Freescale Announces LDMOS RF Power Transistors, Reference Designs
Freescale Semiconductor introduces two final-stage LDMOS RF power transistors giving designers a choice between discrete and integrated circuit (IC) solutions. This choice, along with two accompanying reference designs, offers designers greater flexibility and speeds time to market. The new transistors are optimized for use in power amplifiers based on Time Division-Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access (TD-SCDMA), a third-generation wireless standard that is being widely deployed throughout China and also is being considered in other markets.
TI Unveils Reference Designs for IP Camera, Digital Video Recorder
To answer security designers needs to create advanced surveillance products with less resources, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) announced two comprehensive and cost-effective reference designs for Internet Protocol (IP) cameras and digital video recorders (DVR). These reference designs, powered by the new TMS320DM365 digital media processor based on DaVinci™ technology, provide high-definition (HD) H.264 in high, main or base profile (D1, 720p @ 30 fps or 1080p at reduced frame rate) with tri-streaming support. They also benefit from TI’s fifth generation Image Signal Processing (ISP) solution, which enables video stabilization, face detection and other video quality enhancements. Additionally, the DVR reference design includes the new TVP5158 video decoder to capture multi-channel video inputs with new advanced features, such as auto contrast and video noise filtering for greater visual quality.
Microchip Introduces AC/DC Reference Design for dsPIC33F GS DSCs
Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller and analog semiconductors, announced an AC/DC reference design based on the new dsPIC33F “GS” series of digital-power Digital Signal Controllers (DSCs). This reference design demonstrates how digital-power techniques are applied to reduce component count, lower product cost, eliminate oversized components, and incorporate topology flexibility to innovate the best solution for the application.
MSC Vertriebs Unveils Hpe_IRP Reference Design for Industrial Automation
MSC Vertriebs GmbH announced the modular and flexible reference design platform Hpe®_IRP for industrial automation applications based on the Intel® Atom[tm] processor and Altera Arria GX FPGA. This platform has been developed using technologies from Gleichmann Electronics Research GmbH & Co KG, Intel Corporation, Altera Corporation and 3S-Smart Software Solutions GmbH. The development kit provides designers with a solution for immediately starting designs enabling field bus and real-time Ethernet connectivity in an industrial run-time environment. Target markets for the reference platform are industrial automation applications such as programmable logic controllers (PLCs), human machine interfaces (HMIs), panel PCs, and industrial drives.
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.
Lattice Introduces MachXO Mini Development Kit, Reference Designs
Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC) announced the immediate availability of fifteen new reference designs and a new $59 development kit referred to as the MachXOTM Mini Development Kit, which are ideal for prototyping high volume, cost sensitive low density applications. The instant-on, easy to use MachXO programmable logic device (PLD) family offers users the benefits of increased system integration by providing embedded memory, built-in PLLs, high performance LVDS I/O, remote field upgrade (TransFRTM technology) and a low power sleep mode, all in a single device. Designed for a broad range of low density applications that include general purpose I/O expansion, control, bus bridging and power-up management functions, the popular MachXO PLD family is used in a variety of end markets such as consumer, automotive, communications, computing, industrial and medical. In fact, shipments of the MachXO PLD family recently surpassed 15 million units in just over three years.
ON Semiconductor Announces GreenPoint Reference Design
ON Semiconductor (Nasdaq: ONNN), a leading global supplier of high-performance, energy-efficient, silicon solutions, released its latest GreenPoint[tm] open reference design for LCD TV power supplies. This 180 watt (W) High Voltage LCD Integrated Power Supply (HV-LIPS) combines the main system power with the backlight inverter. By implementing an architecture where the inverter is directly powered from the 400 volt (V) PFC rail, the reference design eliminates a complete power conversion stage, improving overall system efficiency, simplifying the design and reducing the bill of materials. The design supports the need for higher efficiency power supplies to meet the active and standby power requirement of the ENERGY STAR 3.0 TV standard that went into place in November 2008.
ACCESS China, NEC Team on Smartphone Reference Design
ACCESS China Inc., a subsidiary of ACCESS CO., LTD., a global provider of advanced software technologies to the mobile and beyond-PC markets, and NEC Electronics Corporation, a leading provider of semiconductor solutions, announced that they have jointly developed a reference design for smartphones. This solution is compliant with the CDMA2000 1x mobile telecommunications standard and based on ACCESS Linux PlatformTM mini, developed for price-sensitive and emerging markets, and NEC Electronics’ MP201 application processor.
Inphi Announces 28G Bit Error Ratio Receiver Reference Platform
Inphi® Corporation, the world leader in analog performance and signal integrity, introduced a 28G Bit Error Ratio (BER) Receiver reference design. This reference design will be highlighted this week in Inphi’s booth # 2-57 at the Fiber Optics Expo in Tokyo, Japan, January 21 – 23, 2009. The 28G BER Receiver is for R&D or production testing of emerging high speed protocols from 13 to 28 Gbps, including 100 Gigabit Ethernet, 40G Differential Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (DQPSK), 14G Fibre Channel, and 100G Dual-Polarization Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (DP-QPSK). The reference design helps to accelerate time-to-market for Test & Measurement vendors designing next generation 28G test platforms.
Dolby Vision Releases This Quarter
Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE:DLB) announced that Dolby® Vision, part of its suite of High Dynamic Range (HDR) technologies, will be available in Q1 2009. In addition, the company is displaying a SIM2 prototype LCD display that features the Dolby Vision reference design at its CES booth. “With Dolby Vision, next-generation LCD manufacturers will be able to provide outstanding contrast combined with crisp brightness to deliver picture quality that can achieve real-world visual perception of depth, detail, and color,” said Bharath Rajagopalan, Director, HDR Marketing, Dolby Laboratories. “The SIM2 LCD prototype display leverages Dolby Vision to manage LED local dimming technology and shows what manufacturers can achieve by implementing this technology.”
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