| TASK Micro-Electronics and Intrinsix Sign Partnership Agreement |
November 15, 2006 -- TASK Micro-Electronics, Inc. and Intrinsix Corp. announced today that they have signed a partnership agreement to provide optimized solutions for the microelectronics market. TASK and Intrinsix plan to jointly ... read more |
| CML Microcircuits and SPIRIT DSP form a Strategic Agreement to Produce Low Bit-Rate Vocoder IC's |
November 15, 2006 -- CML Microcircuits, Ltd. a provider of low-power semiconductors for global wireless and wireline communication markets, today announced a strategic agreement with SPIRIT DSP under which CML will provide ICs to ... read more |
| Elliptic Semiconductor and Spinnaker Systems to Market Digital Rights Management Solutions in Japan |
November 15, 2006 -- Elliptic Semiconductor, Inc. and Spinnaker Systems, Inc. have announced that Spinnaker would promote Elliptic's DRM solutions in the Japanese market. Elliptic has a portfolio of DRM middleware and IP core solut ... read more |
| National Semiconductor Introduces 1-Gbps LVDS Chipset with True Embedded Clock Architecture |
November 15, 2006 -- National Semiconductor Corp. has introduced a new high-speed LVDS serializer/deserializer (SerDes) chipset that serializes 24bits of data over a single differential pair (2 wires) at a data rate of 1.03Gbps. In additi ... read more |
| TI Delivers Precision 36-V Amplifiers with Low Power and Small Size for High-Voltage Industrial Market |
November 15, 2006 -- Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI) today introduced two new precision operational amplifiers that combine ultra-low noise with lower power, smaller package size and higher bandwidth than competitive 36-V amplifiers. The OPA ... read more |
| Freescale Opens Licensing of ColdFire Microcontroller Architecture to Embedded Customers |
November 15, 2006 -- To broaden designer access to its 32-bit microcontroller (MCU) architectures, Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. has initiated a ColdFire IP licensing program for the embedded design community. The V2 ColdFire core is avai ... read more |
| Intersil's Power Management IC Provides Fast and Flexible Battery Authentication |
November 15, 2006 -- Intersil Corp. today introduced the ISL9206, a cost-effective fixed-secret hash engine based on Intersil's second generation FlexiHash technology. The device provides a fast and flexible authentication process, and m ... read more |
| Intersil's New Multiplexer Enables Switching Between Four Different Video Inputs on Separate Gain-of-Two Amplified Channels |
November 15, 2006 -- Intersil Corp. today introduced the ISL59446, a triple-channel 4:1 multiplexer with three integrated gain-of-two amplifiers. This device enables simultaneous switching between four unique triple-video input signals o ... read more |
| TI's Low Cost 32-bit Digital Signal Controller Now in Volume Production for Industrial Control Applications |
November 15, 2006 -- Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI) has announced volume availability of four low- cost TMS320F280xx digital signal processor-based controllers targeted at industrial control applications such as digital power conversion, m ... read more |
| austriamicrosystems Expands ADC Product Line with AS1526/27 10-bit, 73ksps, Ultra Low-Power A/D Converter Family |
November 15, 2006 --austriamicrosystems AG has expanded its A/D converter portfolio with the new AS1526/27 family of 10-bit, single-channel, ultra low power A/D converters. Combining ultra low-power operation at a high sampling speed of 7 ... read more |
| DRC and Synective Labs Partner to Extend Innovative Coprocessor Solutions to European Customers |
November 15, 2006 -- DRC Computer Corp. has announced a partnership with Synective Labs to extend its Reconfigurable Processor Units (RPUs) to the European marketplace. Synective Labs offers high-performance computing solutions, ba ... read more |
| XJTAG Professional Development System Unveiled |
November 15, 2006 -- XJTAG has unveiled its XJTAG Professional Development System and announced a number of enhancements to its IEEE 1149.1 compliant system. The XJTAG Professional system brings together all the elements within XJTAG’s s ... read more |
| National Semiconductor Introduces Precision Clock Conditioners with Lowest Jitter Performance |
November 15, 2006 -- National Semiconductor Corp. has introduced a family of five precision clock conditioners that integrate all the functions required to clean and distribute ultra-low-noise clock signals throughout a system. Featuring ... read more |
| ISSI Announces 16-Mbit High Speed SRAM for Networking, Telecom and Automotive Applications |
November 15, 2006 -- Integrated Silicon Solution, Inc. (ISSI) has introduced the IS61WV102416ALL/BLL, the first 16-Mbit, 1Mx16, high speed/low power asynchronous SRAM with access times as fast as 8ns. The IS61WV102416ALL/BLL is the second ... read more |
| Analog Devices Raises the Standards in Precision Data Conversion |
November 14, 2006 -- Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) is making new levels of precision data conversion performance available with the introduction of three analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). The new ADCs are designed for industrial, medical, ... read more |
| Xilinx Spartan-3E FPGAs Enable JVC'S Latest Professional Broadcast HDV Camera-Recorder |
November 14, 2006 -- Xilinx, Inc. today announced that Victor Company of Japan, Ltd. (JVC) has adopted Xilinx low-cost Spartan-3E FPGAs for its latest handheld high definition video (HDV) GY-HD 250 series camera-recorder. Xilinx programma ... read more |
| Altium Sets Sights on Unification of Wider Electronic Product Development Process |
November 14, 2006 -- Altium, Ltd. today announced that the latest release of Altium Designer – Altium Designer 6.6 – includes a number of new features and enhancements aimed at unifying design flows beyond the development of the ele ... read more |
| ZMD selects MunEDA's DFM-DFY tool WiCkeD for Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuit Design |
November 14, 2006 -- ZMD AG has entered into a strategic licensing and consulting agreement with MunEDA GmbH regarding MunEDA's DFM-DFY tool WiCkeD. Designers in all ZMD business units worldwide will work with WiCkeD on innovations ... read more |
| AMIS Announces Automotive Grade Embedded Flash Technology for up to 64kBytes of Code Storage in Smart Power, Mixed-Signal SOC Designs |
November 13, 2006 -- AMI Semiconductor, Inc. (AMIS) has announced the availability of automotive grade embedded Flash memory for its 0.35-micron "Smart Power" high-voltage mixed-signal system-on-chip (SOC) process technology. The combina ... read more |
| The Mathworks Introduces Interactive Parallel Application Development for MATLAB |
November 13, 2006 -- The MathWorks, Inc. today introduced Distributed Computing Toolbox 3, representing a major advance in parallel algorithm development by enabling engineers and scientists to prototype and develop parallel algorithms i ... read more |
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