Design

Cadence Design Systems has announced that its digital full flow and custom/analogue tool suites have been further enhanced to deliver optimal results on TSMC’s N6 and N5 process technologies. The Cadence tool suites have achieved Design Rule Manual (DRM) and SPICE certification for TSMC’s latest N6 and N5 process technologies.

Green Hills Software has announced the availability and early customer adoption of its advanced software development tools targeting 32- and 64-bit RISC-V processor architectures.

IAR Systems has announced that its extensive product portfolio of embedded software development tools is now extended with build tools supporting implementation in Linux-based frameworks for automated application build and test processes.

Cincoze has unveiled the GM-1000 rugged GPU computer, which is powered by the 9th/8th generation Intel CPU and supports one MXM GPU module expansion. This GPU computer provides high-performance computing capability with a small footprint design, which is suitable for applications like edge computing, machine vision, image processing, and artificial intelligence.

Yamaha Motor Europe has announced that it will launch the RCX-Studio 2020 support software for the RCX3 Series of robot controllers on May 14th, 2020. This new product adds new functions such as a 3D simulator and program templates (automatic sample generation) to the existing RCX-Studio Pro software, and also features usability enhancements.

Gaining more wide-spread use due to their precise temperature control and reliable solid-state construction, Peltier modules or ThermoElectric Coolers (TEC) operate by transferring heat from one side of the module to the other when electrical power is applied. By CUI Devices

ELTEC Elektronik has developed CANbus interface cards for the communication of safety-critical infrastructure. These interface cards are plugged onto a computer board as mezzanine boards and are controlled via SPI or PCI Express.

Here at Electronic Specifier we have teamed up with Microchip to give our readers the chance to win a Microchip PIC-BLE Development Board (DT100112) and if you don’t win, you can still receive a 20% off voucher, plus free shipping for one of these boards.

The Khronos Group, an open consortium of companies creating graphics and compute interoperability standards, publicly releases the OpenVG 1.1 Lite Provisional Specification for advanced 2D vector and raster high quality vector graphics, with conformance tests placed into open source under the Apache 2.0 license. OpenVG 1.1 Lite enables this high quality 2D vector graphics API to be fully accelerated by any OpenGL ES 2.0-compatible GPU f...

In-stock availability and full design support capabilities for three inverter reference designs from Wolfspeed is announced by Richardson RFPD.