Design
Innovasic Announces Production Availability of Pin Compatible Am186ER and Am188ER Embedded Processors
Production units are now available for the IA18xER embedded processor. These devices are form, fit, and function compatible with the Am186ER and Am188ER devices. The IA18xER is capable of operating as a 186 or 188 processor (16-bit or 8-bit) and is available in 100-lead PQFP and 100-lead LQFP RoHS-compliant packages.
JTAG CoreCommander checks-out FPGA Zone
CoreCommander for FPGAs, from JTAG Technologies, offers a generic solution based on VHDL code that allows engineers to bridge from the standard JTAG test and programming port (TAP) to proprietary IP cores (e.g. DDR controllers, E-net MAC, USB controllers etc.) and harness them for test purposes.
RFMD Selected To Support Fourth-Generation Flagship Smartphone
RF Micro Devices has been selected by a leading smartphone manufacturer to supply multiple 3G/4G LTE components into a recently announced fourth-generation flagship smartphone platform. The highly anticipated smartphones will feature RFMD's recently announced RF7388 multimode multi-band 3G/4G PA, multiple variants of RFMD's RF73xx family of ultra-high efficiency LTE PAs, and RFMD's industry-leading antenna control solutions.
Major Updates To Leading IAR Tools For Low-Power Renesas Microcontrollers
IAR Systems has today released a new version of its development tool suite IAR Embedded Workbench for Renesas RL78. The new version 1.30 adds a large amount of new functionality for code writing and debugging. For simplified code writing, the new version uses IAR Systems’ new text editor and source browser, which includes user-friendly features such as auto-completion, parameter hints, code folding, block select and indent, bracket matching, zo...
Healthcare Analog Front End Reference Platform From Freescale
The global proliferation of portable medical devices is making medical technology more accessible to consumers and transforming the healthcare industry by providing previously unavailable technology to end users, often in their own home. Medical device manufacturers are facing the challenges of the consumer marketplace including its price sensitivity and time-to-market pressure. To help simplify product development, reduce cost and speed time to ...
Intersil's PowerNavigator Provides Single Platform For All PMBus-Enabled Power Products
Intersil has today announced plans to introduce its latest PowerNavigator digital design system at this year's APEC in Long Beach March 17-21, booth 619. The PowerNavigator GUI offers a single software platform for all PMBus-enabled Power Management products at Intersil, meeting all user requirements with complete design editing from design start to hardware implementation.
Accellera Systems Initiative Completes SystemC AMS 2.0 Standard for Mixed-Signal Design of Electronic Systems
Accellera Systems Initiative today announces completion of the SystemC Analog /Mixed-Signal(AMS) 2.0 extensions. SystemC AMS 2.0 is an industry-driven mixed-signal standard for electronic system-level design. The SystemC AMS 2.0 language reference manual (LRM) is available for download under SystemC open-source license here.
High-Performance PFC Kit And Digital Power Workshop Kit From Texas Instruments
Digital power designs are now even easier with two new development kits from Texas Instruments. The TI C2000 microcontroller Interleaved Power Factor Correction Kit offers best-in-class efficiency, power factor and total harmonic distortion performance, supporting advanced power metering functions and alternating current lines. The first of its kind, providing complete training materials, the Digital Power Workshop Kit provides a robust, low-volt...
Altera Cyclone V GT FPGA Is Industry’s First Low-Power FPGA to Achieve Compliance for PCIe Gen2 at 5 Gbps
Altera Corporation today announced its 28 nm Cyclone V GT FPGA completed compliance testing with the PCI Express (PCIe) 2.0 specification. Available in production today, the Cyclone V GT FPGA is the industry’s first low-cost, low-power FPGA to achieve PCIe 2.0 interoperability with data rates of 5 Gbps.
IAR Systems provides development tools for Microsemi’s SmartFusion2 SoC FPGAs
IAR Systems announces support for the newly released SmartFusion2 product family from Microsemi Corporation. Customers working with these logic devices now gain access to the powerful code optimizations and comprehensive debugging and trace capabilities offered by the C/C++ development tool suite IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM.