News & Analysis
Exar Selects Cadence as Mixed-Signal EDA Provider
Cadence Design Systems announced today that Exar Corporation has signed an expanded business agreement to establish Cadence® as its leading chip planning and mixed-signal design solutions provider. As a result of the new multi-year agreement, the Cadence Virtuoso® and Encounter® platforms, as well as the Cadence Chip Planning Solution, will make up Exar's key mixed-signal design environment for designs at 65 nanometers and below.
Cadence Marks Annual Innovation Day with Honors for its Top Technology Leaders
Cadence Design Systems today is celebrating Innovation Day, honoring the contributions Cadence employees have made to the company and the electronics industry as a whole. Having garnered more than 800 U.S. patents and an additional 150 international patents, Cadence has a long legacy of technology innovation that has enabled EDA customers to successfully create some of the world’s most recognized consumer and business products for over 20 years...
Essemtec Improves Its Semiautomatic Printers
Essemtec’s new stencil printers SP004 and SP150 print more accurately and are simpler to set up than their predecessors. The tabletop printer SP004 is a further development of the SP003, and the semiautomatic printer SP150 features a new option: the automatic electronic squeegee pressure regulation. Both printers will be on display at the upcoming Productronica 2009 exhibition in Munich this coming November.
Essemtec to premier new curing oven for small batches at Productronica 2009
Essemtec will introduce a new RO300FC-S full convection oven for drying and curing processes at the upcoming Productronica exhibition in Munich, Germany. The oven features a compact design, excellent process control and very small delta-T values that make the machine the first choice for small batch manufacturing or process development.
Zytronic Strengthens Sales Presence in North/Latin America
Zytronic, the leading designer and manufacturer of internationally award-winning PCT-based touch sensors, continues to expand its global presence and has entered into a sales representation deal with Marathon Technical Associates. The new agreement will cover the South East of the United States and Brazil.
Remote Heart-Monitoring Platform Begins Validation
STMicroelectronics and Mayo Clinic, a premier health-care organization, are collaborating on a novel platform for remotely monitoring patients with chronic cardiovascular disease. The platform will provide a comprehensive and unobtrusive solution that monitors person-specific data and physiological parameters and influences lifestyle and treatment choices.
Sony's coin sized HD video camera wins 'contribution to security' vote at e-Legacy Awards
A high definition video camera the size of a £1 coin has been declared 2009's winner in the e-Legacy Award's 'contribution to security' category, which was selected by a public vote. The award ceremony took place in London on the 4th November.
The Nanoktn Supports European Funding For Technology SMEs
The Nanotechnology Knowledge Transfer Network (NanoKTN), one of the UK’s primary knowledge-based networks for Micro and Nanotechnologies, has announced its support for Eurostars, a funding programme aimed at stimulating development in new products, processes and services by SMEs. The funding, with a project limit of €350,000 is open to emerging technology SMEs with partnerships across two Eurostars participating countries and a commitment to ...
Sony demonstrates revolutionary PC control interface at Vision 2009
Sony Europe's Image Sensing Solutions (ISS) division has demonstrated a revolutionary PC control interface based on three dimensional vision cameras. The system, called ICU, analyses body movements and enables users to go beyond the mouse or touchscreen to interact more intuitively with a computer.
Cerno Bioscience, Agilent Technologies to Co-Market MassWorks for GC/MSD
Cerno Bioscience and Agilent Technologies Inc today announced they will jointly market Cerno's MassWorks calibration software to Agilent GC/MSD ChemStation users. This novel calibration increases the mass accuracy of Agilent's single quadrupole GC/MSD sufficiently to identify unknown compounds. This normally requires use of much more expensive, larger instruments such as Quadrupole Time-of-Flight, or Fourier Transform Ion Resonance mass spectrome...