• Texas Instruments TMS320DM8168 DaVinci Video System on Chip

    Updated: 2010-03-19 11:31:58
    Texas Instruments (TI) introduced the new TMS320DM8168 DaVinci video system-on-chip (SoC). The DM8168 consolidates all of the capture, compression, display and control functionalities of a high definition (HD), multi-channel system on a single chip. The DaVinci video SoC features a 1 GHz ARM Cortex-A8 and a 1 GHz TI C674x digital signal processor (DSP) core. [...]

  • GE NPN240 OpenVPX Multi-Processor for Embedded Systems

    Updated: 2010-03-19 11:03:30
    GE Intelligent Platforms introduced the 6U OpenVPX NPN240 multi-processor for embedded systems. The rugged GPGPU (general purpose computing on a graphics processing unit) features two NVIDIA CUDA-capable GT240 96-core GPUs. Depending on the application, up to 750 GFLOPS peak per card slot is possible. Multiple NPN240s can be linked to single or multiple hosts to [...]

  • Fixing common Microsoft Office Errors

    Updated: 2010-03-19 06:38:05
    Microsoft Office suite is a very useful software. Most home and offices, big or small, can not operate properly with out the Microsoft Office. An Office component such as the Word is used in making school works and almost anything that should be written, printed and submitted. The Office spreadsheet, Excel, [...]

  • HeartOS DO-178B Real-time Operating System Supports ARM7, ARM9

    Updated: 2010-03-18 23:55:09
    DDC-I, a leading supplier of software and professional services for mission- and safety-critical applications, announced that its safety-critical, DO-178B Level A certifiable, HeartOS real-time operating system and OpenArbor development tool suite is available for the ARM7[tm] and ARM9[tm] families of processors. The HeartOS running atop ARM® processors provides a scalable, low-power, high-performance computing platform for [...]

  • TI DMVA1 Video Security Camera SoC with Vision Co-processor

    Updated: 2010-03-18 22:54:32
    Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) announced the DMVA1 SoC. With DMVA1, engineers can deploy smart analytics functions such as people counting, trip zone, intelligent motion detection, camera tamper detection and streaming metadata. By coupling the vision co-processor with smart analytics all on a single chip, designers can reduce the cost of video analytics-enabled IP cameras by [...]

  • Avalue ESM-GM45 COM Express Module

    Updated: 2010-03-18 11:37:42
    Avalue announced the ESM-GM45 Computer-on-Module. The ESM-GM45 supports the Intel Core 2 Duo and Celeron M CPU. The COM Express module uses the Intel GM45 and ICH9-M chipset. The module features four SATA, eight USB 2.0, four PCI, four PCIex1, and one PCIex16 expansion bus. The board supports Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows XPe, Windows [...]

  • Digital Media Professionals Joins MIPS Alliance Program for Android

    Updated: 2010-03-18 11:31:44
    MIPS Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: MIPS), a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for home entertainment, communications, networking and portable multimedia markets, and Digital Media Professionals Inc. (DMP), a leading provider of 3D/2D graphics cores for digital consumer, automotive, industrial, and entertainment applications, announced that DMP has become a member of the MIPS Alliance [...]

  • GE Intelligent Platforms IMP3A 3U CompactPCI Single Board Computer

    Updated: 2010-03-18 11:01:57
    GE Intelligent Platforms introduced the IMP3A, which is a 3U CompactPCI single board computer. The IMP3A SBC features the latest dual core QorIQ processor technology from Freescale. The IMP3A supports the QorIQ P2010 single core processor and the QorIQ P2020 dual core processor, operating at up to 1.2GHz. Both symmetric and asymmetric processing are supported, [...]

  • Energy Micro Develops Microcontroller with Cadence Low-Power Solution

    Updated: 2010-03-18 10:59:01
    Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS), the leader in global electronic design innovation, announced that Energy Micro, the energy friendly microcontroller company, deployed Cadence® Low-Power Solution, to develop a highly power efficient ARM Cortex M3-based microcontroller that significantly saves battery life. Read more: Energy Micro Develops Microcontroller with Cadence Low-Power Solution Twitter @edageek : : Free Journals [...]

  • Sigasi Announces HDT IDE for VHDL Eclipse Plugin

    Updated: 2010-03-18 00:02:54
    Sigasi, an EDA company focused on agile hardware design tools, announced that it will make Sigasi HDT, an Intelligent Development Environment (IDE) for VHDL, available as an Eclipse plugin. As of today, Sigasi HDT will be available in two versions: as a standalone application as before, and as an Eclipse plugin. A tool license includes [...]

