Jungo Software Technologies announced that its USB/PCI driver development toolkit, WinDriver, now supports the latest Windows Vista operating system. WinDriver developers can now port their existing drivers to Windows Vista without making any modifications to their driver code base. WinDriver 8.10 i...

Synopsys has completed the acquisition of Sigma-C Software AG, a Munich-based company providing simulation software that allows to develop and optimize process sequences for optical lithography, e-beam lithography and next-generation lithography (NGL) technologies. Synopsys acquired SIGMA-C in an al...

IAR Systems has announced a new version of its KickStart Kit that supports the Luminary Micro LM3S102, one of the Luminary Stellaris family of microcontrollers, which feature the ARM® Cortex-M3 32-bit microcontroller core. The KickStart Kit provides a route for MCU system developers to test-drive th...

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Analog Devices introduced two Class-D audio amplifiers. The SSM2301 (mono) and SSM2304 (stereo) devices operate at 85 percent efficiency over a wide range of output power levels. The SSM2301 delivers 1.4 W into an 8 ohm load, and the SSM2304 delivers 2 W of power into a 4 ohm load. Both devices oper...

AnalogicTech has introduced the AAT1142, a voltage-scaling step-down converter for portable applications. Supplying up to 800mA output current, the device is a voltage-scaling step-down converter to offer dynamic voltage management through both a two-wire I2C interface and AnalogicTech’s patented si...