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Freescale introduces low-cost, full-featured evaluation board for StarCore-based SC3850 DSPs
Freescale has introduced a low-cost evaluation module for the MSC815x and MSC825x family of programmable digital signal processors (DSPs) intended for medical, aerospace, defence and test/measurement applications.
Alpha Micro supports Cranfield University’s search for life on the edge of space
Can life exist on the edge of space? This is just one of the questions that a group of students from Cranfield University hope to answer with assistance from sponsors Alpha Micro Components (www.alphamicro.net), the independent franchised distributor of electronic components. Team CASS-E (Cranfield University Astrobiological Stratospheric Sampling Experiment) have designed a biological data collecting instrument which will be sent into the strat...
LynuxWorks and Themis Team up to Demonstrate Rugged and Secure Server Solutions at MILCOM 2010
LynuxWorks and Themis Computer today announced that they have teamed up to demonstrate a new rugged, high performance multilevel secure platform solution at MILCOM 2010. The companies will showcase LynuxWorks’ LynxSecure secure separation kernel and embedded hypervisor running on Themis' CoolShell blade server. LynxSecure is a highly secure virtualization solution that utilizes the CoolShell’s hardware-virtualization technology and multiple p...
Pentek Takes Leadership Role In Delivering Advanced COTS Solutions Targeting Military Applications
Again taking a leadership role, Pentek, Inc. today unveiled the first in a family of ruggedized boards for high-performance military and avionics applications utilizing the industry’s most advanced FPGA technology. Pentek’s 53xxx Cobalt™ board family incorporates Xilinx’s Virtex-6 FPGAs for on-board signal processing, delivering digital sampling rates to 1 GHz in a compact 3U VPX form factor.
RF Micro Devices Awarded $1.5 Million Navy Contract for GaN RF Power Technology
RF Micro Devices announced today that it has been awarded a $1.5 million R&D contract by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) related to gallium nitride (GaN) microelectronics, including the development of materials, device fabrication and high power circuits.
Microchip licenses MIPS32 M14K Cores for next-generation 32-bit PIC32 microcontrollers
Microchip and MIPS Technologies, Inc. have announced that Microchip is building on its successful 32-bit PIC32 microcontroller family, which is currently based on the MIPS32 M4K core, by licensing the MIPS32 M14K family of cores from MIPS.
Lattice Semiconductor At Electronica 2010 -Transforming Product Design With Programable Devices
Lattice Semiconductor announced its plans for electronica 2010, one of the largest and most anticipated electronic trade shows in the industry. Held every two years, Electronica attracts thousands of companies and tens of thousands of attendees, including over 700 journalists from 34 countries. Electronica 2010 runs from November 9 through November 12 in Munich, Germany.
DNA Electronics Partners with Roche to Develop Semiconductor Based Sequencing System
DNA Electronics, a fabless semiconductor provider of solutions for real-time DNA and RNA analysis, announced today that it has entered a partnership with 454 Life Sciences, a Roche Company. The collaboration will focus on the development of a low-cost, high-throughput, long read, high density DNA sequencing system. As part of the agreement, DNA Electronics has signed a non-exclusive licence to provide relevant IP from its proprietary semiconducto...
X-ES Introduces the Avionics Development Platform to Accelerate Deployed Avionics System Development
Extreme Engineering Solutions, Inc. (X-ES) is shipping the Avionics Development Platform (ADP) to facilitate the development and rapid deployment of avionics systems. The ADP is a prepackaged 3U OpenVPX development platform that provides functionality and I/O commonly required by avionics applications. The ADP enables the deployed system hardware to be developed in parallel with the software development effort to reduce overall development schedu...
ITT Interconnect Solutions’ UK facility achieves SC21 Silver Accreditation
Leading global connector manufacturer and supplier, ITT Interconnect Solutions, has announced that its UK facility has been awarded Silver Accreditation in the Supply Chains for the Twenty First Century (SC21) national aerospace and defence supply chain improvement programme. Against a background of increasingly intense international competition, achieving supply chain improvement is crucial to the continued success of the UK aerospace and defenc...