Design
Raspberry Pi Portable Gaming Console
element14 and Benjamin J. Heckendorn, aka Ben Heck, get creative in the latest episodes of The Ben Heck Show as he builds a fully functioning portable gaming console using the acclaimed Raspberry Pi Model B Board. Ben’s latest project will be featured in a two-part series, which launched today exclusively on the element14 Community.
Atrenta Ships 5.1 Release of SpyGlass Platform
Atrenta announced today the 5.1 release of its SpyGlass and GenSys platforms. The release contains significant usability improvement and enhancements to address complexity, size and performance challenges for the next wave of SoC designs.
SilabTech’s 28nm High-Speed PHYs Delivered Ahead of Schedule with Mentor Graphics Tool Flow
Mentor Graphics announced that SilabTech has achieved first silicon success for their latest 28nm high-speed, mixed-signal PHY IPs for PCI Express, SATA, MIPI, M-PHY and USB 3.0 in advance of the planned schedule. SilabTech succeeded using the Mentor Graphics Pyxis, Eldo, and Calibre tools for custom layout, extraction, simulation, physical verification, and DFM analysis.
Integrated with SIP Cores, Complete SoC Solution Expands IoT Coverage
The development of System on Chip technology has increased significantly due to the increasing demands of lower power and smaller form factors in mobile devices, which are gaining widespread popularity in recent years. Throughout this period, the performance of SoC processors underwent significant improvements in performance and design simplicity, while still retaining the advantages of low power consumption and miniaturization, making them suita...
LynuxWorks Protects Embedded Connected Devices With LynxOS 7.0
LynuxWorks introduces its next generation of their most popular real-time operating system, LynxOS 7.0, enabling embedded developers to add security functionality to their connected devices. The open standards-based LynxOS has been powering millions of embedded devices for the last 25 years across all industries and now adds significant new features to help meet the needs of the billions of next- generation connected devices.
Ricoh licenses Vayavya’s DDGen tool for automated device driver generation
Ricoh Company today announced that they have entered a licensing agreement with Vayavya Labs for using DDGen to accelerate development of device drivers. DDGen generates device drivers for different operating systems from a formal specification of the peripheral’s programming specification.
LynuxWorks Announces Broad Support for 4th Generation Intel Core Processor Family
In conjunction with the launch of the 4th Generation Intel Core processor family (formerly codenamed “Haswell”), LynuxWorks announced support of the new Intel Core i7 and i5 processor families for all three of it’s major product lines, including LynxOS, LynxOS-178 and LynxSecure.
Raspberry PI – not all it seems?
Back in 2011, a new computing platform was announced that dazzled the nation. Astonishment at how a fully functional ‘PC’ could be miniaturised excited Joe Public (though DSL are always keen to point out it had a similar product in 1991!) even the more informed embedded community took a moment to admire the petite purported price. This article by Rory Dear, Technical Sales Manager at Datasound covers his opinions on the topic.
Broadcom 5G WiFi Powers New NTT DOCOMO Smartphone by Sharp
Broadcom Corporation announced the new NTT DOCOMO smartphone by Sharp has adopted Broadcom 5G WiFi technology. Powered by the BCM4335, the AQUOS PHONE ZETA SH-06E provides customers with the speed, reliability and power benefits of 5G WiFi and adds to the growing ecosystem of 5G WiFi products available today.
ACE announces SuperTest qualification suite
ACE Associated Compiler Experts announce the availability of the SuperTest qualification suite for use in software tool qualification kits and services. Safety standards like ISO 26262 require that adequate confidence and quality levels are demonstrated in software tools. C/C++ compilers translate software to hardware architectures and are complicated tools by nature thus requiring qualification and validation when used for safety critical applic...