October 26, 2011, – Santa Clara, CA – At the ARMTechCon event, Tektronix’s Embedded Instrumentation Group, recently formed from the acquisition of Veridae Systems, showed their award wining Clarus and Certus tools for in-chip ASIC and FPGA validation and debugging. Today’s designs have a complexity level that leaves large numbers of block I/Os and data…
We talked with Xilinx at the ARM TechCon about some of related packages for the Zynq programmable platform. The Zynq is an ARM dual-core Cortex-A9 embedded in a programmable fabric that was released earlier this year. The family of devices has been in development for over 4 years, to optimize the architecture and create an…
October 25, 2011 – San Jose, CA – Xilinx introduced their new high capacity FPGA the Virtex-7 2000T. The device is single package product that is a low power replacement of multiple ASICs and ASSPs in a high performance system. The part is built with a 28nm CMOS process and uses stacked silicon technologies and…
October 2011 – Viking Technologies, part of Sanmina SCI, has introduced a next generation storage class enterprise memory called ArxCis-NV. The product is module that has DDR3 components and technology as well as a SSD solution that is large enough to cover data that may be in the DDR3 portion. This module is a battery-less…
Kinectimals Xbox360 October 2011 – Microsoft introduced an updated version of their designed for the Kinect game “Kinectimals- now with Bears”. The game is a multiplayer interactive game that lets the user play with and engage with both baby cats (tiger, lion, lynx, leopard) and now bears (panda, polar, black and cinnamon). The game is…
chicBuds is best known for its fashion oriented designs of mobile music accessories. A new addition to their girls side of the products is the Fauvette rechargeable speaker. The fashionable bird shaped speaker is available in 3 colors (blue, pink and black crystal) , is small enough to hold in your hand and charges from a…
Sept 2011 – Continuing our review of gaming headphones, we had a chance to test the Rude Gameware Primal Gaming Audio Wireless headphones and microphone for the Xbox360. These headsets were tested in both single player mode and multi-player mode using on-line chat in the gaming platforms. Rude Gameware – Primal Wireless Headset for Xbox…
CyberSnipa is best known for its high performance gaming mice and control pads. They have recently introduced a rechargeable mini speaker for enhancing the laptop gaming experience and also any table based listening from an MP3 player or tablet with a standard 3.5mm headphone jack. Review Summary: Pro – Strong sound and Bass, rechargeable, compact size,…
We received a SanDisk 120Gb SATAII (3Gbps) SSD drive to review for replacement in systems with a traditional 2.5″ HDD. The drive was in a retail box package which includes the drive, some packing, and an instruction sheet in a very eco-friendly small package. The drive itself, is housed in an multi-piece shell that has…
July 2011 – Continuing our post E3 review of gaming headphones, we had a chance to test the Nox (http://www.nox-audio.com/Products) Specialist headphone which are a muti-platform headset when used with the Nox Negotiator Gaming adapter. These headsets were tested in both single player mode and multi-player mode using on-line chat in the gamng platforms. Nox…