Design
Crossware Enhances ARM Suite to Speed Application Development for Atmel AT91SAM3U MCUs
Crossware has enhanced its Development Suite for ARM® to make it compatible with Atmel's range of application examples available across its AT91SAM3U family of Cortex™-M3 based flash microcontrollers (MCU).
Crossware Releases Version 5 of Embedded Development Studio
Crossware has released version 5.0 of its Embedded Development Studio, which includes a wide range of advanced features that are designed to speed up and simplify the software development process.
Cadence OrCAD PSpice Technology to be Used by STMicroelectronics to Help its Customers Evaluate Analog and Power ICs
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. today announced that STMicroelectronics has selected Cadence OrCAD PSpice technology to provide simulation capabilities to its customers to evaluate the company's analog and power IC's.
CDNLive! EMEA Invites Cadence Customers to Go “Beyond Imagination”
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. inaugurates its 2010 series of worldwide technical conferences with CDNLive! EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) taking place in Munich, Germany, from May 4 to May 6. It is the first of six worldwide user conferences to be held this year, followed by events in Japan, China, North America, Israel, and India. CDNLive! EMEA brings together hundreds of Cadence® technology users, developers and industry experts to exchange ideas on how to meet today's requirements for advanced chip design.
Quantum CAD's PCB Doctors on hand at NEW 2010
Quantum CAD, one of the UK's leading specialists in the provision of PCB design services and full product design, today announced that it will run a free PCB Surgery during National Electronics Week in May.
In-System Emulation technology VarioTAP expands to support Xilinx FPGA
GOEPEL electronic announces the development of model libraries for Xilinx® FPGAs with integrated PowerPC® cores for support of GOEPEL electronic's innovative emulation technology VarioTAP®. VarioTAP® model libraries are structured modular with IP (Intellectual Property) functions and enable a complete fusion of Boundary Scan test and JTAG Emulation. In addition to interlaced Bus Emulation Tests (BET) and System Emulation Tests (SET) for enhanced JTAG/Boundary Scan functionality, VarioTAP® also supports the in-system programming (ISP) of external Flash devices.
Agilent Technologies' GoldenGate Software Selected by RF Integration for Advanced RFIC Development
Agilent Technologies announced that RF Integration Inc. has selected Agilent's GoldenGate software for use in the development of advanced radio frequency integrated circuits (ICs).
STMicroelectronics’ Evaluation Platform Lets Customers Simulate Analog and Power ICs
STMicroelectronics announced the development of a new evaluation platform allowing customers to perform simulations of ST's leading-edge analog and power chips. The new IC evaluation platform enables Cadence® OrCAD®, PSpice® a robust and widely diffused technology for the simulation of ST's analog and power product families.
Synopsys DesignWare DDR multiPHY IP supports six DDR standards in a single PHY
Synopsys, Inc. today announced availability of the DesignWare DDR multiPHY which is designed to support a broad range of DDR SDRAM standards in a single PHY without sacrificing power consumption or silicon area. These standards include LPDDR2, LPDDR/Mobile DDR, DDR3, DDR3L (1.35 V), DDR3U (1.2x V), and DDR2. The DesignWare DDR multiPHY enables designers to target different DDR types for a single chip through simple software control. This capability makes it extremely flexible to integrate into an extensive array of applications such as consumer electronics, mobile, networking, server, computing, commercial/industrial and automotive applications. The DesignWare DDR multiPHY supports data rates from 0 to 1066 Mbps and offers a DFI 2.1 compliant interface to the memory controller.
Real Intent’s Real Talk Blog Addresses Verification Topics
Real Intent Inc., the innovator in automating the intelligence of formal techniques for design verification, announced today that it has launched the Real Talk blog. The new weekly blog addresses topics of interest to the Electronic Design Automation's verification community, including innovative design verification technology, viewpoints, user experiences, and success stories. To contribute or subscribe to the Real Talk blog, please visit www.realintent.com/read-talk or email jin@realintent.com.
Cypress Launches Platform Development Kit for iPhone and iPod
Cypress Semiconductor introduced a new development platform for Apple iPhone and iPod accessories based on its new PSoC 3 architecture. Designers can use Cypress's new CY8CKIT-023 PSoC Expansion Board Kit For iPhone & iPod Accessories – a plug-in board to Cypress's CY8CKIT-001 PSoC Platform Development Kit – to streamline design of innovative mobile accessories using the flexible PSoC programmable system-on-chip architecture. The new kit leverages the iPhone OS operating system of Apple's iPhone and iPod products and the corresponding iPhone SDK (Software Development Kit) to provide a two-way communication interface between apps from Apple's App Store and corresponding accessories.
