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Pentek’s New 3U VPX Board Optimizes High-Speed Optical and RF I/O Connectivity

  • OpenVPX Compliant Optical and RF I/O to VPX Backplane
    Jade Architecture with Xilinx Kintex Ultrascale FPGA offers price, power and processing performance advantages
    Navigator Design Suite expedites development and custom IP integration

    UPPER SADDLE RIVER, NJ─April 29, 2019─Pentek, Inc., today introduced the newest member of the Jade™ family of high-performance 3U VPX boards. The Model 54851 is based on the Xilinx Kintex Ultrascale FPGA and features two 500 MHz 12-bit A/Ds with two programmable multiband digital downconverters (DDCs) and one digital upconverter (DUC) with two 800 MHz 16-bit D/As. The 54851 is the first board  … Read More → "Pentek’s New 3U VPX Board Optimizes High-Speed Optical and RF I/O Connectivity"

Bourns Introduces GMOV™ Overvoltage Protection Line Engineered to Address Reliability and Safety Limitations of MOVs Alone

element14 Community Announces Winners of Sixth Sense Design Challenge

Chicago, April 29, 2019 – element14.com, the community for engineers, has announced the winners of its “Sixth Sense” Design Challenge. As one of five challenges the element14 Community runs each year, element14 encouraged its members to create a small, remotely-operated or autonomous vehicle, leveraging the powerful processing capabilities of STMicroelectronics and TE Connectivity products to improve remote vehicle sensing and data collection.

The element14 Community … Read More → "element14 Community Announces Winners of Sixth Sense Design Challenge"

STMicroelectronics’ 650V High-Frequency IGBTs Boost Performance with Latest High-Speed Technology

Geneva, April 29, 2019 — The STMicroelectronics HB2 650V IGBT series delivers efficiency and performance gains for medium- and high-speed applications such as PFC converters, welders, uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), and solar inverters, leveraging ST’s latest Trench Field Stop (TFS) technology. The series also includes automotive-eligible devices meeting AEC-Q101 Rev. D.
 
Joining the STPOWER™ portfolio, the new HB2 series has outstanding conduction performance thanks to low VCEsat of 1.55V. At the same time, dynamic behavior … Read More → "STMicroelectronics’ 650V High-Frequency IGBTs Boost Performance with Latest High-Speed Technology"

Keysight Technologies Integrates PathWave with Samsung’s 28FDS Process Design Kit to Reduce Development Time and Costs of Integrated Circuit Designs

SANTA ROSA, Calif., April 23, 2019

Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS), a leading technology company that helps enterprises, service providers and governments accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world, announced that PathWave Advanced Design System (ADS)  and Read More → "Keysight Technologies Integrates PathWave with Samsung’s 28FDS Process Design Kit to Reduce Development Time and Costs of Integrated Circuit Designs"

Green Hills Software Adds Arm Architecture for a Trifecta of FACE 3.0 Certifications

SANTA BARBARA, CA — April 25, 2019 — Green Hills Software, the worldwide leader in high-assurance operating systems, today announced it has completed the certification of conformance for itsRead More → "Green Hills Software Adds Arm Architecture for a Trifecta of FACE 3.0 Certifications"

Free Integrated Development Environment from STMicroelectronics Further Expands Popular STM32Cube Microcontroller Ecosystem

 

  • New STM32CubeIDE is free, fully integrated, and offers high-end features
  • Powerful integrated STM32CubeMX gives unique edge over typical vendor tools
  • More choice for STM32 developers, with continued support for third-party partner tools

 

 
Geneva, April 25, 2019 – STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, continues to make the STM32 family of richly featured and energy-efficient microcontrollers more easily accessible for designers through the STM32CubeIDE, … Read More → "Free Integrated Development Environment from STMicroelectronics Further Expands Popular STM32Cube Microcontroller Ecosystem"

Xilinx to Acquire Solarflare

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 24, 2019 – Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX), the leader in adaptive and intelligent computing, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Solarflare Communications, Inc., an Irvine, Calif.-based privately-held company. Solarflare is a leading provider of high-performance, low latency networking solutions for customers spanning FinTech to cloud computing. The acquisition will enable Xilinx to combine its industry-leading FPGA, MPSoC and ACAP solutions with Solarflare’s ultra-low latency network interface card (NIC) technology and Onload application acceleration software, to enable new converged SmartNIC solutions, accelerating Xilinx’s “data center first” strategy … Read More → "Xilinx to Acquire Solarflare"

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