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AVX Extends its TACmicrochip® Series with Another Superlative: The Industry’s Lowest-Profile 3216 Tantalum Capacitor

FOUNTAIN INN, S.C., April 02, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — AVX Corporation, a leading manufacturer and supplier of advanced electronic components and interconnect, sensor, control, and … Read More → "AVX Extends its TACmicrochip® Series with Another Superlative: The Industry’s Lowest-Profile 3216 Tantalum Capacitor"

Astranis Space Technologies Selects Wind River Real-Time Operating System for Next Generation Satellite

ALAMEDA, CA — March 27, 2019 — Wind River® (http://www.windriver.com/?utm_source=PR&utm_campaign=Automotive-OTA-SLM-2018), a leader in delivering IoT software for critical infrastructure, today announced that satellite startup Astranis Space Technologies Corp. (Read More → "Astranis Space Technologies Selects Wind River Real-Time Operating System for Next Generation Satellite"

Cadence Unveils Clarity 3D Solver, Delivering Unprecedented Performance and Capacity for System Analysis and Design

Highlights:
•       The first product in Cadence’s system analysis initiative, the Clarity 3D Solver delivers up to 10X faster performance for electromagnetic simulation with virtually unlimited capacity and gold-standard accuracy
•       New breakthrough architecture can run on hundreds of CPUs optimized for both cloud and on-premises distributed computing
•       True 3D model extraction eliminates risk from manually reducing the size of structures being modeled
•       Easily reads design data from all standard chip and IC package platforms and offers unique integration with Cadence implementation platforms

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 2, 2019—Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) today … Read More → "Cadence Unveils Clarity 3D Solver, Delivering Unprecedented Performance and Capacity for System Analysis and Design"

Menta and Mentor Partner for High-Level Synthesis of Embedded FPGA IP

SOPHIA-ANTIPOLIS, France, April 2, 2019 — Menta SAS, a provider of embedded FPGA (eFPGA) Intellectual Property (IP), today announced a collaboration with Mentor, a Siemens business, to provide High-Level Synthesis (HLS) of the industry’s most flexible eFPGA technology.

Mentor’s Catapult™ HLS design tools provide an integrated development environment allowing designers to go from SystemC & C++ to eFPGA quickly and seamlessly while taking advantage of the fully customizable FPGA fabric provided by Menta. Menta’s IP is unique in allowing engineers to customize the eFPGA fabric to support the requirements of any application on any process node. Designers … Read More → "Menta and Mentor Partner for High-Level Synthesis of Embedded FPGA IP"

Intel driving Data-Centric World with new 10nm Intel® Agilex™ FPGA Family

What’s New: Intel announced today a brand-new product family, the Intel® Agilex™ FPGA. This new family of field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) will provide customized solutions to address the unique data-centric business challenges across embedded, network and data-center markets.

“The race to solve data-centric problems requires agile and flexible solutions which can move, store and process data efficiently. Intel Agilex FPGAs deliver customized connectivity and acceleration while delivering much needed improvements in performance and power¹,² for diverse workloads,” said Dan McNamara, Intel senior vice president, Programmable Solutions Group.

Why It’s Important: Customers need … Read More → "Intel driving Data-Centric World with new 10nm Intel® Agilex™ FPGA Family"

Fujitsu Develops Deep Learning Acceleration Technology, Achieves World’s Highest Speed

TOKYO, Apr 1, 2019 – (JCN Newswire) – Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. has developed a technology to improve the speed of deep learning software, which has now achieved the world’s highest speed when the time required for machine learning was measured using the AI Bridging Cloud Infrastructure (ABCI) system, deployed by Fujitsu Limited for the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST).

With the spread of deep learning in recent years, there has been a demand for algorithms that can execute machine learning processing at high speeds, and the speed of deep learning has accelerated by 30 times in the … Read More → "Fujitsu Develops Deep Learning Acceleration Technology, Achieves World’s Highest Speed"

Fairview Microwave Releases New Series of Waveguide-to-Waveguide Transitions that Deliver Minimal Loss and VSWR as Low as 1.08:1

RVINE, Calif. – Fairview Microwave Inc., an Infinite Electronics brand, and a leading provider of on-demand RF and microwave components, has launched a new line of waveguide transitions that operate from 5.85 to 110 GHz across 14 frequency bands. These waveguide adapters are ideal for high power wireless applications such as test benches, instrumentation, MILCOM, SATCOM, telecom and radar applications where signal strength and integrity are critical.

Fairview’s new Read More → "Fairview Microwave Releases New Series of Waveguide-to-Waveguide Transitions that Deliver Minimal Loss and VSWR as Low as 1.08:1"

IAR Systems extends functional safety standards coverage in certified embedded development tools

Uppsala, Sweden—April 1, 2019—IAR Systems®, the future-proof supplier of software tools and services for embedded development, has updated the functional safety editions of the leading embedded development toolchain IAR Embedded Workbench® with new functional safety certificates. The new certificates add the standard EN 50657:2017 “Railways Applications – Rolling stock applications – Software on Board Rolling Stock” as well as a later revision of the “Road vehicles – Functional safety” standard called ISO 26262:2018.

Functional safety is one of the most important features in many embedded systems and companies must consider development tools as an integral part of the system certification. The proof … Read More → "IAR Systems extends functional safety standards coverage in certified embedded development tools"

Cadence Extends Cloud Leadership with New CloudBurst Platform for Hybrid Cloud Environments

Highlights:
•       The CloudBurst platform, the latest addition to the Cadence Cloud portfolio, provides customers with fast and easy access to pre-installed Cadence design tools in a ready-to-use cloud environment built on either Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure
•       Customers can now strategically complement their on-premises infrastructure with the massive scalability of the cloud to address the peak requirements of critical design projects
•       The CloudBurst platform provides customers with secure, web-based access to a cloud environment tailored to address challenges associated with compute-intensive workloads and massive file sizes of today’s ICs and electronic systems

Read More → "Cadence Extends Cloud Leadership with New CloudBurst Platform for Hybrid Cloud Environments"

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