Design Services
EDA Solutions Announces Appointment as Sole Representative in Europe for Incentia Design Systems
EDA Solutions, sole representative in Europe for Tanner EDA, announced it has been appointed as the sole representative in Europe for Incentia Design Systems Inc. Incentia's complete suite of industry-leading tools will be available in Europe via EDA Solutions, including: TimeCraft™, a static timing and signal integrity analyser, known for its fast runtime and capability to handle large designs; DesignCraft™, a complete logic synthesis tool that optimizes for area, power, timing, and design-for-testability (DFT); and the ECOCraft-Power and ECOCraft-Timing post-layout solutions for, respectively, leakage power reduction and hold-time/setup-time fixing.
Fujitsu Presented with Differentiation Excellence Award by Frost & Sullivan for CGI Studio
Fujitsu Semiconductor's CGI Studio received the 2011 Frost & Sullivan Europe Product Differentiation Excellence Award in the automotive human machine interface (HMI) market. It was presented to Fujitsu Semiconductor Embedded Solutions Austria GmbH (FEAT) for CGI Studio, a software platform for the development of hybrid 2D and 3D graphical interfaces (HMI/GUI) for automotive systems.
ISIS IP chooses EnSilica’s eSi-RISC as the MCU for its 2nd generation DAB baseband solution
EnSilica, a leading independent provider of front-end IC design services, has announced that ISIS IP, a Chinese fabless semiconductor company focusing on DAB/DAB+/DMB baseband solutions, has chosen the eSi-RISC family of soft processor cores as the MCU for its 2nd generation DAB baseband solution.
IAR Systems and Kitron in alliance to support the embedded market in Norway
IAR Systems has signed an agreement with Kitron, one of Scandinavia's leading companies in the development and manufacturing of electronics systems for medical, defence, marine, communications, and process industries, under which Kitron will become an IAR Systems distributor for Norway. With an experienced team of development engineers, Kitron can undertake assignments ranging from simple development work to complete product packages. Kitron supports its customers from concept to volume production in one of its manufacturing plants.
PXI Embedded Controllers Include PXI Express and Real-Time Controllers
National Instruments has announced a family of PXI, PXI Express and PXI real-time embedded controllers based on the 2.16 GHz dual-core Intel Core 2 Duo processor T7400. The NI PXI-8106 and NI PXIe-8106 controllers deliver a performance improvement of more than 100 percent compared to systems running traditional single-core processors. With two cores, or computing engines, in one processor, the new PXI and PXI Express controllers can simultaneously execute two computing tasks.
TES opens Californian design centre
TES Electronic Solutions SA (TES), an independent full-service electronic design and manufacturing company, today announced the acquisition of the assets of eDFX Services, creating the first TES design centre in the USA. This allows TES to offer local design support in the USA as well as enhancing the company's design resources. This acquisition increases TES's global design resources to more than 500 design engineers in 17 design centres around the world, with strong design capabilities and skills across IC, board, software and full-system design.
