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TI achieves industry’s first SuperSpeed USB four-port extensible host controller with USB-IF certification

DALLAS (April 11, 2011) – Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) today announced that it is the first semiconductor company to receive certification from the USB Implementer’s Forum (USB-IF) for its SuperSpeed USB (USB 3.0) four-port extensible host controller (xHCI). In addition to the four-port host controller, theTUSB7340, TI also achieved certification for its two-port host controller, the TUSB7320. These four- and two-port host controllers support such applications as notebooks, desktop computers, workstations, servers, add-in cards … Read More → "TI achieves industry’s first SuperSpeed USB four-port extensible host controller with USB-IF certification"

Tektronix Delivers New RF Video Network Monitoring Solution to Ensure Superior ISDB-Tb Broadcast Quality

LAS VEGAS, NV–(Marketwire – April 10, 2011) – Tektronix, Inc., the market leader in broadcast video test, monitoring and analysis solutions, today announced a new solution for monitoring ISDB-Tb broadcasts from the moment video content enters the network until broadcast, helping to ensure superior quality of service (QoS) for viewers. With advanced capabilities like remote monitoring and diagnosis, it helps broadcasters deliver reliable services across massive service areas while minimizing the time experts need to spend in the field tracking down the source of problems.

With the new& … Read More → "Tektronix Delivers New RF Video Network Monitoring Solution to Ensure Superior ISDB-Tb Broadcast Quality"

Cadence Announces Availability of World’s First DDR4 IP Solution

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS), a leader in global electronic design innovation, today announced a comprehensive DDR4 solution that will enable SoC designers to take immediate advantage of the performance gains afforded by the emerging DDR4 memory standard. Having worked with hundreds of customers to integrate earlier generations of this important memory controller interface, Cadence and the newly acquired Denali team offer the proven, high-quality IP and sophisticated integration environment required to speed integration, reduce cost and ensure design manufacturability. The solution includes hard and soft PHY IP; controller … Read More → "Cadence Announces Availability of World’s First DDR4 IP Solution"

Tektronix Introduces World’s Smallest Full-Featured Waveform Monitor and Rasterizer for Content Creation, Post Production, and Broadcast

LAS VEGAS, NV–(Marketwire – April 10, 2011) – Tektronix, Inc., the market leader in broadcast video test, monitoring and analysis solutions, today unveiled the compact WFM5200 waveform monitor andWVR5200 rasterizer to meet the needs of video content production, post production, and broadcast for affordable 3G-SDI monitoring capability that can be tailored to specific applications.

The world’s smallest full-featured waveform rasterizer and waveform monitor that can monitor up to four 3G-SDI signals simultaneously, the … Read More → "Tektronix Introduces World’s Smallest Full-Featured Waveform Monitor and Rasterizer for Content Creation, Post Production, and Broadcast"

Mentor Graphics FloTHERM with Bottleneck and Shortcut Technology Wins 2011 Design News Golden Mousetrap Award for Best Design Tools Product

WILSONVILLE, Ore., March 31, 2011 – Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced that it has received the 2011 Design News Golden Mousetrap Award for Best Product in the Design Tools Category for its FloTHERM® 3D computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software. The FloTHERM 9 product features an industry-first, patent-pending technology for Bottleneck (Bn) and Shortcut (Sc) fields that identifies where heat flow congestion occurs in the electronic design and why, and identifies optimum thermal shortcuts to efficiently resolve the design problem.

“The products highlighted in this year’ … Read More → "Mentor Graphics FloTHERM with Bottleneck and Shortcut Technology Wins 2011 Design News Golden Mousetrap Award for Best Design Tools Product"

Impulse and Convey Enable C-to-FPGA Programming for Hybrid-Core Computing

Bellevue, WA – April 8, 2011 – Impulse Accelerated Technologies today announced the availability of a new C-to-FPGA Platform Support Package (PSP) enabling software programming of Convey computing platforms, including the Convey HC-1ex hybrid-core server. The new PSP allows Convey platform developers with a new, more efficient path from C-language algorithms to FPGA accelerators.

Convey hybrid-core systems, which combine high-performance Intel® processors with closely coupled Xilinx® FPGA devices, provide hybrid, FPGA-accelerated computing. The Convey systems employ “personalities”—application-specific instruction sets that accelerate performance-critical segments of applications. Convey provides turnkey personalities, … Read More → "Impulse and Convey Enable C-to-FPGA Programming for Hybrid-Core Computing"

Agilent Technologies Hosts 2011 Symposium for LTE, LTE-Advanced

What: The symposium is designed for those developing the LTE ecosystem, from components to eNB and mobile devices.  This complimentary, full-day symposium covers a variety of hot topics presented by Agilent measurement experts and is intended to stimulate thinking and encourage discussion around the challenges of  LTE deployment.

When:   Starting April 2011

Where:  4/19/2011 – Anaheim, CA

Agilent Technologies

Suite 300, Room: Balboa A,B

2125 E Katella Ave

Anaheim , California 92806

4/21/2011 – Santa Clara, CA

Agilent … Read More → "Agilent Technologies Hosts 2011 Symposium for LTE, LTE-Advanced"

Laird Technologies to Attend RFID World Asia 2011 Trade Show

St. Louis, Missouri, USA – April 5, 2011 – Laird Technologies, Inc., a global leader in the design and supply of customized performance-critical components and systems for advanced electronics and wireless products, today announced it will be attending the RFID World Asia 2011 trade show. The conference will be held on Level 4 at the Suntec Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre in Suntec City, Singapore, April 13-15, 2011. Laird Technologies will be located at booth #4E03.

Laird Technologies will showcase its current RFID antenna portfolio, including … Read More → "Laird Technologies to Attend RFID World Asia 2011 Trade Show"

Wolfson technology selected by Olympus

Edinburgh, UK, April 7 2011 – Wolfson Microelectronics plc has today announced that its industry-leading ultra-low power stereo Audio Hub, the WM8962, hasbeen selected by one of the world’s leading manufacturers of voice recorders, Olympus Imaging Corporation, for its recently announced LS-7 Linear Pulse Code Modulation (PCM) Audio Recorder.

The LS-7 PCM Audio Recorder combines high performance audio and 96 kHz linear PCM recording capability in a portable pocket-sized device. Wolfson’s WM8962 is designed to deliver the highest clarity audio to portable digitalapplications. Incorporated into the LS-7, it delivers crystal-clear audio recording, … Read More → "Wolfson technology selected by Olympus"

Saelig Introduces Tiny USB-to-SDIO Host IC

Pittsford, NY, USA: Saelig Company, Inc. has introduced the VUB300 a tiny 6x6mm QFN IC that converts a USB interface to an SDIO Host Interface. VUB300 is a single-chip USB to SDIO bridge that allows SDIO and SD compliant devices to be connected to any host PC via USB. A growing number of wireless modem chipsets are moving to SDIO as the preferred data interface and VUB300 is the ideal solution when, for example, a target system has no spare SDIO ports available.

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