RMI Alchemy Media Processor Powers NavMate-4 SoftwareRMI Alchemy Media Processor Powers NavMate-4 Software
by Staff Writers The RMI Alchemy Au1250 Processor is in full production and offers 700 MHz performance levels that provide customers and developers with increased capabilities, including faster route calculations and map re-draw speeds for navigation devices. "We are very pleased to be partnered with a leader such as Horizon Navigation," said Ed White, manager, business development, Media Processor Solutions, RMI. "Their success in the full-featured navigation market, first in the auto industry, and in the last few years in the rapidly growing PND market has been driven by their innovation, vision and creativity. With this new partnership, Horizon takes full advantage of the 700 MHz performance and power-optimization that the RMI Alchemy Au1250 processor makes available." Horizon Navigation is a center of expertise for worldwide GPS navigation solutions. Since 1989, the Horizon team has brought innovative and award winning navigation systems to market. Horizon's creativity has resulted in over 100 patents around the globe. The powerful multi-********al portable devices developed by Horizon customers will incorporate the RMI Alchemy Au1250 processor, which provides a highly integrated solution delivering the most Available MIPS in the industry. "We are pleased to partner with RMI and extend the Alchemy Processor technology to our customer base," said John Angerman, VP of Business Development at Horizon Navigation. "Their experience integrating with products for the auto industry and portable digital media devices has allowed the ready integration of our technologies. With Alchemy already ported to our software solutions, we are market-ready for customers who want to shorten their time to market using the high performance and power-optimization capabilities we are offering the market." RMI products offer advanced processor technology in performance and integration, and are used by system and original equipment manufacturers to address the infrastructure, enterprise, and consumer markets. The company's XLR, XLS and Alchemy Processor families are based on an innovative MIPS-compatible architecture creating highly-integrated designs incorporating advanced internal architectures and built on leading-edge silicon process technologies. - 11/6/2008 - Comment {0} - Post CommentRMI Alchemy Media Processor Powers NavMate-4 SoftwareRMI Alchemy Media Processor Powers NavMate-4 Software
by Staff Writers The RMI Alchemy Au1250 Processor is in full production and offers 700 MHz performance levels that provide customers and developers with increased capabilities, including faster route calculations and map re-draw speeds for navigation devices. "We are very pleased to be partnered with a leader such as Horizon Navigation," said Ed White, manager, business development, Media Processor Solutions, RMI. "Their success in the full-featured navigation market, first in the auto industry, and in the last few years in the rapidly growing PND market has been driven by their innovation, vision and creativity. With this new partnership, Horizon takes full advantage of the 700 MHz performance and power-optimization that the RMI Alchemy Au1250 processor makes available." Horizon Navigation is a center of expertise for worldwide GPS navigation solutions. Since 1989, the Horizon team has brought innovative and award winning navigation systems to market. Horizon's creativity has resulted in over 100 patents around the globe. The powerful multi-********al portable devices developed by Horizon customers will incorporate the RMI Alchemy Au1250 processor, which provides a highly integrated solution delivering the most Available MIPS in the industry. "We are pleased to partner with RMI and extend the Alchemy Processor technology to our customer base," said John Angerman, VP of Business Development at Horizon Navigation. "Their experience integrating with products for the auto industry and portable digital media devices has allowed the ready integration of our technologies. With Alchemy already ported to our software solutions, we are market-ready for customers who want to shorten their time to market using the high performance and power-optimization capabilities we are offering the market." RMI products offer advanced processor technology in performance and integration, and are used by system and original equipment manufacturers to address the infrastructure, enterprise, and consumer markets. The company's XLR, XLS and Alchemy Processor families are based on an innovative MIPS-compatible architecture creating highly-integrated designs incorporating advanced internal architectures and built on leading-edge silicon process technologies. - 11/6/2008 - Comment {0} - Post CommentGLAST Is Ready To GoGLAST Is Ready To Go
by Staff Writers During the "Launch Readiness Review," a two hour meeting at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., held on June 9, the U.S. Air Force, NASA and United Launch Alliance reported on various aspects of the GLAST spacecraft, the Delta II Heavy rocket that will carry it, clearances, weather and the final remaining issues, which are now all closed. The Launch Readiness Review (LRR) ended with an all-around approval for GLAST to launch on Wednesday, June 11, pending the weather. Joel Tumbiolo, U.S. Air Force Delta II Launch Weather Officer, 45th Weather Squadron, of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station noted that there is a 40% chance that weather issues will delay the launch. "The clouds are the concern," he told the LRR group. Typically, the sea breeze on Florida's east coast develops around noontime from June through September, and that can create clouds over land. There's a "Cumulus Cloud Rule" which states that if a cumulus cloud is a certain height, it must be a certain distance from the launch vehicle. There are no issues with winds, which are expected to be light. Tumbiolo repeated his forecast during the GLAST pre-launch press conference held at 1 p.m. on June 9 at Kennedy Space Center, carried live on NASA-TV. He was part of a panel of six that included Dr. Jon Morse, Director, Astrophysics Division, NASA Headquarters; Omar Baez, NASA Launch Director/Launch Manager, Kennedy Space Center; Kris Walsh, Director of Delta NASA and Commercial Programs, United Launch Alliance; Kevin Grady, GLAST Project Manager, Goddard Space Flight Center; and Dr. Steven Ritz, GLAST Project Scientist/Astrophysicist, Goddard Space Flight Center. The Large Area Telescope (LAT) Principal Investigator, Peter Michelson, and others also attended the briefing and answered questions. At the press briefing, Omar Baez explained that the tower rollback will occur just after midnight on Wed. June 11, on Launch pad 17-B, at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Kris Walsh talked about the launch and what happens during and after ignition. She said that by about 10 minutes after launch, the Delta II carrying GLAST will be over the island of Antigua in the Caribbean. By around 75 minutes after launch, GLAST will be put into orbit approximately 300 nautical miles high over the Earth's surface. GLAST's orbit will be at an inclination of approximately 25.6 degrees to the equator. Steve Ritz spoke about the exciting science that GLAST will reveal. He said that the GLAST LAT will survey the Universe over an energy range from 20 million electron volts to over 300 billion electron volts, the upper end of which is a relatively unexplored area of the electromagnetic spectrum. "GLAST enables scientists to look under the hood and see how the universe works," Ritz said. Kevin Grady, GLAST Program Manager, explained how the Large Area Telescope, or LAT, doesn't have a lens like a regular telescope. In fact, it converts gamma rays to electrons and positrons to infer the direction from which the gamma-ray came. "It took a lot of people in many countries to make this sixteen-year journey come to fruition," said Michelson. NASA partnered with the U.S. Department of Energy, and many institutions and agencies in the U.S, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Sweden. Right now, however, before all eyes turn to the gamma-ray sky that GLAST will show scientists around the world, all eyes at the launch site in Florida are on the weather. NASA's GLAST mission is an astrophysics and particle physics partnership, developed in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy, along with important contributions from academic institutions and partners in France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, and the U.S. - 11/6/2008 - Comment {0} - Post Comment
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