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Mentor Graphics Announces Industry’s First Integrated Solution for Component-to-System Thermal Characterization and Analysis

December 12, 2011

WILSONVILLE, Ore., December 12, 2011—Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced the electronic industry’s first combined technology for thermal characterization and simulation with T3Ster® hardware test products and its FloTHERM® software. The Mentor Graphics® T3Ster product is the world’s leading advanced thermal transient tester for semiconductor device packages and LEDs. Mentor’s FloTHERM product is the de-facto standard for electronics thermal simulation and analysis to predict airflow, temperature and heat transfer throughout electronics equipment including components, boards, and entire systems. The … Read More → "Mentor Graphics Announces Industry’s First Integrated Solution for Component-to-System Thermal Characterization and Analysis"

Arasan Chip Systems Announces 3rd Generation Hardware Validation Platform Family for Mobile Interface Standards

December 11, 2011

San Jose, California – December 8, 2011 – Arasan Chip Systems, Inc. (“Arasan”), a leading provider of Total IP Solutions, today introduced the third generation of its Hardware Validation Platform family targeted for validation of hardware and software infrastructure that comply with analog PHY based standards for serial connectivity between chips, camera and display modules, and flash storage in mobile platforms. Customers adopting emerging and existing protocols like MIPI’s Unipro, CSI-2 and DSI, JEDEC’s UFS and SDA’s SD4.0 … Read More → "Arasan Chip Systems Announces 3rd Generation Hardware Validation Platform Family for Mobile Interface Standards"

Lattice Semiconductor To Acquire SiliconBlue

December 9, 2011

HILLSBORO, OR – December 9, 2011 – Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC) today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire SiliconBlue Technologies, a pioneer and leader in Custom Mobile Device™ solutions for the consumer handheld market. Utilizing a single chip, ultra-low power Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) fabric, SiliconBlue’s mobileFPGA™ devices enable mobile designers to quickly add features to their mobile platform in areas such as connectivity, memory / storage, sensor management, and video / imaging. SiliconBlue’s mobile FPGA devices have already shipped in the millions of units to top tier consumer OEM’s.& … Read More → "Lattice Semiconductor To Acquire SiliconBlue"

Quadrant Engineering Plastic Products and Foresight Technologies Team Up to Produce High-Performance Wet Process Tanks for the Semiconductor Industry

December 9, 2011

Reading, Pa., November 30, 2011— Quadrant Engineering Plastic Products and Foresight Technologies found the perfect fit for Quadrant’s Symalit® PFA 1000 High Purity grade fluoropolymer to produce wet process tanks for new and replacement applications.

“We’re pleased with the results of working with Quadrant’s innovative solutions. With Symalit PFA material, we save significant cost and increase the level of quality for our high purity systems we deliver to our wet process semiconductor original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and end users,” said Scott, Osterman, vice president, Foresight Technologies. “Quadrant … Read More → "Quadrant Engineering Plastic Products and Foresight Technologies Team Up to Produce High-Performance Wet Process Tanks for the Semiconductor Industry"

andersDX Touch-dX Monitors bring Consumer-Style Multitouch to Industrial and Commercial User Interfaces

December 9, 2011

LONDON, 09 December 2011 – andersDX, market leader in the field of interface technologies and usability, has launched the Touch-dX family of medium-sized, robust, open frame monitors. These monitors, for the first time, make high-accuracy, responsive multi-touch performance commercially viable in a variety of non-consumer applications ranging from kiosks and point-of-sale systems to industrial process control, ATMs and gaming.

Leveraging patented, high-performance, optical tracking, ShadowSense™ technology, this plug-and-play monitor family offers up to five touch points and is mechanically compatible with ELO Touchsystems open frame monitors. Unlike many alternative technologies, the Touch-dX monitors can support any … Read More →

Xilinx Ships First Zynq-7000 Devices, the World’s First Extensible Processing Platform

December 8, 2011

PARIS, ARM European Technical Conference 2011, Dec. 8, 2011 – Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced its first Zynq™-7000 Extensible Processing Platform (EPP) shipments to customers, a major milestone in the roll-out of a complete embedded processing platform that for the first time offers developers ASIC levels of performance and power consumption, the flexibility of an FPGA and the programmability of a microprocessor. Customers who have developed systems using the Zynq-7000 EPP … Read More → "Xilinx Ships First Zynq-7000 Devices, the World’s First Extensible Processing Platform"

ADLINK Technology commits to ARM development by joining new Computer-on-Module initiative

December 8, 2011

December 8, 2011, San Jose, CA – Today, ADLINK Technology, Inc. announces it will support the new Computer-on-Module (COM) standard from Kontron for ultra low-power embedded architecture platforms with a whole new line of products. Building on our design experience with ARM/RISC in OEM and Intelligent Display projects, this marks ADLINK’s first endeavor outside x86 boundaries for a standard form factor product offering.

The new COM standard provides a very slim and low profile solution for ARM/RISC and SOC based ultra low power processors. The standard specifically targets new fast growing markets … Read More → "ADLINK Technology commits to ARM development by joining new Computer-on-Module initiative"

Atollic achieves full Energy Micro EFM32 family support with addition of Giant Gecko and Leopard Gecko targets in Atollic TrueSTUDIO

December 8, 2011

Jonkoping, Sweden, 8th December 2011 – Atollic® today announced its award-winning Atollic TrueSTUDIO® for ARM® C/C++ development tool now supports the Giant Gecko and Leopard Gecko series of ARM-based microcontroller devices from Energy Micro.

Atollic TrueSTUDIO now supports all currently available Energy Micro EFM®32 Cortex™-M3 families, including 160 devices in the Tiny Gecko, Gecko, Giant Gecko and Leopard Gecko families.

“Adding full support for all Energy Micro Cortex-M3 devices in Atollic TrueSTUDIO is a significant milestone for Atollic”, says Magnus Unemyr, Vice President of Sales and Marketing … Read More → "Atollic achieves full Energy Micro EFM32 family support with addition of Giant Gecko and Leopard Gecko targets in Atollic TrueSTUDIO"

Meggitt Sensing Systems Expands Endevco® Guaranteed InStock™ Piezoresistive Pressure Transducer Offerings

December 8, 2011

December 6, 2011 – San Juan Capistrano, California, USA – Meggitt Sensing Systems, a Meggitt group division, has announced the expansion of its Guaranteed InStock™ program to now include 19 Endevco® high-sensitivity piezoresistive pressure transducer models, with more than 400 units available for immediate shipment.

All of Meggitt’s Endevco® piezoresistive pressure transducers feature a four-arm strain gage bridge design, implanted into a MEMS diaphragm, for wideband frequency response and twice the sensitivity of traditional flat diaphragms for improved resolution. They are also shipped in special electrostatic discharge (ESD) packaging for added protection during shipment and … Read More → "Meggitt Sensing Systems Expands Endevco® Guaranteed InStock™ Piezoresistive Pressure Transducer Offerings"

Imec reports smallest fully-functional HfO2-based Resistive RAM cell

December 8, 2011

Washington, USA/Leuven, Belgium – December 7, 2011 – At today’s 2011 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), imec presents the world’s smallest, fully-functional HfO2-based Resistive RAM (RRAM) cell, with an area of less than 10x10nm². The new cell shows potential to meet the major requirements for future device-level nonvolatile memory. RRAM is an emerging technology for nonvolatile memory, a candidate to replace NAND Flash technology in the scaling race to sub-10nm memories.

Current charge storage based Flash memory technologies are believed to face scaling limitations beyond 18nm. To overcome … Read More → "Imec reports smallest fully-functional HfO2-based Resistive RAM cell"

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