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Honeywell Expands Industry-leading TruStability® Platform With New Board Mount Ultra-Low Pressure Sensors

August 10, 2011

MINNEAPOLIS, August 9, 2011 – Honeywell (NYSE:HON) continues to expand its TruStability^® Board Mount Pressure Sensor platform with a new Ultra-Low Pressure Sensor that provides industry-leading long term stability, Total Error Band (TEB), accuracy, flexibility, and high burst and working pressures.

The TruStability^® Ultra-Low Pressure Sensors HSC (High Accuracy Silicon Ceramic) Series and SSC ( … Read More → "Honeywell Expands Industry-leading TruStability® Platform With New Board Mount Ultra-Low Pressure Sensors"

Meggitt Sensing Systems Introduces Miniature, General Purpose Endevco Piezoelectric Accelerometer

August 10, 2011

August 9, 2011, San Juan Capistrano, California, USA – Meggitt Sensing Systems, a Meggitt group division, has announced the global market introduction of the Endevco® model 2250A, an extremely small, adhesive mounted ISOTRON® piezoelectric accelerometer with integral electronics, designed to support high-reliability vibration measurements of mini-structures and smaller objects within aerospace, automotive, electronic product and product life cycle testing (HALT/HASS/ESS) applications.

Offered with a sensitivity of 10 mV/g, the Endevco® model 2250A features high resonance frequency and wide bandwidth, with a lightweight (0.4 gm) design that effectively eliminates mass loading effects. The accelerometer incorporates … Read More → "Meggitt Sensing Systems Introduces Miniature, General Purpose Endevco Piezoelectric Accelerometer"

TI introduces industry’s lowest power near field communication transceiver that lets developers create designs with faster, easier data transfers

August 10, 2011

Dallas, TX (August 9, 2011) – Raising the standard for ultra-low-power near field communication (NFC) devices, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) today announced the industry’s lowest power contactless short-range communication transceiver. Ideal for infrastructure devices, the new TRF7970A extends battery life up to 2 times longer than competitive products, as it provides eight selectable power modes ranging from <1 µA in power-down mode to 120 mA in full-power mode. The transceiver comes with easy-to-configure software to help developers get started quickly. Royalty-free stacks are compatible across a broad range of ultra-low-power MSP microcontrollers. Additionally, developers are able to … Read More → "TI introduces industry’s lowest power near field communication transceiver that lets developers create designs with faster, easier data transfers"

Synchronous Step-Down DC/DC Controller Using Nonlinear Control & Differential Output Sensing for Tight Output Voltage Regulation

August 10, 2011

MILPITAS, CA – August 10, 2011 – Linear Technology Corporation introduces the LTC3867, a fixed frequency synchronous step-down DC/DC controller with nonlinear control, differential output voltage sensing and clock synchronization. Nonlinear control minimizes the output voltage excursion during load transient events by increasing the operating frequency, allowing the LTC3867 to recover from a large load step … Read More → "Synchronous Step-Down DC/DC Controller Using Nonlinear Control & Differential Output Sensing for Tight Output Voltage Regulation"

Altera Named One of the World’s Top 100 Most Innovative Companies by Forbes Magazine

August 9, 2011

San Jose, Calif., August 9, 2011—Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) today announced it was named by Forbes magazine as one of the world’s most innovative companies. The list is a ranking of the top 100 leading-edge corporations that are … Read More → "Altera Named One of the World’s Top 100 Most Innovative Companies by Forbes Magazine"

Green Hills Software to Exhibit at AUVSI Unmanned Systems Conference in Washington, DC

August 9, 2011

SANTA BARBARA, CA — August 9, 2011 — Green Hills Software, the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutions, will demonstrate its latest embedded software solutions focused on software security, safety and availability for the autonomous control and payload community at the AUVSI Unmanned Systems Conference, August 16 – 19, 2011, in Washington, DC.

In booth #1327, Green Hills Software will offer a wide range of interesting presentations and demonstrations, including:

INTEGRITY Security Services (ISS) UCS Open Platform

Green Hills Software will demonstrate the ISS UCS Open Platform built on the INTEGRITY® pedigree. A Linux guest ( … Read More → "Green Hills Software to Exhibit at AUVSI Unmanned Systems Conference in Washington, DC"

Renesas Electronics Announces V850 Microcontroller Demonstration Platform for Continua®-Certified Blood Glucose Meter Agent

August 9, 2011

Dusseldorf, August 9, 2011 – Renesas Electronics , a premier provider of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced the availability of a Continua® demonstration platform based on the Renesas Electronics V850 energy-efficient microcontroller (MCU) with certified Continua Blood Glucose agent software. Implementing a … Read More → "Renesas Electronics Announces V850 Microcontroller Demonstration Platform for Continua®-Certified Blood Glucose Meter Agent"

New XDS560v2 STM Traveler JTAG Emulator

August 9, 2011

Northwich, Cheshire, August 2011 Kane Computing Ltd (KCL) are pleased to announce that Spectrum Digital, Inc., the leading provider of development tools for Texas Instruments (TI) Digital Signal Processors (DSPs), have released the USB bus powered XDS560v2 STM Traveler JTAG Emulator as a new addition to the XDS560v2 Emulator family. The XDS560v2 Traveler operates without the use of a standalone power supply thereby giving the user more portability and flexibility in their development and test environment.

The XDS560v2 STM Traveler is compatible with existing XDS560 … Read More → "New XDS560v2 STM Traveler JTAG Emulator"

Sensinode Ltd. Releases Updated Software Libraries for Texas Instruments Chips; Enables Large-Scale Embedded Internet Applications

August 9, 2011

Oulu, Finland – August 9, 2011 – Sensinode Ltd., a leading provider of software that powers the Internet of Things, today announced release of its Nanostack™ 2.0 Library for two hardware platforms from Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI); the CC2530 2.4Ghz radio frequency system-on-chip (SOC) and the sub-1 GHz CC430 SOC family, combining MSP MCUs and CC1101 RF transceivers, for ultra-low-power wireless network applications. With the updated release of Nanostack™ 2.0, developers can quickly implement embedded Internet applications that leverage LPRF technology in hugely scalable mesh networks.

The Sensinode Nanostack 2.0 … Read More → "Sensinode Ltd. Releases Updated Software Libraries for Texas Instruments Chips; Enables Large-Scale Embedded Internet Applications"

easyRadio Advanced innovative embedded wireless Solution from LPRS

August 9, 2011

LPRS, Europe’s leading supplier of short-range radio devices, is delivering production quantities of its latest generation of wireless modules, easyRadio Advanced (eRA). Manufactured in the UK, eRA offers significant improvements over earlier generations of easyRadio products and incorporates the latest version of LPRS’s unique easyRadio software protocol. This removes the complexities of developing a software interface to the wireless modules, significantly reducing end product development times.

The many existing users of easyRadio version 02 will find eRA pin-compatible and can easily upgrade their products to the new “advanced” versions as required. Free … Read More → "easyRadio Advanced innovative embedded wireless Solution from LPRS"