News & Analysis
MOST Cooperation gets an overhaul
The MOST Cooperation, the organization through which the leading automotive multimedia network Media Oriented Systems Transport (MOST) is standardized, has overhauled the specifications and implemented an integrated compliance verification process to enhance the quality while reducing the cost at the same time. For cost reduction for example the supply chain for optical connectors has been shortened through a new design and the requirements for n...
Esterel Technologies and Ultra Electronics – Electrics announce collaboration agreement
Esterel Technologies and Ultra Electronics – Electrics today announced a collaboration agreement to promote each others best of class tools, systems engineering and integration capabilities. Under the agreement the two organisations have agreed to jointly promote their respective capabilities and offerings in safety-critical and high-integrity system design and development. As experienced practitioners of the SCADE software environment - thro...
Innovative Silicon Names Virginia Picci VP of Finance and Administration
Innovative Silicon Inc. (ISi), the developer of Z-RAM high-density memory intellectual property (IP), today announced that it has named Virginia Picci vice president of finance and administration. Picci, a four year veteran of the company, brings more than 20 years of experience to ISi and is well poised to oversee the financial responsibilities of the firm.
TTI adds Murata in South Africa
TTI, Inc. has announced that it has just been awarded an extension its European franchise distribution agreement with Murata to include coverage of South Africa. Murata is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of passive components, and TTI, Inc., holds a broad inventory of the company’s products including capacitors, Hi-Caps, sensors, piezo-electric sound components, EMI and noise suppression devices, filters, chip inductors and delay li...
Tensilica Ports MPEG-4 BSAC Decoder to HiFi 2 Audio Engine
Tensilica has announced that it has added a MPEG-4 Bit Sliced Arithmetic Coding decoder to it's HiFi 2 Audio Engine, the most popular commercial audio core for system-on-chip designs. This BSAC decoder is used in Digital Multimedia Broadcasting applications, which allow radio, TV and datacasting to mobile devices, particularly mobile phones.
Tundra's Multi-Standard Serial RapidIO Switch has PCI Bridging and FPGA Interface
Tundra Semiconductor has introduced the Tsi620, its multi-standard Serial RapidIO Switch that lowers 3G baseband costs by bridging RapidIO-based DSP clusters to low cost embedded processors and FPGAs.
Learn about DSP Theory, Algorithms and Architectures in a Four Day Short Course
hueggenberg gbr is offering a technical course on theory, algorithms and architectures of digital signal processing. The course is taking place from November 6th to 9th, 2007, in Munich. The syllabus of this four day course held in English spans all the way from the basics of signal processing and the generic DSP system via frequency domain analysis, digital filtering, DSP software/hardware, DSP audio/baseband processing, signal (audio) source c...
Altium appoints Samuel S. Weiss as new Chairman
Altium the developer of unified electronic product development solutions, has announced the appointment of Samuel S. Weiss as Non-Executive Chairman. He replaces Carl Rooke as Chairman following Carl’s announcement to retire the chair position after seven years. Carl will continue in his position of non-executive director for the board and as a member of the Audit, Remuneration and Nomination Committees.
Digi-Key and Crystek Corporation partner on a Worldwide basis
Digi-Key Corporation and Crystek Corporation, a provider of frequency products, have announced that the companies have entered into a global distribution agreement.
Fanless graphics cards in several form factors
Matrox Graphics has announced the availability of its Millennium P690 Series fanless graphics cards. These cards are available in several form factors, offer low power consumption, and unified display drivers for easy deployment across multiple systems. In addition, the P690 Plus LP PCI/PCIe products can be upgraded (via a Quad-HD15 cable) to drive four analog monitors—and up to eight analog or four digital monitors in a joined-graphics card co...