ED_EDA Alert Update_: Expect New Consumer Electronics Devices Thanks to TLM 2.0
EDA Alert e-Newsletter | August 5, 2008
Rev up fuel efficiency and win $10,000
Design an energy-saving solution for automotive applications
Infineon and Auto Electronics invite you to participate in the “REV UP FUEL EFFICIENCY” design contest. Take “the green challenge” and design a solution using Infineon products that enables or improves energy efficiency for automotive applications. You could win a grand prize of $10,000, a second prize of $5,000 or a third prize of $2,000.
The three winners will get an all-expenses-paid trip to the Infineon and Auto Electronics Contest Award Ceremony at Convergence 2008. In addition, your winning design will be featured at the Infineon booth during the show. Submit your entry by August 15, 2008.
Expect New Consumer Electronics Devices Thanks to TLM 2.0
By Bill Neifert, Chief Technology Officer, Carbon Design Systems
I’m a typical technology-obsessed engineer. I could walk for hours through places like Tokyo’s Akihabara area exploring the latest and greatest consumer electronics devices. It can even be difficult to drag me out of the local big-name electronics store when the latest round of gadgets arrives. It’s always a thrill to see the new and fascinating ways that manufacturers have leveraged technology to create gadgets in an attempt to meet every human need. I’ve come across a few that meet some needs I didn’t realize I had until I saw the device that met them.
Webcast: Read Pacing: A Performance Enhancing Feature of PCI Express Gen A new feature called Read Pacing is now available on Gen 2 PCI Express switches. Read Pacing is a technology that opens up new avenues for enhancing performance in systems with multiple I/O streams. To learn more about Read Pacing from our friends at PLX Technology, please click on the "play" button above. (NOTE: This webcast contains audio, so please hit the mute button on your volume control if you cannot listen to audio at this time.)
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PXI (PCI eXtensions for Instrumentation) is a rugged PC-based platform for measurement and automation systems. PXI combines PCI electrical-bus features with the rugged, modular, Eurocard packaging of CompactPCI, and then adds specialized synchronization buses and key software features. PXI is both a high-performance and low-cost deployment platform for measurement and automation systems. These systems serve applications such as manufacturing test, military and aerospace, machine monitoring, automotive, and in this case, students enrolled in Lawrence Technological Institute's Master of Science in Mechatronic Systems Engineering program.
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FPGA Tools Aid Power Reduction And Simplify Design Creation
The latest revision of Actel’s Libero Integrated Development Environment (IDE) gives designers additional power supply options and enables even lower power consumption. Libero IDE 8.4 offers an FPGA core operating-voltage range from 1.14 to 1.575 V for Actel’s flash-based Igloo, Igloo Plus and ProASIC3L FPGAs. Enhancements to the SmartPower analysis tools within the Libero IBE also ease comparisons of multiple design scenarios and their resulting power consumption and battery life implications.
With improvements to the reliability of artwork masks for electromagnetic (EM) verification and RF board manufacturing, the 2008.07 release of Agilent Technologies’ Genesys suite for RF printed-circuit board (PCB) design delivers shorter design cycles with less iteration for RF designers. The update also includes modeling and user-interface enhancements.
This focused three-day international conference will serve an audience of decision makers who are interested in learning about and contributing to the latest practical advancements related to the use of digital power control techniques in electronic systems and in power converters, and digital energy management and power management in enterprise-level installations and related digital equipment.
Automotive And Aerospace Designers Gain A Simulator
Simulation functionality is now available to designers of automotive and aerospace electrical systems in the 2008.1 release of Mentor Graphics’ CHS design software. The release makes these capabilities inherently available within the core Capital Logic and Capital Integrator tools.
The Microwave Office high-frequency design suite now integrates what’s claimed as a breakthrough in filter design from its partner Nuhertz Technologies. Nuhertz’s filter synthesis and analysis software, Nuhertz Filter, offers what’s termed “delay equalization with off-axis quadruplet and real zeros,” which reduces from hours to seconds the computation time required to obtain flat group delay response in quadruplet-zeros-delay-equalized lumped element filters.
As the international trade show for the electronics industry, electronica reveals the complete spectrum of all areas - in all of its variety, breadth and depth. Showing components, systems, applications and technologies in their relevant contexts reflects the great innovative power of electronics. Components, systems, applications and technologies - get the whole picture at electronica 2008.
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John Dixon, Product Manager for Low Power Processors at Texas Instruments, talks about TI's multi-architecture roadmap for 2009. 
Let Joe Sawicki, VP and GM of Mentor Graphics' Design to Silicon Division, fill you in on Mentor's sharpening focus on IC implementation, and most notably the Olympus-SoC place-and-route system. (NOTE: Remember to scroll down. The Mentor video is in the middle of the page.)
