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Increasing Motor Efficiency with Power Modules using Power Factor Control
Maximizing the energy efficiency of a motor drive application using Classic and Interleaved Power Factor Control (PFC)
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April 18th 2011 - Electric motors account for 65 to 70 percent of industrial electrical energy consumption and approximately 57 percent of all electrical consumption worldwide. Therefore, Electronic designers of are now looking into maximizing the energy efficiency of a motor drive application using Power Factor Control (i.e. PFC). Utilizing an electronic drive to regulating the output speed of the motor for the mechanical load required, with the addition of Power Factor Control improves efficiency of the drive by correcting the out of phase voltage and current being used. Classic Power Factor Control (i.e. PFC) circuits used in many drive applications have been the single boost topology. Recently, Interleaved Power Factor has gained much interest in the drive community. Each of these types of PFC topologies has distinct benefits, which will be described in Vincotech’s article in further detail. As the industrial market looks to replace old inefficient motors, and new equipment manufactures try to make use of better variable speed motor solutions, high efficient drives will be the solution. Manufactures that offer motor drives with power factor control will be able to work with OEM customers meeting the needs of energy efficiency, low installation cost, and flexibility. For more information please see Vincotech’s article on Increasing Motor Efficiency with PFC: http://www.vincotech.com/news/articles/increasing-motor-efficiency-with-power-factor-control.html?campaign_id=PFC_MotorDrive About Vincotech: Vincotech, an independent operating unit within Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, is a market leader in power modules in development and manufacturing of high-quality electronic power components for Motion Control, and Renewable Energy applications. With some 500 employees worldwide, backed by vast experience and a long history in electronics integration, Vincotech leverages these assets to help customers attain maximum market success. For more information please see: www.vincotech.com Contact: Mark Steinmetz, Field Application Engineer, Vincotech Email: Mark.steinmetz[at]vincotech[dot]com, Tel: +1 815-451-4748 Distributed on behalf of Vincotech GmbH by NeonDrum news distribution service (http://www.neondrum.com) --Liz Hartney 2011-04-18 08:15:13
VS1063 - The World's Most Advanced MP3 Encoder and Audio Codec Chip
VLSI Solution announces today VS1063, MP3 Encoder / Decoder Chip with Unsurpassed Feature List.
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Tampere, Finland, 15th April 2011 - VLSI Solution announces today VS1063, the world's most advanced audio codec chip. The VS1063 IC can encode an unforeseen multitude of audio formats, from MP3 and OggVorbis to G.711 u-law, G.711 A-law, G.722 and 16-bit PCM. The proprietary MP3 and OggVorbis encoders have been carefully tuned for highest possible audio fidelity for high-quality audio streaming or recording. VS1063 can play back MP2, MP3, WMA, OGG, LC-AAC, HC-AAC, FLAC, IMA, G.711 u-law, G.711 a-law, G.722 and WAV PCM formats, making it very suitable for hi-fi audio playback and streaming applications. VS1063 also offers a full-duplex codec mode with optional Acoustic Echo Cancellation. The codec mode makes it possible to create real-time full duplex audio for voice applications like internet phones and two-way audio radio links. VS1063 provides many built-in sound effects, including a bass enhancer and treble control, a 5-band equalizer, a speed shifter and VLSI Solution's proprietary EarSpeaker room processing. It is also possible to insert PCM sound effects or audio from a stereo analog input on top of playback audio. To make VS1063 even more versatile, it has 16 KiB of program RAM for custom applications. Combined with an interface with VLSI Solution's Integrated Development Environment VSIDE, the platform offers almost endless customization options. All these features, combined with CD-quality Analog-to-Digital and Digital-to-Analog signal path performance, make VS1063 the first choice for a wide range of consumer and industrial applications. VS1063 is offered in LQFP-48 7x7x1.4 RoHS compatible package. It is pin-compatible with VLSI Solution's popular integrated circuit VS1053b. The VS1063 Datasheet, which is the first part of a three-part documentation package, is available at VLSI Solution for download at http://www.vlsi.fi/en/support/download.html. The other two parts, VS1063 Hardware Guide and VS1063 Programmer's Guide, will be available in May 2011. VS1063 engineering samples are expected to be available in June 2011, followed by mass production devices in September 2011. About VLSI Solution VLSI Solution is an innovative new technology creator that designs and manufactures integrated circuits. Within its 20-year existence VLSI has built an extensive in-house IP library and has the capability to pull through complicated mixed-signal IC projects, ranging from digital audio to RF applications. Contact: Mr.HenrikHerranen email: Henrik.Herranen[at]vlsi[dot]fi tel: +35 8331408225 http://www.vlsi.fi/ Distributed on behalf of VLSI Solution by NeonDrum news distribution service (http://www.neondrum.com) --Liz Hartney 2011-04-15 09:31:14
