PHOENIX—December 13, 2011 — Avnet Electronics Marketing, an operating group of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: Read More → "Avnet Electronics Marketing Introduces the Spartan®-6 FPGA Motor Control Development Kit"
HILLSBORO, OR – DECEMBER 12, 2011 – Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC) today announced release 1.4 of its Lattice Diamond® design software, the design environment for Lattice FPGA products. Users of Lattice Diamond 1.4 software will benefit from several usability enhancements that make FPGA design exploration easier and reduce time to market.
In addition, Lattice Diamond 1.4 software enhances support for the MachXO2™ PLD family by providing final production timing, power models and bitstreams for the entire family, including the latest wafer-level … Read More → "New Release of Lattice Diamond Design"
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 12, 2011 – Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced shipment of the latest release of its Electromagnetic Professional software, EMPro 2011.11. The updated 3-D modeling and simulation platform features enhancements to further speed and improve RF design and verification.
Tightly integrated with Agilent’s Advanced Design System, EMPro is used to create 3-D models and analyze electrical performance of packages, connectors, antennas and other RF components. The EMPro 2011.11 release builds on advances made available in the 2011.07 release, introducing key improvements to the finite-element method simulator:
HERNDON, VA – December 12, 2011 – Continuing its lead in enabling application developers to easily port their applications to multicore platforms, Objective Interface Systems, Inc. (OIS), the world’s leading provider of high-performance, real-time and embedded communications middleware solutions, today announced that its ORBexpress® product doubles message throughput when used with Green Hills Software INTEGRITY® 10 real-time operating system (RTOS) with symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) on a dual-core processor.
The INTEGRITY RTOS provides complete SMP support that is optimized for embedded and real-time use. … Read More → "ORBexpress Doubles Message Throughput Using INTEGRITY 10 on Dual-Core PPC"
HILLSBORO, OR – DECEMBER 12, 2011 – Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC) today announced release 6.2 of its PAC-Designer® mixed signal design software, with updated support for Lattice’s Platform Manager™, Power Manager II and ispClock™ devices. Users designing with Platform Manager devices now have more integrated access to the Lattice Diamond® 1.4 software design environment, also announced today. The advanced integration of the PAC-Designer 6.2 and Lattice Diamond 1.4 design software tools make more advanced digital design options available for Platform … Read More → "Lattice Announces New Version Of Mixed Signal Design Software"
Austin, TX (December 12, 2011) – Adding to its growing portfolio of motor control solutions, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) today announced a new motor control kit for spinning three-phase brushless motors with a Stellaris® Cortex™-M3 microcontroller (MCU). The new DK-LM3S-DRV8312 motor control kit features a 32-bit Stellaris LM3S818 microcontroller and DRV8312 motor driver to spin sub-50V, 6.5A three-phase brushless DC (BLDC) motors in minutes. The easy-to-use kit is a low-cost solution for high-volume motor control applications, including low-voltage fans, blowers, pumps, … Read More → "TI’s new Stellaris® ARM® Cortex™-M microcontroller motor control kit spins and tunes three-phase brushless motors in minutes"
MILPITAS, CA – December 12, 2011 – Linear Technology Corporation introduces the LTM8047 and LTM8048 1.5W output DC/ … Read More → "Tiny 1.5W Isolated Low Noise DC/DC µModule Converters Include Transformer"
Washington, DC, and Leuven, Belgium – December 7, 2011 – At today’s 2011 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) Imec and Holst Centre announced that they have made a micromachined harvester for vibration energy with a record output power of 489µW. Measurements and simulation show that the harvester is also suited for shock-induced energy harvesting in car tires, where it could power built-in sensors. In a tire, at 70km/h, the new device can deliver a constant 42µW, which is enough to power a simple wireless sensor node. These results, obtained … Read More → "Imec presents MEMS energy harvester suitable for shock-induced energy harvesting in car tires"
CHANDLER, Ariz., Dec. 12, 2011 [NASDAQ: MCHP] — Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller, analog and Flash-IP solutions, today expanded its sinusoidal, sensorless, 3-phase BLDC fan motor driver portfolio with the MTD6505—the industry’s first and only standalone, resistor-programmable driver that enables the selection of multiple back-EMF coefficient ranges. This unique feature allows engineers to design for a wide variety of 3-phase BLDC fan characteristics with a single device, thus … Read More → "Microchip’s 3-Phase BLDC Fan Motor Driver is Industry’s First With Resistor-Programmable, Sensorless Sinusoidal Architecture"
Uppsala, Sweden—December 12, 2011—IAR Systems, a leading provider of software tools for embedded systems, announced today that its build and debug tool chain IAR Embedded Workbench has been selected by Ocean Modules, an ISO 9001:2008 certified manufacturer of remotely-operated vehicles (ROV), for the next generation underwater technology. Ocean Modules V8 Offshore ROV is controlled through a combination of 8-bit Atmel AVR and 32-bit Atmel ARM MCUs and IAR Embedded Workbench was selected for its reliability.
Ocean Modules V8 Offshore ROV with its 360? control system can operate at … Read More → "IAR Systems development tools selected by Ocean Modules for next generation remotely-operated underwater vehicles"
