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and test to provide a high-integrity
bridge between fabless companies
and the Samsung foundry.”
Infineon enables new
high-performance FPGA
development platform
Infineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX
/ OTCQX: IFNNY) today announced
that its Digital Point-of-Load (PoL)
DC-DC regulators with full PMBus
capabilities are featured in the
Kintex® UltraScale™ development
board. A key driver for the design
flexibility of the board is the superior
PMBus connectivity of the IR3806x
family. Configurations can be stored
in internal memory. In addition,
PMBus commands allow run-time
control, fault status and telemetry.
Tremendous flexibility
The
on-chip
programmable
SupIRBuck™ regulator provides
tremendous flexibility for FPGA-
based design. Thus, it easily
adapts to rapidly changing design
requirements.
The
IR3806x
SupIRBuck
voltage
regulator
features integrated PWM controller
and MOSFETs in a single package.
It delivers 90 percent more
efficiency for all rails including all
losses and less than sub 10 mV
peak-to-peak ripple from 3 to 35 A in
a tiny footprint. The regulator allows
system power management on a
high level and is extremely robust.
Despite being compact, the IR3806x
family delivers a fully integrated
PoL regulator with advanced power
management
programmability,
margining,
sequencing,
and
telemetry across multiple rails via
full PMBus 1.2 compatibility. The
board includes all functions for an
embedded processing system. This
enables designers to easily design
and verify applications.
The Xilinx Bit Error Test (BERT)
demonstrates error losses through
rigorous code testing. It uses worst
case bit patterns across serial
transceiver/receivers. The IR38060
delivers precise power performance:
zero bit error test results show no
contribution to jitter noise across the
pattern.
Infineon will show the Xilinx Kintex
UltraScale board in its booth #1917
at the APEC March 20-24, 2016
in Long Beach, California. Further
information is available at: www.
infineon.com/Xilinx.Imec Presents Compact
Lens-Free Digital Microscope
At the SPIE Photonics West 2016,
imec will demonstrate a lens-
free microscope for large field-of-
view live imaging at micrometer
resolution. Imec’s on-chip lens-free
microscope can be integrated into
life sciences and biotech tools,
targeting multiple applications
such as label-free cell monitoring,
automated cell culturing, or
automated
high-throughput
microscopy.
Compared to conventional optical
microscopes,
lens-free
digital
microscopy removes the need
for expensive and bulky optical
lens components to acquire and
visualize microscopy images. In a
lens-free digital microscope, images
are captured on a CMOS image
sensor, and digitally reconstructed
using software. Imec’s lens-free
microscope features a comparable
micrometer-scale accuracy as
traditional optical microscopes.
While being much smaller and
less expensive, imec’s microscope
captures a larger field-of-view in
one shot, enabling shorter sample
processing times. The lens-free
microscope paves the way to new
applications with living cells and
tissues.
“This microscope will enable
an abundance of applications,
where traditional microscopes are
just not applicable,” stated Andy
Lambrechts, program manager of
integrated vision solutions at imec.
“Recently, we demonstrated its
ability to be integrated into a bio-
incubator in stem-cell research
for cell culture monitoring, and for
cardio-toxicity testing, where the
microscope monitored contractions
of cardiac tissue in response to
drugs. With impressive results
our team has branched out even
further and is exploring its ability
measure fabrication tolerances and
stress in our in-house developed
neural probe chips, and for defect
inspection of thin-film displays.”
“Imec’s lens free imaging solution
is now available as a full, ready-
to-use demo kit evaluation
system including a light source,
image sensor, control and read-
out electronics and a software
interface,” stated Jerome Baron,
business development manager of
integrated vision systems at imec.
“Companies can use it to try out
their own applications, supported
by our engineers to fine-tune
the hardware and software and
customize the systems toward their
exact application requirements.”
Imec will demonstrate its lens-free
microscope at SPIE Photonics West
exhibition (booth 4144).