News & Analysis
Fairchild Semiconductor Technologist to Present Techniques for Minimizing System Power Losses at the 2006 Maple Conference
Fairchild Semiconductor power expert Alan Elbanhawy will present the paper “Parasitic Gate Resistance and Switching Performance” at the Maple Conference 2006 in Waterloo, Canada, July 23-26. This conference draws worldwide experts to offer insights and techniques in the effective and novel application of Maplesoft technology in their respective fields.
Ultra-Thin Surface Mount Inductors
The DR365-1 and DR365-2 Inductors from Datatronics feature a seated height as low as 0.047in (1.2 mm) above the PCB depending on the inductance value required by the design. These inductors are ideal for a wide range of portable, compact and miniature devices, such as PDAs, mobile phones, portable hard drives, medical appliances and bar code scanners.
picoChip selected by Korea Telecom for first WiBro / WiMAX Femtocell development
picoChip has announced that it has signed a partnership agreement with Korea Telecom (KT) to develop WiBro / WiMAX access points, sometimes called Femtocells or Home-Basestations. KT is a leader in wireless technology and has launched commercial WiBro service. picoChip’s multi-core DSP is the industry standard architecture for WiMAX infrastructure, and is also being widely used for WCDMA Femtocells.
Royalty-free access to high-performance XAP 16-bit processors through MOSIS deal with Cambridge Consultants
MOSIS has partnered with Cambridge Consultants to offer customers royalty-free access to the XAP4 and XAP5 16-bit RISC processor cores - and - customers only have to pay 20% of the nominal license fee during prototype production, the balance of the fee not being due until devices go into volume production or are sold.
ARTiSAN ships ARTiSAN Studio 6.1 as OMG announces the adoption of SysML
ARTiSAN Software Tools has announced that it has started shipping ARTiSAN Studio 6.1 which includes features and functionality in support of the new SysML standard. The shipping of ARTiSAN Studio 6.1 follows the announcement by The Object Management Group (OMG) that the SysML specification was formally adopted on 6th July 2006.
Avago Technologies Extends Alliance with TSMC to include the next two generations of its enhanced-performance image sensor products
Avago Technologies today (July 20) announced that it has extended its agreement with TSMC to include the next two generations of its enhanced-performance image sensor products. Avago's 1.3-megapixel and newly introduced 2-megapixel sensors are already manufactured by TSMC and exhibit superior image quality and excellent uniformity. Avago Technologies will continue to work with TSMC to produce industry-leading multi-megapixel imaging products for...
‘Near Zero Power’ Disk Drive Preamplifiers for Sub-2.5" Drives in Portable Products from STMicroelectronics
STMicroelectronics has launched hard disk drive preamplifiers intended specifically for drives with less than 2.5in diameter platters. Named the Near Zero Power series because of their exceptionally low power consumption, the new devices are an open-market evolution of ST’s Ultra Low Power family.
Automotive Electronics will “Drive” the Applications Focus at electronica 2006
Munich Trade Fairs International (MMI), the organiser behind the World’s largest and most successful trade fair for the global electronics industry, continues to develop the event’s focus on key applications areas with the news that electronica 2006 will headline the rapidly growing automotive electronics sector. electronica automotive presents an Automotive Conference organised to begin the day before electronica opens its doors as well as a...
Arteris Network on Chip Technology Integrated into CoWare Platform Architect ESL Design Environment
Arteris and CoWare Inc, has announced a comprehensive agreement under which Arteris will output SystemC transaction level models (TLM) from its NoC tool suite for incorporation into TLM platforms developed in CoWare Platform Architect.
EU’s SPEEDS initiative targets global leadership in embedded systems design
As part of the European Union’s 6th Framework Programme for funding technology and scientific projects designed to turn the EU economy into the most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy in the world, a new embedded systems initiative called SPEEDS (Speculative and Exploratory Design in Systems Engineering) has been established.