News – Page 2154 – EEJournal

Renesas Electronics and Renesas Mobile Introduce Single Chip Solution for Top View System with Image Recognition Capabilities

October 13, 2011

Dusseldorf, October 13, 2011 – Renesas Electronics, a premier provider of advanced semiconductor solutions, and its subsidiary, Renesas Mobile Corporation, an innovative supplier of advanced cellular semiconductor solutions and platforms, today announced the availability of their new image recognition system-on-chip (SoC), the SH7766. This solution integrates on a single chip all the functions required for the implementation of camera-based surround view systems together with the display of crucial information such as lanes, signs and markings, pedestrians, vehicles, etc.

The new SH7766 SoC retains compatibility with Renesas’ existing SH77650 image … Read More → "Renesas Electronics and Renesas Mobile Introduce Single Chip Solution for Top View System with Image Recognition Capabilities"

Exa PowerFLOW Reduces Aerodynamic Drag by 30% on America’s #1 Solar Car

October 13, 2011

BURLINGTON, MA, USA [October 13, 2011]— Exa^® Corporation, a global innovator of fluids simulation solutions for product engineering announced that America’s #1 solar car, the University of Michigan Quantum, has been dramatically optimized with Exa PowerFLOW and is prepared for the World Solar Car Challenge race in Australia this month. Using Exa’s PowerFLOW software, engineers achieved a 30% drag reduction compared to the previous car, resulting in an overall drag value below 0.1.

In order to design the most efficient solar car, the team chose Exa’s PowerFLOW software to analyze and … Read More → "Exa PowerFLOW Reduces Aerodynamic Drag by 30% on America’s #1 Solar Car"

Agilent Technologies’ Mobile High-Definition Link Test Solution Selected by Simplay Labs

October 13, 2011

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 11, 2011 – Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that Simplay Labs, LLC, which operates four global Mobile High-definition Link authorized test centers, has selected Agilent as its MHL test solution provider. Agilent’s test solution meets the requirements of the MHL Compliance Test Specification 1.1 and is listed as recommended test equipment.

The MHL standard defines an optimized-for-mobile audio/video wired interface for portable devices … Read More → "Agilent Technologies’ Mobile High-Definition Link Test Solution Selected by Simplay Labs"

Vector Fabrics Joins ARM Connected Community

October 13, 2011

Eindhoven, October 13, 2011 – Vector Fabrics today announced it is now a member of the ARM^® Connected Community^®, the industry’s largest ecosystem of ARM technology-based products and services. As part of the ARM Connected Community, Vector Fabrics will gain access to a full range of resources to help it market and deploy innovative solutions that will enable developers to get their ARM Powered^® products to market faster.

Mike Beunder, CEO at Vector Fabrics: “Many of our customers have adopted multicore ARM-based … Read More → "Vector Fabrics Joins ARM Connected Community"

Frontier Silicon introduces a raft of new features to low cost digital radios in support of major DAB+ launch in Germany

October 13, 2011

Hong Kong, 13th Oct 2011: Frontier Silicon, the leading supplier of digital radio and connected audio solutions announced today the launch of new software for its widely adopted DAB/DAB+ platforms. This latest release not only brings advanced text and image capability with DL Plus and RadioVIS technology, but also provides a 20% improvement in power consumption.

DL Plus is an advanced text feature currently broadcast as part of the new national DAB+ service in Germany. Dynamic Label Segment (DLS) already allows a radio station to broadcast streaming text information to the display of a digital radio receiver. … Read More → "Frontier Silicon introduces a raft of new features to low cost digital radios in support of major DAB+ launch in Germany"

octoScope Announces Software for Adding IEEE 802.11n Channel Emulation Logic to Wireless Test Equipment

October 12, 2011

San Diego, CA– CTIA Enterprise & Applications– October 11, 2011 – octoScope, Inc., a wireless test solutions and services company, today announced its newest product, octoFade software. octoFade includes a library that implements IEEE 802.11n standard channel models enabling test equipment manufacturers and integrators to cost effectively and easily add channel emulation to test instruments used to test MIMO (up to 4×4) or conventional … Read More → "octoScope Announces Software for Adding IEEE 802.11n Channel Emulation Logic to Wireless Test Equipment"

smx® Scheduler Upgrade

October 12, 2011

Costa Mesa, California, October 11, 2011 — Micro Digital, Inc. is pleased to announce a new scheduler for its smx real-time multitasking kernel. The new scheduler has been designed to make smx easier to port to new processor architectures. In the process of improving the code, code size has been reduced by 30% and performance has been improved by 50%. In addition, stack overflow testing and stack high watermark recording have been improved and simplified.

Releasing a new smx scheduler is part of a long-term process at Micro Digital to steadily add new features to smx and to make it a more … Read More → "smx® Scheduler Upgrade"

austriamicrosystems announces industry’s highest light output photo-flash LED driver family with smallest device footprints

October 12, 2011

Unterpremstaetten, Austria (October 12, 2011) – austriamicrosystems (SIX: AMS), a leading global designer and manufacturer of high-performance analog ICs today announced its new AS364x series family of LED flash drivers for mobile phones, cameras and other portable devices. The high level of integration and 4 MHz operation of the DC-DC boost converter enable the industry’s smallest device sizes, yet still maintains the highest accuracy to ensure the best picture and video quality. Expanding the company’s extensive photo-flash offering, the new driver family supports output currents from 320 mA up to 2 A providing optimal solutions … Read More → "austriamicrosystems announces industry’s highest light output photo-flash LED driver family with smallest device footprints"

Telit Launches Ultra-Compact Standalone A-GPS Modules

October 12, 2011

CTIA Enterprise & Applications, Booth #435– October 12, 2011 – Telit Wireless Solutions, an internationally leading specialist in machine-to-machine (M2M) technology, launches the SE868 and SL868 – two state-of-the-art 48-channel standalone A-GPS modules for Telit Read More → "Telit Launches Ultra-Compact Standalone A-GPS Modules"

Altera Embeds Synopsys’ Virtual Prototyping Technology in New ARM-based SoC FPGA Offering

October 12, 2011

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 12, 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 the use of its comprehensive and proven Virtual Prototyping Solution in Altera Corporation’s (Nasdaq: ALTR) newly announced SoC FPGA Virtual Target software development platform. The Virtual Target enables engineers to begin writing software for systems based on Altera’s SoC FPGAs months before hardware availability, reducing development time and costs. Altera chose to leverage Synopsys’ … Read More → "Altera Embeds Synopsys’ Virtual Prototyping Technology in New ARM-based SoC FPGA Offering"