Miniature, Self-Charging Power Modules Enable Maintenance-Free 
Perpetually-Powered Wireless Sensors and Other Micro-electronic Devices

Littleton, Colo., Nov. 2, 2009—Infinite Power Solutions, Inc. (IPS), a global leader in the development and manufacturing of solid-state, rechargeable, thin-film energy storage devices, today formally unveiled its INFINERGYTM Micro Power Module (MPM) products at the Energy Harvesting & Storage USA conference in Denver, Colorado. INFINERGY MPMs are miniaturized “plug & play” power modules with integrated power management and solid-state energy storage that simplify the design and adoption of self-powered, micro-electronic systems using ambient energy. These novel MPM products are designed … Read More → "Infinite Power Solutions Launches Infinergy Micro Power Module Product Family"

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – November 2, 2009 – MIPS Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: MIPS), a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores, today introduced a new core family providing the highest levels of system performance for extremely cost-sensitive embedded applications such as 32-bit microcontrollers (MCUs), home entertainment, personal entertainment and home networking. The new MIPS32® M14K™ and M14Kc™ cores are the first MIPS32-compatible cores that also execute the new microMIPS™ instruction set architecture (ISA), achieving high performance of 

1.5 DMIPS/MHz with an advanced level of code compression. The microMIPS ISA … Read More → "MIPS Technologies Introduces New Processor Cores with 32-bit Performance and near 16-bit Code Size"

SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Atmel® Corporation (NASDAQ:ATML) today announced the availability of the Xplain evaluation kit for its AVR® XMEGA(TM) microcontroller family. With a suggested resale price of $29 USD, this kit enables users the ability to evaluate features and system performance of Atmel’s XMEGA at a minimum hardware cost. The kit is powered through a mini USB connector where end-users can develop their own applications on XMEGA using Xplain. The 8-/16-bit XMEGA microcontrollers, introduced in 2008, are optimized for ultra- low power and high system performance with a very innovative and complete … Read More → "Atmel Introduces $29 Evaluation Kit for AVR XMEGA"

Topics include System-Level Design, VMM Verification Methodology and a multi-tool IPL Flow Demonstration

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Nov. 2 — Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) , a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced that its 22nd electronic design automation (EDA) Interoperability Forum will feature keynote speaker Subodh Bapat, vice president, energy efficiency and distinguished engineer at Sun Microsystems, on the topic of “Groovy Green Computing: Battling the Mushrooming Use of Power.”
WHO: The event is recommended for EDA tool developers, IC design engineers, and IP providers to discuss the industry-critical topics of … Read More → "Synopsys EDA Interoperability Forum to Feature Subodh Bapat Keynote on Green Computing"

Delivers predictable high compression with only one pair of test data pins

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., November 2, 2009 — Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq:SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced a new capability in DFTMAX(tm) compression that significantly reduces the cost of test for designs and methodologies that mandate very few test pins. Extending Synopsys’ patented adaptive scan technology with a high-performance, low-pin interface to the tester allows designers to achieve predictable compression of up to 100X or more with only one pair of test data pins. As designers … Read More → "Synopsys extends DFTMAX compression to reduce the cost of pin-limited test"

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) , a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced that Juniper Networks has signed a multi-year business agreement establishing Synopsys as its primary EDA partner. Under the new agreement, Juniper will use Synopsys’ Galaxy(TM) Implementation and Discovery(TM) Verification Platforms to meet their expanding chip development needs.

“Synopsys has played a key role in helping us execute on our broad open foundry strategy, including the successful migration of some of our leading designs to advanced process nodes,” said R.K. … Read More → "Juniper Chooses Synopsys as Its Primary EDA Partner"

FPGA-based AMC-V5-10G provides high-speed I/O on AdvancedMC module

27th October 2009

Santa Clara, CA, USA – At the AdvancedTCA Summit Booth 510, CommAgility announced today the AMC-V5F-10G, a high performance FPGA-based interface and processing card for the latest wireless baseband and other demanding processing and optical data interfacing applications.

For systems that require very high speed optical links, a front panel SFP+ interface provides a fast data link, including Ethernet at 10Gbps, and 16x CPRI (running at 9.8304Gbps). As well as high end data networking applications, this enables advanced … Read More → "CommAgility targets high-end wireless and data processing applications with 10G Ethernet/CPRI interfaces"

New Vortex SDRxE Scalable GbE Data Recorder Supports
500MB/s of Streaming Data

DAYTON, OH – October 30, 2009 — Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems, a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed subsystems for the aerospace and defense market, has introduced the new Vortex SDRxE, a fixed-featured off-the-shelf multi-channel Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) streaming data recorder system for demanding sensor-to-processor streaming data applications. The Vortex SDRxE combines a uniquely equipped 3U controller with a reliable, scalable storage subsystem. This rack mountable data recorder can record up to four channels of GbE data at 125MB/s per channel. … Read More → "Curtiss-Wright Controls Debuts Multi-Channel Gigabit Ethernet Data Recorder"

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan Uses Virtex-5 and Spartan-3A FPGAs in its Newest Cryptographic Evaluation and Partial Reconfiguration Systems

TOKYO, Oct. 29 — Xilinx K.K., the Japanese subsidiary of Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX) , today announced that the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan (AIST) selected Virtex®-5 and Spartan®-3A FPGA families for its SASEBO-GII boards for side channel attack standard evaluation and partial reconfiguration. The SASEBO-GII boards will enable the development and evaluation of performance and security of cryptographic circuits to contribute to the international … Read More → "Xilinx FPGAs Contribute to Global Standardization of Cryptographic Module Security Evaluation"