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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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Laird Technologies to Attend Automotive Electronics Conference 2011

St. Louis, Missouri, USA – April 4, 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 Automotive Electronics Conference (AEC) 2011. The conference will be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Electronics City in Bangalore, India, April 14-15, 2011. Laird Technologies can be located in the Pre-Function Area.

Laird Technologies will showcase innovative solutions for the automotive electronics industry consisting of its Read More → "Laird Technologies to Attend Automotive Electronics Conference 2011"

RFMD® Collaborates With Atmel® To Deliver High-Performance Zigbee® Solutions For Smart Energy Applications

GREENSBORO , N.C., and Dresden, Germany, March 31, 2011– RF Micro Devices, Inc. (Nasdaq: RFMD), a global leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance radio frequency components and compound semiconductor technologies, today announced it has teamed with Atmel Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), a leader in microcontroller and touch solutions, to deliver ZigBee® solutions for a broad range of smart energy applications.

RFMD’s newly introduced RF6575 ZigBee front end module (FEM) has been combined with the Atmel ATmega128RFA1 Single-Chip solution to create the ATmega128RFA1 reference design. This high-performance ZigBee®-based solution provides public … Read More → "RFMD® Collaborates With Atmel® To Deliver High-Performance Zigbee® Solutions For Smart Energy Applications"

Pickering Interfaces Introduces new High Density PXI RF Switches

April 2011 — Clacton on Sea, UK –Pickering Interfaces is expanding its range of PXI RF switches with the introduction of the 40-755 multiplexer modules. 

The 40-755 supports up to 10 off SP4T RF switches in a single module and is available in two different versions based on a common switch design. 

The high density version occupies just one slot of a 3U PXI chassis and uses a high density multi-way connector that is suitable for switching frequencies to 500MHz. The higher frequency version uses SMB connectors and is suited for … Read More → "Pickering Interfaces Introduces new High Density PXI RF Switches"

NXP Strengthens RFID Portfolio With Advanced UHF and HF Solutions

EINDHOVEN, NETHERLANDS and SAN JOSE, CA–(Marketwire – April 7, 2011) – NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI), the market leader in RFID solutions, today announced its latest high-performance UHF and HF offerings, including the UCODE G2iM and G2iM+ ICs, which offer up to 640 bits of segmentable user memory. The G2iM and G2iM+ are ideal for a wide range of high-memory applications for tags and labels, such as fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG); electronics; industrial production, assembly and quality control; electronic vehicle tagging, license plate tagging and … Read More → "NXP Strengthens RFID Portfolio With Advanced UHF and HF Solutions"

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