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Tensilica has become the first processor IP company to announce the approval and availability of MPEG-4 AAC-LC, aacPlus v1, and v2 multichannel decoder implementations from Dolby Laboratories, Inc. These three multichannel decoders provide up to 7.1-channel surround sound for home entertainment devices. They are available now for the Tensilica HiFi 2 Audio Engine, the most popular audio architecture for system-on-chip (SOC) design.

Learn how you can use a USB X Series device and LabVIEW to measure a quadrature encoder and generate pulses, two of the most common uses of the four available counter/timers on X Series devices.

National Instruments has announced that it has expanded its digital camera support with the release of three new PCI Express-based frame grabbers. With the new NI PCIe-8255R, NI PCIe-8231 and NI PCIe-1427 frame grabbers, National Instruments now offers support for every major digital camera bus, including IEEE 1394b, Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) Vision and Camera Link. The company is the only vision component provider to offer PCI Express hardware for...

STMicroelectronics has announced details of its breakthrough interactive latest-generation broadband home-entertainment platform, that revolutionizes connected homes by providing users with unequalled performance at extremely low power, capable of a more personalized and socially interactive viewing experience with amazing 3D graphics and easy-to-use smart navigation.

Omeg has added 12mm rotary encoders to its portfolio to supplement its range of 16 and 20mm potentiometers. Acknowledging the market for standard encoders is already well served, Omeg is targeting the niche market for illuminated spindle encoders. Designated the E12 Series, they are incremental, digital, 24 pulse, rotary types with conductive tracks and clear plastic 18 T splined spindles with LED illumination.

QuickLogic is showcasing the design flexibility that is enabled by its Customer Specific Standard Product (CSSP) technology during Mobile World Congress, by showing real-life OEM/ODM products and demonstration systems. Some of the consumer and prosumer products on display include:

It is predicted that over 40% of all smartphones will include 'TV-out' functionality by 2010, allowing devices to drive an external monitor, projector or TV. This application presents many design challenges in the areas of power management, device interoperability, and user interaction. QuickLogic has developed a flexible solution based on its unique low-power programmable technology, PolarPro, and published an explanatory white paper. The pape...

Texas Instruments has introduced a family of flexible three-channel integrated video buffers optimized for consumer video applications where performance, space savings and lower system cost are required. The family supports HDTV, SDTV and a variety of digital media processors, such as TI’s DaVinci processors. The amplifiers incorporate a fifth-order Butterworth filter, which can be used as an encoder’s digital-to-analog converter (DAC...

Texas Instruments Incorporated today unveiled the industry’s first implementation of the real-time HD JPEG 2000 codec on a multicore digital signal processor (DSP). Four TI TMS320C6678 multicore DSPs with JPEG 2000 codecs are available on TI’s design network member, Advantech’s, new DSPC-8681E half-length PCI express card, making it ideal for processing intensive, power efficient applications in industries such as broadcast and digital cine...

NI has announced NI X Series multifunction data acquisition (DAQ) devices for USB. USB X Series devices integrate high-performance analogue measurement and control channels, digital I/O and counter/timers onto a single plug-and-play device, which engineers and scientists can use for a wide variety of portable test, measurement and data-logging applications. USB X Series DAQ devices include up to 32 analogue inputs, four analogue outputs, 48 digit...