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BEEcube Announces miniBEE™- The Ultimate Full Speed Mixed Signal FPGA Prototyping Platform made portable

FREMONT, Calif., June 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — BEEcube Inc, a leading provider of advanced system-level FPGA prototyping platforms, BEE™ systems, today announces the ultimate full-speed mixed signal FPGA prototyping platform made portable’, the miniBEE. The newest generation BEE, the miniBEEis similar to BEE4 but made smaller.  miniBEE offers application flexibility and customization as well as significant throughput capacity in a smaller footprint.

“Not only is the miniBEE based on the latest Virtex 6 FPGAs, but we have incorporated the latest FMC and SFP+ expansion standards.  miniBEEis an unraveled one-FPGA platform.  miniBEE is coupled with very high-speed 10GE … Read More → "BEEcube Announces miniBEE™- The Ultimate Full Speed Mixed Signal FPGA Prototyping Platform made portable"

Green Hills Software Adds INTEGRITY RTOS Support for Freescale QorIQ® COM Express®

CHICAGO, IL — June 7, 2011 — Embedded Systems Conference, Booth 1115 — Green Hills Software, the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutions, today announced its comprehensive software development and run-time solutions for QorIQ® COM Express® Modules, bundled by Freescale Semiconductor and immediately available in the Freescale COM Express Development System kit. Green Hills support includes the INTEGRITY® real-time operating system (RTOS), award-winning MULTI® development environment and the Green Hills JTAG Probe, enabling designers to more easily begin developing high quality embedded software with the highest level of reliability and security on modular COTS hardware for industrial … Read More → "Green Hills Software Adds INTEGRITY RTOS Support for Freescale QorIQ® COM Express®"

AppliedMicro’s APM86791 PacketPro™ Embedded Processor Offers Advanced Security Features for Tamper-Proof Systems

SUNNYVALE, Calif.  – June 6, 2011 – Applied Micro Circuits Corporation, or AppliedMicro (NASDAQ:AMCC), today announced the APM86791 PacketPro™ Gen2 embedded processor aimed at growing network transport, enterprise and consumer markets. The APM86791 is designed to deliver the industry’s most advanced but cost effective network security measures for enhanced protection against intrusion threats, system hacking and theft of system-level intellectual property. The APM86791 leverages AppliedMicro’s SLIMpro™ Trusted Management Module (TMM) to offer multi-layered encryption and authentication capabilities that manufacturers and network administrators need to … Read More → "AppliedMicro’s APM86791 PacketPro™ Embedded Processor Offers Advanced Security Features for Tamper-Proof Systems"

CAST Complements Popular 8051 Family with New 32-bit Processor Core Partnership

San Diego, CA, June 3, 2011, 48th DAC — Semiconductor intellectual property (IP) provider CAST, Inc. has reached an agreement with Beyond Semiconductor by which CAST will provide Beyond Semiconductor’s BA22 processor core worldwide.

The BA22 is a fast, compact, power-saving, 32-bit RISC processor that CAST will offer without royalties. These capabilities plus easy development and integration features make the processor an excellent step up for CAST’s large base of 8-bit 8051 customers who need more processing power. In fact, the BA22’s programming code is so efficient that systems using it may require less … Read More → "CAST Complements Popular 8051 Family with New 32-bit Processor Core Partnership"

Compact AC-DC supply delivers 65 W of ‘green’ power from 2″ x 4″ footprint

XP Power announced today the ECS65 series of next generation single output open frame AC-DC power supplies. Capable of delivering 65 W and measuring just 2 x 4 x 1.05 inches (101.6 x 50.8 x 26.7 mm), these highly efficient convection cooled units are rated at up to 90% efficiency. Importantly, with a no load power consumption of less than 0.5 W, the ECS65 series will aid designers of end-products ensure their systems meet all internationally recognized energy efficiency standards.

