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Matrox Supersight e2 HPC platform now integrates ATI FireProT Professional Graphics

February 8, 2011

February 8, 2011, Montreal, Canada — Matrox Imaging is pleased to announce that the Matrox Supersight e2 high-performance computing (HPC) platform is now equipped with ATI FirePro™ Professional Graphics from AMD (NYSE: AMD).

Matrox Supersight e2, with its unique high-bandwidth PCIe® 2.0 switched fabric backplane, provides substantial data throughput and expansion capability for supporting up to six double-wide or up to nine single-wide GPUs in a 4U platform. In turn, each ATI FirePro Professional Graphics card provides up to 1600 stream … Read More → "Matrox Supersight e2 HPC platform now integrates ATI FireProT Professional Graphics"

VIA Technologies Adopts Mentor Graphics Calibre PERC for Critical ESD Checkin

February 8, 2011

WILSONVILLE, Ore., February 7, 2011—Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced that VIA Technologies, Inc., a fabless supplier of power efficient x86 processor platforms, is adopting the Calibre® PERC electrical rule checking product to ensure that electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection meets established guidelines to help prevent circuit failures and design re-spins.

By helping ensure that designers have met all ESD protection rules, the Calibre PERC product contributes to the robustness of designs in portable and high-reliability applications. It also verifies the integrity of low-power designs that have multiple-power domains by making a variety of leakage and … Read More → "VIA Technologies Adopts Mentor Graphics Calibre PERC for Critical ESD Checkin"

Xilinx to Demonstrate its Targeted Design Platforms for Radio and Baseband Processing at Mobile World Congress 2011

February 7, 2011

BARCELONA, SPAIN, FEB. 7, 2011 – Xilinx, Inc. (Nasdaq: XLNX) today announced its participation at Mobile World Congress 2011 in Barcelona, Spain, from Feb. 14 – 17, 2011, Hall 1, Stand E47. Xilinx will showcase its Targeted Design Platforms targeting cellular infrastructures by using FPGAs that enable global wireless communications with lower cost and power solutions for radio, baseband, and connectivity. The market specific platforms integrate the latest hardware, software, and IP innovations to help network infrastructure vendors and operators reduce capital expenditures, operating expenses, and development costs for software-defined radio and 3/4G multi-mode base stations.

Atmel Announces New Generation of maXTouch Solutions

February 7, 2011

San Jose, CA, February 7, 2011 – Atmel® Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML), a leader in microcontroller and touch solutions, today announced the maXTouch(TM) E Series of single-chip capacitive touchscreen controllers for touchscreens from 2 to 12 inches. The mXT224E, mXT384E, mXT540E and mXT768E devices offer enhanced analog sensing with a third generation capacitive touch engine and Atmel’s advanced AVR® architecture optimized for capacitive sensing. Offering 224 to 768 nodes, the new series enables system designers to select the industry’s most advanced single-chip solution for their touchscreen size and application.

Since system noise poses the greatest challenge … Read More → "Atmel Announces New Generation of maXTouch Solutions"

JamaicaVM 6 is now available for multicore systems

February 7, 2011

The aicas group will introduce the new multiprocessor version of the JamaicaVM hard realtime Java runtime environment at the Embedded World conference in Nuremberg Germany from 1-3 March 2011. It is based on the proven JamaicaVM 6 product, which supports the J2SE Java 6 standard classes. Memory management has been optimized to simultaneously run multiple realtime threads on different CPUs with minimal contention. The assignment of Java threads to specific processor cores can be handled by JamaicaVM or directly controlled by the user. Even applications that were not built for multiprocessor systems can benefit from JamaicaVM 6 Multicore by running memory management … Read More → "JamaicaVM 6 is now available for multicore systems"

Digi-Key Corporation Announces Global Distribution Agreement with Advanced Linear Devices, Inc.

February 7, 2011

Monday, February 7, 2011 – THIEF RIVER FALLS, Minnesota and Sunnyvale, California, USA — Electronic components distributor Digi-Key Corporation, recognized by design engineers as having the industry’sRead More → "Digi-Key Corporation Announces Global Distribution Agreement with Advanced Linear Devices, Inc."

Synopsys Announces New Technology for Optimizing Multicore Systems

February 7, 2011

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Feb. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced the broad availability of Platform Architect with Multicore Optimization Technology, a new solution for performance analysis and early definition of multicore system architectures in SystemC. Using Platform Architect with Multicore Optimization Technology, designers of SoCs, chipsets and systems can capture hardware/software performance models of multicore system architectures in the early concept phase for robust performance measurement and trade-off analysis, months prior to software availability.

“Given the escalating costs of SoC design, system … Read More → "Synopsys Announces New Technology for Optimizing Multicore Systems"

Jasper DVCon Highlights: ActiveProp and Advanced Formal Solutions

February 7, 2011

WHAT: Jasper Design Automation’s ActiveProp™ property synthesis tool will make its North American debut at this year’s DVCon. ActiveProp automatically synthesizes properties to expand the property verification set, increase functional coverage, and identify coverage holes. Jasper is also highlighting its industry-leading formal solutions, including JasperGold®, ActiveDesign™ and Intelligent Proof Kits that speed the verification of SoC interconnect protocols. Jasper’s advanced technology addresses verification challenges across the spectrum of design applications from architectural verification to post-silicon validation.

Lattice Announces Five New IP Suites For The LatticeECP3 FPGA Family

February 7, 2011

HILLSBORO, OR – FEBRUARY 7, 2011 – Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC) today announced the immediate availability of five new comprehensive Intellectual Property (IP) Suites to accelerate the design of electronic systems in a variety of industries using the award winning LatticeECP3™ FPGA family. These five IP suites are PCI Express, Ethernet Networking, Digital Signal Processing, Video & Display, and Value.

Curtiss-Wright Controls Debuts New 48-Port 10GbE Physical Layer Switch Port Card

February 4, 2011

DAYTON, OH – February 2, 2011 — Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems, a business group of Curtiss-Wright Controls and the developer of the Physical Layer Switch (PLS), has announced the availability of its new RT11000 48-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) card designed for use with its industry-leading GLX4000 and Read More → "Curtiss-Wright Controls Debuts New 48-Port 10GbE Physical Layer Switch Port Card"