Design
Tools to Optimize and Manage Multicore and Manycore Software
The Multicore Association reveals its newest program to turbocharge the development of complex multicore and manycore applications. The effort launches a new working group, the Software-Hardware Interface for Multi-Many Core, which will provide a common interface to abstract the hardware properties that matter to multicore tools.
Three Application Notes added to the Extensive Technical Library by Bourns
Bourns reveals that it has added three new application notes to its extensive technical library. Bourns continually develops new technical resources to help engineers solve design issues and select proven application solutions. The new documents offer development options to maximize LED streetlight reliability, provide an optimal circuit protection design for PoE-based systems and demonstrate the advantages of using non-contacting rotary sensors ...
SkyTraq announces 6-in-1 Venus 8 quad-GNSS platform
SkyTraq Technology has announced the next generation Venus 8 platform supporting GPS, GLONASS, Beidou2, Galileo, QZSS, and SBAS. The Venus 8 doubles the search engine capability and reduces more than half the power consumption from the previous generation. Using high-performance search engine and track engine architecture, the Venus 8 is capable of acquiring and tracking 167 satellites simultaneously, achieving fastest signal acquisition and TTFF...
IDT wireless power selected for free-position Qi-compliant wireless charging base
Integrated Device Technology's wireless power transmitter has been selected for TYLT’s award-winning “VÜ” wireless charging base. The innovative free-position wireless charger offers USB-level charging rates over a large “charging zone”, and is fully compatible with Qi-compliant phones. IDT’s solution was selected for its multi-coil support, compact size, reduced bill-of-materials, functional flexibility, ...
Hands-free mobile and video calls with exceptional speaker quality
Wolfson Microelectronics introduce the latest software solutions in its Ez2 software feature collection, Ez2 grouptalk and Ez2 facetalk. These are designed to work alongside Wolfson’s existing hardware platforms, such as the WM5110 High Definition Audio Hub, to dramatically improve the speaker quality for hands-free mobile, VoIP and video calling on smartphones, tablets, personal computers and televisions, as well as the growing market for mobi...
Achieve cinema-quality sound on the move with Wolfson's Ez2 software
Wolfson Microelectronics announce the latest software solution from its Ez2 software feature collection, Ez2 listen, which works alongside Wolfson’s existing hardware platforms, such as its High Definition Audio Hubs, to deliver rich, cinema-quality sound to mobile applications such as smartphones and tablets.
Mainstream in mass prodcuing smartphones' switches from Soitec's RF SOI
Soitec reveals at the Semicon West trade show that its silicon-on-insulator technologies are now mainstream for manufacturing switches and antenna-tuners, key RF components used in all cell phones and tablet computers. According to the industry research firm Yole Développement, more than 65 percent of substrates used in fabricating switches for handsets are SOI based, showing the massive adoption of RF SOI for this booming electronic market expe...
New LaunchPad enables TI Hercules MCU evaluation for less than $20
Texas Instruments has today introduced the newest addition to its microcontroller LaunchPad ecosystem. The new Hercules LaunchPad is priced at just $19.99, making it the lowest cost evaluation platform for Hercules MCUs. The new LaunchPad also provides an entry-level option enabling developers to gain familiarity with TI Hercules MCUs and evaluate the MCUs’ performance and safety features.
InvenSense’s 6-axis MotionTracking SoC selected for Intelligent Headset
InvenSense's MPU-6500 MotionTracking SoC has been selected by GN Store Nord for the “Intelligent Headset”. The Intelligent Headset is designed to enable hands-free information access and augmented reality in an audio headset. The Intelligent Headset uses the MPU-6500’s integrated gyroscope and accelerometer to precisely track head movement, enhance the user experience with dynamic 3D audio and provide direction based on the head...
Altis Semiconductor announces a new innovative secure product
Leveraging its capabilities and experience in secure products, Altis Semiconductor has introduced a new product using state-of-the-art cryptology and technologies to address security and performances for mobile and connected devices. This new secure Integrated Circuit is a hardware crypto chip and has been called the PLM IC.