Leadis Technology Samples LDS8710 LED Driver Family
Leadis Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: LDIS), an analog and mixed-signal semiconductor developer of LED drivers, and Touch ICs for mobile consumer electronic devices, announced sample availability of the LDS8710, an innovative inductor-based, high-efficiency LED Driver that eliminates the expensive external Schottky diode normally used in the rectification loop. The LDS8710 is the first in a family of drivers which includes the LDS8716 and LDS8714. The LDS8710/16/14 drive up to 10, 6 and 4 LEDs in series, respectively, from a single-cell Lithium-Ion battery.
Embedded Alley to Add MIPS Support to Android Mobile Applications
Embedded Alley, a leading provider of embedded Linux® solutions, announced that the company is extending the popular Android mobile applications platform to support the MIPS processor architecture. The Embedded Alley project enables Android on devices built with the Alchemy Processor family from RMI, a leading provider of high performance processors for communication and media, and also with other MIPS SoC implementations from MIPS Technologies, Inc. licensees.
Renesas Unveils 16Kbyte Versions of SH/Tiny Flash Microcontrollers
Renesas Technology America, Inc., has added 16Kbyte Flash versions to its popular line-up of low pin count SH/Tiny flash microcontrollers. The lower memory versions provide a more flexible and cost-effective solution with many advantages over DSPs. With their performance and small memory sizes, these devices are ideal for performing both real-time control and DSP functions.
Jungo USBware to Integrate with Synopsys DesignWare SuperSpeed USB IP
Jungo Ltd., a leading provider of connectivity software solutions, announced that its USBware[tm] for SuperSpeed USB 3.0 stacks will be integrated with the Synopsys DesignWare SuperSpeed USB IP offering. The result is a complete turnkey solution for silicon manufacturers. Jungo and Synopsys have a long history of working together, resulting in the successful deployment of Jungo’s USBware and Synopsys’ DesignWare USB 2.0 IP cores on industry leading embedded CPU architectures such as Samsung S3C241x, Freescale MPC8270, ST40, ARM9, SPARC, PNX 8310/833x and others. Jungo and Synopsys now extend the success of this collaboration to accelerate the adoption of SuperSpeed USB 3.0 designs.
jTOP maXim Operating System Supports STMicroelectronics ST32F512 Flash
Trusted Logic, a pioneer in security solutions for digital services, announces that its jTOP® maXim operating system for (U)SIM cards is now available on STMicroelectronics’ ST32F512 flash chip, which was launched earlier this year. The state-of-the-art 512 kilobyte chip offers 256 kilobytes of user space and enables high performances. It is enhanced by jTOP® maXim’s own high performances and optimized size. The combined chip and OS allow faster processing of information, for a better user experience: operations such as reading 3G phonebooks become much quicker. The product is aimed at the high-end market, and can come packaged with WIB[tm] or S@T browsers to access mobile Internet applications.
GE Fanuc Debuts Time-Triggered Ethernet for Safety-Critical Avionics
GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms, a unit of GE Enterprise Solutions, announced that it is adding a deterministic Ethernet technology to the company’s broad range of solutions for avionics applications. Known as Time-Triggered Ethernet (TTEthernet), and developed by TTTech Computertechnik AG of Vienna, Austria, this new technology responds to the growing demand for reliable, fault tolerant, safety critical solutions that are both high bandwidth and scalable. Products based on TTEthernet, which is designed to allow for DO-178 and DO-254 certification, are used to connect systems on safety critical platforms. Their determinism – the ability to guarantee that an information packet is sent/received in a finite amount of time – helps to prevent unintended behavior or interruption in complex systems.
APTX Targets High Definition Audio Video with apt-X Lossless
APTX, a leading developer of licensable intellectual-property for high-performance audio compression, states its intention to engage with the high-definition audio-video segment of the digital entertainment applications market with a radical, new design of “lossless” audio codec codenamed apt-X Lossless. Renowned in broadcast engineering and studio post production for its commercially successful series of low-latency apt-X audio codecs – Standard apt-X, Enhanced apt-X, and recently, apt-X Live – APTX today announces the imminent availability of a “lossless” audio compression solution, the product of a concentrated internal R&D program, targeted for applications in fast-growing consumer multimedia applications. apt-X Lossless, the latest addition to the apt-X series of audio compression solutions for consumer, professional and broadcast applications, offers up to 96 kHz sampling rates and sample resolutions up to 24 bits.
PrismTech Announces OpenSplice DDS Open Source
PrismTech[tm], an acknowledged leader in advanced software integration and infrastructure solutions, announced the availability of OpenSplice[tm] DDS Open Source on OpenSplice.org. OpenSplice.org now hosts the forge supporting the OpenSplice DDS development Community, providing access to the source code repository, pre-built binary distributions for key platforms, such as Linux, Windows etc., and also providing hosting for other Open Source projects related to OpenSplice DDS.
SMIC, Dolphin Integration Team on Portable Media Players
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (“SMIC”; NYSE: SMI; SEHK: 0981.HK), one of the leading semiconductor foundries in the world and the most advanced in China, and Dolphin Integration, a leader in virtual components for high resolution audio applications, announced their partnership for the release of the latest generation of digital-to-analog audio converters that, utilizing Dolphin’s expertise, feature ultra-low power consumption.
Gennum Raises Offer to Acquire Tundra Semiconductor by 31%
Tundra Semiconductor Corporation (TSX: TUN) and Gennum Corporation (TSX: GND) announced that they have amended the terms of their previously announced arrangement agreement, entered into on March 19, 2009 (the “March 19 Arrangement Agreement”), providing for the acquisition by Gennum of all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Tundra (“Tundra Shares”) by way of plan of arrangement (the “Arrangement”). Pursuant to the amendment, Gennum has increased the aggregate purchase price for all of the Tundra Shares from approximately Cdn.$86 million (based on Gennum’s 5 day Volume Weighted Average Price (“VWAP”) ended March 18, 2009) to approximately Cdn.$112 million (based on Gennum’s 5 day VWAP ended April 16, 2009), representing an increase of approximately 31%.
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