Ophir-Spiricon Introduces StarLab 2.00, Multi-Channel Laser Power/Energy Software
Ophir-Spiricon, the global leader in precision laser measurement, today announced StarLab 2.00, laser measurement software that converts a PC into a multi-channel laser power/energy station. Features of the newest version of the software include 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.
Lattice Announces Updates And Enhancements To Its FPGA Design Tool Suite
Lattice Semiconductor announced the immediate availability of Service Pack 1 for Version 8.0 of its ispLEVER FPGA design tool suite. Service Pack 1 is an important update for users of LatticeECP3™ FPGA devices.
Megger Selects INTEGRITY for Portable Electrical Testers
Green Hills Software today announced that Megger, a premier provider of electrical test equipment and measuring instruments for electrical power applications, is using Green Hills Software's INTEGRITY real-time operating system (RTOS) and MULTI integrated development environment (IDE), for its PAT300 series of portable appliance testers.
ASTER announces the first DfT software to combine Electrical and Mechanical analysis
During APEX 2010 at the New Mandalay Bay Resort & Convention Center in Las Vegas, ASTER Technologies, the leading supplier in Board-Level Testability and Test Coverage analysis tools, will introduce the first Design for Test (DfT) software to combine electrical and mechanical analysis. It has been developed to address a new vision of the DfT market that has to solve the many challenges that developers face today, such as: shrinking release cycles, budget compression and improvement in product quality.
SmartFusion Engineering Workshops from Avnet Memec
Avnet Memec, today announced a series of free, hands-on SmartFusion engineering workshops in partnership with Actel in the UK. The new SmartFusion product family from Actel is the world's first intelligent mixed-signal FPGA to integrate an ARM Cortex-M3 processor and programmable analogue.
Synopsys' Design Compiler 2010 doubles productivity of synthesis and place and route
Synopsys introduced Design Compiler 2010, the latest RTL synthesis innovation within the Galaxy Implementation platform, which delivers a twofold speedup in the synthesis and physical implementation flow. To meet aggressive schedules for increasingly complex designs, engineers need an RTL synthesis solution that enables them to minimise iterations to speed up physical implementation. To address these challenges, topographical technology in Design Compiler 2010 is being extended to produce "physical guidance" to Synopsys' flagship place-and-route solution, IC Compiler, tightening timing and area correlation to 5 percent while speeding up IC Compiler's placement phase by 1.5 times (1.5X).
EnSilica launches major new version of its eSi-RISC Development Suite
EnSilica, a leading independent provider of front-end IC design services, has launched a major new version of its eSi-RISC Development Suite. The eSi-RISC Development Suite v2.1 provides a comprehensive platform for easily evaluating EnSilica's family of eSi-RISC highly configurable and low-power soft processor cores, along with a complete development environment for the creation, implementation and test of eSi-RISC processor embedded application designs.
Evaluation Board for IPMs of the L1/S1 Series
Mitsubishi Electric is introducing an Evaluation Board for its Intelligent Power Modules (IPMs) of the entire L1/S1 Series. The new board named EVBL1S1XX enable the design engineer to functionally test the features and the performance of these IPMs from Mitsubishi Electric. The board can be used as a reference design regarding layout and selected components.
Express Logic’s BenchX IDE Supports Lauterbach’s TRACE32 Debugger
Express Logic, Inc., the worldwide leader in royalty-free real-time operating systems (RTOS), today announced that Express Logic's BenchX® IDE now supports debugging using Lauterbach's TRACE32 debugger. BenchX is an Eclipse-based IDE adapted for use with embedded systems. Lauterbach's TRACE32 in-circuit emulators and debuggers are powerful development tools for embedded systems. Together, BenchX and TRACE32 deliver robust functionality in an easy-to-use Eclipse-based IDE.
Freescale’s AUTOSAR Software Developed with Green Hills Software’s MULTI IDE
Green Hills Software has announced that Freescale is using Green Hills Software's MULTI integrated development environment (IDE) to build AUTOSAR-compliant OS and 32-bit Microcontroller Abstraction Layer (MCAL) Software Packages. AUTOSAR is a growing standard requirement in all automotive body, chassis and safety software applications. The first in-car deployment is expected in 2010.
