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SuperTalent Unveils New SSD Lineup

March 7, 2011

San Jose, California – March 3^rd, 2011 – Super Talent Technology, a leading manufacturer of Flash storage solutions and DRAM memory modules, today unveiled its next generation TeraDrive^TM. Featuring the 2nd generation SandForce^TM controllers, a SATA III 6Gbps interface, and the new ONFi Double Data Rate NAND flash, these new drives promise to deliver twice the performance of their predecessors.

At 3 Gbps, the SATA 2 interface posed a bottleneck to existing SSD designs but little performance was to be gained by changing to … Read More → "SuperTalent Unveils New SSD Lineup"

Exar Launches XRP7724; the Next Generation PowerXR(tm) Programmable Power Platform

March 7, 2011

Fort Worth, TX, Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC) – March 7, 2011 – Exar Corporation (Nasdaq: EXAR) added a significant new controller to its PowerXR family of programmable power system ICs. The XRP7724 is a highly integrated programmable power controller with the industry’s most advanced design capabilities, robust performance and the most flexible design environment in the industry. With expanded voltage and current ranges, SMBus interface and independently controlled channel frequencies, the XRP7724 is flexible enough to handle the most demanding applications spanning mobile to industrial to high-performance computing. Our patented Digital Pulse Frequency Modulation (DPFM) … Read More → "Exar Launches XRP7724; the Next Generation PowerXR(tm) Programmable Power Platform"

Curtiss-Wright Controls New Rugged Ethernet Switch Subsystem Delivers 24 Ports of GigE and 4 Ports of 10 GigE Interfaces

March 7, 2011

SAN DIEGO, CA – March 4, 2011 — Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a business group of Curtiss-Wright Controls and a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VME, VPX, OpenVPX™, VXS and CompactPCI products for the aerospace and defense market, has introduced the newest member of its SwitchBox ready-to-deploy military network system family – the SwitchBox 684, an innovative, lightweight rugged modular system that delivers 24 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) ports and a choice of 4 ports of 10 GigE fiber or 2 ports of 10GibE copper interfaces. The SwitchBox 684, based on CWCEC’s high performance VPX6-684 FireBlade 6U OpenVPX& … Read More → "Curtiss-Wright Controls New Rugged Ethernet Switch Subsystem Delivers 24 Ports of GigE and 4 Ports of 10 GigE Interfaces"

PCM-9363 3.5” SBC – New Intel® Atom™ N455/D525 Single/Dual Core with DDR3 & DC Power Protection

March 7, 2011

March, 04, 2011, Irvine, California –Advantech, a global embedded computing leader providing embedded platform solutions across multiple vertical markets through deployment of intelligent applications and services, today announced the arrival of a new 3.5” SBC using the latest Intel technology: PCM-9363 with Intel® Atom™ N455 1.66 GHz and the dual core D525 1.8 GHz processors with ICH8M chipset. The processors integrate DDR3 memory supporting up to 4 GB capacity for D525 and 2 … Read More → "PCM-9363 3.5” SBC – New Intel® Atom™ N455/D525 Single/Dual Core with DDR3 & DC Power Protection"

Apache Design Solutions to Host Technical Workshop Series at DATE 2011

March 7, 2011

SAN JOSE, CALIF. – March 7, 2011 – Apache Design Solutions, providing the industry’s leading power and noise solutions for Chip-Package-System (CPS) convergence, announced that it will host two educational Technical Workshops during the upcoming DATE 2011 conference being held at AlpExpo in Grenoble, France. The Apache Technical Workshops will take place during the conference on March 15, from 14:00 p.m. to 15:00 p. … Read More → "Apache Design Solutions to Host Technical Workshop Series at DATE 2011"

RS Components upgrades DesignSpark PCB with 3D

March 7, 2011

OXFORD, UK, March 7th 2011 – RS Components has today announced the release of DesignSpark PCB version 2, its free PCB design software package. Working in partnership with Number One Systems, new features in DesignSpark PCB include unique 3D visualisation of PCB layouts, and increased library management functionality. The upgraded version 2 software is free to download for new users at www.designspark.com/pcb, and existing users will be alerted to the upgrade via release alerts in the tool.

Over 50,000 users have downloaded DesignSpark PCB … Read More → "RS Components upgrades DesignSpark PCB with 3D"

Yokogawa Achieves 5X Faster Programmable Logic Controller Performance With Synopsys’ Processor Designer

March 7, 2011

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced that Yokogawa Electric Corporation used Synopsys Processor Designer to achieve ultrafast ladder program processing performance for their latest FA-M3V programmable logic controller (PLC). Yokogawa also saved significant development and verification effort with Processor Designer since the tool automatically generates software development tools such as C-compiler, assembler/linker, debugger and the instruction set simulator (ISS) needed for early software development prior to processor availability.

“Our new PLC FA-M3V has achieved … Read More → "Yokogawa Achieves 5X Faster Programmable Logic Controller Performance With Synopsys’ Processor Designer"

Atmel Family of Revolutionary Digital Temperature Sensors Improves System Reliability, Reduces System Cost

March 7, 2011

Embedded World 2011, Nuremberg, Germany, March 3, 2011 – Today at Embedded World Nuremberg 2011, Atmel® Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML), a leader in microcontroller and touch solutions, announced the world’s first family of high-precision digital temperature sensors with both integrated nonvolatile registers and integrated Serial EEPROM memory. This combination allows for user-configured settings to be retained across power cycles to simplify the system design, reduce processor start-up code, improve reliability, and ensure proper operation. The Atmel AT30TS750 family is ideal for consumer, industrial, computer and medical applications.

Digital temperature sensors have excellent accuracy and can measure temperatures over a wide … Read More → "Atmel Family of Revolutionary Digital Temperature Sensors Improves System Reliability, Reduces System Cost"

Energy Micro to extend ultra low power Gecko microcontroller family with Cortex-M0 product and enhances Tiny product performance

March 4, 2011

Embedded World 2011, Nuremberg & Oslo, Norway, March 2nd, 2011 – Energy Micro is to extend the reach of its ultra low power EFM32 Gecko microcontroller family with the introduction of an ARM® Cortex-M0(TM) based product line and has improved the low power performance of its forthcoming Cortex-M3(TM) based Tiny Gecko devices. The new introductions will boost the company’s Energy Friendly Microcontroller portfolio to more than 100 products.

To be named ‘Zero Gecko’, the M0 based microcontroller line of 20 new products will provide Energy Micro’s lowest cost energy friendly microcontroller solution. Pin and software … Read More → "Energy Micro to extend ultra low power Gecko microcontroller family with Cortex-M0 product and enhances Tiny product performance"

New COM-Ultra Module Targets Ruggedized Applications and Extended Temperature Capabilities

March 4, 2011

March, 2, 2011, Irvine, California –Advantech, a global embedded computing leader providing embedded platform solutions across multiple vertical markets through deployment of intelligent applications and services, today announced the release of SOM-7562 B1 COM-Ultra Module based on the Intel N455 processor. The new B1 version module with N455 processor from Intel incorporates upgraded memory technology from DDR2 to DDR3, wider temperature (-40 ~ 85° C) provision, and an optional 5V-only version with more competitive … Read More → "New COM-Ultra Module Targets Ruggedized Applications and Extended Temperature Capabilities"

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