MILCOM 2009 – BOSTON, MA – October 18, 2009, — Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VME, VPX and CompactPCI products and systems for the aerospace and defense market, and Hybricon, a leading supplier of innovative Systems Packaging for Rugged Embedded Computing solutions serving the military, aerospace, homeland security, medical and high-end industrial markets, today demonstrated the industry’s first live OpenVPX™ system. The demonstration system, shown at the MILCOM 2009 Conference, featured an OpenVPX backplane in a Hybricon SFF-4 Small Form Factor conduction cooled chassis integrated with Curtiss-Wright Controls’ small form factor 3 … Read More → "Curtiss-Wright Controls and Hybricon Are First to Demonstrate Live OpenVPX™ System at Milcom Boston"

November 3, 2009, Stuttgart, Germany — At Vision 2009, Matrox Imaging is announcing two PICMG 1.3 boards for its high-performance computing (HPC) platform, Matrox Supersight e2. The new system host board (SHB-5520) and the x86 accelerator board (XAB-5520) support Intel’s latest-generation microarchitecture, Nehalem, through the use of the Intel 5520 chipset.

“The Nehalem microarchitecture features an all-new memory architecture coupled with QuickPath Interconnect (QPI),” explains Pierantonio Boriero, Product Line Manager, Matrox Imaging. “This is good news for demanding image processing applications like semiconductor wafer and mask inspection, flat panel display (FPD) inspection, and CT scanning.”

SiliconCity(R) Flexible Architecture offers easy migration from CAP(R) to a custom ARM-based SoC

SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Atmel® Corporation (NASDAQ:ATML) today announced that the world’s first cross-platform mobile phone gaming consoles will be implemented in microSD cards, based on a system-on-chip (SoC) developed by FXI Technologies AS using Atmel’s 90nm SiliconCity Flexible Architecture.
When embedded in a microSD card, the FXI die can turn slot-enabled, hand-held devices into high-end “console gaming” platforms. The FXI SoC integrates a 3-D graphics accelerator, interface logic and ARM9(TM) processor that can … Read More → "FXI and Atmel Create World’s First microSD Gaming-Console for Mobile Phones"

LEESBURG, VA – October 19, 2009 — Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed off-the-shelf (COTS) VME, VPX, VXS and CompactPCI products for the aerospace and defense market, has announced that it intends to support the OpenVPX™ interoperability specification across its range of VPX single board computers (SBCs), DSP engines, network interfaces, storage solutions and other board and sub-system platforms.

“Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing has taken a leadership position in the development of the VPX and OpenVPX specifications and we plan to offer the market the most comprehensive mix of … Read More → "Curtiss-Wright Controls Announces Support For OpenVPX™ Across Rugged Embedded Board/System Product Line"

Multicore processing speeds runtime by 3X, accelerates time-to-quality

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., November 3, 2009 – Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced that Arrow Electronics successfully deployed Synopsys’ TetraMAX(R) automatic test pattern generation (ATPG) with multicore processing to significantly reduce the time needed to generate high quality manufacturing tests. Stringent quality goals combined with increasing design complexity stimulated the need to improve ATPG performance at Arrow. By utilising TetraMAX ATPG’s multicore processing capability on their quad-core compute servers, Arrow’s … Read More → "Synopsys TetraMAX ATPG cuts test development schedule at Arrow Electronics"

Starnberg, November 3, 2009 – qaqadu event gmbh, the experts for technical education, offer the 3-day short course on “FPGAs and Embedded Processors” taking place on December 7 to 9, 2009, in Munich, Germany. Offering this topic qaqadu events meets the rapidly growing market of FPGAs and embedded processors with great market potential. This course will provide attendees with a comprehensive overview of how embedded styled systems can be implemented within a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) and discuss how FPGAs can be used as a platform for System-on-Chip (SoC) styled designs. An introduction to FPGAs and their DSP capabilities will be presented along … Read More → "FPGAs and Embedded Processors Technical Course"

Innovative CMOS IC Delivers Optimum Performance with
Low Power Consumption and Low Signal Distortion

DENVER, COLORADO – October 28, 2009 – RF Micro Devices, Inc. (Nasdaq GS: RFMD), a global leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance radio frequency systems and solutions, today announced the introduction of the RFFC0085 frequency converter integrated circuit (IC). The CMOS-based RFFC0085 frequency converter IC is designed for use as an Out-of-Band (OOB) receive circuit tuner in cable industry and SATCOM-DBS set-top boxes, DOCSIS® Set-Top Gateways, OpenCable Application Platform (OCAP™) CableCards, Tru2Way™ products and CableCard-equipped HDTVs.

The … Read More → "RFMD® Introduces RFFC0085 Frequency Converter IC"