  • SolidLogic JT01 Ultra-slim, Fanless Intel Atom Embedded System

    Updated: 2010-03-18 00:01:22
    The SolidLogic JT01 is an ultra-slim, fanless Intel Atom embedded system. The JT01 is housed in a ruggedized, small-footprint enclosure. It can be deployed in industrial environments, public access areas, or remote locations. The SolidLogic JT01 is available for pre-order with the Intel D945GSEJT (Johnstown) Mini-ITX mainboard and comes standard with mounting brackets, RAM, and [...]

  • Intel Xeon 5600 Series Embedded Processors

    Updated: 2010-03-17 15:28:21
    The new Intel Xeon Processor 5600 series feature four processors for embedded applications such as communications infrastructure and security servers, blades and appliances. The E5645, L5638, L5618 and E5620 processors offer temperature options for thermally constrained applications with 7-year lifecycle support for embedded systems. The Intel Xeon Processor 5600 processors will enable faster and more [...]

  • Advanced Circuits Expands by Acquiring Circuit Express

    Updated: 2010-03-17 11:38:30
    Advanced Circuits (ACI) announced the acquisition of Circuit Express (CEI) based in Tempe, AZ. With this acquisition, Advanced Circuits, an industry leader for many years in the commercial PCB arena, moves aggressively into the high-reliability, military/aerospace/defense, high-technology marketplace. The acquisition will enable Advanced Circuits and Circuit Express to further focus on their core competencies and [...]

  • Emerson Network Power ATCA-7365, ATCA-7367 AdvancedTCA Processor Blades

    Updated: 2010-03-17 11:02:58
    Emerson Network Power introduced the ATCA-7365 and ATCA-7367 AdvancedTCA (ATCA) server blades. The ATCA-7365 and ATCA-7367 feature the Intel Xeon processor 5600 series. Both blades can be configured with a variety of software offerings, from firmware-only to fully integrated and verified software operating environments, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4, Wind River PNE LE 3.0 [...]

  • RadiSys Procelerant RMS420-5520DT Supports Intel Xeon Processor 5600

    Updated: 2010-03-17 11:02:49
    RadiSys® Corporation (NASDAQ: RSYS), a leading global provider of application-ready software and hardware platforms, announced the release of its second-generation Procelerant[tm] RMS420-5520DT, a high-performance embedded server platform now available with the newly unveiled Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 series. RadiSys will now offer the RMS420-5520DT with the long-life quad-core Intel® Xeon® processor E5620 at 2.4 GHz [...]

  • Netronome NFP-3240 Network Flow Processors

    Updated: 2010-03-17 07:10:44
    Netronome rolled out the NFP-3240 network flow processor. The NFP-3240 processor is designed for tight coupling with multicore Intel processors to accelerate network, security and content processing to 40 and 100 Gbps. The NFP-32xx family is available in a range of price and performance options for 10, 40 and 100 Gbps designs. Configuration options span [...]

  • GE A10200 Single Board Computer Supports Intel Xeon Processor 5600

    Updated: 2010-03-17 00:01:17
    GE Intelligent Platforms announced that its recently-released A10200 AdvancedTCA® single board computer will now be offered with the option of the latest Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 series, formerly codenamed Westmere-EP and launched today by Intel. This innovative technology provides the dual processor A10200 with up to six cores and 12 Mbytes of L3 cache for [...]

  • Microchip MCP2200 USB-to-UART Protocol Converter

    Updated: 2010-03-16 17:27:50
    Microchip Technology introduced the MCP2200 USB-to-UART protocol converter. The MCP2200 is an out-of-the-box solution that makes it easy to add USB connectivity to embedded systems. By connecting the MCP2200 UART interface to any microcontroller UART peripheral, USB connectivity can be added. The MCP2200 includes 8 general-purpose I/O pins that can be controlled by the PC [...]

  • Beware using compressed air to clean computers

    Updated: 2010-03-16 06:05:57
    A word of warning re fans just in case you have never had the experience. If you are using canned compressed air, its no problem, BUT if (as I did) you are using an “proper” air compressor, there can be a problem. The first time I struck this I was doing an [...]

  • APRO BON Series Parallel ATA Solid State Drives

    Updated: 2010-03-16 00:06:13
    APRO, Taiwan’s leading manufacturer of industrial-grade NAND Flash storage devices, has extended its BON Series Solid State Drives (SSDs) with the addition of a range of Parallel ATA (PATA) SSDs. The new BON Series PATA SSDs utilise SLC (single level cell) NAND Flash technology and are available in a 2.5 inch form factor, rugged, metal-encased [...]