Innovative power module topologies for highly efficient solar inverter applications
Efficiency improvement by paralleling MOSFET with IGBT in solar inverter applications inclusive reactive power capability
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April 15th 2011 - New power conversion products are nowadays developed focussing on highest efficiency especially for solar inverter applications. An economic utilization is achieved by using advanced power module technologies. Dedicated for solar applications, power module topologies with paralleled MOSFETs and IGBTs secure efficiency improvements. Vincotech’s paper, which is now available online, describes some power module topologies achieving such enhancements in efficiency: - Solutions for single-phase transformerless solar inverter topologies - Solutions for three-phase transformer based solar inverter topologies with reactive power capability By paralleling the MOSFET and IGBT, it is possible to achieve a nearly constant efficiency at the highest level. The exploitation of this well-known paralleling technology was hindered by the complexity of semiconductor technology selection criteria, gate drive technologies, and the dependency of the results on layout, causing parasitic stray inductances of discrete devices. Using this advanced power module technology, the utilization is now more economical. The power modules which are supporting this idea are available as a standard product or they can be defined as customized components. The future approach of reactive power capabilities is already incorporated. For more information please see: http://www.vincotech.com/news/articles/innovative-topologies-for-high-efficient-solar-applications.html?campaign_id=Solar_Topologies About Vincotech: Vincotech, an independent operating unit within Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, is a market leader in power modules in development and manufacturing of high-quality electronic power components for Motion Control, and Renewable Energy applications. With some 500 employees worldwide, backed by vast experience and a long history in electronics integration, Vincotech leverages these assets to help customers attain maximum market success. For more information please see: www.vincotech.com Contact: Michael Frisch, Product Marketing Manager Vincotech GmbH Email :Michael.frisch[at]vincotech[dot]com Tel : +49 89 878067-142 Distributed on behalf of Vincotech GmbH by NeonDrum news distribution service (http://www.neondrum.com) --Liz Hartney 2011-04-15 07:04:08
NEW:UK 2011 – the UKs key trade event for the embedded and electronics industry opens its doors ne
With only a week to go the team at New Events are looking forward to a great show, with a wide variety of exhibitors, new products and services, competitions, workshops, seminars and much more.
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April 6th 2011 - Alongside The Gadget Show Live in 2011, National Electronics Week 2011 (12th - 13th April, NEC, Birmingham) will highlight the connection between today’s most wanted consumer electronics and the UK’s electronics industry, innovation, R&D and the supply-chain behind the best tech on display. Commenting on the upcoming NEW:UK event, Claire Saunders – Event Director said “Over the last few months when speaking to our customers you can tell that there is a more upbeat, positive feeling from where we were this time last year. Our supporting exhibitors have worked very hard on promoting their presence as NEW:UK 2011 and this is showing with our pre-registration figures, they are higher than we have seen previously so we are very confident and look forward to a great event.” “We are very pleased that the NEW:UK event is finally shaping up to what we wanted to achieve for the UK arena and they seem to be liking it, the UK deserves a strong event to champion this industry – if it can be done in Europe then why don’t the UK pull together and make it happen here? I have to thank our exhibitors for all of their support and to our NEW:UK Committee who have been extremely active in promoting this event.” The first 5000 qualified pre-registered visitors for NEW:UK - www.new-expo.co.uk/register - will have a unique opportunity to attend the Gadget Show Live on the trade and press day 10:00 – 16:00 12th April 2011. Dates for the 2012 event have already been announced and NEW:UK 2012 will sit along other manufacturing events at the NEC from 17th – 18th April 2012 - Ends – National Electronics Week - If you thought you knew what NEW UK represented you need to take another look. We shine the spotlight on sectors such as embedded systems and software, rapid prototyping, component manufacturing, component distribution, power supplies, capital equipment, PCB equipment manufacturers and services and board manufacturers plus many more. If you are a involved in the UK electronics industry then NEW UK is the show you must be at. Contact: Claire Saunders, Email: claire[at]neweventsltd[dot]com, Tel: 01483 420 229 Distributed on behalf of New Events Ltd by NeonDrum news distribution service (http://www.neondrum.com) --Liz Hartney 2011-04-06 09:08:07
HDL Design House Adopts Magma’s Full Suite of Software to Accelerate SoC and IP Development
With Magma as its primary EDA vendor, HDL Design House will now be able to provide its clients with complete mixed-signal system on chip (SoC) design services, and be able to augment their current family of soft digital IP cores with analog IP.
