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GrammaTech Used In Toyota Unintended Acceleration Investigation

February 14, 2011

FEBRUARY, 14, 2011−Ithaca, NY−The U.S. Department of Transportation released the results of a 10-month National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) NASA investigation into potential electronic causes of unintended acceleration in Toyota vehicles. As part of the investigation, NASA experts examined more than 280,000 lines of software. NASA’s analysis included performing static analysis on the software using three tools: GrammaTech CodeSonar, Coverity Prevent and Uno (a research tool that originated at Bell Labs).

In the report, NASA described CodeSonar as a “strong static source code analysis tool from GrammaTech that uses … Read More → "GrammaTech Used In Toyota Unintended Acceleration Investigation"

Ramtron Announces Wide Voltage Serial and Parallel F-RAM

February 14, 2011

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO – February 14, 2011 – Ramtron International Corporation (Nasdaq: RMTR), a leading developer and supplier of ferroelectric-based low-power memory and integrated semiconductor products, today announced its W-Family of F-RAM memory. Devices in the W-Family, available in serial I2C, SPI and parallel interfaces, offer wider operating voltage range from 2.7V to 5.5V. Additionally, the W-Family offers performance enhancements including a 25% to 50% reduction in active current requirements and serial devices with up to 20 times faster First Access Start (power up initialization). The FM24W256 and FM25W256 W-Family memories are available in 256-Kbit serial I2C … Read More → "Ramtron Announces Wide Voltage Serial and Parallel F-RAM"

Green Hills Software selected by Vocality in its router and secure voice communications equipment for the satellite communications market

February 14, 2011

Green Hills Software, the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutions, has announced that its GateD^® Routing Protocols, MULTI^® integrated development environment (IDE) and Green Hills Probe are being used by Vocality International in the development of the company’s router and secure voice equipment for … Read More → "Green Hills Software selected by Vocality in its router and secure voice communications equipment for the satellite communications market"

LPI develops Academic Program in Malaysia

February 14, 2011

(Sacramento, CA, USA: February 14, 2011) – The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world’s premier Linux certification organization (http://www.lpi.org), announced a new initiative to promote Linux training within colleges and universities in Malaysia. This initiative by LPI affiliate, LPI-Asia Pacific (LPI-APAC: http://www.lpi-apac.org/), will enable post-secondary academic programs in Malaysia to adopt LPI training as part of their regular IT curriculum. LPI-APAC is working with the Department of … Read More → "LPI develops Academic Program in Malaysia"

TESEQ Releases Upgraded EMC Test Software with Industry-specific Test Packages for Quicker Set-up

February 14, 2011

February 2011 – TESEQ, a leading developer and provider of instrumentation and systems for EMC emission and immunity testing, has released Compliance 5 emission and immunity test software. Compliance 5 is a single, integrated test platform capable of performing all RF EMC testing needs.

The upgraded software is simple to use with a Commercial Application Package included that aids in speeding set-up and makes compliance testing quick and easy. Other application … Read More → "TESEQ Releases Upgraded EMC Test Software with Industry-specific Test Packages for Quicker Set-up"

CoFluent Design Joins Cadence’s EDA360 System Realization Alliance And Supports The Incisive Platform

February 14, 2011

Paris, France – February 15, 2011 – CoFluent Design, a leading Electronic System Level (ESL) company that provides system-level modeling and simulation to accelerate innovation in embedded devices, today announced that the company joined Cadence’s System Realization Alliance.

System architects and engineers already use CoFluent Studio – CoFluent Design’s Eclipse-based software toolset – for multiprocessor/multicore hardware/software … Read More → "CoFluent Design Joins Cadence’s EDA360 System Realization Alliance And Supports The Incisive Platform"

CEVA Collaborate for Future Wireless Baseband Technologies with NEC Casio Mobile Communications

February 14, 2011

BARCELONA, SPAIN – Mobile World Congress – February 14, 2011 – CEVA, Inc. [(NASDAQ: CEVA); (LSE: CVA)], the leading licensor of silicon intellectual property (SIP) platform solutions and DSP cores, has announced today an agreement to undertake joint research into the development of cellular modem technologies targeting next generation wireless baseband standards with NEC CASIO Mobile Communications, Ltd. Under the scope of the agreement, CEVA and NEC CASIO Mobile Communications will closely analyze the processing requirements, target performance and system layout of next generation modems.

Wireless baseband technologies are evolving fast through multiple 3G and 4G standards including: … Read More → "CEVA Collaborate for Future Wireless Baseband Technologies with NEC Casio Mobile Communications"

Agilent Technologies’ PXT Wireless Communications Test Set Now Supports Critical LTE Inter-RAT Handover

February 14, 2011

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb.9, 2011 – Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced new functional test features for its E6621A PXT wireless communications test set.

Used in conjunction with Agilent’s popular E5515C 8960 wireless communications test set, the PXT now supports handover between different radio access technologies (RAT). Both user equipment-initiated and base station-initiated handovers are now supported, making the PXT an essential tool for efficient development and performance … Read More → "Agilent Technologies’ PXT Wireless Communications Test Set Now Supports Critical LTE Inter-RAT Handover"

Option and InterDigital showcase new Bandwidth Management solution at Mobile World Congress

February 14, 2011

LEUVEN, Belgium and BARCELONA, Spain – February 14, 2011 – Option (EURONEXT: OPTI; OTC: OPNVY), the wireless technology company, and InterDigital® (NASDAQ: IDCC), a U.S. based leading developer of wireless technologies, today announced the demonstration of an innovative bandwidth management software integrated with Option’s uCAN® Connect software platform at the Mobile World Congress being held in Barcelona, Spain February 14 – 17.

While mobile users are using more and more applications that consume even more bandwidth, operators are looking for solutions to manage this growing demand for bandwidth and … Read More → "Option and InterDigital showcase new Bandwidth Management solution at Mobile World Congress"

Meggitt Sensing Systems Announces Global Market Launch of Endevco Three-Channel DC Signal Conditioner

February 14, 2011

February 11, 2011, San Juan Capistrano, California, USA – Meggitt Sensing Systems, a Meggitt group division, has announced the global market launch of the Endevco^® model 126, a low-cost, microprocessor controlled, three-channel DC differential voltage amplifier and signal conditioner. This model is designed with flexible setup and a wide bandwidth to 200 kHz (-3 dB corner), allowing it to be used with Endevco^® bridge-type or differential output accelerometers and pressure transducers, or other industry models, across a variety of general purpose laboratory testing applications.

The Endevco^{®& … Read More → "Meggitt Sensing Systems Announces Global Market Launch of Endevco Three-Channel DC Signal Conditioner"}