COMMELL Rolls Out HS-873P, FS-97E Single Board Computers
Taiwan Commate Computer Inc.(COMMELL), the worldwide leader of Single Board Computers, introduced the PISA Half-size CPU Card HS-873P & PICMG 1.0 Full-size CPU Card FS-97E SBCs that incorporate an Intel Socket P pin-out 45nm process technology with Intel Core 2 Duo Mobile Penryn or Core 2 Extreme processors to meet the needs of a wide range of performance-intensive, low-power embedded applications such as process control, measurement, gaming platform, industrial control and automation, digital security surveillance and medical imaging.
Atmel, PGC Port Image Viewer Reference Design to AT91CAP9A-STK Starter Kit
Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) and PGC (Progate Group Corporation) announced the availability of a JPEG image viewer reference design ported onto the low-cost AT91CAP9A-STK Starter Kit for Atmel’s AT91CAP9S Customizable Microcontroller. When connected to a host PC via its USB Device Port, the CAP-STK appears as a mass storage device for JPEG images. Running stand-alone, the CAP-STK de-compresses the images and displays them on its VGA screen, using JPEG de-compression and display IP supplied by PGC, and mapped into the FPGA that emulates CAP’s Metal Programmable block.
Perfectus Technology Debuts SuperSpeed USB Verification IP for USB 3.0
Santa Clara-based Perfectus Technology, the leading provider of Verification IPs, announced the availability of SuperSpeed USB Verification IP (VIP) product based on the USB 3.0 protocol. This is the industry’s first SystemVerilog-based OVM compliant SuperSpeed USB VIP with a very sophisticated Verification Engine which will help in accelerating the SuperSpeed USB-based IP/FPGA/ASIC/SOC/Silicon verification cycle with higher reliability and greater assurance. The SuperSpeed USB VIP was tested to work in the Mentor Graphics Questa® Verification Platform.
Laird Debuts S245112PT Directional, S24517PT Sector Dual-Band MIMO Antennas
Laird Technologies, Inc., a global leader in the design and manufacture of customized, performance-critical components for wireless systems and other advanced electronics applications, announced the availability of two new Dual-Band External MIMO External Antennas – the S245112PT Directional and the S24517PT Sector.
Universal Powerline Association, HomeGrid Forum Support Gh.n Standard
The Universal Powerline Association (UPA), a leading industry consortium providing a forum for the development of interoperable and open specifications to cover all Powerline markets and applications, and the HomeGrid Forum a global, non-profit trade group promoting International Telecommunication Union’s Standardization Sector (ITU-T) G.hn standardization efforts for multimedia over coax, power and phone lines, announce the signing of a memorandum of understanding for the joint research, development, and commercialization of networking technologies and products ensuring coexistence, interoperability, and specification compliance.
Nortel Networks, EFI, AXIOMTEK Select Tundra PCI Express Bridges
Tundra Semiconductor Corporation (TSX: TUN), a leader in System Interconnect, has been selected by Nortel Networks, EFI, and AXIOMTEK to supply Tundra’s high performance PCI Express® (PCIe) Bridges for their newest designs. Nortel Networks (TSX: NT) is a recognized leader in delivering communications technologies for both service provider and enterprise networks that support multimedia and business-critical applications. Nortel recently selected Tundra’s Tsi381[tm] PCIe Bridge for the quality and reliability that this bridge offered Nortel’s latest Passport product line.
AMD Develops ATI Radeon HD 4800 with Cadence Incisive Palladium II
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS), the leader in global electronic design innovation, announced that AMD (NYSE: AMD) successfully used the Cadence® Incisive® Palladium® II Accelerator/Emulator to deliver the first working silicon for its complex ATI Radeon[tm] HD 4800 series graphics design produced in 2008. The ATI Radeon HD 4800 series includes over 800 million transistors and is the most complex AMD graphics design shipped to date.
Open Verification Methodology Includes Unified Coverage Database API, XML
Mentor Graphics (Nasdaq: MENT) and Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNS) announced they have extended the Open Verification Methodology (OVM) to include the Unified Coverage Database (UCDB) application program interface (API) and an XML interchange format. The availability of the UCDB API and complementary XML interchange format documentation will allow verification teams to manage coverage metrics in a multi-tool, multi-vendor verification environment, and represents a step toward a standardized approach to managing coverage metrics.
VIA Technologies Launches AMOS-3000 Embedded Box Computer
VIA Technologies, Inc., a leading innovator of power efficient x86 processor platforms, announced the launch of VIA’s first embedded box computer; the VIA AMOS-3000. Ideal for a variety of embedded applications, the VIA AMOS-3000 is a robust, custom-designed system based on the ultra compact and versatile VIA EPIA-P700 Pico-ITX board.
National Instruments Unveils PXI-8110 3U Quad-Core PXI Controller
National Instruments introduced the NI PXI-8110 embedded controller, which is the industry’s first 3U quad-core embedded controller for PXI systems. Featuring a 2.26 GHz Intel® Core[tm] 2 Quad processor Q9100, up to 4 GB 800 MHz DDR2 RAM and a high-performance 7200 rpm drive, it is also the industry’s fastest embedded controller in the 3U PXI class. The PXI-8110 provides an up to 80 percent performance improvement over dual-core controllers with similar CPU clock frequencies for applications that are optimized to use the controller’s four processing cores.
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