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PI nano1×3 XY, XYZ Nanopositioning Stages for Super Resolution Microscopy

EDA Geek News Staff — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:33:20 +0000

PI (Physik Instrumente) L.P., the inventor of Piezo-Z focusing systems, has added two new multi-axis stages for super-resolution microscopy applications, providing highly accurate motion with sub-nanometer resolution over travel ranges of 200 µm in XY and XYZ. The new PI nano1×3[TM] series XY and XYZ nanopositioning stages are designed for inverted microscopes from the four major players Leica, Nikon, Olympus and Zeiss. The low profile design of 20 mm (0.8″) facilitates the integration. The large aperture accommodates microscopy accessories such as slide holders, Petri dish holders, etc. An optional 25×25 mm positioning stage serves as a stable basis for the piezo stage.

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Vishay Intertechnology Rolls Out SiA433EDJ 20-V P-Channel Power MOSFET

EDA Geek News Staff — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:08:50 +0000

Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. (NYSE: VSH) introduced a new 20-V p-channel power MOSFET with the lowest on-resistance ever achieved for a p-channel device in the compact 2-mm by 2-mm footprint area of the thermally enhanced PowerPAK® SC-70. The new SiA433EDJ is the newest product built on TrenchFET® Gen III p-channel technology, which uses self-aligning process techniques to pack one billion transistor cells into each square inch of silicon. This leading-edge technology allows a superfine, sub-micron pitch process that cuts the industry’s best on-resistance for a p-channel MOSFET nearly in half.

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Open Core Protocol International Partnership OCP 3.0 Specification

EDA Geek News Staff — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:48:05 +0000

Open Core Protocol International Partnership (OCP-IP) announced that OCP 3.0 specification has completed member review and is now the official specification of record. This latest version contains extensions to support cache coherence and more aggressive power management, as well as an additional high-speed consensus profile and other new elements.

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IEI Technology Rolls Out Industrial Data Collection Devices

EDA Geek News Staff — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:09:18 +0000

Interconnectivity between industrial devices and data collection hardware is essentialfor efficient operations, reducing bottlenecks and allowing on-time delivery of critical data. IEI Technology Corp. introduces a series of multiport serial communication cards, CAN communication cards, data acquisition cards, and RFID systems as industrial data collection devices designed for complete system integration. The devices are designed for home and building automation, intelligent transportation systems, ATMs, vending machines, parking lots, factory automation, machine automation, medical facilities and other industrial automation applications.

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ZeroG Wireless, Microchip Upgrade Embedded Wi-Fi Development Kits

EDA Geek News Staff — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:19:00 +0000

ZeroG Wireless, Inc., an innovator in low-power embedded Wi-Fi, and Microchip Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: MCHP), a leading provider of microcontroller and analog semiconductors, announced the availability of the next generation of production qualified software for the companies’ joint development kit. Introduced only five months ago, the easy-to-implement, low-power, Wi-Fi connectivity kits have already been shipped to 900 customers, and products using the ZeroG “Wi-Fi I/O” have now gone into production, beating the typical 12-18 month development cycle.

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Movea Introduces SmartMotion Developer Kit for Motion-Sensing

EDA Geek News Staff — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:56:48 +0000

Movea, the global leader in technology, patents, and products for motion-sensing applications, unveiled its SmartMotion[tm] Development Kit (SMDK) at MEDICA 2009. The SMDK allows application developers, OEMs, and healthcare researchers to effortlessly add motion-sensing capabilities to their products or R&D projects. The best-in-class solution applies Movea’s patented sensor fusion technology to deliver highly accurate measurement of human body orientation and precisely quantified motion.

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Virage Logic STAR Silicon Browser for Post Silicon Bring Up, System Debug

EDA Geek News Staff — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:43:26 +0000

Virage Logic Corporation (NASDAQ:VIRL), the semiconductor industry’s trusted IP partner, announced it has added a new member, STAR[tm] (self test and repair) Silicon Browser, to its flagship STAR[tm] Memory System product family. The STAR Silicon Browser is a powerful solution to increase the efficiency of post silicon bring up, system debug and embedded memory characterization. STAR Silicon Browser provides STAR Memory System users with direct access and interactive communication with the internal circuitry of their System-on-Chip (SoC) memory system, whether it is an internally developed or third-party memory, so they can debug and diagnose system issues more quickly during the chip bring-up process. This enables the system engineer to accelerate system bring-up which is very difficult to accomplish using production ATE equipment.

