Design
Renesas Releases Reference Platform for RX21A Group of MCUs
Renesas Electronics Europe today announced the availability of a full reference platform for the RX21A Group of 32-bit microcontrollers for smart electricity meters with advanced functionality. Renesas will launch the platform at Smart Grids Paris on 4th June 2013.
Texas Instruments Announce OMAP5432 Processor-Based Evaluation Module
Helping developers jumpstart their product designs, Texas Instruments introduce its OMAP5432 processor-based evaluation module for high-performance industrial applications. TI’s OMAP5432 EVM enables quick, easy evaluation and benchmarking for applications demanding high-performance processing and graphics at low power, including human machine interface, portable data terminals, digital signage and medical monitoring end equipment.
TSMC Certifies Cadence Tempus Timing Signoff Solution for 20nm Designs
Cadence Design Systems announced today that TSMC has certified the new Cadence Tempus Timing Signoff Solution at 20 nanometers. The certification means the Cadence Tempus Timing Signoff Solution passes TSMC’s rigorous EDA tool certification to enable customers to achieve accuracy required for advanced technologies.
TRACE32 Supports MIPS interAptiv Multiprocessor Core Family
Lauterbach announced that its TRACE32 debuggers now support multi-threaded MIPS interAptiv processor cores from Imagination Technologies. interAptiv cores can be used as cost- and area-efficient midrange processors in a variety of networking, home entertainment, mobile and embedded applications.
Mentor Graphics Teams with OpSIS Foundries and Lumerical Solutions on PDK Development for IME Silicon Photonics Process
Mentor Graphics Corp today announced it has teamed with OpSIS and Lumerical Solutions to develop a complete EDA-style, full flow process design kit (PDK) for the OpSIS IME (Institute of Microelectronics) silicon photonics process. The prospect of integrating a silicon photonics process with silicon-based electronics would allow adding the driver and control electronics on the same chip, greatly reducing packaging complexity and cost. Adding a pho...
New Software Feature from BPM Microsystems Improves Tape Loader Teaching Process
BPM Microsystems announces that with the release of BPWin version 5.32.0, tape loader users now have the option to advance their tape reel by millimeters, mils or pocket count at the end of a job for an improved teaching process.
Quantum Delivers Simple, Open Standards Backup and Archive for Virtualised Environments
Quantum today announced enhancements to the popular Quantum vmPRO software that bring open standard data protection and archive capabilities to virtualised environments. In addition to disk or cloud, vmPRO 3.1 now leverages Scalar LTFS tape technology to provide user-accessible, searchable archive capabilities for VMware data.
New Release of Cypress’s PSoC Designer IDE Speeds and Simplifies Embedded Designs
Cypress Semiconductor today introduced PSoC Designer 5.4, a new version of its Integrated Design Environment for the PSoC 1 Programmable System-on-Chip architecture. The new version includes over 40 new or enhanced User Modules, which are free “Virtual Chips,” represented by an icon, that are used to integrate multiple ICs and system interfaces into a single PSoC device.
Industry’s First PCI Express Dual Altera Stratix V COTS Board
BittWare have begun shipping the industry’s first PCI Express COTS board powered by two of Altera’s 28-nm Stratix V FPGAs. Designed for high-end applications, the Stratix V provides a high level of system integration and flexibility for I/O, routing, and processing. S5-PCIe-DS (S5PE-DS) is a Gen 3 PCIe x16 card with an extremely flexible memory configuration: eight SODIMM sites enabling up to 64 GBytes of DDR3 SDRAM, up to 4 GBytes of RLDRAM3...
Altair Selected by u-blox to Power Single-Mode LTE Wireless Modules
Altair Semiconductor today announced that its FourGee-3100/6202 chipset has been selected by u-blox to power its single mode 4G wireless modules, the TOBY-L100 series. Increasing numbers of consumers and businesses are relying on LTE technology to implement the “Internet of Everything” which requires high-performance and cost-efficient LTE modules such as those being developed by u-blox and Altair.