Vishay ACAS 0606 AT Precision Thin Film Chip Resistor Array
Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. (NYSE: VSH) announced that it has extended the available power ratings for its ACAS AT series of precision thin film chip resistor arrays with the release of the new ACAS 0606 AT. Featuring two integrated resistors on one substrate, the resistor array offers a high film temperature of + 155 °C, a maximum power dissipation rating of 0.125 W per resistor, and is AEC-Q200 qualified. The high power rating, superior moisture resistivity of < 0.5 % (85 °C, 85 % RH; 1000 h), and 1000-V ESD capability of the ACAS 0606 AT allow the device to meet automotive requirements while offering highly stable performance for industrial, telecommunications, and consumer electronics.
Adeneo Embedded, IntervalZero Team on Soft-Control Architecture
Embedded Software Developer IntervalZero and Systems Integrator Adeneo Embedded, both Microsoft® Windows Embedded Gold Partners, announced a U.S. collaboration aimed at accelerating machine tool OEMs’ transition to a Soft-Control Architecture. Executives from both companies said that migrating to a Soft-Control Architecture will give OEMs competitive advantages and product differentiation by delivering breakthroughs in throughput and yields; in production quality; in a more compact physical footprint; and in cost reductions of 25-50%.
Accelerometers Set to Become Top MEMS Device by 2013
When you turn your iPhone to the side and the screen automatically adjusts from portrait to landscape view, there’s an accelerometer at work. When you swing your Wii controller and bowl a virtual strike, there’s an accelerometer at work. Indeed, accelerometers in recent years have emerged as a critical input device for some of the world’s hottest electronic products, causing shipments to boom. This will make accelerometers the top-selling Microelectromechanical System (MEMS) device by 2013, according to iSuppli Corp.
Actel Cup China Students FPGA Design Competition Winners
Actel Corporation (Nasdaq: ACTL), the leader in low-power and mixed-signal FPGAs, announced the winners of its 2009 Actel Cup China Students FPGA design competition. Chosen from more than 300 submissions by students from 190 universities, designs from Xian University of Electronic Science and Technology and South China Agricultural University were tied for first place, meeting the contest’s very high standards for creativity, including three key qualifications: high level of innovation, immediate market viability and easy system implementation. This year’s competition was co-sponsored with Guangzhou ZLGMCU Development Company (ZLGMC).
Tektronix Enhances RSA6000 Series Spectrum Analyzers
Tektronix, Inc., a leading worldwide provider of test, measurement and monitoring instrumentation, announced significant enhancements for the RSA6000 Series spectrum analyzers. These latest hardware and software enhancements deliver unprecedented diagnostic capability and faster time-to-solution using industry-leading triggering technology and real-time signal analysis. The RSA6000 Series offer reduced test times with faster measurement speed, and lower systems cost due to their unique combination of measurement capabilities, making them particularly well suited for spectrum management, radar, electronic warfare, and radio communications applications.
Ramtron FM1105-GA, FM1106-GA Receive AEC-Q100 Grade 1 Qualification
Ramtron International Corporation (Nasdaq: RMTR), the leading developer and supplier of nonvolatile ferroelectric random access memory (F-RAM) and integrated semiconductor products, has announced that two of its nonvolatile state savers, the FM1105-GA and FM1106-GA, have received AEC-Q100 Grade 1 qualification. The state saver device saves the state of signals on demand and restores them to the correct state automatically upon power up. F-RAM technology uniquely enables this capability due to its fast write time, virtually unlimited write endurance, and low-power requirements.
SiliconXpress Becomes Tensilica Design Center
Tensilica,® Inc. announced that SiliconXpress has become its newest authorized design center. SiliconXpress is a fabless chip provider, headquartered in Lubbock, Texas, offering one-stop design, fabrication, test, and packaging services. Tensilica is a major semiconductor IP (intellectual property) supplier specializing in dataplane processor cores which are a combination of CPU (central processing unit) and DSP (digital signal processor) that can be rapidly customized to provide 10-100x the performance of standard CPUs and DSPs.
AXIOMTEK Announces NA-812A 1U Network Security Appliance
AXIOMTEK introduces energy saving yet high performance NA-812A 1U-height network security appliance for small and home office (SOHO) market. Designed with green concept in mind, the NA-812A integrates a low power 45nm Intel® Core[tm] 2 Duo processor up to 1.8 GHz or Intel® Celeron® M 1.2 GHz processor with the Mobile Intel® GM45 Express chipset. Advanced power savings allow for a low total cost of ownership. Two DDR3 SODIMM slots support 800/1066 memory up to 4GB capacity. Available with six Gigabit Ethernet ports thru PCIe interface, the platform deliveries high throughput. The NA-812A is high-flexible, low-power, high-port-density network appliance for VPN, content filtering, UTM, network security gateway and other embedded box with multiple-LAN solutions.
Signatec Debuts SIG-PRG Portable Data Acquisition, Generation Systems
Signatec Inc. released the SIG-PRG series, its portable high-speed data acquisition and waveform generation systems that combine the features of oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers and signal generators with high-speed RAID storage to create advanced turnkey wideband signal test systems. With two analog signal recording channels at up to 160 MHz sampling rate, two analog I&Q waveform generation channels at up to 1 GHz sampling rate, 16-bit resolution for both the A/D and D/A channels and an analog capture bandwidth from 100 KHz to 600 MHz, the SIG-PRG system enables users to record and play back continuous analog signals with no break in the signal record at its peak 400 MB/s data rate.
Semtech Introduces uClamp 0511T, 1211T Handset Protection Devices
Semtech Corp. (Nasdaq: SMTC), a leading supplier of analog and mixed-signal semiconductors, announced two additions to its MICROClamp(R) family of protection devices, the uClamp(R) 0511T and the uClamp(R) 1211T – both of which feature the ultra low profile, low leakage and low capacitance needed for mobile phone and portable designs.
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