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SAN JOSE, Calif., March 31, 2011 – Magma Design Automation Inc. (Nasdaq: LAVA), a provider of chip design software, and HDL Design House, creators of re-usable IP cores, verification components and behavioral simulation models, today announced that HDL Design House has adopted the full suite of Magma chip design software, including the Talus® digital IC implementation system and the Titan™ mixed-signal design platform. With Magma as its primary EDA vendor, HDL Design House will now be able to provide its clients with complete mixed-signal system on chip (SoC) design services, and be able to augment their current family of soft digital IP cores with analog IP. Its proven technology leadership was crucial in HDL Design House’s decision to standardize on Magma’s digital and analog implementation, simulation, verification and characterization software. “Our customers range from small start-up companies to multi-national corporations in the semiconductor, wireless and medical industries and have varying design requirements,” said PredragMarkovic, president and CEO, HDL Design House. “With Magma’s full suite of design software, we can accelerate the delivery of our portfolio of design IP, and meet our customers’ varying requirements with a combination of world class expertise in, and best-in-class tools for, digital and analog design, verification and characterization.” “Magma offers a broad portfolio of leading-edge technology that solves designers’ toughest problems,” said PremalBuch, general manager of Magma’s Design Implementation Business Unit. “By providing advanced capabilities, fast performance and high levels of automation, Magma provides HDL Design House with comprehensive solutions that deliver outstanding quality of results and faster turnaround time.” Magma: “Fastest Path to Silicon”™ Offering a truly integrated IC design system and highly automated flow, Magma provides designers with the "Fastest Path to Silicon." The Talus digital implementation system combines traditionally separate front-end and back-end chip design into an integrated flow that's designed to eliminate iterations between the synthesis and place-and-route processes, accelerate the design cycle and reduce IC development costs. The Titan environment includes the comprehensive Titan Mixed-Signal Design Platform, and the Titan Accelerators, a set of breakthrough point-tool technologies that integrate with and augment existing analog/mixed-signal design flows. The Titan Accelerators provide unique capabilities that dramatically improve analog design productivity, and enable true analog design reuse. Unlike legacy flows, the Titan Accelerators are next-generation design technologies that provide capabilities for rapidly designing, analyzing and optimizing circuit designs and layouts, and implementing them in today’s advanced process geometries. The Titan Mixed-Signal Design Platform tightly integrates mixed-signal implementation with digital implementation, circuit simulation, transistor-level extraction and verification – providing a quantum leap in efficiency and productivity for analog designers. About HDL Design House The HDL Design House delivers digital and analog, design and verification services, backend services and products in numerous areas of SoC and complex FPGA designs. The company also develops analog and digital IP cores and component (VITAL) models for major SoC product developers. HDL Design House was founded in 2001 and currently employs 60 engineers. HDL Design House was awarded ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 27001:2005 certifications in December 2006/2009 and has achieved certifications from Direct Assessment Services (DAS). Visit HDL Design House on the Web at www.hdl-dh.com. About Magma Top semiconductor makers worldwide use Magma’s electronic design automation (EDA) software to produce chips for electronic applications including tablet computing devices, mobile devices such as smartphones, electronic games, digital video, networking, military/aerospace and memory. Magma products provide the "Fastest Path to Silicon”™ and include software for digital design, analog implementation, mixed-signal design, physical verification, circuit simulation, characterization and yield management. The company maintains headquarters in San Jose, Calif., and offices throughout North America, Europe, Japan, Asia and India. Magma's stock trades on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol LAVA. Follow Magma on Twitter at www.Twitter.com/MagmaEDA and on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/Magma. Visit Magma Design Automation on the Web at www.magma-da.com ### Magma and Talus are registered trademarks, and Titan and “Fastest Path to Silicon” are trademarks of Magma Design Automation Inc. All other product and company names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Forward-looking statements: Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters set forth in this press release including statements that Magma software provides better results, faster turnaround time and