The ECS65 has a wide operating temperature range from -20 degrees C to + 70 degrees C, that suits most applications. Full output power is available up to +50 … Read More → "Compact AC-DC supply delivers 65 W of ‘green’ power from 2″ x 4″ footprint"

SENSOR+TEST 2011: The Application of Color Measurement

Jena (Germany) June 7, 2011 – MAZeT GmbH, the provider of development and manufacturing services for embedded computing solutions and optoelectronics in Jena, will present the new Truecolormeter “colorStriker” from Mathai at SENSOR+TEST from June 7-9, 2011, at Booth 322 in Hall 12 of the Nuremburg Exhibition Center. “With this, MAZeT clearly and practically demonstrates exact color measurement with the JENCOLOR color sensors in use on a product,” explains Frank Krumbein, product manager at MAZeT. “We offer interested visitors the opportunity to take selected sample measurements themselves and form their own personal view of the precision and user-friendliness of the colorStriker.”

MAZeT … Read More → "SENSOR+TEST 2011: The Application of Color Measurement"

Intercept Technology Inc.® Releases Major Design and Manufacture Time Savings with Block Array Design Performance Gains

IMS 2011 – Baltimore, Maryland – June 7, 2011 – Intercept Technology, Inc., a leader in PCB/Hybrid/RF electrical engineering applications, today announced benchmark design performance increases of up to 75x using the latest enhancements in its Pantheon PCB/Hybrid/RF layout design application. In some areas, the improvements reached over 100x faster, giving Intercept software unprecedented speed improvements on the largest and most complex designs seen to date.

The performance increases are most notable in designs using Intercept’s block … Read More → "Intercept Technology Inc.® Releases Major Design and Manufacture Time Savings with Block Array Design Performance Gains"

Mixel Achieves First Silicon Success with its MIPI M-PHY I

San Jose, CA — June 13th, 2011 — Mixel® Inc., the leader in mobile Mixed-Signal Intellectual Property (IP), announced today that it has achieved first time success with its MIPI®M-PHYSMIP test chip silicon. Mixel’s M-PHY IP supports both TYPE I and TYPE II operation, A and B data rates, and all current and future MIPI M-PHY use-cases, such as DigRF v4, UniProSM 1.4, CSI-3, LLI, and JEDEC’s UFS. The MXL-MIPI-M-PHY-HSG2 supports High-Speed (HS) Gear1 (G1) and Gear2 (G2), as well as Low-Speed Gear 0 (LS-G0) through LS-G7. The IP& … Read More → "Mixel Achieves First Silicon Success with its MIPI M-PHY I"

Timesys® Enables LinuxLink Support for Freescale i.MX53 Multimedia Applications Processor

PITTSBURGH, June 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Timesys Corporation, provider of the industry’s most-easy-to-use and affordable embedded Linux solutions, today announced a LinuxLink offering for the Freescale Semiconductor i.MX53 family of energy-efficient multimedia applications processors, including support for the i.MX53 Quick Start Board. This latest LinuxLink offering adds to the broad range of Freescale platforms already supported by Timesys.

Timesys LinuxLink for i.MX53, which includes support for the … Read More → "Timesys® Enables LinuxLink Support for Freescale i.MX53 Multimedia Applications Processor"

Magma and Fraunhofer IIS Partner to Accelerate Analog Implementation

DESIGN AUTOMATION CONFERENCE, SAN DIEGO, Calif., June 6, 2011 – Magma Design Automation Inc. (Nasdaq: LAVA), a provider of chip design software, today announced a partnership with Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, developer of microelectronic systems and devices, to develop process-independent Titan™ FlexCell models of the Institute’s analog intellectual property (IP) cores. Through the partnership, Magma will provide Fraunhofer IIS with access to Titan analog design accelerators and FineSim SPICE simulation technology and will assist in creating models of complex analog macro cells, including analog-digital converters ( … Read More → "Magma and Fraunhofer IIS Partner to Accelerate Analog Implementation"

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