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ARM Debuts Solution Center for Development of Android Devices

EDA Geek News Staff — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:32:57 +0000

As part of its continued work to foster innovation and openness in connected devices, ARM (LSE:ARM) (Nasdaq:ARMH) announced the Solution Center for Android[tm], a resource for designers and developers of ARM® technology-based products running on Android, the open source platform from the Open Handset Alliance[tm]. More than 35 members of the ARM Connected Community[tm] have joined this initiative, once again demonstrating the strength of the ARM ecosystem.

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Verific Software Fronts Oasys Design Systems RealTime Designer

EDA Geek News Staff — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:05:26 +0000

Oasys Design Systems announced that RealTime Designer[tm], Chip Synthesis[tm] software capable of synthesizing register transfer level (RTL) code for 100-million gate designs, now includes support for VHDL through de facto standard front-end software from Verific Design Automation. Verific licensed its VHDL analyzer to Oasys, giving RealTime Designer a common, proven and reliable front end for its unique Physical RTL synthesis. RealTime Designer is in production flows at leading-edge semiconductor and systems companies worldwide.

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MathWorks Upgrades Parallel Computing Toolbox

EDA Geek News Staff — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:08:49 +0000

The MathWorks announced a new version of Parallel Computing Toolbox that now provides an improved distributed array construct to enable MATLAB users to directly access from a MATLAB session data that is stored on multicore computers or computer clusters. In addition, key algorithms in Statistics Toolbox and Communications Toolbox now execute faster when run in conjunction with Parallel Computing Toolbox.

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Vanguard Software Solutions Becomes Member of Xilinx Alliance Program

EDA Geek News Staff — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:02:34 +0000

Vanguard Software Solutions, Inc. (VSOFTS), a recognized leader in development of video coding products and technologies, has joined the Xilinx Alliance Program as a supplier of AVC Encoder IP Core solutions. As of the date of this press release, VSOFTS has made available its highly flexible AVC-Intra Encoders and CABAC Encoder/Decoder IP Cores for Xilinx® Virtex® FPGA and Spartan® FPGA-based solutions to Xilinx FPGA customers. These IP Cores are optimized for the Virtex architecture, and designed to provide the highest level Broadcast quality compression in a compact, low power design.

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Aldec Debuts Riviera-PRO LV Low-cost Linux RTL and Gate-level Simulator

EDA Geek News Staff — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:01:49 +0000

Aldec Corporation, a leader in RTL Simulation and Electronic Design Automation (EDA), announced a low-cost Linux RTL Simulator. Aldec unveils a new configuration that supports both Linux and Windows® mixed-language VHDL/Verilog® simulation. Riviera-PRO[TM] LV is a multi-platform RTL and gate-level simulator that supports IEEE VHDL, Verilog® and SystemVerilog (Design) IEEE standard, Xilinx SecureIP, and VHDL/Verilog IP encryption.

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Gemalto One-Time Password Service Directly on Mobile Devices

EDA Geek News Staff — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:03:35 +0000

Trusted Logic, the leader in Trusted Execution Environments, announces the availability of Gemalto’s One-Time Password (OTP) service directly on the mobile phone’s main processing unit. Thanks to Trusted Logic’s Trusted Foundations[TM], the OTP service runs securely on the device’s main processor. OTP allows the implementation of a two-factor authentication method, which is now required in many countries for home banking and e-commerce transactions.

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Cadence, Toshiba Target Next Generation Mobile, Consumer SoC Designs

EDA Geek News Staff — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:55:03 +0000

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS), the leader in global design innovation, announced that it has extended and expanded the scope of its recently announced relationship with Toshiba Corporation for COT (customer-owned tooling) and SoC design targeting the growing and increasingly complex mobile and consumer markets.

