Design
Advantest Introduces New Test Floor Intelligence Software Solution
Advantest Corporation has introduced its newest Test Floor Intelligence software solution, TFI 2.0, designed to improve the overall equipment effectiveness of production test operations by efficiently mining and analyzing the large volume of data generated during semiconductor testing.
New Cadence Energy-Efficient PCI Express IP Helps Reduce Power Consumption for Datacenter and Enterprise Applications
Addressing the design challenge of reducing energy consumption of power-hungry datacenters and enterprise applications, Cadence Design Systems, today announced new design IP for low-power PCI Express development.
WaveFormer Pro Supports Agilent & Tektronix Equipment And Hyperlynx
SynaptiCAD has released an updated version of WaveFormer Pro, a tool for analyzing timing diagrams and translating digital and analog waveforms between simulators and test equipment. The new version supports importing and exporting digital and analog waveforms to the latest Agilent and Tektronix logic analyzers and mixed-signal oscilloscopes. WaveFormer also supports importing timing information from the Mentor Graphic's Hyperlynx board-level tim...
Atollic and Quadros Systems Partner to Offer RTOS-Aware Debugging
Atollic announced the availability of kernel aware debug support for the RTXC Quadros real-time operating system in the Atollic TrueSTUDIO IDE. With kernel aware debugging TrueSTUDIO’s debugger is able to display detailed data on the state of the RTXC Quadros RTOS objects during a debug session. Each object is displayed in its own dockable window. These windows are available for objects such as tasks, queues, mutexes, semaphores, alarms, counte...
A New Generation
Innovations in design are helping automotive manufacturers to simplify systems and reduce component count, by implementing more functions while reducing board space requirements and power consumption. By Thomas Mueller, Product Manager, Automotive ASICs with ams AG.
MISRA C Is Useful – But It Is Not A Lifebelt
Chris Hills, CTO of Phaedrus Systems and a member of the MISRA C working group discusses the new MISRA C:2012 guidelines. In this article from ES Design magazine, Chris also looks at why, on their own, they are not that useful.
IAR Systems launches updated version of tools for Renesas M16C and R8C
IAR Systems releases a new version of its development toolchain IAR Embedded Workbench for Renesas M16C and R8C. Developers working with microcontrollers based on these cores will now benefit from working with IAR Systems’ new user-friendly editor and source browser, as well as several new debugging features and integration with the version control system Subversion.
Synopsys and UMC Collaborate to Accelerate Development of UMC's 14-nm FinFET Process
Synopsys and United Microelectronics Corporation today announced that the collaboration between the two companies has resulted in the successful tapeout of UMC's first process qualification vehicle in its 14-nanometer (nm) FinFET process utilizing Synopsys' DesignWare Logic Library IP portfolio and StarRC parasitic extraction solution, a part of the Galaxy Implementation Platform.
PX1500-4 – 1.5 GS/s 4 Channel or 3.0 GS/s 2 Channel, 8 bit, PCIe x8, Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA, Digitizer Board
The PX1500-4 is a four channel waveform capture board that can acquire up to 1500 MSPS on each channel or up to 3000 MSPS for dual channel operation when ADC data is interleaved. The PX1500-4 can be set up to use either a transformer coupled front end or an amplifier connection.
ZyXEL Selects Sigma Designs’ Next Generation G.hn Chipset
Sigma Designs today announced advanced networking supplier, ZyXel, has selected Sigma Designs’ newly certified G.hn CG5200 family of chipsets for their PLA6245 - 1000 Mbps Powerline Pass-Thru Gigabit Ethernet Adapter.