reduces development time, and that it will accelerate the delivery of HDL Design House’s IP are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the “safe harbor” provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially, including but not limited to Magma’s ability to keep pace with rapidly changing technology and the company’s products’ abilities to produce desired results and HDL Design House’s decision to continue using the Magma software. Further discussion of these and other potential risk factors may be found in Magma's public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (www.sec.gov). Magma undertakes no additional obligation to update these forward-looking statements. Contacts: Monica Marmie Director, Corporate Marketing Magma Design Automation (408) 565-7689 mmarmie[at]magma-da[dot]com Lloyd Pople Magma Press Relations, Europe EvokedSet +44 7714 765 607 lloyd[at]evokedset[dot]com Distributed on behalf of EvokedSet by NeonDrum news distribution service (http://www.neondrum.com) --Liz Hartney 2011-03-31 10:31:27
Magma announces Excalibur-Litho fab analysis framework
A complete fab analysis framework that supports the development and monitoring of advanced lithography solutions.
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SAN JOSE, Calif., March 30, 2011 - Magma® Design Automation Inc. (Nasdaq: LAVA), a provider of chip design software, today announced Excalibur-Litho™, a complete fab analysis framework that supports the development and monitoring of advanced lithography solutions. Excalibur-Litho is the first system to efficiently integrate design and real-time data from the semiconductor manufacturing floor, including defectivity, metrology and tool history, enabling an unmatched level of data analysis, monitoring and process control. Excalibur-Litho optimizes yield ramps with built-in solutions for litho qualification through the proprietary coupling of design-based binning, electrical cross mapping, and fab-wide data correlation. This enables unprecedented defect isolation and root cause analysis. “Excalibur-Litho is based on a proven fab analysis framework that provides comprehensive examination of inline lithography-based defects,” said AnkushOberai, general manager and vice president of Magma’s Fab Analysis Business Unit. “By leveraging a proven infrastructure that has access to both design and fab data, Excalibur-Litho turns data into knowledge, accelerating lithography-based process improvement.” Magma and Applied Materials, Inc. announced on Feb. 28 a collaborative effort to integrate Magma’s CAD-based navigation and yield analysis software, which includes Excalibur-Litho, with Applied Materials’ advanced inspection tools, such as the Applied UVision™ 4 system. “This unique combination of design and manufacturing tools has accelerated lithography qualification and enabled quicker yield ramp at multiple customers for the development and production of advanced technology nodes,” said ErezParan, manager, Integrated Solutions for Applied Materials’ Process Diagnostics and Control business unit. Excalibur-Litho: From Data to Knowledge Excalibur-Litho collects and organizes data from the manufacturing process, including defectivity, metrology, electrical tools and manufacturing execution system (MES) data. Wafer information is stacked and easily cross-mapped to any one of the layout, schematic or netlist design representations for easy analysis. Excalibur-Litho is built on a revolutionary open-architecture database developed by Magma that enables safe and secured CAD access and easy fab integration. This open architecture also ensures interoperability with most inspection tools and yield analysis databases. About Magma Top semiconductor makers worldwide use Magma’s electronic design automation (EDA) software to produce chips for electronic applications including tablet computing devices, mobile devices such as smartphones, electronic games, digital video, networking, military/aerospace and memory. Magma products provide the "Fastest Path to Silicon”™ and include software for digital design, analog implementation, mixed-signal design, physical verification, circuit simulation, characterization and yield management. The company maintains headquarters in San Jose, Calif., and offices throughout North America, Europe, Japan, Asia and India. Magma's stock trades on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol LAVA. Follow Magma on Twitter at www.Twitter.com/MagmaEDA and on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/Magma. Visit Magma Design Automation on the Web at www.magma-da.com ### Magma is a registered trademark and Excalibur-Litho and “Fastest Path to Silicon” are trademarks of Magma Design Automation. All other product and company names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Forward-Looking Statements: Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters set forth in this press release, including statements that Excalibur-Litho accelerates yield ramp, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially including, but not limited to Magma’s ability to keep pace with rapidly changing technology and the company’s products’ abilities to produce desired results. Further discussion of these and other potential risk factors may be found in Magma's public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (www.sec.gov). Magma undertakes no additional obligation to update these forward-looking statements. Contact: Magma Design Automation Inc. Monica Marmie Director, Corporate Marketing (408) 565-7689 mmarmie[at]magma-da[dot]com Europe PR Contact for Magma: Lloyd Pople lloyd[at]evokedset[dot]com +44 (0)7714 765 607 Distributed on behalf of EvokedSet by NeonDrum news distribution service (http://www.neondrum.com) --Liz Hartney 2011-03-30 09:48:26
