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RECOM Power and Mouser Create Global Distribution Initiative

April 27, 2011

Brooklyn, NY, USA – 04/26/2011 – RECOM Power, a pioneer in the design and manufacture of DC/DC and AC/DC converters, switching regulators, and LED drivers today announced its worldwide distribution alliance with Mouser Electronics, Inc., regarded as a top design engineering resource and global distributor for semiconductors and electronic components.

As an authorized distributor for RECOM Power, Mouser Electronics brings RECOM’s comprehensive, cutting-edge series of DC/DC and AC/DC converters to customers worldwide, providing design engineers with an alternative to the time-consuming, costly venture of power system design. RECOM offers one of the … Read More → "RECOM Power and Mouser Create Global Distribution Initiative"

NXP Announces CGVxpress High Speed Serial Interface

April 27, 2011

EINDHOVEN, NETHERLANDS and SAN JOSE, CA–(Marketwire – Apr 27, 2011) – NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) today announced CGVxpress™, an important extension to its high speed data converter technology portfolio and the next generation of the CGV™ high speed serial interface announced in 2009. The newly announced CGVxpress will be used in future NXP ADC and DAC product families. The first demonstration of CGVxpress will occur at booth #420 of the IEEE International Microwave Symposium (MTT-S) held June 7-9, 2011 in Baltimore, Maryland. NXP will showcase a 4.5 Gbps CGVxpress … Read More → "NXP Announces CGVxpress High Speed Serial Interface"

Accellera Announces IP Tagging Effort, Calls for Participation

April 27, 2011

NAPA, CA–(Marketwire – Apr 26, 2011) – Accellera, the electronics industry organization focused on the creation and adoption of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) standards and Intellectual Property (IP) standards, announced today that it is kicking off an IP Tagging effort that will benefit the electronics industry by tracking soft IP information which will be automatically added and detectable in the final GDSII database format. Accellera is also calling for participation in its Read More → "Accellera Announces IP Tagging Effort, Calls for Participation"

FreeRTOS Seven unveiled for ESC San Jose

April 27, 2011

Industry’s favourite real time MCU kernel delivers new software timer implementation, kernel enhancements for improved performance and additional ports
Complete backward compatibility with V6.x for easy upgrade

FreeRTOS version 7.0 has been announced by Real Time Engineers Ltd. The upgrade to the leading real time MCU operating system is available for immediate free download from FreeRTOS.org.

Version 7.0 comes with a new software timer implementation. This allows timer callbacks to be executed in a task context, rather than an interrupt context, and does not consume any processing time or generate … Read More → "FreeRTOS Seven unveiled for ESC San Jose"

Green Hills Software to Present and Exhibit at Embedded Systems Conference Silicon Valley 2011

April 27, 2011

SANTA BARBARA, CA — April 27, 2011 — Green Hills Software, the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutions, will deliver technology presentations at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose, CA, during the week of May 2, 2011. In booth #916, Green Hills Software will also demonstrate its latest embedded software solutions.

Green Hills Software announced that Dan O’Dowd, founder and chief executive officer, is sponsoring the exhibit of “Samson,” the 66-million-year-old dinosaur skeleton, that will be on display at the “Decode the Past. Embed the Future.” experience at ESC, May 2 – 5, McEnery Convention Center, … Read More → "Green Hills Software to Present and Exhibit at Embedded Systems Conference Silicon Valley 2011"

VIA Introduces VIA AMOS-5001 Chassis Kit for Slim Em-ITX Embedded Systems

April 27, 2011

Taipei, Taiwan, April 27, 2011 – VIA Technologies, Inc, a leading innovator of power efficient x86 processor platforms, today announced the VIA AMOS-5001, a specially designed chassis kit for Em-ITX form factor boards enabling the rapid and easy assembly of a wide variety of robust fanless embedded system designs.

Measuring just 35.2mm high and 231mm wide, the ultra-compact VIA AMOS-5001 is slim enough to fit in even the … Read More → "VIA Introduces VIA AMOS-5001 Chassis Kit for Slim Em-ITX Embedded Systems"

BlueRadios Features Kionix Accelerometer in Bluetooth 4.0 Universal Wireless Sensor Development Platform

April 27, 2011

Englewood, CO – April 26, 2011—BlueRadios, Inc., a worldwide leader in providing wireless data modules and products, introduced today a new Bluetooth 4.0 Universal Button Sensor reference design for motion-, temperature- and light-sensing applications. Featuring an integrated Kionix KXTF9 tri-axis accelerometer—which provides static and dynamic acceleration and activity monitoring—the BlueRadiosRead More → "BlueRadios Features Kionix Accelerometer in Bluetooth 4.0 Universal Wireless Sensor Development Platform"

IAR Systems supports new metrology devices from Texas Instruments

April 27, 2011

Uppsala, SWEDEN—April 27, 2011—IAR Systems, independent provider of software development tools for embedded systems, today announced that IAR Embedded Workbench now supports the MSP430AFE2xx series of metrology devices recently launched by Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI).

IAR Embedded Workbench for MSP430™ microcontrollers (MCU) includes complete support for each of the devices in the MSP430AFE2xx series. In combination with advanced global and MSP430 MCU-specific optimizations for speed and memory footprint, IAR Embedded Workbench offers a powerful toolsuite for metering applications such as electricity meters, sub-metering and energy saving systems.</ … Read More → "IAR Systems supports new metrology devices from Texas Instruments"

Seven universities sign on with Altium: From the classroom to CubeSats

April 26, 2011

SYDNEY, Australia – April 26, 2011 – Electronics design software company Altium is proving to be a top choice for universities in North America. York University, University of Tulsa, Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory at Caltech, Stanford University, University du Quebec, University of British Columbia, and Wilkes University are using Altium Designer and NanoBoard FPGA development boards for their classrooms. Projects range from basic PCB board layout to nanosatellite circuitry and power generation.

“Universities see the inherent value of Altium Designer’s … Read More → "Seven universities sign on with Altium: From the classroom to CubeSats"

TI simplifies microcontroller development with free Grace™ software platform that generates C code and eliminates manual peripheral configuration

April 26, 2011

DALLAS, TX (April 26, 2011) – Continuing its mission to provide easy-to-use tools, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) today announced the Grace software platform, a free visual plug-in that enables developers to easily enable and configure ultra-low-power MSP430 microcontroller peripherals through a graphical user interface (GUI). With Grace software, developers can interact with buttons, pull-down menus and helpful pop-ups to generate easy-to-understand C code that automatically configures the low-level register settings of analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), operational amplifiers (op amps), timers, serial communication modules, clocks and other peripherals. By simplifying the peripheral configuration process, Grace software enables developers to focus on … Read More → "TI simplifies microcontroller development with free Grace™ software platform that generates C code and eliminates manual peripheral configuration"

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