New-Tech Europe Digital Magazine | May 2016

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errors the first time. Prior to this, we were always cautious that our PCB packages would introduce unforeseen errors and we would have to factor one spin of the board that was barely functional,” said David Edwards, founder and CEO of Abicom. “Cadence has built tools that are enabling us to develop better designs faster, while giving us a better understanding of expected performance. This advancement has saved us upwards of £3-8K per new board design.” “OrCAD continues to be the clear choice for new and existing companies designing IoT, wearable and mobile products,” said Dirk Müller, CEO, FlowCAD EDA- Software Vertriebs GmbH. “The new flex and rigid-flex capabilities allow designers to create faster and smarter products in a timely and cost-effective manner.” “Our customers are demanding solutions that address their broader system-design challenges,” said Steve Durrill, senior product engineering group director, SPB Solutions at Cadence. “The latest OrCAD release provides upfront virtual prototyping support in PSpice, support for high-speed interfaces and a comprehensive implementation solution for rigid/ flex designs. We are confident this latest release of the OrCAD solution provides the time to market savings our customers require.”

For more information, visitwww. cadence.com/news/Uurmi. “By porting our fog removal software to the Tensilica Vision DSP, we achieved dramatic improvements in power,” said Dr. Swarup Medasani, CTO at Uurmi Systems. “With a quick turnaround time, we achieved significant performance gains with low power consumption, which are critical differentiators in the ever- growing mobile, camera and security applications market.”

Uurmi Fog Removal Software Now Available on Cadence Tensilica Vision DSPs Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) and Uurmi Systems today announced that Uurmi’s fog removal software targeted for automotive and camera markets is now available on the Cadence® Tensilica® Vision digital signal processor (DSP). By porting their fog removal software to the Tensilica Vision DSP, Uurmi achieved up to 5X higher performance, with 15X less power consumption. Uurmi’s fog removal software eliminates fog present in the photo and applies correction to improve the image. It uses a spatial diffusion filtering-based approach with local contrastenhancement to remove fog during the image post-processing stage. It also offers fog correction for images captured from un- calibrated camera systems. Uurmi’s software provides fog correction with scene sharpness preservation and is capable of fog/non-fog region separation. For more information on Uurmi’s fog removal software, visithttp://uurmi.com/multi-sensor- fusion-image-system.html. The Tensilica family of imaging/ vision DSPs was designed for the complexalgorithms in imaging, video and computer vision applications, including innovative multi-frame image capture, video pre- and post-processing, object and face recognition, low-light enhancement and many other complex tasks.

Infineon and GoerTek optical sensor solutions deliver precise, ultra-low power heart rate monitoring for smart devices Infineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX / OTCQX: IFNNY) and GoerTek Inc. (SHE: 002241) launched two high-resolution, highly integrated optical sensors. The optical chips deliver the precise measurement, small size and ultra-low power consumption demanded by ambient light sensing, proximity detection, heart rate and pulse oximetry monitoring applications in smart devices. The sensor solutions offer best-in-class performance for headphones, fitness bands, smart watches and phones. They are integrating three LED outputs, a photodetector, a low-noise analog front-end, a digital interface and a

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