
‘Eda Vendors’
An Electronicstalk guide
Start with the news release Atmel offers chipsets for 15in touchscreens from Atmel, which we summarised at the time by saying "Atmel has announced that it is shipping production quantities of the Atmel Maxtouch mXT1386 and mXT616 chipsets for large touchscreens up to 15in. ". Several months prior to that, we featured the news release Self-encrypting drive targets shared desktop PCs from Toshiba Storage Device Division: "Toshiba Storage Device Division (SDD) has launched the MKxx61GSYD, a 7,200rev/min 2.5in self-encrypting drive (SED) designed for commercial notebooks and security-sensitive applications. ".
In November 2010, we covered the news from Zytronic - take a look at Heavy-duty touchscreen for interactive displays which says: "Zytronic, with its systems integration partner JEA Technologies, has brought heavy-duty touchscreen functionality to its J-Vue interactive display units, for customer use in supermarkets and banks.".
Take a look also at the news release from Atmel, Immobiliser protocol stack for automotive market, as well as Texas Instruments introduces first 10GHz DSP from Texas Instruments, and Kontron develops packet processor for 4G networks from Kontron.
Latest stories...
Penta-band antenna is ground plane independent (October 2010)
Pulse has introduced a penta-band standalone antenna for applications such as point-of-sale terminals, credit-card readers, data loggers, automated meter readers (AMR) and industrial communications.
SynaptiCAD upgrades Waveformer Lite tool (August 2010)
SynaptiCAD has released an upgrade to Waveformer Lite, its entry-level tool for generating VHDL and Verilog test benches graphically from timing diagrams drawn by the user.
Two-channel audio analyser for production testing (June 2010)
Audio Precision, the recognised standard in audio test and measurement, has introduced the APx515, a two-channel audio analyser optimised for production testing applications.
PMC-Sierra launches pluggable GPON ONT design (June 2010)
PMC-Sierra's pluggable GPON optical network terminal (ONT) reference design can connect any customer premises equipment (CPE) equipped with a standard SFP port to a high-speed passive optical network.
Cadence integration platform enables SoC design (May 2010)
The Cadence Open Integration Platform enables design teams to deliver higher quality, optimised SoCs with lower realisation costs.
Datanova 4G antenna offers wireless connectivity (April 2010)
Antenova has announced its Datanova 4G high-performance nine-band antenna with LTE and GPS for the new generation of lightweight notebooks and netbooks.
Tektronix offers test modules for PCI Express 3.0 (April 2010)
The new Tektronix TLA7SA16 and TLA7SA08 modules provide a comprehensive test solution for PCI Express 3.0, spanning protocol to physical analysis.
Pentek 3U VPX boards support VITA 65 standard (April 2010)
Pentek has launched 14 products in its family of 3U VPX boards for data acquisition, software radio and digital signal processing.
Further reading
- In house estimation tools released to EDA vendors
Altera Corp is making its PELE pre-emphasis and equalisation link estimator technology available through its EDA partners.

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