Design
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.
Microsemi Shipping Production-qualified SmartFusion2 SoC FPGAs and Full-featured Development Kit
Microsemi today announced shipment of production-qualified SmartFusion2 system-on-chip field programmable gate arrays. The company also announced the availability of its full-featured SmartFusion2 development kit with support for mainstream industry interfaces.
Renesas And HCC Embedded Offer Free Software Packages For RX MCU Designs
Renesas has teamed up with the software alliance partner HCC Embedded to offer an innovative software support programme for European customers. Customers who are going to use the 32bit RX MCU microcontroller family in their designs can qualify for a free-of-charge commercial software package from HCC up to the value of 20,000 euros. This innovation support programme adds maximum value to RX MCU range, providing qualifying customers with free deve...
Cadence Announces The Tempus Timing Signoff Solution
In a move to ease and speed the development of complex ICs, Cadence Design Systems introduce the Tempus Timing Signoff Solution, a new static timing analysis and closure tool designed to enable System-on-Chip developers to speed timing closure and move chip designs to fabrication quickly. The Tempus Timing Signoff Solution represents a new approach to timing signoff tools that enables customers to shrink timing signoff closure and analysis for fa...
Making Moves On PCI Standards
As the embedded world increasingly explores mobile applications, the need to incorporate the higher performance interconnect of PCI Express has become apparent. Therefore, in February, the PCI/104 Consortium approved the PCI/104-Express and PCIe/104 specification revision which supports PCI Express Generation 2 and Generation 3. Caroline Hayes finds out what options this opens up for developers in this ES Design magazine article.
New Carrier Cards Interface XMC Mezzanine Modules to PCI Express Bus for PC-based Embedded Systems
Acromag’s APCe8675 carrier card offers a simple and cost-effective solution that allows a PC to communicate with an XMC mezzanine module over a PCI Express bus. System developers can insert Acromag’s FPGA modules or other XMC modules on the carrier card to perform a variety of signal processing functions.
Synopsys DesignWare IP for PCI Express 3.0 Passes First PCI-SIG PCIe 3.0 Compliance Workshop
Synopsys today announced that its DesignWare PHY and digital controller IP for the PCI-SIG PCI Express 3.0 is the first complete solution from a single vendor to pass compliance testing at the first PCI-SIG compliance workshop for PCI Express 3.0.