Design
Elan Digital launches new dedicated custom design service for SD/SDIO
Elan Digital provides custom design services internationally to some of the world's best and biggest electronics companies as well as smaller 'niche' market players.
Microchip launches Microstick - easy to use, cost effective solution for designing with 16-bit Microcontrollers & DSCs
Microchip today announced the launch of Microstick for dsPIC33F and PIC24H development board. This new product provides a complete, low-cost solution for designing with Microchip's 16-bit PIC24H microcontrollers and dsPIC33F Digital Signal Controllers (DSCs), in a compact 20x76 mm footprint. The low cost Microstick offers an integrated USB programmer/debugger, which shortens learning curves. For maximum flexibility, the Microstick can be used stand-alone or plugged into a prototyping board. Additionally, educators are eligible for a 25% discount on the product.
EnSilica’s eSi-RISC embedded processors validated for Mentor Graphics’ Precision Synthesis FPGA design flow
EnSilica, a leading independent provider of front-end IC design services, has announced that it has become a partner for Mentor Graphics' Precise-IP vendor-independent FPGA IP platform. As a result, EnSilica's range of eSi-RISC embedded processor cores and eSi-Comms library of communications IP has been fully validated for use in Mentor Graphics' Precision Synthesis FPGA design flow, enabling design engineers to easily implement them on any FPGA device.
New Microchip Microstick Development Board Makes It Easy and Cost-Effective to Design With 16-bit Microcontrollers and Digital Signal Controllers
Microchip announces the Microstick for dsPIC33F and PIC24H development board, which provides a complete, low-cost solution for designing with Microchip's 16-bit PIC24H microcontrollers and dsPIC33F Digital Signal Controllers (DSCs), in a compact 20x76 mm footprint. At the low cost of $24.99, the Microstick offers an integrated USB programmer/debugger, which shortens learning curves. For maximum flexibility, the Microstick can be used stand-alone or plugged into a prototyping board. Additionally, educational establishments are eligible for a 25% discount.
X2O Media's New Wayfinder Add-In Allows Xpresenter™ Users to Build Interactive Maps Directly Inside Microsoft® PowerPoint®
X2O Media, a full-service provider of software, network management, and content services for professional digital signage applications, today announced a new Microsoft® PowerPoint® add-in that greatly simplifies the content creation process, allowing users to build their own wayfinder maps for corporate facilities, campuses, airports, public venues, and more.
Lattice Expands Reference Design Portfolio For Popular MachXO and ispMACH 4000ZE PLDs
Lattice announced that it has released more than 90 reference designs optimized for the MachXO™ and ispMACH® 4000ZE PLDs. Reference designs enable the quick and efficient design and deployment of commonly used functions such as general purpose I/O expander, I2C bus master / slave, LCD controller and SD Flash controller, as well as other interfaces, in a variety of markets including consumer, communications, computing, industrial and medical. The reference designs, coupled with complete documentation and design source code, are fully customizable and enable designers to reduce design time, boost productivity and accelerate time-to-market.
Silicon Labs Introduces Online Clock Tree Design Service
Silicon Laboratories announced an online Clock Tree Design Service that gives customers quick access to Silicon Labs' experienced applications engineering team to provide custom timing architecture proposals that simplify design, reduce BOM costs and minimize risk during development. When combined with the industry's shortest component lead times of two weeks or less, Silicon Labs' clock and oscillator family is designed to accelerate customers' time to market.
New EPLAN Electric P8 2.0
EPLAN unveiled the new EPLAN Electric P8 2.0 electrical controls design software, in beta version at the Hanover Fair. Whether point wiring, active device protection or channel oriented PLC design, the software offers practical potential for more project reliability, functionality and speed. The quality of all documentation is guaranteed by active check functions and the system automatically prevents incorrect data from being entered.
Cypress and Future Electronics Jointly Develop Low-Cost PSoC 3 Development Board Showcasing New Architecture's Ease-of-Use and Fast Design Cycle
Cypress Semiconductor Corp. and Future Electronics today introduced a low-cost development board demonstrating the ease-of-use of Cypress's new PSoC 3 architecture. The Future Electronics PSoC 3 Development Board shows how developers can leverage the flexible PSoC 3 architecture and the revolutionary PSoC Creator™ Integrated Development Environment (IDE) to streamline designs.
