Simulation Provides Key Insights in the Design and Optimization of Solar Cells

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 6, 2009– Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) , a world leader in … Read More → "Synopsys’ Sentaurus TCAD Used to Simulate Solar Cell Performance Characteristics at NREL"

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – October 6, 2009 – MIPS Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: MIPS), a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for digital consumer, home networking, wireless, communications and business applications, today announced that Altera Corporation licensed … Read More → "MIPS Technologies Licenses MIPS32® Architecture to Altera Corporation"

Fully-featured Platform to Optimize External DDR2 and Flash Memory Organization for Maximum Performance and Cost-effective Data Storage

San Jose, CA, October 6, 2009 – Atmel® Corporation ( … Read More → "Atmel’s SAM9G45 Evaluation Kit Expedites Development on 400MHz ARM9-based Embedded MPU"

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – October 6, 2009 – MIPS Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: MIPS), a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for digital consumer, home networking, wireless, communications and business applications, today announced that Altera Corporation licensed … Read More → "MIPS Technologies Licenses MIPS32® Architecture to Altera Corporation"

New device first in a family of EPC Gen-2, high-density memory transponder ICs

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO – October 6, 2009 & … Read More → "Ramtron Announces MaxArias™ RF-enabled Wireless Memory"

San Jose, CA, October 6, 2009 – Atmel® Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) today announced the first ATA874x single-chip UHF ASK/FSK RF transmitter family targeting a broad range of proprietary wireless industrial and consumer applications such as metering, alarm … Read More → "Atmel’s AVR Microcontrollers Now Integrate RF Transmitter Functionality to Address Industrial Applications"

Integrated PCIe FPGA Endpoint Achieves PCI-SIG Compliance for PCI Express 1.1 Single-lane Configurations

SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 5 /PRNewswire/ — Xilinx (NASDAQ:XLNX) today announced that its low-cost Spartan®-6 FPGA family is compliant with the PCI Express® 1.1 specification, enabling low-risk and low-cost implementation of serial connectivity solutions for consumer, automotive, wireless, and other price-sensitive or high volume markets. Spartan-6 FPGAs satisfy the cost, ease-of-use, and low power requirements of developing systems compliant with PCIe® for applications such as in-vehicle infotainment, flat-panel displays, and video surveillance.

The integrated Endpoint block for PCI Express in … Read More → "Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGAs Enable PCI Express Compliant System Design for Low-Power, Low-Cost Connectivity Applications"

AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 5 /PRNewswire/ — Tekmos, Inc. announced today the introduction of its new TK80C186EB and TK80C188EB microprocessors designed as drop-in replacements for the discontinued Intel 80C186EB / 80C188EB microprocessors.

The TK80C186EB integrates commonly used system peripherals with the 186 CPU core to save space and reduce overall power consumption. A programmable interrupt controller supports and prioritizes 128 interrupts from internal, external, and software sources. The TK80C186EB also contains three programmable timer / counters, two serial channels, 2 parallel ports, and 10 programmable chip selects with programmable wait state generators. The TK80C186 … Read More → "Tekmos Introduces ‘Drop In Replacement’ for Intel 80C186EB and 80C188EB Microprocessors"