St. Louis, Missouri, USA – April 14, 2010 – Laird Technologies, Inc., a global leader in the design and manufacture of customized, performance-critical components for wireless systems and other advanced electronics applications, today announced the release of its two new wideband mobile load coil antennas, the B1322W and theB1360W.

The B1322W features a field tunable frequency range of 132-174 MHz. The field tunable B1322W allows the user to obtain a lower VSWR than 2:1 at a desired center frequency. The B1360W does not require tuning and covers 136-174 MHz span with a VSWR of 2:1 maximum.  Both antennas have an omnidirectional pattern with vertical polarization, and a maximum power of 100 watts.

The antennas include one-piece solid brass inserts, durable ABS injection molded housings, and weather-tight bases with built in 0-rings. Gold push-pin contacts preserve best power transfer over time, and stainless steel whips resist bending and rust.

Other features include a special UV treated radome that resists sun damage and optional NMO mounts. Each antenna is 100% tested on a network analyzer.

Offering long lasting value for the most demanding mobile radio communications, both antennas are ideal for Project 25 initiative applications, allowing for communications with multiple government, public safety and commercial organizations.

About Laird Technologies, Inc.

Laird Technologies designs and manufactures customized, performance-critical products for wireless and other advanced electronics applications.

The company is a global market leader in the design and supply of electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding, thermal management products, mechanical actuation systems, signal integrity components, and wireless antenna solutions, as well as radio frequency (RF) modules and systems. 

Custom products are supplied to all sectors of the electronics industry including the handset, telecommunications, data transfer and information technology, automotive, aerospace, defense, consumer, medical, and industrial markets.

Laird Technologies, a unit of Laird PLC, employs over 10,000 employees in more than 39 facilities located in 13 countries.

Nantes, France – APRIL 15, 2010 – CoFluent Design, a leading Electronic System Level (ESL) company that provides system-level modeling and simulation to accelerate innovation in embedded devices, today announced it has joined The MathWorks Connections Program. MATLAB and Simulink algorithms can now run in the context of a system-level model and simulation with CoFluent Studio for early architecture exploration and performance estimation.

This integration also enables validation of CoFluent Studio models against behavior captured in Simulink multidomain system models.

The MathWorks Connections Program is available to third-party organizations that develop and distribute complementary, commercially available products and services based on MATLAB and Simulink.

The MathWorks Connections Program partners help MathWorks users by providing industry or application-specific technology to fill their need for a complete solution. Partner products offer solutions that are seamlessly integrated with MathWorks products and ensure ongoing compatibility in conjunction with new MathWorks releases.

“MATLAB is the industry-standard environment for efficiently developing algorithms. CoFluent Studio models multicore/multiprocessor hardware/software systems –embedded devices or systems-on-chip– using UML or its simple graphical domain-specific language (DSL). Algorithms of computation blocks in CoFluent models can be left empty, described in ANSI C or C++, and now also defined with MATLAB,” said Vincent Perrier, Chief Technical Officer of CoFluent Design.

“CoFluent has developed an integration that enables engineers to reuse MATLAB and Simulink artifacts in CoFluent Studio models. Algorithmic components and behavioral system models developed in MATLAB or Simulink can be integrated with other functions and simulated in the context of a hardware/software system architecture in CoFluent Studio. This enables better performance estimation of the system application on a multithread/multicore platform,” said Ken Karnofsky, MathWorks Senior Strategist for signal processing applications.

From simple graphics and ANSI C/C++ or MATLAB code, CoFluent Studio generates and runs a TLM SystemC model to simulate multithread embedded software running on multicore hardware with complex interconnect. CoFluent Studio offers full flexibility in architecture exploration through the mapping (or allocation) of system functions to platform execution resources for describing the complete hardware/software partitioning, and the variation of user-defined or predefined parameters (e.g., processor clock, bus bandwidth, algorithm execution time). CoFluent Studio allows real-time behavioral and performance estimation (load, power, footprint, cost) without the need for embedded software application code, firmware, or a precise description of the platform with models of each component/IP core.

The generated SystemC can be used in further virtual platform simulations as a new IP behavioral model or software use case/workload model.

About The MathWorks

The MathWorks is the leading developer of mathematical computing software. MATLAB, the language of technical computing, is a programming environment for algorithm development, data analysis, visualization, and numeric computation. Simulink is a graphical environment for simulation and Model-Based Design of multidomain dynamic and embedded systems. Engineers and scientists worldwide rely on these product families to accelerate the pace of discovery, innovation, and development in automotive, aerospace, electronics, financial services, biotech-pharmaceutical, and other industries.

The MathWorks products are also fundamental teaching and research tools in the world’s universities and learning institutions. Founded in 1984, The MathWorks employs more than 2100 people in 15 countries, with headquarters in Natick, Massachusetts, USA.

For additional information, visit www.mathworks.com.