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Industry-leading efficiency and performance levels are enabled by TI’s three new digital power development kits based on Piccolo™ microcontrollers

May 17, 2011

HOUSTON, TX (May 17, 2011) – Bringing new efficiency and performance capabilities to digital power supplies, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) today announced three new development kits that further expand its TMS320C2000™ microcontroller (MCU) digital power portfolio of software, tools and training. The new kits enable and simplify the more complex power supply functions that are currently in high demand, such as bridgeless design and Peak Current Mode Control (PCMC) with Slope Compensation. Programming challenges have been greatly reduced due to TI’s free controlSUITE™ platform that includes more than 25 modular digital power software blocks. With … Read More → "Industry-leading efficiency and performance levels are enabled by TI’s three new digital power development kits based on Piccolo™ microcontrollers"

Nanosys Unlocks Full Color LCD Viewing Experience with Nanotechnology

May 17, 2011

Palo Alto, Calif., May 17, 2011 – Nanosys, Inc., an advanced materials architect, today announced that its next generation LCD technology, the Quantum Dot Enhancement Film (QDEF™), is available to display manufacturers. Device designers can now increase color gamut by as much as three times without making the trade offs in cost, size and brightness they’ve had to make in the past. This means richer, more viscerally vibrant reds and a deeper palette of greens – the color the human eye sees more intensely than any other color.

Agilent Technologies Expands PCIe® High-Speed Digitizer Family for OEMs

May 17, 2011

SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 16, 2011 – Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced several new options for its popular U1084A PCI Express^® (PCIe) embedded ADC cards. The U1084A’s digitizer technology combines fast analog-to-digital converters with on-board field programmable gate array (FPGA) technology allowing original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to easily design-in high-speed signal acquisition and analysis.

The family is now … Read More → "Agilent Technologies Expands PCIe® High-Speed Digitizer Family for OEMs"

InPA Systems and S2C Partner to Enhance Rapid Prototype Debug Flow

May 17, 2011

San Jose, California – May 16, 2011 – InPA Systems, Inc <http://www.inpasystems.com/> ., an innovator in FPGA-based rapid prototyping bring up and debug and S2C Inc <http://www.s2cinc.com/> ., a leading rapid SoC/ASIC prototyping solutions provider, announced today that they have partnered for the development and testing of an integrated solution for high-speed, multi-FPGA debug. This technology is still in beta, but it is expected to be released … Read More → "InPA Systems and S2C Partner to Enhance Rapid Prototype Debug Flow"

andersDX and Baanto International Announce Strategic Technology Partnership for mid-large sized Touch Interface Solutions

May 17, 2011

LOS ANGELES, CA, USA and LONDON, UK – 17th May, 2011 – andersDX, market leader in the field of interface technologies and usability, and Baanto International, a leading independent manufacturer of touchscreen and position-sensing technologies, have used the SID Display Week event in Los Angeles, California to announce a strategic technology partnership.

The new European partnership supports andersDX’s commitment to optimsing user experience through device interfaces by combining their core display, embedded computing and GUI competencies and solutions with Baanto’s innovative Read More → "andersDX and Baanto International Announce Strategic Technology Partnership for mid-large sized Touch Interface Solutions"

Xilinx Establishes Industry-Leading Communications Portfolio for 100G and Beyond Line-cards with the Acquisition of Sarance Technologies

May 17, 2011

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 17, 2011 – Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced its acquisition of Sarance Technologies, completing its industry-leading technology portfolio for addressing next generation line card applications by adding premier connectivity communications capabilities. The new connectivity solution portfolio enables Xilinx to address the fast growing demand for 40G, 100G and beyond Interlaken, Ethernet and High-Speed Ethernet applications as well as new requirements for meeting 400G Ethernet system needs.

The latest acquisition follows the recent additions of Omiino Ltd. and Modelware to Xilinx’s overall strategic portfolio to provide major customers with a ‘one-stop-shop’ for wired communications … Read More → "Xilinx Establishes Industry-Leading Communications Portfolio for 100G and Beyond Line-cards with the Acquisition of Sarance Technologies"

Avnet Embedded Pairs Single Board Computers and LCDs to Create Performance Matched Kits

May 17, 2011

PHOENIX—May 17, 2011 — Avnet Embedded Americas, part of Avnet Electronics Marketing, an operating group of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), introduces Read More → "Avnet Embedded Pairs Single Board Computers and LCDs to Create Performance Matched Kits"

Energy Micro announces starter kit for energy sensitive product development

May 17, 2011

Oslo, Norway, May 17th, 2011 – Energy Micro has announced the introduction of a starter kit for its ARM® CortexTM-M3 based EFM32 Tiny Gecko microcontrollers. Referenced EFM32TG-STK3300 and selling at $69, the kit provides users with all the functionality that’s needed to create ultra low power system designs consuming a fraction of the energy of systems using rival microcontrollers.

Achieving an active mode current consumption of only 160µA/MHz, the energy friendly EFM32TG840 microcontroller featured in Energy Micro’s latest kit is the largest in a family of 23 Tiny Gecko devices now in full … Read More → "Energy Micro announces starter kit for energy sensitive product development"

Lattice Semiconductor And System General Announce Programming Support For Lattice MachXO2 PLD Family

May 16, 2011

HILLSBORO, OR – MAY 16, 2011 – Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC) and System General, a leading provider of device programming instruments, today announced that both automated and manual programming systems now fully support the first member of the MachXO2™ PLD family, the 1200 LUT LCMXO2-1200. The collaboration between the two companies ensures that customers using System General programming equipment who are entering the production phase of new electronic systems will incur no development delay or additional NRE costs to support MachXO2 PLDs.& … Read More → "Lattice Semiconductor And System General Announce Programming Support For Lattice MachXO2 PLD Family"

New Virtex-6 VPX and CompactPCI Cards Combine Performance and Flexibility

May 16, 2011

May 13, 2011, Austin Texas, USA – 4DSP LLC announced the release of the VP680 and FC6301 Virtex-6 FPGA cards. These products, available in 3U VPX and CompactPCI form factors, offer an FPGA Mezzanine Card site that fully supports the 4DSP’s FMC series of Read More → "New Virtex-6 VPX and CompactPCI Cards Combine Performance and Flexibility"