| Texas Instruments Introduces the Industry's Lowest Cost Floating-Point DSP |
September 29, 2006 -- Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI) has announced the industry's lowest cost floating-point DSP, the TMS320C6720 DSP, designed for cost-sensitive applications, such as musical instruments, medical, biometrics, radio broadca ... read more |
| Agilent Technologies Announces First Complete PSP Model Extraction Package |
September 29, 2006 -- Agilent Technologies, Inc. has announced the first complete and commercially available Pennsylvania State University-Philips (PSP) model parameter extraction package for advanced complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMO ... read more |
| Cypress Teams with Symwave to Deliver High-Performance Biometric Security Reference Design for Portable Hard Disk Drives |
September 29, 2006 -- Cypress Semiconductor Corp. and Symwave, Inc. have jointly introduced a reference design for adding biometric security to external hard disk drives (HDDs) using fingerprint recognition technology. The reference desig ... read more |
| PrismTech's New Middleware Simplifies Distributed Real-time Programming in a Java Environment |
September 29, 2006 -- PrismTech Corp. today announced the latest release of its OpenFusion RTOrb Java Edition product. OpenFusion RTOrb Java Edition already brings the benefits of distributed real-time CORBA middleware to the Java platfor ... read more |
| Aragio Solutions Offers Suite of High-Performance Mixed-Signal IP and I/O Libraries Targeted to Advanced Processes from Chartered |
September 29, 2006 -- Aragio Solutions and Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, Ltd. have announced the availability of silicon-proven analog and mixed-signal intellectual property (IP) and I/O libraries for a range of manufactur ... read more |
| STMicroelectronics Introduces Single-Chip ZigBee Solution with Bundled Software Stack and High Sensitivity |
September 29, 2006 -- STMicroelectronics has announced a new single-chip ZigBee wireless networking solution – the SN250 – which integrates a 2.4-GHz IEEE 802.15.4-compliant radio transceiver and a state-of-the-art 16-bit micr ... read more |
| Xilinx Extends ISE 8.2i to Include Support for Its Largest 65-nm FPGAs |
September 29, 2006 -- Xilinx, Inc. has announced immediate availability of a downloadable extension to the 8.2i Integrated Software Environment (ISE) Foundation tool suite allowing access to the Virtex-5 LX330 65-nm FPGAs largest FPGA. ... read more |
| STMicroelectronics Launches New Super-Integrated ARM7-Based Microcontrollers with Full-spec Operation at 3.3Vand 5V |
September 29, 2006 -- STMicroelectronics has extended its STR7 range of 32-bit microcontrollers based on the ARM7TDMI-S core with the introduction of the super-integrated STR750F family. The first general-purpose ARM7 Flash microcontrolle ... read more |
| Cypress Adds UTMI Interface Tri-State Mode to MoBL-USB TX2 Transceiver Optimized for Intel's XScale Technology |
September 29, 2006 -- Cypress Semiconductor Corp. has announced that its high-speed MoBL-USB TX2 transceiver for mobile handsets now offers a mode that allows all input/output (I/O) pins on its UTMI (USB 2.0 Transceiver Macrocell Interfac ... read more |
| Intersil's Core Controllers Improve Power Dissipation Reporting Accuracy and Transient Response for Intel Santa Rosa Platform |
September 28, 2006 -- Intersil Corp. has introduced a new family of core controllers for meeting Intel's next-generation (Core Duo and Core 2 Duo) mobile platform. These devices offer improved accuracy in power dissipation reporting and i ... read more |
| Microchip Technology Introduces 900-kHz, Selectable-Gain Amplifiers |
September 28, 2006 -- Microchip Technology, Inc. has expanded its portfolio of programmable amplifiers with a family of 900-MHz, selectable-gain amplifiers. The MCP6G01, MCP6G02, MCP6G03 and MCP6G04 (MCP6G0x) are the first amplifiers with ... read more |
| XJTAG Offers Contract Manufacturers Free XJRunner |
September 28, 2006 --XJTAG, a leading supplier of boundary scan development tools, is offering UK-based contract electronic manufacturers (CEMs) a free XJRunner, the production-optimized version of its XJTAG boundary scan development syst ... read more |
| Zilog Announces Design Contest for New 16-Bit ZNEO MCU Family |
September 28,2006 -- Following the unveiling today of its first 16-bit family of Flash microcontrollers (MCUs), the ZNEO Z16F, Zilog, Inc. has also announced details of a design contest for this new product family and extended an open in ... read more |
| Zilog Unveils 16-Bit ZNEO |
September 28, 2006 -- Zilog, Inc. hasy officially unveiled its first 16-bit product, the ZNEO Z16F family of Flash microcontrollers (MCUs). Based on ZiLOG's new ZNEO 16-bit CPU core, which itself was designed to meet the continuing demand ... read more |
| OCP-IP Announces Six New Members |
September 28, 2006 -- OCP International Partnership (OCP-IP) today announced six new members: Bluespec, Digital Dynamics Corp., Digital Media Professionals, Inc. (DMP), Georgia Institute of Technology, Sci-worx, and TrustIC. The breadth o ... read more |
| Ramtron's New 512-kbit FRAM Comes with High-Speed SPI Interface |
September 27, 2006 -- Ramtron International Corp. has introduced the FM25L512, a 512-kbit, 3-V nonvolatile FRAM device with a high-speed serial peripheral interface (SPI). The FM25L512 provides increased data collection and storage capaci ... read more |
| Chip Estimate Introduces Chip Planning Cockpit |
September 27, 2006 -- Chip Estimate Corp. has announced InCyte Enterprise, an estimation system for comprehensive chip-level architectural planning and specification capture. The system is a unified cockpit that enables design creation an ... read more |
| Altera and Northwest Logic Deliver Hardware-Proven 667-Mbps DDR2 SDRAM Interface Solution |
September 27, 2006 -- Altera Corp. and Northwest Logic have announced the immediate availability of a hardware-proven, 667-Mbps DDR2 SDRAM interface for Altera's high-density Stratix II and Stratix II GX FPGAs. This interface combi ... read more |
| Atmel and Magellan Introduce New GPS Chipset Generation |
September 27, 2006 -- Atmel Corp. and Magellan announced today the availability of a new GPS chipset that integrates the latest GPS correlation technology with an ARM926EJ-S-based microprocessor. This new device includes an extended instr ... read more |
| Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas Releases Three New Xilinx Development Kits |
September 27, 2006 -- Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas, the largest operating group of Avnet, Inc. , has announced the release of three new Xilinx FPGA development kits: two Virtex-4 PCI Express Kits and a Virtex-5 LX Kit. All three k ... read more |
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