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Updates to PCB design and data management software
9 November 2016, EDA Technologies
In the midst of record user growth, Altium has announced the upcoming release of new PCB design and data management technologies in Altium Designer 17 and Altium Vault 3.0. These new technologies will ...

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Silicon Labs enhances MCU and wireless design software
9 November 2016, NuVision Electronics
Silicon Labs released a major update of its award-winning Simplicity Studio software development tools. The new release represents a significant redesign of the software infrastructure, making the tools ...

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Environmental sensor kits
9 November 2016, NuVision Electronics
ams introduced two new evaluation kits intended for designers who wish to integrate a compact, low-power indoor air quality (IAQ) monitoring circuit into portable devices such as smartphones, wearables, ...

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Development platform for wearable sensing
9 November 2016, CST Electronics
Designers of health, wellness and high-end fitness applications can quickly and easily validate next-generation solutions with the ultra-small hSensor platform from Maxim Integrated Products. Creating ...

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Free IDE for STM32 microcontrollers
5 October 2016, Altron Arrow
Supporting the full range of STMicroelectronics’ STM32 microcontrollers and associated boards, the System Workbench toolchain SW4STM32 is a free multi-OS software development environment based on Eclipse. The ...

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ARM tools for IoT development
5 October 2016, NuVision Electronics
IAR Systems has expanded its wide range of supported microcontrollers (MCUs) in the complete development toolchain IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM. The updated support includes several MCUs based on ARM ...

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Alternatives to Gerber RS-274X
5 October 2016, EDA Technologies, Manufacturing / Production Technology, Hardware & Services
Gerber RS-274X is the de facto standard format for printed circuit board (PCB) design software, being utilised for fabricating about 90% of all PCBs designed today worldwide. Yet despite its popularity, ...

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Mentor expands PADS PCB design tools
7 September 2016
Mentor Graphics announced the latest additions to the PADS PCB Product Creation Platform. New analog/mixed-signal (AMS) and high-speed analysis products address engineering challenges associated with ...

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STM32 development board
7 September 2016, Altron Arrow
The STM32 Nucleo board provides an affordable and flexible way for users to try out new ideas and build prototypes with any STM32 microcontroller line from STMicroelectronics, choosing from the various ...

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Product data library expanded by RS
10 August 2016, RS South Africa
Roughly 605 000 documents have been added to RS Components’ product data library (PDL) database over the past six months, thereby enhancing customers’ ability to select the optimal product for their specific ...

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Altium update focused on documentation
13 July 2016, EDA Technologies
Altium announced the release of an update to its flagship PCB design platform, Altium Designer 16.1. With several new features that enhance design documentation and high-speed design workflows, the update ...

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GUI creation tool for MPLAB Harmony
13 July 2016, Altron Arrow
Microchip has unveiled MPLAB Harmony Graphics Composer (MHGC), a modern and flexible graphical user interface (GUI) composer tool. MHGC is a free development tool for developing GUIs for all PIC32 microcontrollers ...

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Software simplifies detection of human activity
13 July 2016, STMicroelectronics
STMicroelectronics has introduced three additions to its Open.MEMS portfolio of free and easy-to-use software libraries for the development of motion sensing applications. The new libraries allow designers ...

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IAR extends support for Renesas MCUs
13 July 2016, NuVision Electronics
IAR Systems has boosted its support for Renesas microcontrollers (MCU) with two updates to its Embedded Workbench integrated development environment (IDE). The first, an updated version of the compiler ...

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Inductor models for microwave simulation
13 July 2016, RF Design, Passive Components
Modelithics and Coilcraft have teamed up to develop two new Microwave Global Models for the Coilcraft BCL and BCR RF and microwave inductor families. Modelithics Microwave Global Models are high-accuracy ...

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Motor drive design kits
15 June 2016, Altron Arrow
Infineon Technologies launched its iMotion Modular Application Design Kit (MADK). The compact and flexible evaluation system provides a scalable design platform for 3-phase motor drives in the range from ...

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PCB design software gains voltage drop and cooling tools
15 June 2016, ASIC Design Services
Mentor Graphics announced a comprehensive product-creation platform based on PADS PCB software that enables individual engineers and small teams to solve the engineering challenges involved in creating ...

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Peregrine products added to X-Microwave simulation system
15 June 2016, RF Design, Test & Measurement
X-Microwave and Peregrine Semiconductor announced their collaboration and the addition of Peregrine’s RF products to X-Microwave’s online simulation tool and hardware prototyping system. X-Microwave’s ...

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Optimising PDNs can save design real estate and board layers – Part 2
18 May 2016, EDA Technologies
This is a continuation of an article, the first part of which ran in our previous issue.

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Free C compiler for STM8 microcontrollers
18 May 2016, STMicroelectronics
STMicroelectronics has extended incentives for designers to choose its STM8 microcontrollers for economical computing tasks in the smart devices that support modern work and life. The latest move by ST, ...

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