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Tanner EDA and TowerJazz Announce Qualified Process Design Kit and Reference Flow for 0.18um Power Management Process

January 20, 2011

MONROVIA and NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. – EMBARGOED UNTIL January 19, 2011 – Tanner EDA, the catalyst for innovation for the design, layout and verification of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs), and TowerJazz, the global specialty foundry leader, have completed qualification of Tanner EDA’s process design kit (PDK) for TowerJazz’s 0.18um Power Management process. This design kit includes symbol libraries for Tanner EDA’s S-Edit schematic capture software as well as parameterised layout generators for its … Read More → "Tanner EDA and TowerJazz Announce Qualified Process Design Kit and Reference Flow for 0.18um Power Management Process"

First IP provider to deliver PLL products on new 28nm low power Common Platform process

January 20, 2011

Mountain View, CA Jan. 17, 2011 Analog Bits, the market leader in low power, customizable mixed-signal IP, today announced availability of a full design kit for their PLL IP products, supporting the 28nm Common Platform process of IBM, Samsung and GLOBAL FOUNDRIES. This “zero core area” PLL has been ported to and will be tested on the 28nm Common Platform process.

Mark Ireland, Vice President, Semiconductor Products and Services at IBM, on behalf of the Common Platform … Read More → "First IP provider to deliver PLL products on new 28nm low power Common Platform process"

NextOp Software Selects Verific Design Automation SystemVerilog

January 20, 2011

ALAMEDA, CALIF. –– January 20, 2011 –– Verific Design Automation today said that NextOp Software, Inc. has licensed its software for use with the NextOp assertion-based verification solutions that allow design and verification teams to uncover bugs, expose functional coverage holes, and increase verification observability.

NextOp Software tightly integrated Verific’s SystemVerilog parser and static and register transfer level (RTL) elaborators with BugScope assertion synthesis, a tool that synthesizes high-quality assertions and functional coverage properties … Read More → "NextOp Software Selects Verific Design Automation SystemVerilog"

Ultra compact “green” 150W AC-DC power supply fits 2″ x 4″ footprint

January 19, 2011

19th January 2011, XP Power today announced the launch of the ECP150 series of highly efficient and extremely compact open frame 150W AC-DC power supplies. Measuring just 4 x 2 x 1.26 inches (101.6 x 50.8 x 32 mm) and with a power density of 14.88 Watts per cubic inch, the series comply with UL/EN/IEC60950-1 and UL/EN/IEC60601-1 safety standards for medical and IT equipment. In addition, the units have a no load input power of less than 0.5W and a typical efficiency of 91%, helping the end equipment comply with internationally recognized energy efficiency … Read More → "Ultra compact “green” 150W AC-DC power supply fits 2″ x 4″ footprint"

Argon Design announces partnership with leading Network Intelligence expert Qosmos

January 19, 2011

London, UK – 19th January 2011 – Argon Design, a leading provider of technology, product innovation and engineering solutions to the communications, multimedia and semiconductor industries, has joined the Qosmos Expert Developers (QED) program.

Argon Design, a high technology design company based in Cambridge, UK, is focused on delivering Multicore, Manycore and parallel processing design solutions. It provides system, hardware, FPGA and ASIC design, with advanced software design and development for a range of clients from entrepreneurial start-ups to established multinational … Read More → "Argon Design announces partnership with leading Network Intelligence expert Qosmos"

conga-BAF offers outstanding graphics performance with low power consumption

January 19, 2011

Taiwan Embedded Forum, 19 January 2011 * * * congatec AG, a leading manufacturer of embedded computer modules, introduces a new COM Express product line based on the AMD Embedded G-Series platform. The integration of AMD Fusion technology expands the COM Express standard with a completely new processor architecture that combines processors and graphics cores in a compact package. System designers benefit from a powerful CPU and an even more powerful graphics performance, excellent performance-per-watt ratio and flexible task allocation on the CPU and GPU.

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Sidense Memory IP Qualified at Three GLOBALFOUNDRIES Processes

January 18, 2011

Ottawa, Canada – January 18, 2011 – Sidense Corp., a leading developer of Logic Non-Volatile Memory (LNVM) OTP IP cores, announced today that the Company has qualified its OTP (one-time programmable) SiPROM products in three GLOBALFOUNDRIES CMOS processes – 180nm, 130nm and 65nm. Customers are using Sidense OTP implemented by GLOBALFOUNDRIES in a wide range of products, targeting such diverse applications as USB and touch screen controllers, silicon clocks, power management chips, HDMI controllers and configurable storage.

Compact Size Linux-based ARM9 System on Module Adds Flexibility and Reduces Power Consumption

January 18, 2011

TAIPEI, Taiwan – 17 January, 2010 — Artila Electronics, the leading designer and manufacturer of Linux-ready ARM9 industrial PC, introduces M-502 industrial Linux-based ARM9 system-on-module that increases system performance and still reduces power consumption at the same time.

“Linux on ARM” is now becoming a trend due to its advantages of being light, compact, and cost-effective. M-502 is embedded with 400MHz/MMU ATMEL AT91SAM9G20 CPU, which increases M-502 system performance yet lowers the power consumption at least half compared to 180MHz ATMEL AT91RM9200, which is embedded in Artila’s first generation of … Read More → "Compact Size Linux-based ARM9 System on Module Adds Flexibility and Reduces Power Consumption"

Extremely low-power DACs prolong battery life in portable applications and circuits where power efficiencies are of concern

January 18, 2011

SUNNYVALE, CA—January 18, 2011—Maxim Integrated Products (NASDAQ: MXIM) introduces the MAX5214 (14-bit) and MAX5216 (16-bit) digital-to-analog converters (DACs). With power consumption less than 80microamps IQ, these DACs prolong battery life in portable applications. Best-in-class accuracy, a small package size, and the low current consumption and make these devices equally attractive in 2-wire sensors where low current levels must be measured and power efficiency is important.

While the MAX5214/MAX5216 single-channel DACs already have extremely low power consumption, programmability adds flexibility and efficiency to power usage. Power consumption can be reduced further by writing the power-down … Read More → "Extremely low-power DACs prolong battery life in portable applications and circuits where power efficiencies are of concern"

Avnet and ARM® Launch Global Design Strategies for ARM® Systems Technical Seminars

January 18, 2011

PHOENIX—January 18, 2011 — Avnet Electronics Marketing, a business group of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), announces the launch of Design Strategies for ARM® Systems, a 26-city, global technical seminar series co-sponsored by Read More → "Avnet and ARM® Launch Global Design Strategies for ARM® Systems Technical Seminars"