  • Analog Devices Unveils ADP2300, ADP2301 DC-to-DC Switching Regulators

    Updated: 2010-03-15 22:42:43
    Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI), a global leader in high-performance semiconductors for signal-processing applications, introduced the ADP2300 and ADP2301 dc-to-dc switching regulators, the most recent in their growing portfolio of integrated power management switching regulators. The new 20V 1.2A (amp) step-down, dc-to-dc switching regulators integrate a high-side MOSFET that delivers power conversion efficiencies greater than 90 [...]

  • Keeping Windows Vista Error Free

    Updated: 2010-03-13 06:28:35
    Microsoft introduced the Windows Vista operating system early last year, boasting of a whole new line of improvements and features. Vista is more advanced than its predecessors but this does not mean that it is exempted from system errors. It would be a good habit to carry out regular registry clean-ups [...]

  • Sonics Supports AMBA 4 Protocol

    Updated: 2010-03-12 00:02:58
    Sonics, Inc.®, announced that its on-chip communications solutions will support phase one of the new AMBA® 4 protocol unveiled this week by ARM. This ensures that chip designers who currently use the AMBA 3 specification will have an easy migration path to AMBA 4 products as design upgrades are rolled out. ARM indicates further enhancements [...]

  • slow network after removing malware and norton personal firewall

    Updated: 2010-03-10 06:56:31
    Continuing from my last post about norton personal firewall: I found that the internet was very slow. A broadband speed test showed that the internet was running slightly faster than dialup speeds (ie 100 to 300 Kbps (ADSL1 goes from 256Kbps to 1500Kbps). The PC next to this one, was measuring 3600Kbps, so it wasn’t my internet [...]

  • Emerson LPQ200-M Series AC-DC Power Supplies

    Updated: 2010-03-10 00:01:21
    Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson (NYSE:EMR) and the global leader in enabling Business-Critical Continuity[tm], announced a new series of compact 200 W open frame ac-dc power supplies featuring four adjustable outputs: the LPQ200-M series. With a 3 inch by 5 inch footprint and a height of 1.32 inches (less than 1U), LPQ200-M power [...]

  • Chipsbank Accelerates RTL Design with Cadence Incisive Xtreme III

    Updated: 2010-03-09 21:22:28
    Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS), the leader in global electronic design innovation, announced that Chipsbank Microelectronics Co., Ltd., a leading fabless IC design company based in Shenzhen, China, has adopted the Cadence® Incisive® Xtreme® III system to accelerate the RTL design process with a verification flow for its next-generation digital consumer and networking chips. Read [...]

  • APRO Unveils BON Series of SATA II 2.5-inch Rugged Solid State Drives

    Updated: 2010-03-09 00:37:24
    APRO, Taiwan’s leading manufacturer of industrial-grade NAND Flash storage devices, has launched the BON Series of high capacity and high performance Serial ATA II (SATA II) Solid State Drives (SSDs) in a ruggedised 2.5 inch form factor. The BON Series includes the highest capacity SATA II SLC (single level cell) NAND Flash SSD available at [...]

  • Analog Devices Debuts Lithium-Ion Battery Monitoring, Protection System

    Updated: 2010-03-08 00:31:29
    Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries are growing in popularity as energy storage reservoirs for high-voltage energy, industrial and automotive applications, such as wind turbines, photo-voltaic cells, and hybrid electric vehicles, and this has spurred demand for safer, higher performing battery monitoring and protection systems. Analog Devices, Inc. (NYSE: ADI), a global leader in high-performance semiconductors for signal-processing [...]

  • CMX Systems Debuts Secure Socket Layer and Transport Layer Security

    Updated: 2010-03-08 00:06:23
    CMX Systems, well-known designer of real-time operating systems, TCP/IP, Flash File Systems and USB software announces the availability of the SSL/TLS (Secure Socket Layer / Transport Layer Security) Add-On for CMX’s widely deployed, CMX-MicroNet[tm] and CMX-TCP/IP[tm] TCP/IP stacks. The SSL / TLS Add-On option provides SSL / TLS server and client support and a comprehensive [...]

  • HP A220a PC won’t start

    Updated: 2010-03-04 06:52:35
    I was working on a HP Pavillion A220a PC (removing an infection). I got to the point where I decided to stop for the day, and continue “tomorrow”. So, the next day, I go to start up the PC, and nothing happens. I look carefully, and I notice that if I plug in the power cord, it [...]

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