News & Analysis
NIWeek 2010 to Explore Technologies for Gaining Competitive Advantages
National Instruments has announced plans for NIWeek, the world’s leading graphical system design conference and exhibition that attracts more than 3,300 engineers, scientists and members of the academic community. NIWeek 2010, the company’s 16th annual technology conference, opens Aug. 3 at the Austin Convention Centre in Austin, Texas, for three days filled with targeted summits and tracks, technical sessions, interactive demonstrations and ...
Keithley Instruments Reports 25 Percent Sales Growth and Net Income of $4.1 Million for Second Quarter Fiscal 2010
Keithley Instruments, Inc. (NYSE:KEI), a world leader in advanced electrical test instruments and systems, today announced financial results for its fiscal 2010 second quarter ended March 31, 2010.
Imec successfully concludes 2009 thanks to strengthened global open innovation
Despite the severe economical downturn, 2009 was a satisfying year for imec. Imec’s total revenue amounted to 275 million euro, including 222 million euro coming from collaboration with the global industry. 44.7 million euro was granted to imec Belgium by the Flemish government, to guarantee imec’s long term research and investment in new research initiatives, and imec the Netherlands at Holst Centre received 8 million euro from the Dutch gov...
National Instruments Releases 2009 Citizenship Report
National Instruments has released its 2009 Citizenship Report, and, as part of its citizenship efforts, announced a long-term commitment to increase the technical literacy of students around the world. The annual report reviews the company’s corporate citizenship achievements in 2009, from the production of more environmentally friendly products to initiatives that enhance science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education. It outlines ...
Imagination’s POWERVR VXD391 adds On2 VP6 and Real Video capabilities
Imagination Technologies announced the latest member of its video decode IP core family, POWERVR VXD391. An ultra low power, high performance 1080p HD hardware video decoder IP core with multi-standard multi-stream capabilities, VXD391 now features the most extensive range of standards supported by a single video decoder, essential for accelerating all forms of video content found on the internet today, including Real Video 8/9, On2 VP6, and Sore...
Imagination debuts full range of TV audio codecs
Imagination Technologies will be demonstrating its latest application platform solutions for high performance, low power multi-channel, multi-standard audio utilising its META multithreaded processor technologies at ESC 2010.
Express Logic’s NetX Duo IPv6 TCP/IP Stack Passes IPv6 Ready Logo Testing
Express Logic today announced that its NetX Duo dual IPv4/IPv6 TCP/IP stack has successfully passed rigorous IPv6-Ready Logo testing. The IPv6 Forum, a world-wide consortium focused on providing technical guidance for the deployment of IPv6, does not allow companies to post the IPv6 Ready Logo until conformance and interoperability testing is complete in order to increase user confidence by demonstrating that IPv6 is available now and ready to b...
Green Hills Software and Freescale Semiconductor Enter Into Multi-Year Strategic Alliance for Advanced Software Solutions
Green Hills Software, Inc., the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutions, and Freescale Semiconductor, a global leader in the design and manufacture of embedded semiconductors for the automotive, consumer, industrial and networking markets, today announced that they are entering into a multi-year strategic agreement to develop, co-market and deliver highly integrated, optimized single and multicore operating system and tools solu...
Avago Eclipses Speed and Bandwidth Barriers with Miniature Embedded Parallel Optics Modules
Avago just announced it has developed one of the industry’s most compact and innovative low-cost, high-bandwidth parallel optic solution for short-range data and communication interconnect applications. Avago’s miniature 12-channel embedded MicroPOD™ parallel optics transmitter and receiver modules support lane rates of up to 12.5 Gbit per second for an aggregate bandwidth of up to 150 Gbps. These modules enable higher density interconnec...
EnOcean Alliance to Show Energy Harvesting Lighting Control Solutions at Lightfair 2010
Visitors to the EnOcean Alliance exhibit (Daylighting Pavilion, Booth 2027) at Lightfair International 2010 will witness the future of intelligent building lighting system control. A total of seven EnOcean Alliance member companies will display the latest innovative products for more energy-efficient, more flexible and smarter automation solutions at this booth.