What Is a "Wide Dynamic Range" Microphone and Why Does It Matter to My Design? Featured
May 22, 2013 -- MEMS microphones with the capability to capture very high-sound-pressure acoustic waves (loud noises) with high fidelity hold the potential not only to improve user experience in audio capture, but also make acoustic detection via ... read more
Wind River Extends Multicore Capabilities for VxWorks
May 21, 2013 -- Wind River today announced extended multicore capabilities for its industry-leading VxWorks real-time operating system (RTOS). VxWorks has expanded multicore operating system support for the latest Intel, Freescale, and ARM ... read more
Xilinx Achieves PCI Express Compliance Across Its All Programmable 28-nm Devices
May 20, 2013 -- Xilinx, Inc. today announced that its All Programmable 7 series FPGAs and Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoCs have achieved full PCI Express compliance and are now listed on the PCI-SIG integrator's list. All of Xilinx's 28-nm ... read more
May 15 2013 -- XMOS Semiconductor, Ltd. today announces that its XS1-L16A-128 product has been selected for use in beyerdynamic's newest line of high-quality audio-equipment. Along with beyerdynamic's innovative product design XMOS' low-la ... read more
Yamaha Reduces Power by 10% and Speeds Turnaround by 2X for Mobile Applications Using Cadence Virtuoso Liberate and Spectre Tools
May 13, 2013 -- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. today announced that it helped Yamaha Corp. reduce power consumption for its mobile consumer chips with characterization tools that delivered a 10% reduction in dynamic power to the clock networ ... read more
