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Atmel Optimizes QTouch Architecture for Touch Application-Specific Devices

IIC Shenzhen 2011, Shenzhen, China, February 23, 2011 – Atmel® Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML), a leader in microcontroller and touch solutions, today announced a new family of QTouch® capacitive touch controllers for implementing button, slider and wheel (BSW) functionality on application-specific devices. The new Atmel AT42QT1070 and AT42QT2120 devices offer designers an easy-to-use solution with no firmware development, reduced bill of materials and lower power consumption. In addition, the AT42QT2120 device offers the industry’s greatest proximity range of up to 8 inches to enable unique new capabilities including 3-D gestures.

This family of touch controllers includes a … Read More → "Atmel Optimizes QTouch Architecture for Touch Application-Specific Devices"

NXP Expands ARM Cortex-M0 Microcontroller Portfolio With LPC1200 Industrial Control Series

EINDHOVEN, NETHERLANDS and SAN JOSE, CA–(Marketwire – February 22, 2011) – NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) today announced its LPC1200 Industrial Control Series featuring the ARM® Cortex™-M0 processor. The LPC1200 extends NXP’s 32-bit ARM microcontroller continuum and targets a wide range of industrial applications in the areas of factory and home automation, such as white goods, motor control, power conversion and power supplies. It also expands NXP’s Cortex-M0 microcontroller offering with a wide range of … Read More → "NXP Expands ARM Cortex-M0 Microcontroller Portfolio With LPC1200 Industrial Control Series"

Accellera Approves Universal Verification Methodology (UVM™) Standard

NAPA, Calif., February 21, 2011 — Accellera, the electronics industry organization focused on the creation and adoption of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) standards and Intellectual Property (IP) standards, approved version 1.0 of its Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) standard.

This standard, developed by Accellera’s Verification IP (VIP) Technical Subcommittee (TSC), is available as a Class Reference Manual accompanied by an open-source SystemVerilog base class library implementation and a User Guide. The UVM standard  … Read More → "Accellera Approves Universal Verification Methodology (UVM™) Standard"

GrammaTech and Lattix Introduce Product Integration

ITHACA, NY–February 22, 2011–GrammaTech, Inc., a leading manufacturer of source-code-analysis tools, and Lattix Inc., a leading provider of innovative software architecture management solutions, today announced the availability of an integration between GrammaTech CodeSonar and Lattix LDM. The new CodeSonar integration with Lattix provides precise and accurate architecture analysis to enable teams to review, refactor and maintain the architecture of complex C/C++ software systems. 

The Lattix CodeSonar integration loads the data from CodeSonar’s … Read More → "GrammaTech and Lattix Introduce Product Integration"

IAR Systems first to launch development kit for NXP LPC1227 microcontroller

February 22nd, Uppsala, Sweden – IAR Systems announced that IAR KickStart Kit for LPC1227 is now available. The kit includes a development board with an ARM Cortex-M0 based LPC1227 microcontroller, peripherals and connectors, an IAR J-Link Lite debug probe providing SWD debugging, software development tools and board support packages for various RTOSes.

This is believed to be the world’s first commercial starter kit for the ARM Cortex-M0-based LPC1227 microcontroller. The strong partnership and tight cooperation between NXP and IAR Systems during the development project has led to IAR Systems latest starter kit being the first to … Read More → "IAR Systems first to launch development kit for NXP LPC1227 microcontroller"

VIA Launches Vision Intelligence Display (VID) Series, Digital Touch Screens for Embedded Applications

TAIPEI, TAIWAN, February 22, 2011 – VIA Technologies, Inc, a leading innovator of power efficient x86 processor platforms, today announced the VIA VID series of industrial-class touch screen displays designed for a range of modern interactive kiosk, POI and POS embedded systems, extending VIA’s position as a total system and embedded component provider.

Available in both ruggedized and open frame configurations, the VIA VID series spans 7 inch to 19 inch form factors and offers excellent compatibility with VIA embedded systems, added longevity support, complete scalability and a robust feature set ideal for commercial … Read More → "VIA Launches Vision Intelligence Display (VID) Series, Digital Touch Screens for Embedded Applications"

connectBlue Solves Seamless Roaming with Standard Access Points

Industrial wireless solution provider connectBlue reveals solution that maintains the signal quality on the existing wireless connection when the scanning for a new network is initiated; for instance, as a device in motion is moving from one access point to another. The seamless handover is achieved by using two or more of the latest connectBlue Wireless LAN Ethernet Port Adapters on each cooperating device in motion. 

In the typical situation, a client remains the wireless connection with an access point until the radio signal gets too weak that the client has to initialize the scan for … Read More → "connectBlue Solves Seamless Roaming with Standard Access Points"

ISQED Addresses System and Intellectual Property (IP) Design Challenges – Offers Free Exhibit

12th International Symposium & Exhibits on QUALITY ELECTRONIC DESIGN — ISQED 2011

March 14-16, 2011
Hyatt Regency Hotel, Santa Clara, CA USA
http://www.isqed.org

Conference Highlights:
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Keynote Speeches
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“Design for Manufacturing (DFM) Innovations and advances for IC Design”
 Vinod Kariat – Fellow, Cadence Design Systems

“Multitechnology Hyperintegration Platform: The Technology Crystal Ball”
 Kamran Eshraghian – President, Innovation Labs, Perth, Australia & Distinguished Professor,
 World Class University (WCU), Korea</ … Read More → "ISQED Addresses System and Intellectual Property (IP) Design Challenges – Offers Free Exhibit"

HDR Video Camera Development Kit and Evaluation Reference Design Now Available For LatticeECP3 FPGA Family

HILLSBORO, OR -FEBRUARY 22, 2011-Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC) today announced the release of the Lattice HDR-60 Video Camera Development Kit, a production-ready High Definition (HD) video camera development system based on the LatticeECP3™ FPGA family.  Pre-loaded with a plug and play evaluation Image Signal Processing (ISP) pipeline based on Intellectual Property (IP) Cores from Lattice partner Helion GmbH, the Kit works right out of the box.  The IP is capable of delivering 1080p performance at 60 frames per second with 2D noise reduction and High Dynamic Range (HDR).  Designed with a form factor to … Read More → "HDR Video Camera Development Kit and Evaluation Reference Design Now Available For LatticeECP3 FPGA Family"

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