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SEMI and EDA Industry Leaders Unite to Combat Software Piracy

MILPITAS, CALIF. –– August 4, 2020 –– SEMI, Cadence, Mentor, a Siemens Business, and Synopsys today announced plans to jointly develop an industry-standard protocol to combat electronic design automation (EDA) software piracy, a growing and costly problem for software vendors and their users. Under the partnership, the organizations will develop the SEMI Server Certification Protocol, a standard that will provide strong protection against piracy by defining how servers can be uniquely identified.

Currently, most software license management systems rely on a license manager that runs on a server typically identified by a machine identifier. … Read More → "SEMI and EDA Industry Leaders Unite to Combat Software Piracy"

SiTime Enables 5G Vision of Zero Downtime with 10 Times Higher Reliability

SANTA CLARA, Calif., August 4, 2020 – SiTime Corporation (NASDAQ: SITM), a market leader in MEMS timing, today announced the Cascade™ family of MEMS clock ICs for 5G, wireline telecom and datacenter infrastructure. This clock-system-on-a-chip (ClkSoC™) family, the SiT9514x, consists of clock generators, jitter cleaners, and network synchronizers that deliver multiple clock signals in a system. This clock family uses SiTime’s recently launched third-generation MEMS resonators that deliver higher performance with lower power.

Communications and enterprise electronics have previously used clock ICs with external quartz references to integrate multiple timing functions and to distribute … Read More → "SiTime Enables 5G Vision of Zero Downtime with 10 Times Higher Reliability"

VadaTech Announces a new PCIe card with VU13P UltraScale+ and Massive Optical I/O

Henderson, NV – August 5, 2020 – VadaTech, a leading manufacturer of integrated systems, embedded boards, enabling software and application-ready platforms, announces the PCI597.  The module front panel I/O is via six Board-mount Optical Assemblies, each providing 12 channel full-duplex transceivers with Clock Data Recovery (when using 28G transceivers) and fiber I/O via … Read More → "VadaTech Announces a new PCIe card with VU13P UltraScale+ and Massive Optical I/O"

Renesas’ Intersil Brand ICs Blast Off Onboard the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Mission to the Red Planet

TOKYO, Japan, August 6, 2020 ― Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced that more than 20 of its radiation-hardened (rad-hard) integrated circuits (ICs) were onboard the July 30 lift off of NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover. A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket, with the Perseverance rover and Ingenuity Mars Helicopter onboard, launched from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape … Read More → "Renesas’ Intersil Brand ICs Blast Off Onboard the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Mission to the Red Planet"

Eaton delivers intelligent power innovation with predictive monitoring of low-voltage power distribution applications

  • Technology combines panelboards and switchboards with intelligent circuit protection
  • Integrated solutions provide real-time insight into circuit breaker health to avoid costly downtime

PITTSBURGH… Power management company Eaton today announced the first panelboards and switchboards in the industry to feature real-time breaker health monitoring with the launch of the Read More → "Eaton delivers intelligent power innovation with predictive monitoring of low-voltage power distribution applications"

Ibeo and ams solid-state LiDAR technology used by prominent automotive manufacturer Great Wall Motor to enable future autonomous driving vehicles

News facts:

  • Ibeo confirms ams VCSEL technology is a core component within LiDAR systems
  • ams LiDAR used as part of the Great Wall Motor Company upcoming Autonomous Driving system
  • The companies remain on schedule to deliver best-in-class performance for mass
    production in 2022

Premstaetten, Austria (August 6, 2020) — ams (SIX: AMS), a leading worldwide supplier of high performance sensor solutions, and Ibeo Automotive Systems GmbH, the German specialist and the global technology … Read More → "Ibeo and ams solid-state LiDAR technology used by prominent automotive manufacturer Great Wall Motor to enable future autonomous driving vehicles"

Keysight Works with Qualcomm to Enable the Global Certification Forum to Activate Certification of C-V2X Test Plan

SANTA ROSA, Calif., August 6, 2020 – Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS), a leading technology company that helps enterprises, service providers and governments accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world, and Qualcomm Technologies Inc., have enabled the Global Certification Forum (GCF) to activate certification of a cellular vehicle-to-everything communications (C-V2X) test plan.

The test plan was achieved using Keysight’s Read More → "Keysight Works with Qualcomm to Enable the Global Certification Forum to Activate Certification of C-V2X Test Plan"

Newark Introduces New TBS1000C Digital Storage Oscilloscope from Tektronix

Chicago – August 6, 2020: Newark, the Development Distributor, has added the new Tektronix TBS1000C Digital Storage Oscilloscope to its market-leading test and measurement portfolio. Designed to meet the needs of today’s educational institutions, embedded design engineers and makers, this new oscilloscope offers an upgrade in performance over the popular TBS1000B.

The TBS1000C delivers the performance required from a leading entry-level … Read More → "Newark Introduces New TBS1000C Digital Storage Oscilloscope from Tektronix"

Molex Expands Innovative Line of NearStack High-Speed Cable Assembly Solutions to Help Customers Maximize System Performance

LISLE, Ill. – August 6, 2020 – Molex, a leading global manufacturer of electronic solutions, is pleased to announce the expansion of its industry-leading NearStack High-Speed Cable Solutions to include the Read More → "Molex Expands Innovative Line of NearStack High-Speed Cable Assembly Solutions to Help Customers Maximize System Performance"

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