Advantages of NPC inverter topologies with power modules
Higher power module efficiency using neutral point clamped topologies
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March 30th 2011 - Efficiency is becoming increasingly important in power electronics. Many applications are driven by the initiatives for reduced energy consumption. The technology leaders are inverter applications in the solar market, but also uninterruptible power supplies and motor drives have new targets for improved efficiency. Vincotech’s article about Neutral Point Clamped (NPC) Technologies shows alternatives for 3~ inverters with 700V DC-link voltage. The NPC topology offers advantages such as reduced switching losses, smaller output current ripple, and total +/- supply voltage is split. Only half of the voltage has to be switched, and this also cuts the switching losses in the transistor by half. In the shown NPC topology, it is possible to use 600V components instead of 1200V types. On top of that, in the 600V technology much faster components are available than in 1200V. This will lead to further reduction of the switching losses. The Neutral Point Clamped topology will have lower ripple in the output current and half of the output voltage transient. This will reduce the effort for filtering and isolation in the filter inductor. The DC voltage is divided into a positive and negative voltage, which supports the serial connection of DC capacitors without the need for leakage current compensation. This article about the NPC Technologies provides a comparison of two different 3-level topologies and a standard 3-phase bridge. It will show that neutral point clamped technologies, which are even more cost effective, can achieve an efficiency of 98.04% compared to 96.65% of the standard 3-phase bridge. Please see the article about NPC Inverter Topologies: http://www.vincotech.com/nc/news/articles/npc-inverter-topologies.html?campaign_id=NPC_Article For more information on Vincotech's Products please see: http://www.vincotech.com/products/by-topologies.html?campaign_id=NPC_Article About Vincotech: Vincotech, an independent operating unit within Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, is a market leader in power modules in development and manufacturing of high-quality electronic power components for Motion Control, and Renewable Energy applications. With some 500 employees worldwide, backed by vast experience and a long history in electronics integration, Vincotech leverages these assets to help customers attain maximum market success. For more information please see: www.vincotech.com?campaign_id=NPC_Article Contact: Michael Frisch, Email: michael.frisch[at]vincotech[dot]com Tel.: +49 89 8780 67-142 Distributed on behalf of Vincotech GmbH by NeonDrum news distribution service (http://www.neondrum.com) --Liz Hartney 2011-03-30 04:46:42
iWatt Selects Magma’s Titan to Automate Analog Design of Power Supply Control ICs
Titan Shape-Based Router for mixed-signal designs reduces routing time from 2 weeks to 2 days
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SAN JOSE and LOS GATOS, Calif., March 28, 2011 - Magma® Design Automation Inc. (Nasdaq: LAVA), a provider of chip design software, today announced iWatt has adopted the Titan™ platform to improve analog design and layout productivity, and to automate difficult routing tasks including analog cell layouts and chip-level assembly. iWatt, a developer of energy-efficient digital power supply control integrated circuits (ICs) used in leading-edge power supplies, adopted Titan based on results of an extensive evaluation in which Titan enabled iWatt’s designers to set up and route a design in just 2 days – an effort that would have taken more than 2 weeks to do manually. “iWatt’s mission is to exceed our customers’ expectations with best-in-class products and services throughout the solutions life cycle,” said. X. Jin, Ph.D., vice president of Engineering at iWatt. “One of the ways we do that is to utilize innovative technology – such as Magma’s Titan – that shorten the analog design process and reduce power and area requirements.” “To enable analog designers to deliver the required combination of efficiency, productivity and innovation needed for today’s ICs, the analog design process must be accelerated and automated,” said AnirudhDevgan, general manager of Magma’s Custom Design Business Unit. “By making analog routing fast, predictable and repeatable, Titan