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September 5, 2008
Wolfson DACs Enhance Blu-ray Player’s Audio
Pioneer Electronics has chosen the WM8740 high-performance stereo digital-to-analog converter (DAC) from Wolfson Microelectronics for use in Pioneer’s latest Blu-ray home theater disc player. Pioneer said the player (model BDP-LX71 in the EU and Japan and model BDP-05FD in North America) aims to outperform current desktop players and bring a true cinema experience to the home.
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ED News Staff
September 5, 2008
Evident Technologies Debuting Nanocrystal LEDs
Evident Technologies Inc. plans to immediately launch a line of low-power LED and LED-based products that use the company’s semiconductor nanocrystal as a phosphor. The products will be available under a non-exclusive licensing agreement recently signed with Philips Electronics.
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ED News Staff
September 4, 2008
TI Working To Develop IEEE 1149.7 2-Pin Debug Spec
Texas Instruments said it will drive the development and ratification of the IEEE 1149.7 standard, a 2-pin test and debug interface that requires half the number of pins of IEEE 1149.1 boundary-scan technology.
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ED News Staff
September 4, 2008
Power Architecture Group Defines High-Speed Serial Trace Spec
Power.org has released the Power Architecture Physical Connection for High-Speed Serial Trace Specification. The organization, which promotes and develops standards for Power Architecture technology, also announced web-based training tools, regional training programs, and its newest member, LSI Corp.
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ED News Staff
September 4, 2008
AdvancedAMC Board Features 64-Core Processor
The new T6M-100 AdvancedMC (PrAMC) platform from JumpGen Systems incorporates the Tilera TILE64 processor, with 64 cores of general-purpose compute capability running at 700 MHz. The single-wide T6M-100 is one of several JumpGen PrAMC products that support 10-Gbit/s Ethernet interfaces addressing growing market requirements for IP networks.
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ED News Staff
August 29, 2008
Runtime, Capacity Dominate Battery Selection
Runtime and battery capacity are the most important factors in selecting battery chemistry and technology in portable products, according to an engineering and marketing survey conducted by Nexergy Inc. The manufacturer of battery packs and chargers said the survey also indicated a lack of familiarity and understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of the many battery chemistries available on the market today.
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ED News Staff
August 29, 2008
Content Protection Scheme Okayed For WirelessHD
The Digital Transmission Licensing Administrator (DTLA) has approved and published a new supplement to the Digital Transmission Content Protection (DTCP) Specification for the use of WirelessHD. The supplement represents the first approved, standard content protection method for the distribution of HD content. In addition, the approval offers more flexibility for manufacturers and consumers because DTCP permits both streaming and copying of high-definition content device-to-device.
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ED News Staff
August 29, 2008
ASSET Helps Establish Boundary-Scan Initiative
ASSET InterTech recently became one of the founding members of the International Electronics Manufacturing Initiative’s (iNEMI) boundary-scan adoption project. The initiative—a consortium of over 70 manufacturers, suppliers, and related organizations—started the project to encourage greater use of the IEEE 1149.1 boundary-scan standard (commonly known as JTAG, after the Joint Test Action Group, which defined the original specification).
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ED News Staff
August 28, 2008
WirelessHART Spec Submitted For IEC Balloting
The HART Communication Foundation (HCF) has submitted the WirelessHART Communication specification (HART 7.1) to the International Electrotechnical Commission for approval as a publicly available specification (PAS). After the two-month balloting process, the WirelessHART specification will begin the process of becoming an amendment to IEC 61158, the fieldbus standard.
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ED News Staff
August 27, 2008
NVIDIA GPUs Powering Stanford Medical Research
Graphics processing units (GPUs) from NVIDIA are delivering over 1 petaflop (1000 teraflops) of processing power in a distributed computing application at Stanford University. According to statistics published by the university, 11,370 active NVIDIA GPUs provided 1.251 petaflops, or 42% of the total processing power for the Folding@home application.
