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Mirics and NVIDIA bring software-based TV to more PC platforms
Mirics has announced it has developed a global broadcast TV solution for NVIDIA GPUs (graphics processing units). By leveraging the massively parallel NVIDIA CUDA architecture for the Mirics FlexiTVTM software-based receiver, a universal low-cost TV receiver can now be implemented on entry-level PCs that have CUDA-enabled NVIDIA GPUs.
Akros AS1854 GreenEdge PoE PD Passes First PoEPlus Plugfest
Akros Silicon announces its AS1854 Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) Powered-Device System-on-Chip (PD SoC) has successfully demonstrated compliance with IEEE 802.3at and IEE802.3af standards and multi-vendor interoperability. Results were announced following tests conducted by the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory.
Productronica's Online Visitor Registration Now Open
productronica 2009, the world’s leading trade fair for all aspects of electronics production, will be held at the New Munich Trade Fair Centre from Tuesday November 10 to Friday 13, 2009. productronica has been the production industry’s global meeting place since 1975 and this year’s event will bring together more than 1000 exhibitors from over 30 countries. Altogether, well over 60,000m² of exhibition space has already been reserved by ...
Ambarella licenses Imagination Technologies’ high-performance graphics processor core
Imagination Technologies Group has signed a multi-use license agreement with Ambarella Inc., a technology leader in high definition video compression and image processing SoCs, for a member of Imagination's POWERVR SGX graphics processor family.
Low Cost Miniature Inertial Navigation System
Inertial Aerosystems is introducing a new low cost miniature navigation system that is capable of positioning within 5 metres (SEP). Designated the MMQ-G, it is manufactured by U.S.based Systron Donner Inertial. This product is an innovative combination of a solid state inertial measurement unit and a Jupiter PICO (GPS) receiver.
4DSP - Three new Altera Cyclone III FPGA based video image and compression boards
Three new Altera Cyclone III FPGA based video image and compression boards have been released by 4DSP Inc. The new VID300 PMC series offers excellent cost-performance with abundant FPGA logic resources for specialized image processing.
Broadcom Licenses Arm Cortex A9 Multiprocessor Technology
ARM , and Broadcom Corporation, a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, today announced that they have signed a major licensing agreement for the ARM Cortex -A9 MPCore multicore processor. Broadcom intends to target the technology towards next-generation mobile, wireless and other consumer electronics applications.
SiTel gains worldwide ISO 9001:2008 certification
SiTel Semiconductor has announced that all it’s facilities worldwide have successfully received ISO 9001:2008 certification. It is the first fabless semiconductor company in the Netherlands to be certified compliant with this latest revision to the internationally renowned Management System standard.
Rainbow promises to revolutionise HDI manufacture
A new method of producing High Density Interconnect (HDI) boards is being unveiled by Rainbow Technologies, a sister company to Teknek, the global leader in contact cleaning technologies. Traditional laser systems are expensive to buy and costly to operate. Not only that, their output is notoriously slow – most imaging only one side at a time.
Agilent Technologies, Shanghai Institute of Biological Sciences and Chinese Academy of Sciences Open Center for Systems Biology
Agilent Technologies has announced the opening of the Shanghai Institute of Biological Sciences (SIBS)-Agilent Center for Systems Biology in Shanghai, China. The center will feature multiple technology platforms in the areas of genomics, proteomics and metabolomics to conduct biomarker identification to better understand diseases.