Reference Design Last update: 15 Jun 2016
Daily Top Stories
STM32Cube dev platform supports STM32 F2 120MHz MCUs
BCM97428GN reference design from Broadcom gets MoCA 2.0 certified
SafeAssure kit, a dev platform for industrial electronics safety assurance
Wi-Fi Cloud Kit for designing IoT
Freescale Kinetis based VoIP MCU design from Arcturus
Latest version of PowerVR Graphics SDK v3.2 made available
Mindspeed’ Transcede SoC powered Small cell reference design supports Trillium software
Lattice' power management IC selected by Netezza
Certified touch interface reference design for NVIDIA's Tegra 3 for tablets
Atmel and Arduino are collaborating to offer embedded boards for prototyping
Reference design for delivering advanced communication services over low-cost packet n/ws
TI offering collection of power supply reference designs in its PoweLab library
Microelectronic Relay designers manual from IR to simplify design
IDT partners with Fudan in delivering smart meter reference design
Mentor Graphics adds learning material on UVM/OVM of chip design
IOsemi selects s Berkeley Design Automation Analog FastSPICE Platform
Japan tremors and tsunami will pass through the global semiconductor industry
Tablet PC reference design based on Atmel's touch and NVIDIA's processor chips
CSR integrate its wireless platform onto Infineon's cellular reference designs
Freescale and Cirrus team up to provide turnkey reference design for digital utility meter market
Microchip ships its one millionth development tool
Microchip and Cymbet jointly develop energy harvesting development kit
Ref Designs for routers/switches using multicore processors and CAM memory
LED lamp reference design cookbook from TI to speed up LED lighting designs
65-nm low power Reference Flow 4.0 design from Cadence to SMIC
Intrinsyc's Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3 with CerfBoard 270 reference designs
Entropic and ViXS Systems joined to develop MoCA enabled, NAS reference design
Ready reference design for residential-gateway middleware from Jungo and Broadlight
Whitepaper on improving HDTV picture quality by preserving chroma integrity
Synopsys optimized reference implementation methodology for ARM Processor-based Designs
Feed reference design along with chips to Chinese OEMs for long-term gain
Realtek displays wireless audio-video reference design at CES
Security tools for any unauthorized data transfer through USB flash driver
Cypress sharpens focus on PSOC and gets away from PC clock business by selling it to Spectra Linear.
New Products
LTE Advanced and 5G CPRI v6.1 Switch Reference Design by eASIC and Comcores
Bluetooth remote control ref design supports touch mems, and microphone I/ps
IO-Link master reference design for factory automation sys
Security camera reference design for quick wake from sleepmode
Evaluation board supports Melexis' magnetic sensor IC
New MoCA 2.0 reference designs by Entropic
CSR to hardware-support ARM's IoT specific mbed OS
Reference Design Kit from Ambarella wearable police and security cameras
LED street light circuit reference design from PI
Logic PD enables adding wireless IoT feature to your present system
64-bit Opteron A1100-series developer kit from AMD
HD video streaming kit for IOT market
ARM processor based DSP lab kit for audio sys design
IOT Controller ADK with software from GainSpan
Development platform for digital-lighting design
32-bit ARM Cortex M0 microcontroller based 'Arduino Zero' board
A reference design for generating programmable analog output from PLC
IDE and board for QuickLogic's low power sensor hub
MCU kit for resolver-to-digital conversion
Full HD video app kit for IoT
Kit for developing audio/video streaming in IoT devices
Microcontroller programming IDE LPCXpresso from NXP now supports C++
USB+CAN Development Kit for ARM Cortex-M4 MCUs from TI
Devlopment kit from CEVA for creating software for HD media processing
Low-cost ODROID-XU dev board based on PowerVR SGX544 GPU
HDMI/MHL to Wireless HD video interface reference design from silicon image
LTE gateway reference design based on Mindspeed and Sequans' chips
Reference design for wireless video streaming from remote cameras