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ED News Staff
August 26, 2008
Power Companies Join Forces With ZigBee, HomePlug Alliances
A group of electrical utility companies is working with the ZigBee Alliance and the HomePlug Powerline Alliance to develop a common application layer integrated solution for advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) and home area networks (HAN). Using the capabilities of the ZigBee Smart Energy public application profile as a baseline, the three groups will expand the application layer and enable it to run on HomePlug technology.
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ED News Staff
August 26, 2008
Mitsubishi Premium TVs Use Micronas Technology
Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America (MDEA) has chosen the MAP-M audio processor and FRC-M 120-Hz frame-rate converter for the MDEA 149 series of premium flat-panel TVs. MDEA’s 149 series TVs are the first televisions worldwide to use Micronas’s Digital Sound Projector, which is based on the company’s widely deployed MAP-M audio processor.
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ED News Staff
August 21, 2008
Verilog-AMS Update Integrates With HDL Standard
The latest version of Accellera’s Verilog-Analog Mixed-Signal (AMS) standard, Verilog-AMS 2.3, unifies the standard’s previous version with IEEE Std. 1364-2005, the Verilog hardware description language (HDL) standard. Verilog-AMS 2.3 enables users to develop standard and tightly integrated Verilog-AMS modules, and allows EDA software tool developers to implement EDA tools without ambiguities in the language interpretation.
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ED News Staff
August 15, 2008
Report Cites Chip Programming For iPhone 3G Problems
Problems involving dropped calls and the inability to receive faster 3G service on Apple’s new iPhone 3G may be related to a communications chip made by Infineon Technologies. Sources quoted by BusinessWeek said that faulty software on the chip causes problems when the iPhone needs to switch from wireless networks that allow faster downloads to slower ones.
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ED News Staff
August 14, 2008
Programming Environment Featured On CUDA U Site
Classes have already begun at CUDA U, a new section on the CUDA Zone Web site where users can find instructional material, syllabuses and curricula, and information on schools and programs that offer instruction on NVIDIA’s CUDA programming environment.
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ED News Staff
August 14, 2008
NVIDIA Showing Fully Interactive GPU-Based Ray Tracer
NVIDIA is demonstrating what it says is the world’s first fully interactive graphics processing unit-based ray tracer this week at SIGGRAPH 2008 in Los Angeles. Based on NVIDIA GPU technology, the ray tracer shows linear-scaling rendering of a highly complex, two-million polygon, anti-aliased automotive styling application.
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ED News Staff
August 8, 2008
STMicroelectronics, STATS ChipPAC, And Infineon Join Forces On Wafer-Level-Packaging
Semiconductor makers STMicroelectronics and Infineon have teamed with 3D packaging provider STATS ChipPAC to jointly develop the next generation of embedded Wafer-Level Ball Grid Array (eWLB) technology. The technology will be based on Infineon’s existing eWLB packaging, which has been licensed to both STMicroelectronics and STATS ChipPAC.
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ED News Staff
August 5, 2008
CEA Considering Standards For Portable, Handheld Devices
The Consumer Electronics Association is considering whether to establish industry technical standards for portable and handheld devices, such as MP3 players, GPS units, video displays, and cameras. The association has scheduled a Discover Group meeting to discuss the issue at its Industry Forum on Oct. 21st in Las Vegas at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino.
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ED News Staff
July 24, 2008
LabVIEW-Based Systems Monitor Health Of Chinese Megastructures
The China Earthquake Administration has selected a structural health monitoring (SHM) system from CGM Engineering Inc. to help engineers conduct research on seven recently constructed megastructures. CGM, a National Instruments Alliance Partner, based the system on the NI LabVIEW graphical system design platform and NI CompactRIO programmable automation controllers.
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ED News Staff
July 23, 2008
WiMAX MIMO Device Uses SkyCross Antenna Technology
The first USB device certified by the WiMAX Forum, the MiMAX Q-Series USB dongle from Airspan Networks Inc., incorporates the SkyCross Isolated Mode Antenna Technology (iMAT). Introduced by SkyCross in late January, iMAT allowed the MiMAX to be certified for the 2.5-GHz band, operating at nearly every applicable WiMAX and Wi-Fi frequency from 2 GHz to 5 GHz.
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ED News Staff
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