design for wireless communication and wireless sensor networks, and organic electronics. Over the week, imec and Holst Centre will issue several news releases showcasing recent important breakthroughs in these different research domains.
Overview of the presentations:
Imec and Holst Centre’s biomedical chip for fast and accurate diagnosis has been announced by the European subcommittee of the … Read More → "Imec and Holst Centre present 14 key achievements at International Solid-State Circuits Conference"
SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 16, 2012 – Magma® Design Automation Inc. (Nasdaq: LAVA), a provider of chip design software, today announced that ZiiLABS, a pioneering media processor and platform company (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Creative Technology Ltd), has implemented its 14th design using Magma’s software. The recently announced 100-core ZMS-40 StemCell Media processor combines 96 of ZiiLABS’ StemCell media processing cores with four 1.5GHz ARM Cortex™-A9 CPUs to deliver stunning multi-tasking application and media processing performance and is optimized for Android-based handheld and tablet computing applications. … Read More → "Magma Enables ZiiLABS to Double the Performance, Cut Power by Half on 100-Core ZMS-40 Processor"
SAN JOSE, Calif. -February 16, 2012 –Blue Pearl Software, Inc, the provider of next generation EDA software that increases designer productivity and design quality, announced that it is shipping Release 6.0 of its EDA software, Blue Pearl Software Suite, for Windows and Linux operating systems. It includes enhancements that improve support for SystemVerilog and VHDL, as well as FPGA design.
“Our 6.0 Release improves support for SystemVerilog and VHDL and the FPGA synthesis flow,” said Shakeel … Read More → "Blue Pearl Announces Release 6.0 of EDA Software Suite with SystemVerilog and FPGA Enhancements"
SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 14, 2012 – Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced it has reached an industry milestone with over $1B in design wins for its newest line of 28nm field programmable gate array (FPGA) and extensible processing platform (EPP) devices.
To date, the company has shipped thousands of Virtex®-7, Virtex-7 2000T 2.5D stacked silicon interconnect (SSI), KintexTM-7 and ZynqTM-7000 devices worldwide to more than 90 discrete customers for nearly 350 design wins. With Xilinx 28nm devices, engineering teams can easily migrate designs between product families and build scalable … Read More → "Xilinx Reaches Industry Milestone with Record-Fast 28nm Product Rollout: $1B in Design Wins, Thousands of Device Shipments in First Year of Introduction"
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 14, 2012 – Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced enhancements to its industry-leading, high-resolution, wide-bandwidth M8190A arbitrary waveform generator. The enhancements give engineers greater flexibility and make it possible for them to create signal scenarios using the 5- to 7-GHz spectrum.
The Agilent M8190A is a source of high fidelity because it simultaneously delivers wide bandwidth and high resolution with up to 80 dBc of spurious-free dynamic range. This unique combination lets engineers create signal scenarios that push their designs to the limit and bring new insights to their analyses.</ … Read More → "Agilent Technologies Adds Frequency Spectrum to Arbitrary Waveform Generator, Enhances Versatility"
Dusseldorf, February 16, 2012 – Renesas Electronics , a premier provider of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced the availability of its lineup of five low-loss P-channel power metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect-transistor (MOSFET) products, including the μ PA2812T1L, optimized for use in charge control switches for lithium-ion (Li-ion) secondary batteries and power management switches for power supply switching with AC adapters.
Demand has increased in recent years for applications with lower power consumption by the overall system, longer running time … Read More → "Renesas Electronics Announces Low-Loss P-Channel MOSFET for Improved Power Efficiency in Power supplies"
February 16, 2012 — Bellevue, WA — Today’s industrial automation systems are advancing at an unprecedented pace, and systems designed nowadays in this field require innovative database software to efficiently and safely manage valuable data stored on embedded devices. ITTIA has predicted and recognized the evolution of these systems, and has included in ITTIA DB SQL those vital features needed to support these special-purpose applications.
Developers of industrial automation applications have simply relied on ITTIA DB SQL’s small footprint database library to store data in an interoperable, maintainable and safe manner. … Read More → "ITTIA DB SQL Anticipates Needs of Innovative Industrial Automation Systems"
