Design
Aiding developers with Embedded Workbench plug-in
A new plug-in for IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM has been introduced by Swedish developer of RTOS visualisation tools, Percepio. The plug-in will be delivered in the latest release of IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM 7.50 and will enable Percepio Tracealyzer for FreeRTOS to operate from within the IAR Embedded Workbench IDE. This will allow developers using IAR Embedded Workbench access to Tracealyzer’s visualisations.
Precision maths libraries for HPC servers
ARM has announced the release of new maths libraries that are precision tuned for 64-bit ARMv8-A processors. ARM Performance Libraries are foundational maths routines designed to enable the maximum performance of computational software running on ARM-based HPC (High-performance computing) servers and systems.
Toolchain improves performance for Atmel 8-bit AVR MCUs
IAR Systems has released a version of its complete C/C++ development toolchain IAR Embedded Workbench for AVR. Version 6.70 of the popular toolchain includes improved compiler optimisations as well as new device support and updates to the add-on tool C-STAT for static code analysis.
Terminus Technology selects analogue FastSPICE platform
Mentor Graphics has announced that Terminus Technology has selected the Mentor Analogue FastSPICE (AFS) Platform for verification and device noise analysis of its data converter, power management, Wireless LAN, high-speed I/O and PLL circuits.
SHDSL evaluation kit features SOCRATES chipset
In partnership with Teleconnect, Wurth Electronics Midcom is announcing the availability of the SOCRATES Evaluation Kit for SHDSL Ethernet First Mile (EFM) Modems, featuring Lantiq’s SOCRATES SHDSL chipset. This demonstration kit provides the ability to test the capabilities of Lantiq’s SOCRATES in single-pair SHDSL applications.
Delivering an IP reference system for IoT applications
Cadence Design Systems has announced a reference system jointly developed with ARM that is targeted at Internet of Things (IoT) systems. This is the first product following the strategic IP Interoperability Agreement (IPIA) signed by Cadence and ARM that allows the companies reciprocal access to relevant IP portfolios.
Simulation VIP speeds development of IoT designs
The verification IP (VIP) for the ARM AMBA 5 Advanced High-Performance Bus 5 (AHB5) specification has been announced by Cadence Design Systems. The announcement covers two new VIP titles in Cadence’s portfolio including simulation VIP and assertion-based VIP.
Extending the reach of ARM
It has been announced that ThreadX RTOS from Express Logic now supports ARMv8 64-bit processors, including the Cortex-A53, Cortex-A57 and Cortex-A72 processors. Although 32-bit devices currently dominate the embedded space - with the ARM 32-bit Cortex processors commanding the lion’s share of the market - there is a growing demand for 64-bit processors like the ARMv8.
PROFIBUS slave stack available for industrial automation
Renesas Electronics Europe and TMG TE has announced the PROFIBUS slave stack availability for the R-IN Family. The two companies have expanded their partnership to provide system solutions for Renesas’ R-IN32M3 series of industrial Ethernet communication Application Specific Standard Products (ASSPs) and RZ/T1 group of MPUs. In addition to the extensive set of industrial Ethernet protocols, an optimised PROFIBUS slave implementation is now ...
IAR Systems beefs up trace capabilities for ARM developers
IAR Systems is releasing a new version of its high-performance C/C++ compiler and debugger toolchain IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM. The release adds extended trace capabilities with the enhanced Embedded Trace Macrocell (ETMv4) for ARM Cortex-M7 as well as Program Trace Macrocell (PTM) for recent ARM Cortex-A cores.