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Curtiss-Wright Controls Debuts New Rugged Solid-State HD Video Data Recorder

July 22, 2011

ASHBURN, VA – July 20, 2011 – Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing (CWCEC), a business group of Curtiss-Wright Controls and a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VME, VPX, OpenVPX™ and CompactPCI products for the rugged deployed aerospace and defense market, has introduced the newest addition to its industry leading Skyquest™ family of rugged video recorders, the Skyquest& … Read More → "Curtiss-Wright Controls Debuts New Rugged Solid-State HD Video Data Recorder"

Saelig Debuts New Low-cost 60MHz Oscilloscope With Deep Memory

July 22, 2011

Pittsford, NY, USA: Saelig Company, Inc. announces the SDS6062 – a new, two-channel benchtop scope with a huge 10MSa record length for each channel, allowing zooming capability for investigating fast, intermittent pulses. This low-cost versatile scope samples at 500MSa/s and is packed with useful features normally only seen on higher-end DSOs, including deep memory, external, video-capable trigger, auto-measurements, auto-scaling, large 8″ full color LCD display, XY mode, auto-set, averaging, math functions, USB output, waveform storage, pass/fail output and a 3-year warranty. Even FFT functionality is included for frequency spectrum display. The SDS6062</ … Read More → "Saelig Debuts New Low-cost 60MHz Oscilloscope With Deep Memory"

TI introduces industry’s most highly integrated piezo haptic driver

July 21, 2011

DALLAS (July 20, 2011) – Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) today introduced the most highly integrated piezo haptic driver for mobile consumer and industrial designs. The DRV8662 features an integrated 105-V boost converter, power diode, and 50-V to 200-V peak-to-peak (Vpp) fully-differential amplifier, resulting in a solution size that is 50 percent smaller than leading competitors. The DRV8662 also lowers total solution cost by 40 percent compared to competing solutions, thanks to an efficient, transformer-less design. With the capability to drive a wide range of piezo actuator voltages and fast start-up time, the DRV8662 benefits … Read More → "TI introduces industry’s most highly integrated piezo haptic driver"

Curtiss-Wright Controls Debuts New Rugged Video Distribution System Unit for Deployed Surveillance Platforms

July 21, 2011

ASHBURN, VA – July 20, 2011 – Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing (CWCEC), a business group of Curtiss-Wright Controls and a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VME, VPX, OpenVPX™ and CompactPCI products for the rugged deployed aerospace and defense market, has introduced the newest addition to its industry leading Skyquest™ family of rugged video management system ( … Read More → "Curtiss-Wright Controls Debuts New Rugged Video Distribution System Unit for Deployed Surveillance Platforms"

Xilinx Space-Grade Virtex-5QV FPGA in Production with Mega-Rad Capability

July 21, 2011

SAN JOSE, Calif., July 21, 2011 – Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced that its radiation-hardened-by-design space-grade Virtex®-5QV FPGA is available in production with greater than 1Mrad(Si) Total Ionizing Dose (TID) capabilities for supporting the broadest range of space borne missions from low-earth orbit and beyond. The Virtex-5QV device is the first of its kind reprogrammable Single-Event-Upset (SEU) hardened FPGA specifically designed to withstand the harshest radiation environments so that design teams can shorten time-to-launch from years to months by using an off-the-shelf solution for building complex, high-performance space systems that can be reprogrammed and … Read More → "Xilinx Space-Grade Virtex-5QV FPGA in Production with Mega-Rad Capability"

Power modules for fast switching motor drive applications

July 21, 2011

July 21st 2011 – Most of the current high power semiconductors are optimized for switching frequencies between 4 and 8 kHz. Today, however, more and more applications require frequencies of 10 kHz and higher. New power modules specifically designed for higher frequencies can now fill that gap.

For a powerful, reliable and cost effective motor drive, the right choice of power semiconductors is very important. Most of the current high power motor inverters use IGBTs (Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor) for the power switching, which are built in Trench Field Stop technology. The Trench Field Stop IGBT is designed for motor … Read More → "Power modules for fast switching motor drive applications"

Wolfson delivers world’s-first Audio System-on-a-Chip (SoC)

July 21, 2011

Edinburgh, UK, 21 July 2011 – Wolfson Microelectronics plc has today announced the WM5100, the world’s first Audio System-on-a-Chip (SoC), integrating a high performance, low power, multi-channel Audio Hub, with full transmit path (Tx) noise cancellation, receive path (Rx) noise cancellation and Wolfson’s class-leading myZone(tm) adaptive Ambient Noise Cancellation (ANC) technology in one device.

This pioneering solution, aimed primarily at mobile handsets and tablet PCs, delivers the ultimate user experience enabling Wolfson’s high definition (HD) audio performance, while dramatically improving speech clarity for both the caller and the listener. The innovative technology … Read More → "Wolfson delivers world’s-first Audio System-on-a-Chip (SoC)"

Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems Introduces New Family of Network Attached Storage File Servers

July 21, 2011

DAYTON, OH – July 20, 2011 — Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems (CWCES), a business group of Curtiss-Wright Controls and a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed subsystems for the aerospace, defense and commercial markets, introduced the Vortex Data Transport System (DTS), a new family of ruggedized DZUS form factor Network Attached Storage (NAS) File Servers (FS) designed for use in sea, air, and ground vehicles, field stations and benign laboratories. Easily … Read More → "Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems Introduces New Family of Network Attached Storage File Servers"

Calypto Joins ARM Connected Community

July 21, 2011

SANTA CLARA, Calif., – July 20, 2011 — Calypto® Design Systems, Inc., the leader in Sequential Analysis Technology, today announced it is a new member in the ARM^® Connected Community, the industry’s largest ecosystem of ARM technology-based products and services. As part of the ARM Connected Community, Calypto gains access to a full range of resources to help it market and deploy innovative design platforms that enable developers to get ARM Powered^{& … Read More → "Calypto Joins ARM Connected Community"}

Cypress Teams with NVIDIA to Offer Powerful Touchscreen Designs For High-Performance Tablets

July 21, 2011

SAN JOSE, Calif., July 21, 2011 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: CY) today announced that it is working with NVIDIA to develop touchscreen implementations for upcoming Android-based tablets. The designs are based on Cypress’s single-chip TrueTouch^® solution for large touchscreens up to 11.6 inches and the NVIDIA® Tegra™ mobile super chip.

NVIDIA Tegra ushered in a new wave of super phones and tablets with never-before-seen experiences. With the world’s first … Read More → "Cypress Teams with NVIDIA to Offer Powerful Touchscreen Designs For High-Performance Tablets"