Design
32-bit development kit for iOS accessory designs
Designed to accelerate the development of Made for iPod/iPhone/iPad (MFi) accessories, Silicon Labs has announced a 32-bit hardware and firmware development kit which helps product manufacturers get to market quickly. Supporting the all-digital Lightning connector and protocol stack, the MFI-SIM3U1XX-DK development kit targets a wide range of accessories for iOS devices including entertainment accessories, device-powered dongles, game controllers...
ARINC 429 avionics IP core is now DO-254 certified
Sital Technology has announced that its ARINC 429 IP core is available with DO-254 certification documentation. The company now delivers ARINC 429 soft IP core for Transmitter and Receiver channels that can be certified with DO-254 DAL-A through DAL-E. Along with this IP, Sital provides a testing environment and user documentation which helps the user instantiate the IP into his/hers own system design.
EPCOS ferrite disk selected for power receiver design
Selected by Linear Technology for a wireless power receiver reference design with its LTC4120-based receiver, TDK Corporation has launched an EPCOS ferrite disk. The ferrite disk (B67410A0223X195), which is based on the high-performance EPCOS N95 ferrite material, features low losses over a wide temperature range and is extremely thin with a thickness of just 0.6mm. The power receiver is rated for 400 mA and simplifies wireles...
Model libraries now available for Freescale i.MX5x processors
VarioTAP model libraries for universal processor emulation, for application processors of the i.MX51/i.MX53 family by Freescale, has been made available by GOEPEL electronic. These libraries, known as VarioTAP models, are structured modularly as intelligent IP and allow a complete fusion of boundary scan test and JTAG based emulation.
Freescale selects Atollic TrueSTUDIO as IDE for Kinetis MCUs
Atollic TrueSTUDIO has been selected by Freescale as one of only 4 professional embedded development tools designated as a featured IDE for Kinetis MCUs. Atollic TrueSTUDIO has many features such as parallel compilation, RTOS aware debugger with a built-in crash analyzer, and support for multicore and multiprocessor debugging. Event, data and instruction tracing, real-time variable watch view, MISRA-C checking, code complexity analysis...
IAR Embedded Workbench selected as Kinetis MCU IDE
Following the release of the latest addition to the Freescale Kinetis MCU portfolio, IAR Systems has announced that its IAR Embedded Workbench has again been selected as a featured IDE for Kinetis MCUs. IAR Systems and Freescale share an effective history, providing designers with the tools to simplify development and to harness the advantages of the Kinetis MCU portfolio.
ARM-based RTOS launched alongside ORCCA avionics computer
The INTEGRITY-178 tuMP RTOS for ARM-based processors has been announced by Green Hills Software. In conjunction with this announcement, Green Hills Software partner Richland Technologies has also announced the industry’s first ORCCA avionics computer based on an ARM multicore processor and INTEGRITY-178 tuMP.
Software deployed worldwide to increase zero give-away harnessing
LEONI has expanded its use of Mentor Graphic's Capital software throughout the world. LEONI now has significant Capital software deployments in Europe, America and Pacific Rim. This growth is driven in part by increasing adoption of the modular approach to wire harness configuration management, also known as customer-specific or zero give-away harnessing.
Technology branded 'essential' for avionics communications system
An independent research project, conducted by Lockheed Martin, relied on Wind River's VxWorks MILS Platform to provide a separation kernel-based security foundation for its new avionics communications system that was recently flight-tested.
EME chosen to improve 4Kp60 content delivery
Harmonic, a company who deals in video delivery infrastructure, has chosen Altera's 4Kp60-capable H.265 EME engine to dramatically improve efficiency and performance of Harmonic's PURE Compression Engine for the delivery of 4Kp60 content. The EME is a server co-processing solution based on the company's Stratix V FPGAs.