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Businesses are being urged to consider the full environmental impact of their operations, following the July release of the Government’s Energy Review.

The 4th International Basestation Conference to be held from 7-9 November at the Omni Mandalay Hotel, Dallas, will bring together major global manufacturers, operators, analysts and service providers in the mobile network infrastructure community.

Tanner EDA, which provides cost-effective and easy-to-use tools for analog and mixed-signal circuit design, today announced its analog and mixed-signal design tool suite, Tanner Tools 12.1, has been upgraded and tightly integrated for rapid design flow.

National Instruments UK & Ireland today announced a series of Academic Conferences. NI LabVIEW in the Curriculum is a free, one-day academic conference for those currently teaching with National Instruments LabVIEW, or interested in how LabVIEW can improve the learning experience for students, and those who want to find out how LabVIEW is being used in research applications.

Concept Engineering has announced the release of SGvision PRO, a mixed-mode debugging tool that allows system-on-chip (SoC) designers and verification engineers to more quickly analyze and debug circuits that contain both digital and transistor-level components. SGvision PRO supports mixed-level debugging of SPICE and Verilog standard languages at the same time.

Synplicity, Inc. has announced the company has enhanced its Synplify DSP solution to further accelerate the implementation of DSP algorithms into silicon. The Synplify DSP software is Synplicity's ESL synthesis platform that offers industry-leading benefits of high-level modeling and hardware abstraction, constraint-driven algorithm synthesis into RTL, and powerful system-wide optimizations for performance, area, and multi-channelization tradeo...

CEVA, Inc. and CoWareR Inc. have announced the availability of Processor Support Packages (PSPs) that support the use of TeakLite and CEVA-TeakLite-II DSP cores within the CoWare system-level design environment. The jointly developed models, based on the SystemC high-level design language, allow designers to quickly perform early architectural exploration and trade-off analysis before committing a CEVA-based design to silicon.

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.

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 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.