UWB Doherty reference design using NXP's BLF884P and BLF884PS power amps
IC and kit from NXP for MFi accessory development
Bluetooth remote control kit from TI built upon ZigBee RF4CE tech
LED lamp reference design boards by NXP based on its GreenChip IC
PSoC 4 Pioneer Kit is available from Premier Farnell at a price of $25
Development board based on EPC's eGaN FETs
Analog front end reference design for medical electronics
Reference designs for Imagination's IP supporting TSMC fab are under dev
ARM Cortex A15 and A7 big.LITTLE reference designs by Synopsys for TSMC fab
ARM Cortex-R7 processor featured kit for real-time embedded apps
Kit for embedded systems to securely connect to cloud
Wi-Fi set-top box reference design platform jointly by ST and Quantenna
Reference for designing smart-remote for smart-TVs
Bluetooth 4.0 reference design jointly by CEVA and Orca
60-watt equivalent dimmable LED lamp reference design by Marvell and Cree
Stellaris LaunchPad evaluation kit launched by TI for ARM Cortex-M4 developers
MIPI CSI-2 camera interface ref. design for TI processors
Antenna design application notes from AWR
ST introduces discovery kit with on-board 9-axis MEMS sensors
Evaluation kits from NXP for developing internet of things apps
Gimbal SDK from Qualcomm for Android and iOS app developers
Reference design kit for designing high-speed comm-sys using 28nm FPGA
ACPI compliant smart battery gateway reference design for Toradex x86 products
µEnergy SDK 1.4 from CSR for developing Bluetooth smart devices
802.11ac reference design from Qualcomm Atheros for wireless network devices
New reference designs and application notes from Lattice for MachXO2 PLDs
SoC reference designs with debug software for the ARM Cortex-A9/A15/A7 processor cores
Reference solution for mobile 4G VoLTE by D2 Tech and GCT Semiconductor
TD-SCDMA small cell reference design from Mindspeed
Twisted pair networks development board offered by NXP and On Semi
QuadTAP/CFM, a four-channel JTAG hardware platform for Teradyne ICTs
Kit from Cambridge Pixel add radar interface to ECDIS sys in ships
SoC reference design from Microsemi for LCD displays
Analog circuit design kit jointly by ADI and Digilent
Software development kit from Synopsys for ARM Cortex processors
AOAA development kit based on NXP MCUs from Embedded Artists
Chip and the SDK from Ceva for runtime software development
Renesas's HD set-top-box reference design makes ordinary TVs smart and connected
TI introduce software and hardware platform for ZigBee
Low cost smart phone reference design by Broadcom with 3G support
New CY8CKIT-025 Development Kit for PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 chips
$0.30 priced MSP430 16-bit automotive MCU from TI
Reference design to wirelessly connect medical devices
Smart meter reference platform from Maxim
Bandwidth Engine FPGA companion kit and characterization kit from MoSys
Reference design of anti-pinch window lift system for automotives
Free demo boards with 0.8V, 0.6µA opamps, ultra low-power voltage monitor ICs
IP and a reference design for IEEE 1588 PTP on Microsemi's cSoC
Free PFC power supply design reference from Power Integrations
TI's kit and module for developing WiFi AP featured Sitara processor based designs
Intel Atom powered MOCA based Video gateway and STB reference designs
JAGUAR family of Android 3.X tablet reference platforms from ZiiLABS
Eval boards and Reference kits from Atmel supporting ZigBee interface to MCU
Atmel launches new MCU kits named Xplained supporting its range of MCUs
Software kit, Linux support and libraries for TI's C66X DSP family
LED lighting circuit reference design from Power Integrations
MCU kit for brushless DC and permanent magnet synchronous motors
Digital video recorder and IP camera reference designs from TI
Design Guides/reference manuals on CapSense by Cypress
HD video Camera development kit and reference design by Lattice Semiconductor
OpenCL University Kit from AMD for computer science students
LTE eNBF reference design from Aricent optimized for Freescale Semiconductor
Reference design and kit for occupancy/motion based lighting control
Kit from TI to integrate Internet radio in consumer electronic devices
