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D-Tools Announces 2011 Project:SUCCESS Finalists

CONCORD, CA, NOVEMBER 01, 2011 — D-Tools, Inc., the worldwide leader in system integration software, is pleased to announce the finalists of the 2011 D-Tools contest, Project:SUCCESS. This contest recognizes excellence in system integration projects utilizing D-Tools System Integrator software. D-Tools held the contest to pursue SI5.5 users’ greatest success stories and designs about how the software has positively affected their business and returned a significant ROI. Designs from some of most distinguished system integrators were submitted by the D-Tools user base. The contest is sponsored by D-Tools … Read More → "D-Tools Announces 2011 Project:SUCCESS Finalists"

Green Hills Software to Exhibit at MILCOM 2011 in Baltimore, MD

SANTA BARBARA, CA — November 1, 2011 — Green Hills Software, the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutions, will demonstrate multiple technology offerings focused on trusted handheld, thin client and mobile computing at MILCOM 2011, November 7 – 10, 2011, in Baltimore, MD. The demonstrations will also provide a focus on multicore computing in real-time, embedded environments where safety, security and high reliability are paramount for deployed military communications.

In booth #547, Green Hills Software will demonstrate:

RTI Data Distribution Service (DDS) on INTEGRITY

Green Hills Software will demonstrate its industry-leading MULTI® tools suite, hosted in … Read More → "Green Hills Software to Exhibit at MILCOM 2011 in Baltimore, MD"

austriamicrosystems announces the highest performance NFC Reader IC for payment and automotive applications

Unterpremstaetten, Austria (October 31, 2011) – austriamicrosystems (SIX: AMS), a leading global designer and manufacturer of high-performance analog ICs, has announced the AS3911 NFC (near field communications) and HF (high frequency) reader IC. The AS3911 has unique capabilities not available in the market and enables a number of applications, including EMV (Europay MasterCard Visa) payment, access control, automotive, NFC Infrastructure, and ticketing.

With an on-chip capacitive sensor, the AS3911 reader IC requires only 5 μA of current and can wake in the presence of a tag.  This unique feature allows … Read More → "austriamicrosystems announces the highest performance NFC Reader IC for payment and automotive applications"

Cavium Announces Shipment of 64-Core NITROX(R) III — World’s Highest Performance Security and Compression Processors for Cloud Computing and Enterprise

SAN JOSE, CA–(Marketwire – October 31, 2011) – “With NITROX III, we now offer unmatched SSL, Security and Compression performance and Hardware virtualization support in a single chip within an extremely compact and power-efficient form-factor,” said Rajneesh Gaur, General Manager of Cavium’s Accelerator & Adapter Group. “With virtualized cloud services and enterprise applications driving an ever increased need for high performance SSL security with 2048 bit keys, IPSec and compression, our customers are designing winning solutions with NITROX III to address these high compute intensive requirements.”Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: Read More → "Cavium Announces Shipment of 64-Core NITROX(R) III — World’s Highest Performance Security and Compression Processors for Cloud Computing and Enterprise"

Accellera Chair Shishpal Rawat Talks about Roadmap for IP and System Design Standards at IP-SOC 2011

Who

Accellera, the electronics industry organization focused on electronic design automation (EDA) standards, invites IP-SOC 2011 attendees to hear Accellera chair Shishpal Rawat’s invited talk on The Roadmap for IP and System Design Standards.

What

The Roadmap for IP and System Design Standards
Shishpal Rawat, Accellera Chair
System, software and semiconductor design activities are converging to meet the increasing challenges of creating SoCs. Accellera is working with OSCI and the SystemC working groups, as well as the IEEE and other standard bodies, … Read More → "Accellera Chair Shishpal Rawat Talks about Roadmap for IP and System Design Standards at IP-SOC 2011"

Research: Graphene grows better on certain copper crystals

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — New observations could improve industrial production of high-quality graphene, hastening the era of graphene-based consumer electronics, thanks to University of Illinois engineers.

By combining data from several imaging techniques, the team found that the quality of graphene depends on the crystal structure of the copper substrate it grows on. Led by electrical and computer engineering professors Joseph Lyding and Read More → "Research: Graphene grows better on certain copper crystals"

Engineering Researchers Create World’s Most Efficient Flexible OLED

October 30, 2011 – Researchers in the University of Toronto’s Department of Materials Science & Engineering have developed the world’s most efficient organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) on plastic. This result enables a flexible form factor, not to mention a less costly, alternative to traditional OLED manufacturing, which currently relies on rigid glass. 

The results are reported online in the latest issue of Read More → "Engineering Researchers Create World’s Most Efficient Flexible OLED"

SiliconBlue’s new “Los Angeles” 40-nm ultra-low-power 640, 1K and 4K LP and HX devices sampling

SANTA CLARA, California, October 31, 2011 – SiliconBlue® Technologies, the leader in Custom Mobile Device™ (CMD), today announced sampling availability of three new iCE40™ “Los Angeles” 640, 1K and 4K mobileFPGA™ devices including the LP–Series (Low-Power) version and the HX–Series (High-Speed) version targeting smartphones and tablets, respectively. Both the LP and HX Los Angeles mobileFPGA devices provide support for sensor management, high-speed custom connectivity and the convergence of HD video and imaging. Fabricated on TSMC 40-nm, low-power standard CMOS process, the LP and HX families provide twice the logic capacity … Read More → "SiliconBlue’s new “Los Angeles” 40-nm ultra-low-power 640, 1K and 4K LP and HX devices sampling"

A SHARP New Microscope for the Next Generation of Microchips

Moore’s Law, hardly a law but undeniably a persistent trend, says that every year and a half, the number of transistors that fit on a chip roughly doubles. It’s why electronics – from smart phones to flat screens, from MP4 players to movie cameras, from tablets to supercomputers – grow ever more varied, powerful, and compact, but also ever less expensive. Whether the trend can continue until it runs up against immutable laws of nature, like the finite size of an atom, depends on how far scientists and technicians can push electronic technologies down into … Read More → "A SHARP New Microscope for the Next Generation of Microchips"

Boosting LED Efficiency: Zinc Oxide Microwires Improve Performance of Light-Emitting Diodes (LEDs) Through the Piezo-phototronic Effect

Researchers have used zinc oxide microwires to significantly improve the efficiency at which gallium nitride light-emitting diodes (LED) convert electricity to ultraviolet light. The devices are believed to be the first LEDs whose performance has been enhanced by the creation of an electrical charge in a piezoelectric material using the piezo-phototronic effect.

By applying mechanical strain to the microwires, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology created a piezoelectric potential in the wires, and that potential was used to tune the charge transport and enhance carrier injection in the LEDs. This control of an optoelectronic device with … Read More → "Boosting LED Efficiency: Zinc Oxide Microwires Improve Performance of Light-Emitting Diodes (LEDs) Through the Piezo-phototronic Effect"

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