The Portland Group Releases PGI Visual Fortran for Visual Studio 2010
The Portland Group today announced the general availability of PGI Visual Fortran for Visual Studio 2010. PVF integrates PGI high-performance parallel Fortran compilers and tools with Microsoft Visual Studio to offer a high-productivity development solution to scientists and engineers upgrading to the latest 64-bit multi-core platforms running Microsoft Windows.
HawkBoard development platform combines ARM plus floating-point DSP for high-performance, low-power Linux innovations
Innovators, engineers, developers and hobbyists can now effortlessly create state-of-the-art products with the flexible, user-friendly HawkBoard, an open source embedded processor development board. This low-cost development board provides processing power through a robust ARM® and digital signal processor (DSP) and has multiple expansion and interface options to allow users to create end-use applications such as portable test and measurement systems, portable medical devices, public safety and military radios, power protection systems, networked audio/video servers and receivers, VoIP solutions and Qt development applications. The HawkBoard is available for global shipping today from Farnell.
Texas Instruments’ TMS320C6457 DSP delivers high performance, high value solution for processing intensive applications
Texas Instruments announces the introduction of a new development platform and a new speed grade option for the TMS320C6457 digital signal processor (DSP). TI's simplified development platform coupled with the TMS320C6457 - 850MHz device will allow customers in markets such as defense, networking, test, imaging and industrial to quickly ramp up their development efforts while providing design flexibility and upgrade ability to existing TMS320C6457 processors, all at highly competitive price points. The new 850MHz speed grade is priced at $67 for 1Ku volume while the new TMDSEVM6457L Evaluation Module (EVM) is $399. TI also provides a pin compatible upgrade path to affordably priced 1GHz and 1.2GHz versions of this device.
Express Logic Introduces PrismX for Graphics Development in Consumer, Industrial and Medical Devices
Express Logic, Inc., today announced PrismX, an integration of Blue Water Embedded's Prism GUI (graphic user interface) development solution with Express Logic's ThreadX RTOS. PrismX™ represents a complete family of leading-edge graphical interface development tools and libraries for designing and deploying advanced graphical interfaces on embedded systems.
Witech Introduced Third Generation OK2440 ARM9 development
Witech again updated their OK2440, the most popular ARM9 development kit for the Samsung S3C2440 micro processor. The OK2440-III development kit features the workhorse S3C2440 processor clocked to 533MHz, and targets embedded development training applications, industrial control equipment, and consumer electronics devices such as PDAs and PNDs (personal navigation devices).
Ophir-Spiricon's New StarLab Laser Power/Energy Software Adds Support for Windows 7 64-bit and LabVIEW
Ophir-Spiricon, the global leader in precision laser measurement, today announced StarLab 2.01, laser measurement software that converts a PC into a multi-channel laser power/energy station. Features of the newest version of the software include Windows 7 64-bit compatibility and LabVIEW support for Ophir-Spiricon's Juno USB laser sensor to PC interface. Earlier this year, StarLab added synchronization and display of multiple channels in one window, user-defined and multi-channel calculations, and an easy-to-use configuration panel for all channels. StarLab works with Ophir-Spiricon's smart displays and PC interfaces, allowing users to measure, analyze, and record laser power and energy parameters from the company's line of smart power/energy sensors.
SchmartBoard Releases Development Board for TI Microcontrollers
SchmartBoard, a company that makes prototyping electronic circuits easier, has announced a single development board supporting Texas Instruments Incorporated's (TI) broad microcontroller portfolio, including ultra-low power MSP430, ARM® Cortex™-M3-based Stellaris and real-time control C2000 MCU platforms.
Zuken announces CADSTAR Lite PCB Design Software
Zuken today launched as part of its take-care strategy a new version of its CADSTAR PCB design software called CADSTAR Lite. Designers working on smaller scale projects no longer need to be weighed down with complexity that they don't need – now they can buy a simplified package to match the size of their projects and wallet.
Thermal Considerations for High Density DC Modules
Thermal management is an important part of the system design process. This paper presents some guidelines for good thermal design of systems using RO converters.
IAR Systems incorporates power debugging as standard in IAR Embedded Workbench
IAR Systems today announced that it has incorporated its newly developed power debug and analysis tools within IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM. Bucking the software industry's trend of charging for new software features, IAR Systems has opted to include its innovative technology as standard.
ZMDI announced IO-Link Master and Device Evaluation Tool for rapid IO-Link application development
ZMD AG, a global supplier of analog and mixed-signal solutions for automotive, industrial, and medical applications, announced today the availability of two new evaluation tools which will allow customers to quickly and easily develop IO-Link master applications as well as device applications. The evaluations and development tools are built around the company's ZIOL2401 IO-Link high-voltage driver which supports IO-Link master ports, IO-Link device ports, and standard I/O applications. The ZIOL2401 evaluation tools help designers to reduce the time to production by enabling them to develop and test both the master (controller) and the sensor end of the link.
