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Spellman High Voltage Electronics Corporation, the world’s leading manufacturer of high voltage power conversion products, is proud to announce the relocation and expansion of their Chinese operations in Suzhou Industrial Park, China, to Block D, No.16 SuTong Road, Suzhou Industrial Park 215021 China. Originally established in 2004 as a service and sales support operation, Spellman China now has 70 employees in a 3,437 m2 (37,000 sq. ft.) faci...

Emerson Network Power and Freescale Semiconductor today announced a collaborative effort to deploy Freescale multicore QorIQ processors on modular single-board computers (SBCs) based on the COM Express small form factor. The goal of the collaborative initiative is to deliver the power, performance, integration and broad feature sets associated with embedded processors to systems designers targeting the telecom, military, aerospace, medical and fa...

Cypress Semiconductor and TPACK, an industry-leading provider of ICs that provide core data transport and switching functions, today announced a reference design for ultrafast Ethernet switches and queue management applications. The new Springbank reference design combines TPACK’s TPX4004 high-capacity integrated packet processor and traffic manager with Cypress’s CY7C15632KV18 72-Mbit Quad Data Rate™II (QDR™II ) SRAMs, offering the faste...

Advanced Analogic Technologies reported financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2009. Net revenue for the fourth quarter of 2009 was $20.8 million, an increase of 12% over net revenue of $18.6 million for the fourth quarter of 2008 and a sequential decrease of 20% from net revenue of $26.1 million for the third quarter of 2009. Net revenue for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2009, was $86.5 million, down 4%...

Bombardier, the global leader in rail technology, is partnering with Green Hills Software to develop the safety platform for its next-generation Train Control Management System (TCMS) that will simplify maintenance and aid the certification process. The TCMS will use the Green Hills Platform for Industrial Safety, which incorporates the IEC 61508 SIL3 safety-certified INTEGRITY real-time operating system (RTOS) and the MULTI® integrated developm...

Forte Design Systems, a leading provider of SystemC high-level synthesis, datapath synthesis, and intellectual property (IP), is a 2010 Open SystemC Initiative (OSCI) Global Event Sponsor and will co-sponsor the European SystemC User Group (ESCUG) Meeting.

Express Logic, Inc., a worldwide leader in royalty-free real-time operating systems (RTOS), and IAR Systems, a leading provider of software tools for embedded systems, today announced a commercial-grade integration for developers of serious applications. The integration combines Express Logic's ThreadX® RTOS and IAR Embedded Workbench® IDE in a form that is easily used out-of-the box by developers of embedded applications. Both Express Logic an...

IAR Systems today announced they have entered into a 3 year enterprise software licence agreement with Landis+Gyr, the leading provider of integrated energy management solutions tailored to energy company needs. The agreement establishes IAR Systems as the preferred vendor of software development tools, and provides the ability to switch software licenses between all the different MCU architectures available.

Green Hills Software today announced that its Platform for Industrial Safety has expanded its safety certification support by achieving a SWSIL 4 certification for its INTEGRITY RTOS (real-time operating system) against the stringent CENELEC EN 50128 standard, which targets software for railway control and protection systems. Certified by both TÜV and Exida, INTEGRITY has received the highest assurance level possible against this safety standard...

Atmel announced a new turnkey security module to protect brand and IP (intellectual property) against counterfeiting and cloning. Based on Atmel's AT90SO secureAVR microcontrollers, the VaultIC200 is the newest member of the VaultIC(TM) product family - a family that offers secure microcontrollers with multiple interfaces and bundled security firmware. Atmel's VaultIC200 can protect against cloning of various applications including ink and toner ...