ACCES I/O Products Offers USB Analog Input Modules for Under $350
ACCES I/O Products announces the immediate release of a new series of low cost USB analog input modules – the USB-AI Series. This innovative line of 12 and 16-bit USB modules will be showcased at the upcoming Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose. Starting with its flagship model, the USB-AI16-16A, this high-speed USB 2.0, 16-bit multifunction analog input board is ideal for precision measurement, analysis, monitoring, and control in countless embedded applications.
Atmel Rolls Out AT91SAM7L Ultra-low Power ARM7 Microcontrollers
Atmel® Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) announced a new series of high-performance, ultra-low power ARM7TDMI®-based microcontrollers, the AT91SAM7L series, embedding power switches controlling multiple power islands and programmable voltage regulators to reduce power consumption in active and standby modes. There is a rapidly growing demand for more power efficient products that is driven by a market trend towards environmentally friendly, battery operated and portable products like media players, remote controls, weather stations, calculators, toys, control panels, thermostats and hand-held medical devices such as glucose meters, blood pressure meters and fitness monitors. The demand for green products is pushing manufacturers to consider low-power standby modes even on products supplied by the power grid. The individual standby power of audio or TV equipment is small at around 1 or 2 W per unit, but the fact that billions of these are maintained in standby mode, results in a total power consumption of thousands of megawatts.
Atmel Introduces AVR XMEGA 8/16-bit Microcontrollers
Atmel® Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) announced the AVR® XMEGA(tm) family, an important addition to their successful AVR microcontrollers. The system performance of AVR XMEGA expands the market reach for 8/16-bit microcontrollers. With second generation of picoPower(tm) technology, XMEGA is the only family of Flash microcontrollers with true 1.6V operation. The ultra low power consumption is combined with fast 12-bit analog functions, a DMA controller, an innovative Event System and a crypto engine. All features free CPU resources which minimize power consumption and increase system performance.
Atmel Offers AVR RZ Raven 2.4 GHz Wireless Evaluation Kit for $99
Atmel® Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) announced the availability of the AVR® RZ Raven evaluation kit that provides designers a unique ready-to-use development platform in the rapidly growing low power wireless market for the 2.4GHz ISM frequency band available worldwide. The kit utilizes the AVR picoPower(tm) technology in combination with the superior RF performance offered by the AT86RF230 2.4 GHz ISM transceiver.
Agilent IC-CAP Target Modeling Package Extracts Device Models
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) announced the first commercially available package that extracts models from semiconductor manufacturing process targets. An option for the 2008 release of Agilent’s Integrated Circuit Characterization and Analysis Program (IC-CAP) software, the package enables designers to develop device-simulation models earlier in the design cycle for faster overall IC design.
Texas Instruments Debuts OMAP35x Processors with ARM Cortex-A8 Core
Consumers are demanding products with more intuitive user interfaces, advanced graphics and the ability to connect any and all devices to the Internet. To empower designers to address these needs, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) announced at the TI Developer Conference (TIDC) the availability of four new OMAP(TM) processors, based on the market’s first broad offering of the ARM® Cortex(TM)-A8 core, providing an unprecedented combination of laptop-like performance at handheld power levels in a single chip. With more than four times the processing power of today’s 300 MHz ARM9 devices, the superscalar Cortex-A8 core runs up to 600 MHz and is integrated into four new OMAP35x(TM) applications processors for a wide range of possible applications, including portable navigation devices, Internet appliances and portable patient monitoring devices.
Synopsys IC Compiler 2007.12 Features Concurrent Hierarchical Design
Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design and manufacturing, announced the availability of the industry’s first concurrent hierarchical design system as part of the IC Compiler 2007.12 release. As designers migrate to smaller geometries, on-chip integration increases and design sizes mushroom, making hierarchical design almost mandatory. Current-generation design tools rely on a “plan-then-implement” flow which begins to break down in the face of these large designs, which often include multiple modes and multiple voltage domains. The IC Compiler 2007.12 release transcends these flows by enabling a concurrent methodology where planning occurs in tandem with implementation, delivering faster time to tapeout. The 2007.12 release also introduces new advances in clock tree synthesis technology that improves clock skew and lowers power dissipation. The new release directly boosts designer productivity by providing a 30 percent reduction in total run time.
Mistral Customizes Software, Hardware Solutions for TI’ OMAP35x
Furthering its role as a catalyst between product developers and technology companies, Mistral, a leading product realization company specializing in real-time embedded solutions, announced that it is now geared up to provide customized hardware and software solutions for the high-performance OMAP35x(TM) platform from Texas Instruments (TI).
AMD Develops Chip with Extreme Ultra-Violet Lithography
AMD (NYSE: AMD), working together with its research partner, IBM, announced it has produced a working test chip utilizing Extreme Ultra-Violet (EUV) lithography for the critical first layer of metal connections across the entire chip. Previous projects utilizing EUV to produce working chip components were only “narrow field”, covering just a very small portion of the design. The work of AMD, IBM, and their partners at the UAlbany NanoCollege’s Albany NanoTech Complex, will be presented by Dr. Bruno La Fontaine of AMD at the premier lithography conference in the industry on Tuesday. The paper will show successful integration of “full-field” EUV lithography into the fabrication process across an entire 22 mm x 33 mm AMD 45 nm node test chip.
STMicroelectronics Announces STM8 8-bit Microcontroller Platform
STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), one of the world’s leading semiconductor manufacturers and a leader in ICs for automotive applications, has unveiled details of a new 8-bit microcontroller platform designed to offer outstanding levels of performance and cost-effectiveness in a wide range of applications. Implemented around a high-performance 8-bit core and a state-of-the-art set of peripherals, the STM8 platform will be manufactured using an ST-proprietary 130nm embedded non-volatile memory technology.
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