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Samsung Creates 16-Chip Multi-Stack Package Technology for Memory

Posted by Ken Cheung in Components on Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced memory technology, announced today that it has developed the industry’s first process to enable innovative production of a 16-chip multi-chip package (MCP) of memory. The new MCP technology supports the industry-wide demand for small form factors and high-densities that will accommodate multimedia-intensive user applications. Samsung’s new 16-chip MCP technology, when applied to 8Gb NAND flash chips, can enable up to a 16 gigabyte (GB) MCP solution.

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OKI Updates Face Sensing Engine for Embedded Systems

Posted by Ken Cheung in Embedded Systems on Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. (TOKYO:6703) today announced the development of “Face Sensing Engine(TM) (FSE) Ver3.0,” a middleware for embedded systems. OKI adds a new function that can detect several faces from a data of a single photo and can verify specific faces, providing industry-leading processing performance.

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Evalue Unveils EES-3723 EPIC-Core Modular Barebones System

Posted by Ken Cheung in Boards, Busses on Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Evalue newly announces the EES-3723, a modular-design barebones system, that can accommodate any of Evalue’s EPIC single board computers to fulfill different system requirements. System options range from Intel(R) Pentium(R) M, VIA CN700/CX700M V4 Eden platforms. With dimensions of 226 mm x 151 mm x 74 mm, the EES-3723 is stylish in appearance and robust in mechanical design, which allows high heat conductivity and satisfies space-limited applications.

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Acrosser Introduces AR-B2002 PCI Bus Gaming Machine Control Card

Posted by Ken Cheung in Boards, Busses on Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Acrosser Technology, Co., LTD today announces the release of the AR-B2002, a PCI bus I/O control card designed for gaming machine applications requiring digital I/O for various gaming control functions. The AR-B2002 accommodates gaming machine controls with digital I/O, timer, battery backup SRAM, intrusion logger, software security, real time clock.

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TI Creates Lowest Distortion, 16-bit Operational Amplifier

Posted by Ken Cheung in Components on Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Texas Instruments Incorporated (NYSE:TXN) (TI) introduced today an expansion of its high-performance family of fully- differential amplifiers that drive high-speed and high-resolution analog-to- digital converters (ADC). Designed for high accuracy 3.3-V to 5-V data acquisition systems, the new wideband device offers rail-to-rail output and provides both low noise and the lowest distortion for demanding applications such as wireless communication, test and measurement and medical imaging.

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Sensory Microchip Powers Sensory Microchip Powers Lucky the Incredible Wonder Pup

Posted by Ken Cheung in Components on Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Household pets everywhere better take heed – there’s a new dog in town called Lucky the Incredible Wonder Pup(TM). Designed for children 5 years and older, Lucky listens to his owner like a good dog, and understands fifteen different voice commands. Lucky’s intelligence is based on a microchip developed by Sensory, Inc., a Silicon Valley company that provides speech recognition and synthesis technologies for use in low-cost consumer electronics. This chip provides the ability for Lucky to bark, sing and respond to his owner, just like a well-heeled pet should.

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The MathWorks Streamlines Development with Link for Cadence Incisive

Posted by Ken Cheung in EDA Tools,Models, Simulations on Tuesday, October 31, 2006

The MathWorks today introduced Link for Cadence Incisive, which offers verification of hardware description language (HDL) implementations based on MATLAB(R) and Simulink(R) models. Link for Cadence Incisive integrates MATLAB and Simulink with the Incisive(R) functional verification platform from Cadence Design Systems, Inc., for efficient design and verification of systems-on-a-chip (SoC), application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), and field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) through cosimulation. By providing a bidirectional path between MathWorks system models and Incisive simulators, Link for Cadence Incisive simplifies and accelerates the verification process, reducing the design time and errors associated with traditional verification methods.

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NI PCI Express Frame Grabbers Support Every Major Camera Standard

Posted by Ken Cheung in Software on Tuesday, October 31, 2006

National Instruments (Nasdaq:NATI) today 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. National Instruments is the only vision component provider to offer PCI Express hardware for all three major buses.

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AMCC Adopts Mentor Graphics’ Questa, AVM, SystemVerilog Products

Posted by Ken Cheung in EDA Tools on Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Mentor Graphics Corporation (Nasdaq: MENT) today announced that Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (AMCC) (Nasdaq: AMCC) has consolidated their functional verification activities and flow on the Mentor Graphics(R) Questa(TM) next-generation functional verification platform and Mentor’s Advanced Verification Methodology (AVM).

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ADLINK Technology Connects DAQ Cards with MATLAB

Posted by Ken Cheung in Test Solution on Tuesday, October 31, 2006

ADLINK Technology unveils a complimentary driver to integrate MATLAB(R) Data Acquisition Toolbox with almost one hundred ADLINK data acquisition and control cards in a variety of form factors: PCI Express(R), PCI, CompactPCI and PXI.

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