San Diego, CA, December 8, 2011 ? Express Logic, Inc., the worldwide leader in royalty-free, real-time operating systems (RTOS) with over 1 billion units deployed, today announced that its ThreadX® RTOS now supports Xilinx’s Zynq™-7000Extensible Processing Platform ( … Read More → "ThreadX® RTOS Adds Support for Xilinx Zynq™-7000 Extensible Processing Platform"
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Dec. 8, 2011 /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 GLOBALFOUNDRIES has certified Synopsys’ IC Validator physical verification product for 28-nanometer (nm), 40-nm and 65-nm physical signoff, with immediate availability of design rule checks (DRC) and layout-versus-schematic (LVS) runsets to GLOBALFOUNDRIES customers. IC Validator, part of the Galaxy™ Implementation Platform, is an ideal add-on to IC Compiler for In-Design Physical Verification, making it possible for place and route engineers to accelerate time to tapeout by eliminating … Read More → "Synopsys’ IC Validator Certified by GLOBALFOUNDRIES for 28-nm, 40-nm and 65-nm Design"
Dresden, Germany – December 7, 2011 – Adaptive Network Solutions, a leading system design house, announced today its new @ANY2400SC-3 IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee RF module for 2.4 GHz license-free ISM band. The ultra-small module is the first to feature multiple antenna diversity modes, which significantly improves data transmission reliability and provides superior connectivity. The module’s exceptional receiving sensitivity, high range, low power consumption and a footprint of just over two square inches makes @ANY2400SC-3 a unique offering in the market. The tiny modules enable quick and efficient solutions for energy management, building and industrial automation and other wireless sensing … Read More → "Adaptive Network Solutions Unveils World’s First IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee® Module with Multiple Antenna Diversity"
YOKOHAMA, JAPAN and LOS GATOS, CA–(Marketwire – Dec 7, 2011) – Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited and SuVolta, Inc. today announced that they have successfully demonstrated ultra-low-voltage operation of SRAM (static random access memory) blocks down to 0.425V by integrating SuVolta’s PowerShrink™ low-power CMOS platform into Fujitsu Semiconductor’s low-power process technology. By reducing power consumption, these technologies will make possible the ultimate in “ecological” products in the near future. Technology details and results will be presented at the 2011 International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) being held in Washington DC, starting December 5th.
Controlling power consumption is the primary limiter of … Read More → "Fujitsu Semiconductor and SuVolta Demonstrate Ultra-Low-Voltage Operation of SRAM Down to ~0.4V"
Northwich, Cheshire, December 2011 – Kane Computing Ltd (KCL) have joined forces with RTD Embedded Technologies Inc. to sell their range of high performance stackable boards and systems in the UK.
RTD Embedded Technologies Inc., a founder of the PC/104 Consortium specialises in the design and manufacture of PC/104, PC/104-Plus, PCI-104, PCI/104-Express, PCIe, desktop and 19-inch rack compliant modules and systems, addressing intelligent process control, data acquisition and processing, adaptive signal processing, video capture, telematics, wireless, field bus and power supply technologies.
Products include single board CPUs, DSP modules, power modules, analogue/digital … Read More → "High Performance PC104, PC/104-Plus and PC-104-Express Boards and Systems"
San Jose, CA, December 7, 2011 – Atmel® Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML), a leader in microcontroller and touch solutions, today announced the release of 13 new devices in 3 different product series in its 32-bit AVR® UC3 product portfolio. The award-winning AVR UC3 microcontrollers (MCUs) feature high performance, digital signal processing (DSP) instructions, USB connectivity, secure encryption and capacitive touch support. In addition to new devices in the existing UC3 L and UC3 A Series, a new UC3 D Series of MCUs is now available. Atmel’s AVR UC3 product portfolio now includes:
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 28, 2011 – Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced new optical switches that enable more cost-effective optical transceiver manufacturing tests and higher efficiency in optical component and cable verification.
Optical switches are used in fiber-optic test systems to automatically route optical signals. They are also used to optimize manufacturers’ investments in automated test equipment by improving repeatability and throughput and by supporting parallel measurements on multiport devices. Agilent’s new N77 Series switches accomplish these tasks with excellent … Read More → "Agilent Technologies Introduces Fiber-optic Switches for More Cost-Effective Optical Manufacturing Tests"
Northwich, Cheshire, 28th November 2011 – Kane Computing Ltd (KCL) are pleased to announce the signing of an agreement with NEXTXEN (Dallas, Texas) to distribute their NEXTWave™ Signal Processing Lab Software (SPL) in the UK.
NEXTWave SPL is a digital signal processing (DSP) software package that provides an exciting innovative interactive data analysis environment. NEXTWave SPL simplifies data processing and development and provides sophisticated waveform measurement capabilities and displays.
The main areas of innovation are using a game-based architecture for compelling 3D experience, beautiful 3D Spectrograms and leveraging Microsoft’s ( … Read More → "Signal Processing Software that works"
PITTSBURGH, Dec. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — ANSYS (NASDAQ: ANSS) announced that Totem™ software — from its subsidiary Apache Design, Inc. — has been deployed by Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited to analyze and optimize all their custom integrated circuit (IC) designs. This includes analog, memory, high-speed I/O, PMIC (power management IC) and RF ICs that are used in wide variety of consumer, mobile and communications electronic products. As custom IC designs increase in complexity, engineers face the challenges of … Read More → "Apache Design’s Totem Software Adopted by Fujitsu Semiconductor for Power Noise and Reliability Analysis"
Hilden, Germany and Oslo, Norway, December 7 2011 – SEGGER Microcontroller, a leading provider of software solutions for embedded applications, and Energy Micro, the energy friendly microcontroller and radio company, have announced that SEGGER’s high-performance embedded middleware suite now supports Energy Micro’s range of ultra low energy ARM® Cortex™-M3 based EFM32 Gecko microcontrollers.
The comprehensive feature-rich and high-performance software suite from SEGGER delivers an easy-to-use environment for embedded systems development, offering exceptionally low memory requirements, which minimizes Bill-of-Materials costs and enables significantly reduced power consumption overall. The middleware’s high performance … Read More → "SEGGER Microcontroller embedded software suite to support Energy Micro’s Cortex-M3 Gecko microcontrollers"
