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Avnet Electronics Marketing Launches SpeedWay Design Workshops™ Focused on the Nano-ITX/Spartan®-6 FPGA Development Kit

March 21, 2011

PHOENIX—March 17, 2011 — Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas, a business region of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), announces the launch of a new series of SpeedWay Design Workshops™ encompassing the design and development flows for the Read More → "Avnet Electronics Marketing Launches SpeedWay Design Workshops™ Focused on the Nano-ITX/Spartan®-6 FPGA Development Kit"

48th Design Automation Conference to Feature Keynote Interview by Apple Computer, Inc. Co-founder Steve Wozniak

March 21, 2011

LOUISVILLE, Colo. – March 21, 2011 – Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer, Inc., and Chief Scientist, Fusion-IO, will keynote at the 48th Design Automation Conference (DAC), the worldwide premier event devoted to design and design automation of electronic systems (EDA). Steve will be interviewed live on stage by San Jose Mercury News columnist Mike Cassidy on a wide range of topics, including the ‘joy’ of engineering and following your passion to convert innovative ideas into reality. Steve will provide a unique insight into the … Read More → "48th Design Automation Conference to Feature Keynote Interview by Apple Computer, Inc. Co-founder Steve Wozniak"

60V Step-Down LED Driver Drives Three Independent LED Strings of 100mA LEDs & Offers 10,000:1 True Color PWM Dimming

March 21, 2011

MILPITAS, CA – March 21, 2011 – Linear Technology announces the LT3597, a 60V, 1MHz, step-down DC/DC converter designed to operate as a three channel, constant current LED driver. Each channel of the LT3597 contains a constant current sink LED driver with a dedicated adaptive-output buck converter. This design offers maximum efficiency for applications, such as RGB displays, which require different output voltages … Read More → "60V Step-Down LED Driver Drives Three Independent LED Strings of 100mA LEDs & Offers 10,000:1 True Color PWM Dimming"

Xilinx Ships World’s First 28nm FPGA Device and Demonstrates Application Development Platform for Next Generation Systems

March 21, 2011

SAN JOSE, Calif., Mar. 18, 2011 – Xilinx, Inc. (Nasdaq: XLNX) today announced the beginning of the 7 series FPGA rollout with shipment of the first Kintex™-7 K325T Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), marking the industry’s fastest product rollout of next generation programmable logic devices built with 28nm technology. Kintex-7 FPGAs are built to provide optimal price performance at the lowest power to meet requirements for key applications. At the same time, the Kintex-7 FPGA family leverages the unified architecture shared across the 7 series, 28nm device families to enable customers to begin FPGA development now … Read More → "Xilinx Ships World’s First 28nm FPGA Device and Demonstrates Application Development Platform for Next Generation Systems"

Cadence Enhances Unified Custom/Analog Flow to Boost Productivity at Nodes Down to 20nm

March 21, 2011

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS), a leader in global electronic design innovation, today announced major enhancements to its Virtuoso®-based custom/analog flow, boosting productivity across the entire flow from initial design specification to final GDSII and for process nodes down to 20 nanometers. The expanded custom/analog flow–spanning design, implementation, and verification–includes methodology improvements to help designers manage design parasitics, < … Read More → "Cadence Enhances Unified Custom/Analog Flow to Boost Productivity at Nodes Down to 20nm"

ArrayComm and CEVA Demonstrate TD-LTE Base Station

March 21, 2011

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 21, 2011 — ArrayComm LLC and CEVA, Inc. [(NASDAQ: CEVA); (LSE: CVA)], today announced the successful demonstration of ArrayComm’s BasePort™ TD-LTE base station PHY running on high performance CEVA DSP cores. The demonstration was implemented on Mindspeed’s Transcede™ 4000 System-on-Chip and verified by a tier-1 operator.

“This milestone in TD-LTE technology development is a direct result of our strong collaborative relationship with CEVA and Mindspeed”, said Bruce Duysen, President of ArrayComm. “More than ever, wireless OEMs are requiring packaged hardware/software solutions … Read More → "ArrayComm and CEVA Demonstrate TD-LTE Base Station"

Eurotech Launches the Zypad WL1500 Wearable Computers

March 21, 2011

COLUMBIA, Md., March 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Eurotech, a leading supplier of embedded technologies, products, and systems, announces today the launch of the Zypad WL1500 series of wearable computers. Following in the footsteps of the popular … Read More → "Eurotech Launches the Zypad WL1500 Wearable Computers"

Synopsys’ Next-Generation DesignWare Data Converter IP Delivers 50 Percent Lower Power with Smaller Area

March 21, 2011

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced the release of its next-generation DesignWare® Data Converter IP solutions, which deliver more than 50 percent improvement in power with smaller area compared to the previous generation of data converters. Optimized for mobile broadband wireless communication applications such as WiFi, WiMAX, LTE, and digital TV reception, the DesignWare Data Converter IP can reach extremely high sampling rates with excellent … Read More → "Synopsys’ Next-Generation DesignWare Data Converter IP Delivers 50 Percent Lower Power with Smaller Area"

NTS Selects Ellisys Protocol Test and Analysis Solution for SuperSpeed USB Programs

March 21, 2011

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND–(Marketwire – March 21, 2011) – Ellisys, a worldwide leader in protocol test and analysis solutions, today announced that National Technical Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: NTSC) (NTS), a leading provider of engineering services, has selected the Ellisys Explorer™ 280 protocol test, analysis, and compliance system for use in the company’s SuperSpeed USB test and characterization programs. The widely deployed Ellisys Explorer 280 system, the industry’s first SuperSpeed USB protocol analyzer/generator system, provides deep-featured protocol and bus analysis, port emulation, and compliance testing for SuperSpeed USB hosts, … Read More → "NTS Selects Ellisys Protocol Test and Analysis Solution for SuperSpeed USB Programs"

Lauterbach Extends Tools Support for Xilinx Zynq-7000 Extensible Processing Platform

March 18, 2011

Lauterbach, the leading manufacturer of hardware assisted microprocessor development tools, has launched support for the new Xilinx Zynq-7000 Extensible Processing Platform that integrates a complete ARM® Cortex™-A9 MPCore™ processor-based system with 28nm low-power programmable logic.

While Lauterbach’s TRACE32® tool has been supporting the ARM® Cortex™-A9 core for some time, the latest enhancement adds the Zynq-7000 family devices to the list of validated target devices. Therefore TRACE32® … Read More → "Lauterbach Extends Tools Support for Xilinx Zynq-7000 Extensible Processing Platform"