January 25, 2012 – Mouser Electronics, Inc., regarded as a top design engineering resource and global distributor for semiconductors and electronic components, today announced it has stock available for immediate purchase of the Read More → "Mouser Electronics Shipping BeagleBoard.org’s Newest Member of the Pack – BeagleBone"
TOKYO, Japan, January 24, 2011—Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE: 6723), a premier provider of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced the availability of three silicon carbide (SiC) compound power devices, the RJQ6020DPM, the RJQ6021DPM and the RJQ6022DPM, that incorporate multiple SiC diodes and multiple power transistors in a single package to compose a power converter circuit or switching circuit. These are the second series of power semiconductor products from Renesas to employ SiC, a new material effective in reducing loss, and they are intended for use in home appliances such as air conditioners, PC servers, and power … Read More → "Renesas Electronics Announces Low-Loss Silicon Carbide (SiC) Power Device Series Integrating Power Conversion Circuit in a Single Package"
SAN ANTONIO, TX — January 24, 2012 — DistribuTECH, Booth 1745 — Green Hills Software, the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutions and the only provider of an EAL 6+, High Robustness NSA-evaluated and NIAP-certified real-time operating system (RTOS), today announced its new end-to-end ISS Security Solutions consisting of Suite B-Compliant Security Protocol Toolkits and Device Lifecycle Management (DLM) system, delivered by its INTEGRITY Security Services (ISS) business unit.
The Green Hills INTEGRITY® operating systems with an ISS Security Protocol Toolkit will add an additional level of reliability and authenticated security that ensures all embedded devices … Read More → "Green Hills Software Launches First End-to-End Security Solutions for Next Generation of Security and Management"
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Jan. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP used in the design, verification and manufacture of electronic components and systems, today announced that Yamaha has adopted the Synopsys Processor Designer™ tool for the development of its custom-designed digital signal processing (DSP) devices. Using the Processor Designer tool to automate the design and implementation of its XMP-1 DSP, Yamaha doubled the number of sound channels for their high definition sound generator device and taped out six months, … Read More → "Yamaha Standardizes on Synopsys’ Processor Designer after Cutting DSP Development Time in Half"
MILPITAS, CA – January 25, 2012 – Linear Technology Corporation announces the LT8582, a dual independent channel, step-up DC/DC converter with integrated fault protection features for output shorts, input/output overvoltages, and overtemperature conditions. Each channel of the LT8582 uses two integrated 42V switches: a 1.7A master switch and a 1.3A slave switch that can … Read More → "Dual 3A, 2.5MHz, 42V Boost/Inverting DC/DC Converter with Fault Protection"
DesignCon 2012 — AUSTIN, Texas — The Silicon Integration Initiative (Si2) announced today the “Why Do We Need 3D Design Standards” panel session at DesignCon 2012. This panel will be held on Tuesday, January 31 in Ballroom E at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA, from 3:45 PM to 5:00 PM.
This panel will explore whether the design community needs 3D IC standards to accelerate the adoption of 3D design, and if so, how the standards can be implemented, the priority of these required standards, what are the challenges in doing so and how … Read More → "Si2 Organizes 3D Panel at DesignCon 2012"
Bernin, France, and Tokyo, Japan, January 24, 2012 — Soitec (Euronext), a world leader in generating and manufacturing revolutionary semiconductor materials for the electronics and energy industries, and Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., a leading worldwide provider of compound semiconductor materials, have reached a major milestone in their strategic joint development program started in December 2010 by demonstrating four- and six-inch engineered gallium nitride (GaN) substrates and launching pilot production lines to enable wider market adoption. These substrates ? produced by transferring ultra-thin high quality GaN layers from a single GaN wafer to produce multiple engineered GaN substrates ? are ideally suited … Read More → "Soitec and Sumitomo Electric announce major milestone in strategic joint development of engineered gallium nitride substrates"
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Jan. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP used in the design, verification and manufacture of electronic components and systems, announced today that it has closed the acquisition of ExpertIO, Inc., a leading independent provider of verification IP (VIP) for industry standard protocols. The addition of ExpertIO’s team of protocol experts and its strong portfolio of storage VIP will accelerate Synopsys’ delivery of a broad line-up of high-performance, easy-to-use, full-featured VIP that can help designers address their growing verification challenges. The terms of the deal have not been disclosed.</ … Read More → "Synopsys Acquires ExpertIO"
XP Power today announced the fleXPower X15 and XM15 series of multiple output configurable AC-DC power supplies that suit high power medical and IT/industrial applications. The X15 series complies with the internationally recognized EN/UL 60950 safety specification for IT and industrial applications. Meeting the demanding requirements of the latest 3rd edition medical safety standards, and having low leakage, the XM15 series suit applications in medical diagnostic appliances, CAT scan and MRI equipment.
Capable of delivering 1500 W output at low line input, and 2500 W output at high line (> 180 VAC input), these compact fan … Read More → "XP Power extends fleXPower series of configurable power supplies up to 2500 Watts"
Leuven (Belgium) – January 24, 2012 – Imec and Genalyte announce that they have successfully developed and produced a set of disposable silicon photonics biosensor chips to be used in Genalyte diagnostic and molecular detection equipment. The chips combine imec’s standard silicon photonic waveguide devices with bio-compatible modifications jointly developed by imec and Genalyte. These chips allow for high levels of multiplexed biosensing due to the high integration level of Si photonics.
The newly developed Si-photonics biosensor chips were realized at imec, as part of imec’s silicon photonics CMORE service. A bio-compatible … Read More → "Imec and Genalyte report disposable silicon photonics biosensor chips"