improves routing productivity by a factor of 10, allowing designers to achieve their time-to-market and performance goals. Titan should help iWatt solidify its position as one of the most innovative power IC companies in the world.” Titan: Accelerating Analog Design Magma’s mixed-signal SoC design environment includes the comprehensive Titan Mixed-Signal Design Platform and the Titan Accelerators. The Titan Mixed-Signal Platform is the industry's first true mixed-signal design platform. It integrates implementation and verification while delivering first-time-correct, predictable mixed-signal designs. The Titan mixed-signal platform includes user-friendly full-custom schematic and layout editors, an analog simulation environment and correct-by-design schematic-driven layout. Titan Accelerators are advanced technology solutions that dramatically improve analog/mixed-signal design productivity and reuse. Titan Analog Design Accelerator (Titan ADX) is a model-based analog design and optimization tool that enables analog design reuse. ADX creates new designs from Magma’s library of FlexCell building blocks, and makes existing designs reusable as FlexCell models. Titan Analog Virtual Prototyper (Titan AVP) is a layout-aware schematic design tool that performs simultaneous electrical and physical co-design for rapid schematic-to-layout convergence. Titan Analog Layout Accelerator (Titan ALX) automates migration of analog cell layouts to new process technologies while preserving design intent. Titan Shape-Based Router (Titan SBR) automates difficult routing tasks improving routing productivity by a factor of 10. About iWatt, Inc. iWatt, Inc. is a power control IC company that designs, develops and markets semiconductor products for the communication and consumer market segments. The company's patented digital control expertise raises the bar in power supply price/performance metrics. iWatt is currently working with market leaders in the communications, flat panel display, and consumer electronics markets to develop high-density, high-value AC-DC and DC-DC power supplies. iWatt is backed by VantagePoint Venture Partners and Sigma Partners, two leading CleanTech investors, and Horizon Ventures. The Company’s Silicon Valley headquarters is located in Los Gatos, CA with additional offices in Taipei, Taiwan; Seoul, Korea; Tokyo, Japan; Shenzhen, China; and Hong Kong. For more information, visit www.iwatt.com or call (408) 374-4200. About Magma Top semiconductor makers worldwide use Magma’s electronic design automation (EDA) software to produce chips for electronic applications including tablet computing devices, mobile devices such as smartphones, electronic games, digital video, networking, military/aerospace and memory. Magma products provide the "Fastest Path to Silicon”™ and include software for digital design, analog implementation, mixed-signal design, physical verification, circuit simulation, characterization and yield management. The company maintains headquarters in San Jose, Calif., and offices throughout North America, Europe, Japan, Asia and India. Magma's stock trades on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol LAVA. Follow Magma on Twitter at www.Twitter.com/MagmaEDA and on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/Magma. Visit Magma Design Automation on the Web at www.magma-da.com. ### Magma is a registered trademark and Titan and “Fastest Path to Silicon” are trademarks of Magma Design Automation Inc. All other product and company names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Forward-looking Statements: Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters set forth in this press release, including statements that Titan delivers a 10x improvement in routing productivity and about the features and benefits of Magma and iWatt products, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the “safe harbor” provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially including but not limited to the ability of Magma’s products to produce the desired results and the company’s ability to keep pace with rapidly changing technology. Further discussion of these and other potential risk factors may be found in Magma's public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (www.sec.gov). The company undertakes no additional obligation to update these forward-looking statements. Contacts: Magma Design Automation Monica Marmie Director, Corporate Marketing (408) 565-7689 mmarmie[at]magma-da[dot]com iWatt Sal Sestito (408) 628-6510 ssestito[at]iwatt[dot]com Michelle Moody Moody & Associates (214) 363-3460 michelle[at]moodypr[dot]com Europe PR Contact for Magma: Lloyd Pople lloyd[at]evokedset[dot]com +44 (0)7714 765 607 Distributed on behalf of EvokedSet by NeonDrum news distribution service (http://www.neondrum.com) --Liz Hartney 2011-03-28 09:32:51
NEW:UK 2011 - NEC Birmingham announce latest feature
The Electronics Sensor and Photonics Knowledge Transfer Network will be running a brokerage facility at NEW UK next month, allowing visitors and exhibitors alike to pre-arrange meetings and introductions to new business contacts.
