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Maxim’s New Obsolescence Mitigation Program Ensures a Future Supply of Discontinued Mil/Aero Parts

August 4, 2011

SUNNYVALE, CA—August 4, 2011—Maxim Integrated Products Inc. (NASDAQ: MXIM) is introducing a new Obsolescence Mitigation (OM) Program to minimize the impact of integrated circuit (IC) device obsolescence on long-term military/aerospace programs. The new program ensures a future supply of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) plastic parts utilized in long-term mil/aero programs.

Obsolescence Impacts Long-Term Programs

The rapid evolution of semiconductor technologies has been the cornerstone and hallmark of the IC business from its earliest days. Continuous semiconductor process and manufacturing improvements allowed chips to become more integrated and added features and … Read More → "Maxim’s New Obsolescence Mitigation Program Ensures a Future Supply of Discontinued Mil/Aero Parts"

New Fast-Sweep RF Signal Generator From Saelig

August 4, 2011

Pittsford, NY, USA: Saelig Company, Inc. (Saelig) (www.saelig.com) has introduced theTGR6000 – a new, economically-priced 6GHz RF signal generator that is both simple and intuitive to use. TheTGR6000 offers a high purity output with low phase noise over a frequency range of 10MHz to 6,000MHz, with output from -110dBm to +7dBm adjustable in 0.1dB steps. The frequency resolution is 10Hz and the … Read More → "New Fast-Sweep RF Signal Generator From Saelig"

1A, Low Noise Synchronous Buck-Boost DC/DC Converter Offers Extended Battery Run Time for Li-Ion & Alkaline-Powered Devices

August 3, 2011

MILPITAS, CA – August 3, 2011 – Linear Technology announces the LTC3536, a synchronous buck-boost converter that delivers up to 1A of output current from a Li-Ion/Polymer source or 300mA from dual cell alkaline/NiCd/NiMH sources. Its 1.8V to 5.5V input and output voltage range achieves a +/-1% accurate output with inputs above, below or … Read More → "1A, Low Noise Synchronous Buck-Boost DC/DC Converter Offers Extended Battery Run Time for Li-Ion & Alkaline-Powered Devices"

octoScope Introduces Smartphone Industry’s First Small Form Factor Over-The-Air (OTA) Test Platform

August 3, 2011

Marlboro, MA– August 2, 2011 – octoScope, Inc., a wireless solutions and services company, announced today its wireless testing product, octoBox™. octoBox revolutionizes the way multi-radio devices such as smartphones and USB dongles are designed, tested and verified. It offers accurate OTA testing of conventional and MIMO wireless devices in a customizable refrigerator sized anechoic (non-echoing) enclosure that replaces expensive walk-in anechoic chambers and facilitates test setup.

Offering repeatable and accurate test and validation methodology, octoBox cuts development and production costs for … Read More → "octoScope Introduces Smartphone Industry’s First Small Form Factor Over-The-Air (OTA) Test Platform"

Microchip Engineers Built Amateur Satellite That Deploys From International Space Station Tomorrow Morning

August 3, 2011

CHANDLER, Ariz., Aug. 2, 2011 [NASDAQ: MCHP] — Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller, analog and Flash-IP solutions, today announced that a volunteer team of Microchip engineers spent nearly four years working on nights and weekends to develop the ARISSat-1 amateur satellite. Their hard work will come to fruition tomorrow morning at 7:30 a.m. (Pacific Time), when the crew of the International Space Station (ISS) is scheduled to deploy the satellite during a spacewalk.

The deployment will be broadcast live on … Read More → "Microchip Engineers Built Amateur Satellite That Deploys From International Space Station Tomorrow Morning"

Cavium Disrupts TCAM Market with Ultra Low Power NEURON Search™ Processor Family

August 3, 2011

San Jose, Calif., August 2, 2011— Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for networking, communications, and the digital home, today announced its new game-changing NEURON Search™ Processor family targeted at a wide range of high performance, L2-L4 Network Search applications in Enterprise and Service Provider Infrastructure equipment. This new family includes the NEURON Search™ and NEURONMAX Search™ product lines with support for both IPv4 and IPv6 rules and delivers 100 million to over 1.6 billion searches per second with guaranteed low latency. The NEURON Search family delivers up to 4 … Read More → "Cavium Disrupts TCAM Market with Ultra Low Power NEURON Search™ Processor Family"

Altium sponsors WorldSkills London 2011 as part of its commitment to shaping the future of electronics

August 3, 2011

SYDNEY, Australia – 3 August 2011 – Altium <http://www.live.altium.com/> announced that it is an official supplier to the international WorldSkills 2011 <http://www.worldskillslondon2011.com/> competition which takes place at ExCeL London from 5th-8th October 2011. As part of a continued commitment to the event and the education of the next generation of electronics engineers, Altium is supporting the 14 competing teams of the electronics category with its electronics design software Altium Designer <Read More → "Altium sponsors WorldSkills London 2011 as part of its commitment to shaping the future of electronics"

Express Logic and IAR Launch Thread-Safe Library Support

August 3, 2011

San Diego, CA, August 3, 2010?Express Logic, Inc., the worldwide leader in royalty-free real-time operating systems (RTOS), today announced thread-safe library support for the IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM (EWARM). Thread-safe support protects applications by ensuring that only one thread has access to a function and its data at a time. Developers using Express Logic’s popular Read More → "Express Logic and IAR Launch Thread-Safe Library Support"

Xilinx Honors LabVIEW FPGA Innovation Award Winners at NIWeek Graphical System Design Achievement Awards Ceremony

August 3, 2011

AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 3, 2011 – Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) honored winners of the new NI LabVIEW FPGA Innovation Award last night at the Graphical System Design Achievement Awards ceremony at the Austin Convention Center during the NIWeek 2011</ … Read More → "Xilinx Honors LabVIEW FPGA Innovation Award Winners at NIWeek Graphical System Design Achievement Awards Ceremony"

Sidense Completes TSMC IP9000 Assessment for SiPROM NVM IP and Attains more than 70 Customer Licenses in the Last 12 Months

August 2, 2011

Ottawa, Canada – (August 2, 2011) – Sidense Corp., a leading developer of Logic Non-Volatile Memory (LNVM) one-time programmable (OTP) memory IP cores, announced today that the Company’s SiPROM 1T-Fuse™ OTP macro family at 130nm has met the requirements of TSMC’s rigorous IP9000 Assessment program.

Sidense offers a complete line of off-the-shelf 130nm macros covering bit counts from 8 Kbits to 512 Kbits. The 130nm macro family has been used by customers to replace ROM, store … Read More → "Sidense Completes TSMC IP9000 Assessment for SiPROM NVM IP and Attains more than 70 Customer Licenses in the Last 12 Months"