Portwell PCOM-B218VG Type VI Embedded System Board
American Portwell Technology introduced the PCOM-B218VG embedded system board. The PCOM-B218VG is a Type VI COM Express module that is ideal for medical devices, test equipment, industrial control, gaming machines, portable devices and COTS military. It features the Intel Atom processor N2000 and D2000 series, Intel NM10 Express chipset, integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600/3650 graphics engine, two Display Ports, up to 4GB of DDR3 SDRAM, two SATA, Fast Ethernet, and four PCI Express lanes.
ADLINK EOS-1200 Embedded Vision System
ADLINK Technology recently introduced their EOS-1200 embedded vision system. The EOS-1200 supports the second generation Intel Core i7 quad core processor and the IEEE 1588 precise time protocol. The embedded system features four independent gigabit power over Ethernet (PoE) ports, data transfer rates up to 4.0 Gb/s, four serial ports, two USB 3.0 ports, 32 PNP/NPN isolated digital I/Os, two SATA interface, CFAST slot, internal USB port, and 1 kbit programmable EEPROM. The EOS-1200 is available now. Prices start at $1885. The system is ideal for multi-camera imaging applications like factory automation and food and packaging inspection.
New Cadence Book: Advanced Verification Topics
Cadence Design Systems published a new book: Advanced Verification Topics. The 229-page book describes the latest techniques and methodologies for verifying today's most complex IP and systems on chips (SoCs). It discusses topics like metric-driven verification of digital and mixed-signal designs, low-power verification using the UVM, multi-language UVM, and acceleration for the UVM. The Cadence book is ideal for aid verification engineers. It builds on a prior Cadence book, A Practical Guide to Adopting the Universal Verification Methodology (UVM).
National Instruments Webinars: Optimize RF Measurements
National Instruments is offering a series of webinars on RF measurements. The webcasts will discuss the fundamentals of making RF measurements and focus on technique, best practices and increasing productivity with the industry's latest tools. Each of the RF Measurements online seminars will be webcast twice each day, at 10am and 2pm GMT (subtract five hours for eastern standard time). The NI webinars will take place in March. The webcasts will also be available on demand after the series is complete.
MIT Researchers Speed Up Fast Fourier Transform
A team of MIT researchers have developed a new algorithm that improves on the fast Fourier transform (FFT). The Fourier transform is a method for representing an irregular signal as a combination of pure frequencies. The new MIT algorithm is up to ten times faster than the traditional FFT algorithm. The MIT algorithm is useful for image compression and can enable smart phones to wirelessly transmit large video files without draining batteries or consuming monthly bandwidth allotments. The new MIT algorithm will be presented this week at the Association for Computing Machinery's Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA).
Bond Meister MWB-12-ST 300mm Wafer Bonding Machine Produces 3D LSI Circuits at Room Temperature
The Bond Meister MWB-12-ST, from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd (MHI), is the world's first fully automated 12-inch (300 millimeters) wafer bonding machine that can produce 3-dimensionally integrated LSI (large-scale integration) circuits at room temperature. The wafer bonding machine is able to undertake continuous bonding of up to five 12-inch wafers and can perform wafer transfer and alignment for automatic bonding. The HI system is also capable of preliminarily setting the bonding conditions for each wafer individually, to accommodate production of various types in small lots.
Xilinx Releases ISE Design Suite v13.4
Xilinx rolled out version 13.4 of their ISE Design Suite. ISE Design Suite 13.4 features public access to the MicroBlaze Micro Controller System (MCS), new RX Margin Analysis and debug capabilities for the 28nm 7 Series FPGAs and partial reconfiguration support for the Artix-7 family and Virtex-7 XT devices. ISE Design Suite v13.4 is available now for all ISE Editions. List prices start at $2,995 for the Logic Edition.
Cornell University Students Create Interesting FPGA Projects
Every year, the brilliant students at Cornell University work on some fabulous projects for their ECE 5760. The students were given the responsibility of choosing their project, then designing and building it. Projects were built using the Altera/Terasic DE2 Development and Education board. This year's projects include: prime number generator and RSA encrypter/decrypter, Conway's life synthesizer, hand video-tracking virtual piano and drums, finger video-tracking virtual string instrument, and hand video-tracking video game.
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