Design
Tool integration cuts development costs
A significantly improved integration between Symtavision’s SymTA/S and TraceAnalyzer timing design tools and Lauterbach’s TRACE32 suite of modular microprocessor development tools has been announced. The improved integration will better ensure the safety and reliability of automotive real-time software at the same time as speeding development and reducing costs.
Speed time-to-market for functional safety applications
Altera has unveiled a functional safety development board and FPGA reference designs which, combined with Altera’s TÜV Rheinland-qualified FPGAs, tools and IP, enable customers to accelerate development and certification of FPGA-based system designs.
Design support offered for industry’s lowest loss switches
GeneSiC Semiconductor announces the availability of Gate Driver evaluation board and has expanded its design support for what it calls the the industry’s lowest loss switches, the SiC Junction Transistor (SJT), with a fully-qualified LTSPICE IV model. Using the Gate Driver Board, power conversion circuit designers can verify the benefits of sub-15ns, temperature independent switching characteristics of SiC Junction Transistors, wi...
Green Hills Software & MEN partner
Aiming to develop pre-certified safety platforms for applications in the industrial and transportation sectors, Green Hills Software and MEN Mikro Elektronik have announced a partnership. The multi-year, multi-safety standard agreement unites these vendors in the delivery of SBC hardware and RTOS. This co-operation will enable customers to focus on the development of their own applications, confident in the knowledge that they can achieve require...
Würth shares custom magnetics form factor models
Würth Electronics Midcom has created models of all custom magnetics form factors available in their Custom Capabilities Catalog. The custom magnetics models are available in downloadable libraries containing over 90 different form factors, including bobbin and header style packages.
RTOS accelerates time-to-market for industrial PCs
The Digital Factory division of Siemens has chosen Wind River's VxWorks RTOS as the foundation for its market-leading high-performance industrial PCs. The industrial PCs operate in extremely demanding environments, often directly on the plant floor. Because a standard PC operating system does not always fit the requirements of sophisticated industrial applications, Siemens required an RTOS to execute tasks requiring determinism, fast response tim...
Support for intelligent gateways enables IoT development
Lantronix announced availability of software features for its PremierWave family of Intelligent Gateways. With this release, Lantronix added support for Python – a dynamic, object-oriented programming language that is rapidly becoming a standard for creating and deploying industrial IoT applications. The Company also announced the launch of a developers’ wiki to provide downloadable sample scripts, instructions, and a platform for com...
Tools deliver MIPS software lifecycle development environment
Imagination Technologies has introduced tools designed to provide everything needed for MIPS software development across the entire product lifecycle from SoC design and integration, through SoC bringup, to end product. The Codescape MIPS SDK Essentials and Codescape MIPS SDK Professional (MIPS proSDK) offer powerful capabilities for developers targeting any MIPS-based platforms, from entry-level development boards through to high-end multi-...
DesignWare IP Prototyping Kits target 10 interface protocols
Synopsys has announced DesignWare IP Prototyping Kits for 10 interface protocols, including USB 3.0, SSIC, PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0, DDR3, LPDDR3, LPDDR2, MIPI CSI-2, HDMI 2.0 and JEDEC UFS. The kits provide the essential hardware and software elements needed to reduce IP prototyping and integration effort by up to six weeks.
Design aid allows for small, high quality hearing aid ICs
Synopsys announces that Oticon has deployed Synopsys' Design Compiler Graphical RTL synthesis solution for implementation of its hearing solution IC range. Minimising IC area and power consumption while maximising functionality and performance are key factors in delivering the smallest hearing aids with the best voice quality and feature set.