Renesas and Cavium Networks Establish Strategic Collaboration to Deliver Optimised Reference Designs for High-Performance Routers and Switches
Renesas Technology Corp., one of the world's leading providers of advanced semiconductor solutions including Ternary Content Addressable Memory (TCAM) for advanced packet classification in networking platforms, and Cavium Networks [NASDAQ: CAVM], a leading provider of multi-core processors for networking, wireless, storage, video, and security applications, today announced that they have established a strategic collaboration to deliver highly optimised, high-performance, joint reference design solutions for customers to seamlessly incorporate QUAD-Search TCAM functionality with OCTEON multi-core processors. The companies will separately and jointly market these optimised reference designs to their OEM customers to deliver attractive cost, performance and time-to-market benefits for customer designs.
IntegrIT Joins Tensilica’s Xtensions Partner Network for DSP Software Services
Tensilica announced that IntegrIT DSP Design House, a leading supplier of DSP (digital signal processing) software solutions, has joined Tensilica's Xtensions™ partner network to provide vital software components, including the high-performance Nature DSP Signal+ library, for the ConnX Baseband Engine, HiFi Audio DSPs and the ConnX D2 communications DSP. The IntegrIT Nature DSP Signal+ is a collection of signal processing functions that assist the implementation of typical DSP algorithms. All functions are optimized for and utilize the full data bus bandwidth and computing power of each of the ConnX DSPs. The IntegrIT Nature DSP Signal+ library features over 30 common math and signal functions and is designed to be useful in practical real-time DSP applications.
IAR Systems supports Actel's new SmartFusion Intelligent Mixed Signal FPGAs
IAR Systems today announced support for Actel's SmartFusion devices that integrate an FPGA, ARM Cortex(TM)-M3-based microcontroller subsystem and programmable analog on a single chip. IAR Embedded Workbench seamlessly combines with an eco-system of middleware options, a major advantage for end users adopting these new devices. SmartFusion devices offer a compelling solution in a wide variety of applications, including motor control, system and power management and industrial automation. These applications span the industrial, military, medical, telecommunications, computing and storage markets.
IDT Announces Serial RapidIO Gen2 System Modelling Tool
IDT announces the availability of its new Serial RapidIO Gen2 system modeling tool. Using this new tool, designers and architects in various markets, including wireless infrastructure, military, imaging, video and storage, can now virtually create a new Serial RapidIO Gen1- or Gen2-based system. Designers and system architects can rapidly and confidently design their entire system and avoid potential bottlenecks within the design by leveraging Serial RapidIO's ability to support any topology. This allows designers to perfect the system virtually before creating a physical prototype, improving IDT customers' design efficiency and speeding their time to market.
Analog Devices Offers Free Image Processing Software Modules for Developers of Complex Image and Video Processing Applications
Responding to increased developer demand for low cost, fast and efficient video technology software tools, Analog Devices, Inc. is now offering a free comprehensive video primitives library for use in real time video analytics applications. The software modules are fully optimised for the Blackfin processor family and include image processing task level primitives to enable faster development cycles for video analytics applications. The free software modules, available in object code or a C source wrapper, provide advanced video design functionality such as video filtering, transforms, color operations and utilities suitable for a wide range of applications, including video surveillance, automotive vision systems and industrial vision.
RTXC RTOS supports high-performance ARM Cortex-A8 core
Continuing its focus on ARM-based processors, Quadros Systems, Inc., a leading provider of real-time operating systems (RTOS), today announced support for the Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) OMAP™ 3 platform, which features an ARM Cortex-A8 architecture from ARM Ltd. Developers can now combine the efficiency and scalability of RTXC software family with the performance and energy efficiency of OMAP35x processors.
Zuken Announces PCB Design Software E-Training in America
Based on customer feedback, Zuken in America has launched an e-training package for its PCB design solution, Design Gateway. This more cost-effective and flexible training approach overcomes scheduling and travel issues associated with group classroom based training traditionally on offer.
Energy Micro Uses Cadence Low-Power Solution to Develop its Latest Energy-Efficient Microcontroller
Cadence Design Systems today announced that Energy Micro, the energy friendly microcontroller company, deployed Cadence Low-Power Solution, to develop a highly power efficient ARM Cortex M3-based microcontroller that significantly saves battery life.