ARM Cortex processor based development board for $199
Kits supporting color 5.7 VGA (640 x 480) or 6.2 (640 x 240) LCDs from Kyocera
Design evaluation kit from Infineon for development of IO-Link comm systems
New motor driver evaluation platform from TI for spinning motors
Ramtron and austriamicrosystems jointly release the MaxArias Wireless Memory kit
NetLogic Microsystems released XLP multi-core processor development kit
Microchip and Powercast develops RF energy harvesting kit for wireless sensors based on PIC MCUs
New software developer's kit from Alcatel-Lucent for its smart desk phone
LTE eNodeB reference design jointly by Tata Elxsi, CommAgility, and Radiocomp
Robotics evaluation board from TI for use with Micrium's RTOS
Free software development tools from TI for ARM developers involved in DSP coding
Lime Microsystems launches RF Quick Start Kit for femtocell design
Femtocell hardware reference design from picoChip
New PLC development kit from TI
Two new digitally controlled DC/DC converter reference designs from Microchip
Semtech and Microchip's combined reference design for wireless remote keyless entry
Power Integrations releases 2 new standby power supply reference designs
Microchip' Microstick: a low cost development board for dsPIC33F and PIC24H microcontrollers
New open source embedded system dev board based on TI's OMAP processor
Evaluation board for laser diode driver IC from IXYS
New development platform for digital signal processor from TI
TI adds softwares, tools and training to MCU digital power portfolio
2.4GHz reference design for remote controlled toy cars from Nordic
New reference design for IP enabled DTVs from Micrel and Zoran
Low power demonstration boards by NXP using FPGA boards from Lattice
Motor control reference design using Zilog's Z8 and IXYS' power devices
Bluetooth reference design by Broadcom for designing handsfree car kits
Reference design and board to develop high-density DC-DC converter brick module
Ease your LED lamp design using TI's new LED-lamp reference board
TI's kit and reference design for integrating fingerprint-sensing feature
Turnkey smart meter reference design from Freescale
Reference design from Conexant to feed analog video to computers via USB
Microchip's new MPLAB starter kit for PIC18 microcontroller families
Free pure sine wave UPS reference design from Microchip
Power supply circuit reference design with 85-265V input to deliver 5 V @ 0.6 Amps
Keil new development kits supporting STM32 and NXP LPC1700 microcontroller
New larsen antenna source book from Pulse also features antenna basic concepts
New reference design platform for LCD TV from NXP Semiconductor
TI release kits for developing ECG, digital stethoscopes and pulse oximeter
Xilinx latest design platform for designing FPGA based complex SoC solutions
40 nm FPGA chips and development kits
Kits to develop Intel Atom based embedded computers at price starting from $995
ST Microelectronics's new hardware kit to develop wireless sensor networks
FPGA based free reference designs for display applications
Kit to evaluate touch sensor interface on PIC MCUs
94% efficient 200W switching power supply reference design to produce 24V @ 8 Amps
NIM reference design for CATV set-top boxes & home gateway subsystems
Reference design for 255 watt ATX PC power supply
Gennum launched reference design kits to develop fiber channel and Ethernet modules
IPTV set top box reference design with new added features
Microchip adds development tools, boards and libraries for motion control applications
Credit card size solar energy harvesting kit with built in thin-film battery and MCU
ispLEVER 7.2 FPGA design tool suite with advanced route algorithms
Wireless sensing kit for pressure, humidity, temperature and light
13.56 MHz RFID reference design offers 64-bit encryption engine
IR's 25W to 500W Class D audio power amplifier reference design
IP network video camera reference design with HD image quality
New Bluetooth development kit from Mindtree for automotive market.
Cypress and Winbond jointly built a demo kit for VOIP headset. Infineon released " Design kit " for next-generation transmission design to enhance the fuel efficiency in automotives.