Design
Prevent FPGA overbuilding, cloning & other security threats
Microsemi has announced its Secured Production Programming Solution (SPPS) for its FPGAs. The solution securely generates and injects cryptographic keys and configuration bitstreams into Microsemi's FPGAs in order to prevent cloning, reverse engineering, malware insertion, leakage of sensitive IP such as trade secrets or classified data, overbuilding and other security threats.
Photonic design software enhances BSDF capabilities
Synopsys has announced the latest release of its RSoft Photonic Component Design Suite, the company's software for the design of photonic devices and components used in optical communications, optoelectronics and semiconductor manufacturing. Version 2016.03 of the Synopsys RSoft Photonic Component Design Suite streamlines the design of LEDs, OLEDs and displays, with faster, more rigorous simulation techniques for comprehensive modelling of nano-t...
Halve the performance cost of dynamic global lighting in open-world games
Geomerics, an ARM company, has announced its Enlighten real-time global illumination technology is to deliver large-scale dynamic lighting to open-world games. The enriched technology can halve the performance cost of dynamic global illumination effects, such as time of day, in games where map sizes are vast and draw distances are long.
Ergonomic engineering with zenon
With zenon 7.50, zenon Analyzer 3 and zenon Logic 9, COPA-DATA is bringing to the market a comprehensive update of its family of software products. Numerous new features and improvements ensure simple project configuration, as well as robust runtimes and support users with ergonomic implementation of their automation projects.
Providing a platform for 3D visualisation
Product lifecycle management (PLM) software expert, Design Rule, witnessed an increasing demand for high performance 3D viewing solutions in the product design sector. Seeking an application capable of managing both large and complex CAD data, Design Rule started working with KISTERS. Shortly after, Design Rule became authorised as distributors of KISTERS’ 3DViewStation in the United Kingdom.
12 DOF smart sensor development kit targets VR & the IoT
Dialog Semiconductor has introduced what it claims is the world’s lowest power and smallest 12 DOF wireless smart sensor development kit for IoT applications. The kit combines Dialog’s DA14583 SmartBond Bluetooth Smart SoC with Bosch Sensortec’s gyroscope, accelerometer, magnetometer and environmental sensors on a tiny 16x15mm PCB, supplied as a dongle in a plastic housing.
Design platform underpins radar simulator success
Students at Technion—Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel have successfully designed a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) using NI AWR Design Environment. The design challenge was to build an efficient, easy-to-use SAR simulator that would connect to MATLAB for signal processing and that could handle many targets on the surface and then use MATLAB to calculate the object shapes.
Software increases security for FPGA designs
Microsemi Corporation has announced the release of the latest version of Libero SoC, version 11.7, a comprehensive suite of FPGA design tools used with the company’s FPGA products. The latest software release includes a number of features to enhance ease-of-use and efficiency for designers, as well as advanced security and evaluation tools, for its RTG4 FPGAs, SmartFusion2 SoC FPGAs and IGLOO2 FPGAs.
Build, debug & fine-tune STM8 applications for free
STMicroelectronics has extended incentives for designers to choose its popular STM8 MCUs for economical computing tasks in the smart devices that support modern work and life. The latest move by ST, working with Cosmic, means all the software tools that designers need to build, debug, and fine-tune STM8 applications are now available free of charge.
Dual-channel transceiver targets IoT applications
The MAX14827 transceiver from Maxim Integrated is in stock at Mouser Electronics. As the industry’s smallest dual-channel transceiver using IO-Link point-to-point communication technology, the MAX14827 transceiver lets designers incorporate intelligent sensors with continuous diagnostics and monitoring into Industry 4.0 or industrial Internet of Things (IoT) applications.