Napatech supports Windows 7 for Appliance development projects
Napatech today released support for Microsoft Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 on all Napatech PCI Express intelligent real-time network analysis adapters. This extends Napatech's unique support for full 10 Gbps data transfer from port to application on Windows operating systems on a par with Linux and FreeBSD. OEM network appliance vendors now have full flexibility in choice of operating system for their appliance development projects.
HiTOP debugger supports Windows 7
Hitex introduces HiTOP 5.40, the latest release of their universal software debugger. The major feature in this version is full support for Windows 7 32-/64-bit.
Mentor Graphics to Extend Cooperation with STMicroelectronics for Advanced Chip-Development Design Solutions
Mentor Graphics and STMicroelectronics one of the world's leading semiconductor suppliers, today announced a broad-scoped collaboration to develop advanced design solutions at the 32-nm technology node and down to 20-nm node.
Agilent Technologies' SystemVue Now Links C++ Code Generation, X-parameters for RF-DSP Co-Design
Agilent today announced that its new release of SystemVue software generates C++ code and supports X-parameter* models for connecting communications system-level design to baseband DSP and RF design flows. SystemVue 2010.01 also includes 4G applications for digital pre-distortion and MIMO channel modeling, as well as updates to its LTE, DVB-2, OFDM, and ZigBee reference libraries.
MSC presents the configurable advanced touch-screen LCD video evaluation platform for Lattice FPGA families
The LCD-Pro Evaluation Kit is an advanced FPGA-based LCD video imaging and control solutions platform which enables evaluation and demonstration of the functions of the LCD-Pro Library, a set of flexible, configurable IP cores which can be used to implement versatile and powerful display control, graphics and video applications. The library is based around the industry standard AMBA™ bus architecture, allowing interconnection of the LCD-Pro IP with a wide range of system components compatible with the AMBA™ bus. The LCD-Pro IP cores are targeted to Lattice FPGAs, specially optimized for the LatticeECP2 low-cost FPGA family. The library contains several IP providing advanced graphics system functionalities.
Byte Paradigm to conduct its annual survey on embedded system design in March and April
In an attempt to better understanding the needs of the hardware / software embedded system engineer in terms of testing and debuging, Byte Paradigm will be sustaining an important market research effort all throughout the year.
Green Hills Software Supports Freescale P2020 Multicore Processor
Green Hills Software, Inc., the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutions, has announced a comprehensive software development and run-time management solution for embedded products based on the multicore Freescale QorIQ™ P2020 and P2010 communications processors. Components of the Green Hills Software development toolkit include the INTEGRITY® RTOS and INTEGRITY Secure Virtualization (ISV), optimizing C/C++ compilers for Power Architecture® technology, MULTI® integrated development environment (IDE), and high-speed hardware probes.
New ART module for AUTOSAR Builder automatically generates AUTOSAR-compliant code from MATLAB/ Simulink models
Geensoft, the specialist independent provider of software design tools and associated professional services for embedded systems development, has launched the AUTOSAR Re-targeting Tool (ART) module for AUTOSAR Builder, its award-winning tool suite for the development of AUTOSAR-compliant automotive embedded systems.
Altera Speeds Development Time with Industry's First TÜV-Qualified Industrial Safety Data Package
Continuing to offer innovative solutions to meet today's growing safety standards, Altera Corporation announced an industrial safety data package for automation applications. The announcement was made at the Embedded World Exhibition and Conference in Nuremberg, Germany.
Wind River Extends Reliable Carrier-Grade Linux to Growing Telecom Server Segment
Wind River today announced it has integrated support for HP BladeSystem carrier-grade and enterprise server blades into its industry-leading Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) operating system, tools and build system. Wind River Linux is the first registered CGL 4.0 solution supported on HP ProLiant server blades for HP BladeSystem, allowing customers to standardize on one common carrier-grade operating system platform to build highly reliable network elements across different hardware platforms.
ScanWorks enhanced with comprehensive validation tools for high-speed I/O on future Intel platforms
ASSET InterTech, the supplier of open tools for embedded instrumentation, has enhanced its validation and testing tools for Intel's future platforms. In this arrangement, ASSET's ScanWorks platform for embedded instruments will continue to support Intel's Interconnect Built-In Self Test (IBIST) technology which is embedded in the chip company's processors and chip sets, and ScanWorks will provide a comprehensive validation solution for high-speed input/output (I/O) on Intel platforms.
