Back to Embedded
763 results found, displaying items 201 - 220
ZigBee Kits 3
Next in this series on ZigBee kits, Technology Editor Bill Wong takes a look at offerings from Freescale, Microchip, and Synapse.
Freescale's Busy Beestack
Freescale’s ZigBee 1321XEVK development kit is one of the best when it comes to targeting microcontroller-based platforms versus modules like those from Synapse or Digi.
Microchip Makes MiWi
Microchip’s PIC microcontrollers are popular low power platforms that make an ideal match for low power 802.15.4-based applications.
Synapse Sports SNAP
Synapse’s claim to fame is the Synapse Network Appliance Protocol (SNAP). It is implemented on its RF Engine ZigBee module that is also found on the Synapse Coordinator and End Devices.
IPNet To Facilitate FPGA IP Sharing
National Instruments has debuted the IPNet, an online repository of software and hardware IP, that will make FPGA development easier.
Intel Launches New Processors
In an effort to reduce energy loss and save chip space, Intel has created a 45-nm processor using a Hafnium-based high-k metal gate (Hi-k) formula for the hundreds of millions of transistors inside these processors. This achievement is the biggest advancement in the transistor industry in 40 years, according to Intel Co-Founder Gordon Moore.
Infineon And ASE Agree To Semiconductor Packaging Tandem
Infineon Technologies and Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Inc. (ASE) have announced a partnership to construct a new semiconductor package form boasting a 30% reduction of dimension compared to conventional lead-frame (laminate) packages.
ON Semiconductor Spends $185 Mil. Cash For ADI Thermal, Voltage Products
ON Semiconductor Corporation has signed an agreement with Analog Devices Inc. to acquire voltage regulation and thermal monitoring products for computing applications. ON Semiconductor will acquire assets and intellectual property related to these monitoring and regulatory technologies, and will hold a manufacturing supply arrangement with Analog Devices over the next year for a total approximately $185 million.
Motorola Opens R&D Operations In Beijing
Motorola Inc. cut the red ribbon in Wangjing, Beijing today, commencing research and development from its new facilities in China.
Broadcom Brings Big Gaming Title To Hand-Sized Platform
Semiconductor company Broadcom and software powerhouse Electronics Arts Inc. (EA) have agreed to work together to bring EA Mobile games to handsets. Broadcom will utilize its VideoCore III mobile multimedia processor technology found in Broadcom’s BCM 2727 chip, enabling EA to roll out its games with higher resolution than current cell phone games provide.
Real Robots: Player Project
The Player Project, or simply Player, is a free software (GNU General Public License) project designed to provide a robot server framework. It is designed to run on real robots in addition to the Stage and Gazebo simulation systems.
Boss Collects $2 Million Paycheck In DARPA Urban Challenge
Boss ruled the roads as Carnegie Mellon’s Tartan Racing Team took first prize in DARPA’s Urban Challenge. The competition began with dozens of teams building fully autonomous vehicles that would have to navigate a 60-mile course, complete with traffic and other commuter obstacles. On Saturday, 11 of those teams took part in the finals on the streets of Victorville, Calif.
PMC-Based Interface Handles High- Or Low-Speed CAN
IXXAT Automation's iPC-I XC16/PMC CAN interface can be used as a master device in CANopen systems with a large number of nodes.
DSP Card Blends Dual-Core PowerPC Processor, Virtex FPGAs
VMetro's Phoenix VPF2 integrates the Freescale MPC8641D dual-core processor with the user's choice of two Xilinx Virtex-5 SX95T FPGAs or two LX110T FPGAs.
Lifecycle Management Solution Ready To Use Out Of The Box
Telelogic's Change 4.7 application lifecycle management solution allows stakeholders from developers to quality professionals to achieve better and more consistent results.
Cisco To Acquire Securent
Cisco Systems has agreed to acquire Securent Inc., a provider of policy management software for businesses, for $100 million.
Wireless Audio Gets Simpler
Avnera Corporation’s new AudioMagic chipset makes wireless speaker, headphone and headset design simple and reliable.
A Long Look At Samsung’s Q1B
Technology Editor Bill Wong takes the Samsung Q1B for a long ride. Check out his opinions on the UMPC form factor.
Test And Yield Management Converge
Learning how to improve IC-fabrication yields through analysis of production test can be extremely valuable. The combination of Synopsys’ Odyssey design-for-test (DFT) module and its TetraMAX automatic test-pattern generation (ATPG) tool can close the loop on manufacturing test and help ramp yields quickly.
Board/System-Level Design Suite Adds FPGA Support
In the latest edition of its Altium Designer suite, Altium has provided support for the LatticeSC and LatticeSCM (collectively, the LatticeSC/M) families of high-performance FPGA devices from Lattice Semiconductor.
The LatticeSC/M families are the latest FPGAs in the growing list of devices from all major vendors that can be programmed using Altium Designer
 prev. page
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
[11]
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
next page 
|
