Design
Low-cost Altera development kits start at $49
Altera has today announced the introduction of five new low-cost development kits based on its Cyclone V FPGAs. These new kits make it easy for designers to cost-effectively get started on FPGA development with an entry point of just $49. Altera provides the industry’s broadest portfolio of low-cost solutions that deliver optimal power and performance based on customer’s unique design requirements.
Synopsys and TSMC collaborate for 16-nm custom design reference flow
Synopsys has collaborated with TSMC to provide support for voltage-dependent design rules in TSMC's 16-nm Custom Design Reference Flow. As part of TSMC's custom design infrastructure, TSMC has also certified Synopsys' Laker custom design solution and circuit simulation tools that deliver new capabilities for TSMC V0.5 16-nm FinFET process layout design rules, device models, and electromigration and IR-drop analysis. TSMC and Synopsys will continu...
Analog Devices announce FPGA-based reference design
Analog Devices has released an FPGA-based reference design with software and HDL code that reduces the design risk of high-speed systems incorporating JESD204B-compatible converters. The JESD204B Xilinx Transceiver Debug Tool supports the 312.5-Mbps to 12.5-Gbps JESD204B data converter-to-FPGA serial data interface and Xilinx 7 series FPGAs and Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoCs.
AVX updates SpiCalci 8.0 SPICE modelling software
AVX has updated its advanced SpiCalci 8.0 SPICE modelling software with the addition of two new high temperature multilayer ceramic capacitor series for power electronics employed in harsh environment applications such as down-hole oil drilling. Now featuring the SMX-style stacked, switch mode power supply MLCCs and SXP-style encapsulated, radial-leaded MLCCs SpiCalci 8.0 helps design engineers validate circuits before they are built by allowing ...
IDT introduces Timing Commander software platform
Integrated Device Technology announce Timing Commander, an innovative software platform enabling system design engineers to configure, program, and monitor sophisticated timing devices with an intuitive and flexible graphical user interface. The new support tool empowers customers to expedite development cycles and optimize the configuration of IDT’s industry-leading clocking solutions.
Wind River announces latest software platform for the IoT
Wind River has today introduced the latest version of Wind River Intelligent Device Platform, a complete software development environment used for building machine-to-machine applications and devices that communicate with the cloud. The platform provides ready-to-use components to secure, manage, and connect Internet of Things gateways.
ASSET InterTech announces Arium SourcePoint debugger
Designers of microservers based on the new Intel C2000 Atom system-on-a-chip will be able to debug software and firmware faster because of the powerful tools in ASSET InterTech’s Arium SourcePoint debugger. The new Intel C2000 Atom devices are low-power SoCs featuring two, four or eight processing cores as well as several peripheral interfaces, including USB2, Gigabit Ethernet and Serial Advanced Technology Attachment.
AWR introduces AWR Connected for AMPSA
AWR announce AWR Connected for AMPSA, a synthesis-through-simulation design flow specifically developed to improve design throughput and productivity for amplifier designers. AMPSA’s software provides synthesis solutions for impedance-matching networks and high dynamic range RF and microwave amplifiers that integrate directly with AWR’s Microwave Office circuit design software.
Gameduino2 game adaptor shield driven by FT800 EVE
FTDI Chip has confirmed that its ground-breaking FT800 Embedded Video Engine is a key component in an exciting new Kickstarter project - the Gameduino2 game adaptor shield from Excamera. In 2011, the Kickstarter-funded Gameduino made major industry impact by successfully bringing vintage gaming to the popular Arduino platform.
TERASEL, A New European Effort To Develop Industrial Production Chain For Manufacturing Randomly Shaped Electronic Circuits
Imec and its project partners today announced the launch of TERASEL (Thermo-plastically deformable circuits for embedded randomly shaped electronics), a project under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for Information and Communication Technologies (FP7). The overall goal of the project is the development, industrial implementation and application of large-area, cost-effective, randomly shaped electronics and sensor circuit te...