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March 23rd 2011 - The Electronics, Sensors and Photonics Knowledge Transfer Network (https://ktn.innovateuk.org/web/espktn) will be running a brokerage facility at NEW UK next month, allowing visitors and exhibitors alike to pre-arrange meetings and introductions to new business contacts. Commenting on the latest feature to NEW UK Claire Saunders – Event Director comments “We are very pleased to be able to offer this brokerage facility to our audience over the two days of the exhibition. Delegates will be able to maximize their networking opportunities by taking advantage of this meeting brokerage facility. The online brokerage tool allows them to pre-arrange meetings and introductions to new business contacts who will be exhibiting at, or visiting, the show. The dedicated meeting area at the show will provide a convenient and comfortable space in which to conduct these meetings." She added “Exhibitions are an ideal platform to meet companies, strengthen existing relationships and to source new products and services to improve work techniques. This area will, I hope, encourage companies to let their staff out of their facilities and attend a business event which will offer them a good return on their investment – their time” Ashley Evans, Chief Executive, Electronics KTN reminded attendees “Pre-booking is essential. Please register your interest on our brokerage site today www.etn-uk.com/new.aspx as meeting slots are limited and will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis. We look forward to working with you over the two days of NEW UK 2011.” For more information on NEW UK please visit www.new-expo.co.uk or call the team on +44 1483 420 229 or to register for the brokerage sessions visit www.etn-uk.com/new.aspx ENDS National Electronics Week - If you thought you knew what NEW UK represented you need to take another look. We shine the spotlight on sectors such as embedded systems and software, rapid prototyping, component manufacturing, component distribution, power supplies, capital equipment, PCB equipment manufacturers and services and board manufacturers plus many more. If you are involved in the UK electronics industry then NEW UK is the show you must not miss. NEW:UK 2011 is sponsored by ARM. ESP-KTN - The Electronics Technology Network is an independent company, not for profit, limited by guarantee, funded by industry and government. We are responsible for running the Electronics Knowledge Centre within the ESP KTN. Our Board of Directors is made up from leading industrialists, who are supported by advisors from EPSRC, BIS, the Technology Strategy Board, UK Electronics Alliance and UK Trade & Investment. The Executive team is located in Cambridge, and Glasgow, with registered offices in London, and we operate in a "virtual" environment. You can find us at https://ktn.innovateuk.org/web/electronics. Event Contact: Claire Saunders, claire[at]new-expo[dot]co.uk Tel: 01483 420229 Distributed on behalf of New Events Ltd by NeonDrum news distribution service (http://www.neondrum.com) --Liz Hartney 2011-03-23 09:49:55
MeshliumXtreme connects sensor networks to the Internet
Libelium releases MeshliumXtreme - the first multi-protocol wireless router - offering a powerful bridge between ZigBee sensor networks and the Internet
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Zaragoza, Spain – March 16th, 2011 – Libelium, a technology leader in wireless sensor networks, announces the launch of the MeshliumXtreme multi-protocol router. The product uniquely supports 5 wireless standards - WiFi, ZigBee, GPRS, Bluetooth and GPS – as well as wireline Ethernet giving a wide choice of methods for connecting wireless sensor networks to the Internet. It also supports the storage of the sensor data in its internal database system as well as with external Internet servers. Libelium’s CTO, David Gascón, says “MeshliumXtreme delivers a completely flexible gateway to the Internet for operators of ZigBee sensor networks”. He adds, “This flexibility comes through a choice of three Internet connections including Ethernet and GPRS and two storage options in data base servers. In addition, SMS alarms can be sent in real time to mobile phones using the GSM mobile phone network”. The WiFi Mesh radio and antennas can work at both 2.4GHz (802.11b/g) and 5GHz (802.11a), so it is possible to