ZMDI presents IO-Link Master and Device Evaluation Tool for rapid IO-Link application development
ZMD AG, a global supplier of analog and mixed-signal solutions for automotive, industrial, and medical applications, announced today the availability of two new evaluation tools which will allow customers to quickly and easily develop IO-Link master applications as well as device applications. The evaluations and development tools are built around the company's ZIOL2401 IO-Link high-voltage driver which supports IO-Link master ports, IO-Link device ports, and standard I/O applications. The ZIOL2401 evaluation tools help designers to reduce the time to production by enabling them to develop and test both the master (controller) and the sensor end of the link.
Atego launches Atego Process Director
Atego, the leading independent supplier of industrial-grade, collaborative development tools for engineering complex, mission- and safety-critical architectures, systems, software and hardware, has launched Atego Process Director, a ground-breaking, new web-based environment for process definition, management and deployment.
VeriLogger supports encrypted models from Actel, Altera, and Xilinx
SynaptiCAD has released an updated version of VeriLogger Extreme, a compiled-code Verilog simulation and debugging environment, that adds support for encrypted IP models from all the major ASIC/FPGA vendors. VeriLogger supports both binary-encrypted SmartModels based on the common SWIFT-based standard and the more recent encrypted source-code format (sometimes referred to as protected envelopes) added as part of the Verilog-2005 standard.
Version 15 of Tanner EDA's HiPer Silicon full-flow design suite available at EDA Solutions
Now available from EDA Solutions is version 15 of Tanner EDA's HiPer Silicon full-flow design suite, giving designers a complete analogue design flow from schematic capture, circuit simulation, and waveform probing to physical layout and verification.
JTAG Technologies Introduces ‘SCIP’ for In-System Programming
JTAG Technologies, a leading world-wide provider of board test and device programming tools based chiefly on IEEE Std 1149.x, has broadened its portfolio by offering device programming solutions for an array of serial bus types, including BDM, MON08, SPI, I2C and MicroChip.
Zuken Runs Electrical Design Webinars for Aerospace Industry
Zuken is presenting a series of three webinars focusing on electrical system design, starting on June 29. Targeted at companies within the aerospace industry, the trio of webinars will benefit engineers who need to overcome the design challenges associated with managing change, ECAD/MCAD integration, and testing. For those who may not be available to attend the live session, all three webinars will also be available on demand.
PTC releases Mathcad 15.0
PTC has announced the release of Mathcad 15.0, the latest release of PTC's engineering calculation software. Available from Adept Scientific (Letchworth, Herts) Mathcad 15.0 delivers enhanced capabilities to help customers solve their most pressing engineering calculation needs and improve the documentation of calculations throughout the product development process.
New FPGA design software from Lattice
Lattice Semiconductor announced Version 1.0 of its Lattice Diamond FPGA design software, the new flagship design environment for Lattice FPGA products. Lattice Diamond software provides a complete set of powerful tools, efficient design flows, and modern user interface that enable designers to more quickly target low power, cost sensitive FPGA applications. Video demonstrations of the Lattice Diamond design software can be viewed here: http://www.latticesemi.com/latticediamond/videos/
Wind River Updates Graphics Suite with OpenGL 3D Support
Wind River, a world leader in embedded and mobile software, today announced the latest version of Wind River Tilcon Graphics Suite, its solution for the development and deployment of rich graphical user interfaces for embedded devices. The updated graphics suite includes support for Open Graphics Library (OpenGL) 3D that enables highly customizable and rapid development of high-end GUIs to create improved end-user experiences across a variety of hardware platforms and operating systems, particularly in the aerospace and defense, industrial, and medical market segments.
dSPACE MicroAutoBox II prototyping platform for in-vehicle use
The new MicroAutoBox II is the next generation of dSPACE's compact rapid prototyping platform for in-vehicle use. MicroAutoBox II gives ECU function developers even faster real-time computation of their controller models. This boost to processing power comes from a new processor board equipped with an IBM PowerPC processor running at 900 MHz.
