Communications
Silicon Labs Achieves ZigBee IP Golden Unit Certification
Silicon Labs announce that its Ember ZigBee solutions – silicon devices, software and development tools – have achieved Golden Unit certification from the ZigBee Alliance for the newly released ZigBee IP specification. ZigBee IP is the first open standard for IPv6-based wireless mesh networking solutions, providing seamless, end-to-end Internet connectivity and a scalable architecture to control low-power devices.
Chelsio Announces Terminator 5 ASIC
Chelsio Communications today announced Terminator 5, the fifth generation of its high performance Ethernet silicon technology. The Terminator 5 ASIC is built upon the latest iteration of Chelsio’s protocol-rich high speed network processing architecture, and leverages an industry-proven design, which has been widely deployed with more than 200 OEM platform wins and more than 400,000 ports shipped worldwide.
The Industry’s Smallest 3G-SDI Configurable I/O Platform From Semtech
Semtech Corporation reveal its new GS3490 configurable 3G-SDI I/O device with class-leading performance. The device is the latest addition to Semtech’s comprehensive, end-to-end platform of broadcast serial digital interface solutions. Semtech’s Gennum Product Group will be showcasing their latest SDI solutions at the National Association of Broadcasters show in Las Vegas in booth #N2116.
Texas Instruments Announce ERM And LRA Haptic Driver
Texas Instruments introduce a haptic driver that makes it easy to add realistic tactile feedback effects to consumer and industrial products, such as smartphones, tablets, ebooks, refrigerators, microwave ovens and washing machines. The DRV2605 is the only eccentric rotating mass actuator and linear resonant actuator haptic driver pre-loaded with a library of 123 distinct haptic effects designed and licensed by Immersion.
iPOS360x BX-CAN: Ultra-compact Inteligent Drives equipped with CAN interfaces
Technosoft announces the new iPOS3602 BX-CAN and iPOS3604 BX-CAN drives, based on the IPOS family design concept of closed-frame intelligent drives. Equipped with a CAN interface, the iPOS360x BX intelligent drives offer a very compact solution for the control of rotary or linear brushless, DC brush, and step motors of powers up to 144 W and 36 V nominal voltage.
Real Time Logic Secures ASIC-Powered Devices As OEMs Gear Up For High-Volume M2M Market
Real Time Logic now supports TLS 1.2 with its improved security and encryption in the latest version of SharkSSL, a compact, fast cryptographic engine that delivers high-performance security. With this release, SharkSSL Version 2.5 extends its secure connectivity for resource-constrained, small-footprint processors to low-cost, high-volume ASIC-powered M2M devices commonly used in large-scale networks for municipal utility monitoring, medical rec...
ARM and TSMC Tape Out First ARM Cortex-A57 Processor
ARM and TSMC today announced the first tape-out of an ARM Cortex-A57 processor on FinFET process technology. The Cortex-A57 processor is ARM’s highest performing processor, designed to further extend the capabilities of future mobile and enterprise computing, including compute intensive applications such as high-end computer, tablet and server products.
STMicroelectronics Embraces New RF Front-End Standard
STMicroelectronics' STHVDAC-304MF3 antenna-tuning circuit has a 4-channel output for adjusting up to four tunable BST capacitors in the antenna-matching circuits of multi-band GSM/WCDMA/3G-LTE smartphones.
New Product Introduction From Rochester Electronics' Extension-of-Life Program
Rochester Electronics has re-introduced and continues to manufacture the AMD 79C940 Media Access Controller for Ethernet (MACE). This CMOS VLSI device provides flexibility in customized LAN design and addresses applications involving multiple I/O peripherals where a centralized or system specific DMA is required. For a continuous authorized source on this product series, check inventory here.
NEXCOM Network Security Introduces Appliance Based on Freescale QorIQ T4240 SoC
NEXCOM 1U network security appliance NSA 5640 is designed for advanced Unified Threat Management (UTM) solutions with multi-Gigabit throughput. Featuring the Freescale multicore QorIQ T4240 SoC and high-speed networking and interconnect interfaces, the NSA 5640 addresses the escalating cyber threats fueled by rising network communication, bandwidth-hungry activities and number and complexity of Internet-based attacks.