change the WiFi radio frequency dynamically without any physical changes to the router itself. Meshlium clients can use the WiFi AP radio both to access internally-stored sensor data and as an access point for the Internet. The Bluetooth module includes a "discover and store" application, which allows Meshlium to scan and store the MAC addresses of users in a database in order to track their routes. For mobile applications, a GPS module enables real time location by providing parameters such as latitude, longitude and speed in real time. The product is supplied with an aluminium IP67 waterproof enclosure which makes it suitable for any kind of outdoor deployment including those with harsh environments. Special holders enable MeshliumXtremeto be installed on streetlights and in vehicles - where a car battery adaptor supplies the router with power. When deploying in outdoor scenarios, where there is not an electric power source, a solar panel kit works supplies the necessary power. MeshliumXtreme includes the Manager System, an open source web application, which provides a user-friendly interface to all wireless connections (WiFi, ZigBee, Bluetooth, GPRS) as well as to the network status and the data base storage system. ”All of these features enable Meshlium to be used out of the box” explains Libelium's CTO David Gascón. The product runs a Linux system based on Debian with the package system available. Developers can easily use this to install any library (python, java, php, etc) and service (e.g. apache, ftp, mail) that they need in order to extend MeshliumXtreme to meet the needs of their applications. The router’s modular architecture enables different combinations of the radio modules to be used depending on the end application. Customers may choose from 10 different configurations enabling them to order the product that best matches their radio requirements. MeshliumXtreme is CE and FCC certified and is ideally suited to be the gateway for wireless sensor networks implemented with Libelium’s award-winning Waspmote platform. Libelium will show its MeshliumXtreme and Waspmote products in Booth #3884 at the CTIA Wireless 2011 running from 22-24 March 2011 in Orlando, Florida, USA. About MeshliumXtreme MeshliumXtreme is a modular, wireless, multiprotocol, mesh, outdoor router running Linux. It uniquely combines five wireless technologies - WiFi, ZigBee, GPRS, Bluetooth and GPS – as well as wireline Ethernet. The router provides wireless sensor networks a ZigBee gateway to the Internet and enables the storage of sensor data in both internal and external data base systems. In addition, SMS alarms can be sent in real time to mobile phones using the GSM mobile phone network. It comes with an aluminium IP67 case which makes it suitable for outdoor harsh environments. For more information visit http://www.libelium.com/meshlium About Waspmote Waspmote is a modular platform for building wireless sensor networks. The platform comprises: the Waspmote board with microcontroller, memory, battery, accelerometer and sockets for add-on modules; open source API and compiler; a range of ZigBee wireless communication modules offering a choice of protocol versions, radio frequency and range (up to 12 km); wireless modules supporting Bluetooth, GPRS, GPS; and a wide variety of sensor boards enabling the measurement of gases, physical events, agricultural & smart metering parameters; and outstanding power management - an unprecedented 0.7 microamperes is required in hibernate mode. Waspmote is CE, FCC and IC certified. For Waspmote platform details visit http://www.libelium.com/waspmote About Libelium Libelium designs and manufactures hardware and communication protocols for wireless sensor networks. The product portfolio consists of the Waspmote low power platform for creating wireless sensor networks; the Meshlium multi-tech router integrating WiFi mesh (2.4GHz - 5GHz), ZigBee, GPRS, GPS and Bluetooth technologies The company was founded in 2006, is privately held and is based at the European Business and Innovation Centre CEEIARAGON, Zaragoza, Spain. For more information call +34 976 54 74 92 or visit http://www.libelium.com Press Contact David Gascón CTO Libelium Tel: +34 976 54 74 92 e-mail: d.gascon[at]libelium[dot]com Distributed on behalf of Libelium by NeonDrum news distribution service (http://www.neondrum.com) --Liz Hartney 2011-03-16 06:22:58