| TI's Introduces Single-Chip MSP430 MCU and Low-Power RF Transceiver |
November 12, 2008 -- Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI) has announced the new CC430 technology platform offering what it claims is the industry's lowest-power, single-chip radio-frequency (RF) solution for microcontroller (MCU) based applicatio ... read more |
| Microchip Technology Announces High-Resolution, Low-Power Delta-Sigma ADCs |
November 12, 2008 -- Microchip Technology, Inc. has announced a new series of low-power, high-resolution analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). The MCP3422, MCP3423 and MCP3424 (MCP3422/3/4) ADCs provide 18-bits of resolution and consume o ... read more |
| Lanner Leverages Stretch Solutions for New Family of Video Surveillance Products |
November 12, 2008 -- Stretch, Inc. announced that Lanner Electronics, Inc. is using Stretch S6000 processors and the Stretch Intelligent Encoder software for a new line of video surveillance products. The scalability of the Stretch S6000 ... read more |
| siXis Introduces Reconfigurable Computing Platform |
November 12, 2008 -- siXis, Inc., a semiconductor company focused on commercializing its technology, introduced its first product today, the SX1000 Reconfigurable Computing Platform. The SX1000, based on field-programmable gate array (FPG ... read more |
| ON Semiconductor Introduces High-Quality Class AB Audio Amplifier for Portable and Wireless Applications |
November 12, 2008 -- ON Semiconductor has introduced the NCP2991, a new generation of Class AB audio amplifier designed to provide superior audio performance without sacrificing power efficiency for portable and wireless applications. The ... read more |
| ON Semiconductor Expands Medium Voltage Power MOSFET Portfolio with 8 New Devices for Consumer and Industrial Applications |
November 12, 2008 -- ON Semiconductor has introduced eight new power MOSFET devices specifically designed for medium voltage switching applications. These MOSFETs are ideal for use in DC motor drives, LED drivers, power supplies, converte ... read more |
| ON Semiconductor Introduces Improved Standalone LIN Transceiver |
November 12, 2008 -- ON Semiconductor has announced the NCV7321, a standalone Local Interconnect Network (LIN) transceiver for the automotive industry. The low-power, mixed-signal NCV7321 is a replacement for the AMIS-30600 single-wire L ... read more |
| Global Semiconductor Alliance and National Microelectronics Institute Form Organizational Alliance |
November 12, 2008 -- The Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) and the National Microelectronics Institute (NMI), the trade association representing the semiconductor industry in the UK and Ireland, have signed a collaborative memorandum of ... read more |
| National Semiconductor’s New Zero-Drift Amplifiers Break the Noise Barrier |
November 11, 2008 -- Two new zero-drift operational amplifiers (op amps) from National Semiconductor Corp. offer the lowest input voltage noise (11nV/sqrt Hz at a gain of 1000V/V) and high DC accuracy for sensor interface applications ope ... read more |
| SynaptiCAD Offers HDL Works Tools in North America |
November 11, 2008 -- SynaptiCAD, Inc. is now the US and Canadian distributor for HDL Works EDA tools: Ease, HDL Companion, and IO Checker. These tools provide alternative graphical approaches for VHDL and Verilog code design which also co ... read more |
| National Semiconductor Delivers Best Linearity Performance with New High-Speed, 16-Bit ADC and DVGA |
November 11, 2008 – Two new high-speed signal path products, a 16-bit, 130-MSPS analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and a digital-controlled variable gain amplifier (DVGA), were announced today by National Semiconductor Corp. According to ... read more |
| Calypto Announces New SLEC Release for Verification of Wireless, Video, Image Processing SOC Designs |
November 11, 2008 -- The latest version of Calypto Design Systems, Inc.'s SLEC now supports fixed-point datatypes and system-level memory interfaces commonly used in wireless, video and image processing system-on-chip (SoC) designs.
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| NXP Semiconductors Signs Agreement with Imagination for Graphics Technology |
November 11, 2008 -- Imagination Technologies and NXP Semiconductors have signed a multi-use licence agreement for a member of Imagination's PowerVR SGX graphics IP family. This agreement is initially focused on SOC devices targeting digi ... read more |
| eASIC and Video-Cores Deliver Low-Cost Video IP Solutions |
November 11, 2008 -- eASIC Corp. a provider of zero-mask charge ASIC devices, and Video-Cores, a provider of high-performance media IP cores, have announced the immediately availability of proven video IP cores for eASIC’s low-cos ... read more |
| Key ASIC and MoSys Collaborate on Embedded Memory Solution for High-Resolution Portable LCD Driver Market |
November 11, 2008 -- Key ASIC, Inc. and MoSys, Inc. today announced a joint solution to support the LCD driver market.
Key ASIC has licensed MoSys' patented 1T-SRAM memory technology to target customers designing high-resolut ... read more |
| Xilinx Automotive Optical Flow Solution Addresses Image Processing Requirements of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems |
November 11, 2008 -- Xilinx, Inc. has debuted its Xilinx Automotive (XA) Optical Flow solution for vision-based driver assistance (DA) systems. This field programmable gate array (FPGA) implementation integrates high- performance image-pr ... read more |
| XJTAG Launches New Chain Debugger |
November 11, 2008 -- has introduced a new JTAG chain debugger to enable engineers using its boundary scan system to significantly improve printed circuit board (PCB) set-up times and to quickly troubleshoot faults on early prototype circ ... read more |
| New SHARC Processors Provide the Industry's Highest-Performance Floating-Point DSP |
November 11, 2008 -- Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) has broadened its fourth-generation SHARC family of high-performance floating-point digital signal processors (DSPs) by introducing a series of processors for industrial and instrumentation, ... read more |
| Peregrine Semiconductor Develops DuNE Technology for Mobile Antenna Tuning |
November 11, 2008 -- Peregrine Semiconductor Corp. today announced a breakthrough in the solution to mobile antenna tuning. The company’s new DuNE technology, a patent-pending design methodology made possible by Peregrine’s UltraCMOS proc ... read more |
| Tokyo Electron Device Announces Release of Three High-density FPGA PCI Express Platforms |
November 11, 2008 -- Tokyo Electron Device, Ltd. (TED) has announced the release of three inrevium Virtex-5 high-density PCI Express platforms. These PCI Express Gen 1- and Gen 2-capable platforms utilize Xilinx Virtex-5 LX330T, SX240T an ... read more |
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