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RAVEN Visual Analyzer for IBM Rational Requirements Composer

EDA Geek News Staff — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:46:59 +0000

Ravenflow, the leader in visual requirements definition software, and Prolifics, the world’s largest end-to-end systems integrator specializing in IBM technologies, announced the immediate availability of RAVEN Visual Analyzer for IBM Rational Requirements Composer, a seamless embedded plug-in for IBM Rational Requirements Composer (RRC) that improves the way stakeholders elicit, specify, and validate business requirements. By visualizing and validating requirements before developing, organizations can dramatically cut implementation time and delivery cost.

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Samsung Electronics Bada Mobile OS

EDA Geek News Staff — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:29:01 +0000

Samsung Electronics will unveil its new open mobile platform, Bada, next month. Samsung seems to be following a trend of OSs that is “open” yet proprietary. The name “Bada” is Korean for “ocean.” The name was chosen “to convey the limitless variety of potential applications that can be created using the new platform,” according to the company’s statement. Market research firm In-Stat believes the name is ironically appropriate as it highlights the almost limitless variety of mobile OSs as Bada joins Symbian, Android, Maemo, LiMo, WebOS, Windows Mobile, RIM, OSX, and Moblin to name a few.

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AXIOMTEK Introduces iCON-32300 Industrial Ethernet Extenders

EDA Geek News Staff — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:50:39 +0000

The typical UTP cable cannot over 100 meters length per segment. To break the standard distance barriers, AXIOMTEK introduces iCON-32300 industrial Ethernet extenders which can extend Ethernet connectivity in existing facilities over existing copper telephone wire or coaxial cable without pulling extra cable. These reliable and rugged devices with advantages of wide operating temperature range and long MTBF are ideal for building automation, security surveillance, digital signage, factory automation, and ITS (Intelligent Transportation System).

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Crossware Becomes Member of ARM Connected Community

EDA Geek News Staff — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:38:09 +0000

Crossware, a leading embedded software tools developer, announced it is a new member in the ARM Connected Community, the industry’s largest ecosystem of ARM technology-based products and services. As part of the ARM Connected Community, Crossware will gain access to a full range of resources to help it market and deploy innovative solutions that will enable developers to get their ARM Powered products to market faster.

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Mentor Graphics Joins SOI Industry Consortium

EDA Geek News Staff — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:33:40 +0000

The SOI Industry Consortium, aimed at accelerating silicon-on-insulator (SOI) innovation into broad markets, announced that Mentor Graphics Corporation (Nasdaq: MENT) has joined the worldwide organization. Mentor is a global leader in electronic hardware and software design solutions. As an active member and a leader in design enablement, Mentor will expand EDA tool and methodology support for SOI technology. This engagement connects Mentor’s strengths in low-power solutions with the inherent energy-efficiency benefits of SOI technology.

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MIPS Alliance Program Welcomes Arphic Technology

EDA Geek News Staff — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:01:44 +0000

MIPS Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: MIPS), a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores, announced that Arphic Technology Co., Ltd. has joined the MIPS® Alliance Program to provide professional font support for a variety of digital devices, including cell phones, netbooks, e-book readers, display panels, DTVs, set-top boxes, and more. A large number of MIPS Technologies’ licensees already use Arphic’s embedded font technology to reduce development time and bring competitive products to market faster.

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Intel and AMD Settle Antitrust and Legal Disputes

EDA Geek News Staff — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:33:00 +0000

Intel Corporation and Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) announced a comprehensive agreement to end all outstanding legal disputes between the companies, including antitrust litigation and patent cross license disputes. In a joint statement the two companies commented, “While the relationship between the two companies has been difficult in the past, this agreement ends the legal disputes and enables the companies to focus all of our efforts on product innovation and development.”

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NI Introduces 10 New PXI Products for Mixed-Signal Semiconductor Test

EDA Geek News Staff — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:05:33 +0000

National Instruments (Nasdaq: NATI) introduced 10 new PXI products that expand the capabilities of PXI for mixed-signal semiconductor test. The suite of new software-defined products, which are optimized for use with NI LabVIEW graphical system design software, includes four high-speed digital I/O (HSDIO) instruments, two digital switches, two enhanced RF instruments, a high-precision source measure unit (SMU) and specialized digital vector file importing software. The new NI PXI Semiconductor Suite incorporates numerous new features including 200 MHz single-ended digital I/O, 10 pA current resolution, rapid multiband RF measurements, DC/digital switching and Waveform Generation Language (WGL) and IEEE 1450 Standard Test Interface Language (STIL) file importing capability.

