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National Instruments Technology Helps Virginia Tech Win EcoCAR Competition

July 25, 2011 – Virginia Tech recently was named the overall winner of EcoCAR: The NeXt Challenge, a three-year collegiate vehicle engineering competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy and General Motors (GM). The Virginia Tech Hybrid Electric Vehicle Team (HEVT) designed and built an extended-range electric vehicle (EREV) that uses E85 (ethanol) and achieves fuel efficiency of 81.9 miles per gallon gasoline equivalent. With National Instruments reconfigurable software and hardware, the team used a graphical system design approach to design, prototype, validate and deploy a control strategy for the vehicle’s hybrid components.

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Exar Licenses PowerXR Technology to Zarlink Semiconductor for Residential Gateway Platforms

Fremont, California, 10 August 2011 – Exar Corporation (Nasdaq: EXAR), today announced it has entered into a product license agreement with Zarlink Semiconductor (TSX: ZL). This agreement significantly expands the available market for both companies by delivering dynamic power management and monitoring products to residential gateways. Exar’s PowerXR technology will be used with Zarlink’s low power voice solutions to provide programmable solutions that will exceed energy efficiency requirements for residential gateways as outlined by the Home Gateway Initiative.

“Exar is pleased to be working with Zarlink to drive the adoption of programmable power technology into … Read More → "Exar Licenses PowerXR Technology to Zarlink Semiconductor for Residential Gateway Platforms"

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

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 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

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

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"

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

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"

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