Green Hills Software announces support for Freescale’s Kinetis microcontrollers
Green Hills Software has announced software development tools, operating systems, middleware, and hardware debug probes for the Freescale Semiconductor Kinetis microcontrollers based on the ARM Cortex™-M4 core. As the world's leading embedded solutions vendor for ARM, Green Hills Software provides the most comprehensive embedded solutions portfolio for Freescale microcontrollers, enabling developers to achieve maximum performance, minimum production cost and power consumption and fastest time-to-market.
Derell chooses PRQA’s static analysis tools
PRQA/Programming Research, announces that Derell, a leading embedded design company based in the Savoie Technolac, France, has selected PRQA's static analysis tools to form part of its internal process improvement project. The first product developed using the process is an embedded calculator for battery monitoring and sharp charging estimation.
TI’s new $4.30 LaunchPad is a complete development kit for harnessing the ultra-low power and 16-bit performance of MSP430™ Value Line MCUs
Furthering its commitment to merge 16-bit MCU performance, ultra-low power and ultra-low cost to overcome shortcomings of 8-bit MCUs, Texas Instruments today announced its new MSP430™ MCU Value Line LaunchPad development kit. For $4.30, the open source kit includes all of the hardware and software needed to easily launch designs based on TI's MSP430 Value Line MCUs, which start at 25 cents and offer up to 10X performance and 10X battery life over 8-bit MCUs. LaunchPad supports rapid prototyping and development by allowing developers to quickly drop-in MSP430 Value Line MCUs to evaluate, program or debug devices. This flexibility allows developers to remove programmed devices to be placed on a custom board, or remain plugged into LaunchPad to leverage on-board buttons, LEDs and breakout pins for external components.
Green Hills Software supports Freescale’s innovative 64-bit e5500 technology and three newest QorIQ communications processors
Green Hills Software, Inc., the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutions, has announced multicore software development tools, operating systems, and virtualization support for Freescale Semiconductor's innovative 64-bit e5500 technology and 64-bit QorIQ™ P5010 and P5020 processors. Green Hills also announces support for Freescale's quad-core, 32-bit P3041 processor.
New “SERIZ” design tool enables highest RFID and NFC security standards
Silica, an Avnet Company, and pan-European semiconductor distributor, has extended its support for developers of RFID (radio frequency identification) and near-field communication (NFC) embedded applications by introducing the SERIZ design tool.
austriamicrosystems releases new version of best-in-class process design kit for its 0.18µm High-Voltage CMOS technology
austriamicrosystems business unit Full Service Foundry today announced the availability of its new analog/mixed signal high performance process design kit (HIT-Kit) for its 0.18µm High-Voltage CMOS technology H18.
Juniper Networks Selects RealTime Designer from Oasys for Next-Generation Networking Chip Designs
Oasys Design Systems today announced that Juniper Networks® has selected RealTime Designer™, a revolutionary new Chip Synthesis™ platform, for the design of its next-generation networking chips. "After a thorough evaluation, we determined that RealTime Designer offers high-quality results and performs very well in our environment," said Debashis Basu, vice president for Silicon Development at Juniper Networks. "It is a great tool that fits a very real performance need in today's EDA market."
VSIDE - VSDSP Integrated Development Environment
VLSI Solution has today announced VSIDE - the Integrated Development Environment for VSDSP Processor Family. VSIDE is an integrated development environment for VLSI Solution's 16/40-bit VSDSP digital signal processor family. It contains a complete set of development utilities, including an optimizing ANSI-C compiler, assembler, linker, profiler, etc. All programs are integrated into a simple-to-use, easy-to-learn package running on a PC / Windows XP or Vista platform.
Freescale’s CodeWarrior 10 tool suite, based on the Eclipse platform, eases embedded software development
Freescale Semiconductor is helping streamline embedded software development with the launch of its new CodeWarrior 10 development suites, based on open-source Eclipse technology.
IAR Systems collaborates with Freescale to develop i.MX25 starter kit
IAR Systems today announced the availability of an integrated development kit for the Freescale i.MX25 family of low power ARM®9-based microprocessors. The IAR KickStart Kit for Freescale Semiconductor i.MX25 contains an i.MX25-SK evaluation board, software development tools together with a hardware debug probe. The evaluation board, using a i.MX257 device, features 32 Mbyte of SDRAM, 1 Gbyte of Flash memory and a 320 x 240 colour TFT LCD display. A range of on-board sensors includes key buttons, LEDs, potentiometer, 3-axis accelerometer, stepper motor and a speaker. Connectivity is provided by a wide variety of interfaces including; USB Host, Ethernet 10/100, UART, CAN and JTAG.