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Broadcom Announces Royalty-Free, Open Source BroadVoice Voice Codecs

EDA Geek News Staff — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:33:46 +0000

Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM), a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, announced that it is offering its BroadVoice family of voice codecs royalty-free and without any licensing fees. As a direct response to customer demand for advanced, high-quality voice solutions and development tools, Broadcom is releasing its wideband and narrowband BroadVoice codecs in both floating-point and fixed-point C code as open source software under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), version 2.1, as published by the Free Software Foundation.

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UMC, TSMC Validates Silicon Frontline F3D for Nanometer Designs

EDA Geek News Staff — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:06:55 +0000

Silicon Frontline Technology, Inc. (Silicon Frontline), an Electronic Design Automation (EDA) company in the post-layout verification market, announced that since the May introduction of the company and its first products, F3D (Fast 3D) for fast 3D extraction and R3D (Resistive 3D) for 3D extraction and analysis of large resistive structures, the company has achieved success and validated its position as a player in the post-layout verification and 3D extraction markets.

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STMicroelectronics Launches LYPR540AH 3-Axis MEMS Gyroscope

EDA Geek News Staff — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:53:54 +0000

STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), the leading supplier of MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) for consumer and portable applications, introduced the LYPR540AH high performance single-package analog gyroscope that accurately measures angular rates along three orthogonal axes. Combining superior accuracy with high stability and a small size, ST’s 3-axis gyroscope heralds the widespread adoption of realistic-motion user interfaces in all kinds of consumer applications.

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Texas Instruments, Fullpower Team on Motion Sensing for Portable Devices

EDA Geek News Staff — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:07:25 +0000

Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) and Fullpower Technology announced their strategic collaboration to bring advanced motion sensing capabilities to portable devices. The leading combination of Fullpower’s advanced MotionX technology and TI’s ultra-low power MSP430 microcontrollers (MCUs) enables developers to easily differentiate portable devices such as smart phones, sports equipment, gaming equipment and bluetooth headsets with cutting-edge motion sensing technology as well as extended battery life.

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SYSGO Receives DO-178B Level C Certification for AFDX Implementation

EDA Geek News Staff — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:01:56 +0000

SYSGO, leading supplier of software solutions for the most demanding safety and security applications, announced that their first implementation of genuine software based AFDX (ARINC-664) solution has received formal approval by FAA for DO178B Level C certification. This implementation is part of an engine monitoring unit (EMU) developed by Vibro-Meter SA, a MEGGIT Group company.

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Matrox Graphics Launches M9188 PCIe x16 Octal Graphics Card

EDA Geek News Staff — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:34:16 +0000

Matrox Graphics, the leading manufacturer of specialized graphics solutions, announced the launch of the Matrox M9188 PCIe x16 Octal graphics card, capable of supporting eight DisplayPort or DVI Single-Link outputs from a single workstation. The Matrox M9188 PCIe x16 offers 2GB of memory, resolutions up to 2560×1600 per output, and advanced desktop management features — such as independent or stretched desktop modes — to drive energy, transportation, process control, financial trading, and other mission-critical environments with exceptional performance.

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Emerson Network Power Debuts DS2900 12 V Distributed Power Supply

EDA Geek News Staff — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:05:36 +0000

Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson and the global leader in enabling Business-Critical Continuity[tm], enhanced its highest-wattage 12 V front-end distributed power supply, the DS2900. Expanding Emerson’s DS line of distributed power solutions, the new DS2900 is ideal for use in high availability telecommunications applications and a variety of enterprise networking environments, including server farms and large storage systems.

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SMIC, TSMC Resolve All Pending Lawsuits

EDA Geek News Staff — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:42:42 +0000

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (the “Company” or “SMIC”) announced that it entered into a settlement agreement with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. (the “Acquiror” or “TSMC”) to resolve all pending lawsuits between the parties, including the legal action filed by TSMC in California (the “California Case”) for which a verdict was returned by the jury against SMIC on 4 November 2009 and the legal action filed by SMIC in Beijing (the “Beijing Case”).

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