Design
Kit eliminates costly resolver-to-digital conversion
Texas Instruments introduces its first programmable microcontroller solution to handle resolver-to-digital decoding. The C2000 MCU Resolver Kit shows designers how to implement resolver-to-digital conversion using software on programmable C2000 MCUs, saving system cost and space in a variety of industrial applications, including robotics, servo drives, automation, avionics and transportation.
Tools achieve certification for TSMC’s 16nm FinFET process
Digital tools from Cadence Design Systems have received V1.0 DRM and SPICE certification for TSMC’s 16nm FinFET process, enabling joint customers to begin taping out FinFET-based designs using Cadence tools. Cadence’s digital, custom/analog and signoff tools have been co-optimized with TSMC’s 16nm FinFET process to enable higher performance, lower power consumption and smaller area for advanced designs.
Software achieves certification for 16nm FinFET process
Mentor Graphics has announced that its IC design to silicon solution has achieved certification for TSMC’s Design Rule Manual (DRM) and SPICE model version 1.0 for its 16nm FinFET process. The certification includes tools in the Calibre physical verification and DFM platform, as well as the Olympus-SoC place and route system, the Pyxis custom IC design platform, and Eldo SPICE simulator.
Simulation technology used to develop ADAS software
Toshiba has selected Simics simulation technology from Wind River to develop automotive application software on image recognition SoC platforms. With full system simulation and breakthrough development techniques, Simics helps Toshiba’s automotive customers increase their productivity by making software development processes faster and more efficient.
Green Hills expands support for Kinetis MCUs
With the company's MULTI integrated development environment selected by Freescale as a featured IDE for Kinetis MCUs, Green Hills Software has announced updates to its comprehensive software development tools, operating systems, middleware and hardware debug probe support for Freescale Kinetis MCUs.
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...