Design
Arrow Electronics' BeMicro SDK Provides Software Engineers a Risk-Free Way to Evaluate Embedded Soft-Core Processors
Offering an easy-to-use, low-cost way to evaluate soft-core embedded processors, Arrow Electronics has announced its BeMicro software development kit (SDK). The BeMicro SDK enables software developers and hardware engineers to easily evaluate Altera's Nios II embedded processor and help simplify their embedded designs.
Magma’s New Talus 1.2 Features Faster, More Advanced Routing, Timing and Extraction Technologies to Accelerate Next-Generation SoC Implementation
Magma Design Automation Inc. today unveiled Talus 1.2, a next-generation integrated circuit implementation solution that accelerates the design cycle of systems on chip. The new Talus system enables engineers to implement 1 million to 1.5 million cells per day on large designs or blocks of 2 million to 5 million cells – with crosstalk avoidance, advanced on-chip variation (AOCV) and multi-mode multi-corner (MMMC) analysis enabled. Already silic...
Magma’s New Talus Vortex FX Offers Unmatched Capacity and Throughput for Multimillion-Cell Designs
Magma Design Automation Inc. today unveiled Talus Vortex FX, the first and only integrated circuit implementation solution to fully utilize distributed computing for place and route. Talus Vortex FX is up to three times faster than Magma’s new Talus 1.2, which was also announced today. Talus Vortex FX significantly increases productivity and provides higher capacity, enabling designers to implement multimillion-cell designs flat and to generate...
Icera and Magma Collaborate on 28-nm High-Performance, Low-Power Flow to Accelerate Turnaround time for Next-Generation Soft Modem Chipsets
Magma Design Automation Inc. and Icera Inc. today announced joint development of Icera’s 28-nanometer (nm) high-performance, low-power system-on-chip (SoC) design flow for its next-generation chipsets. Icera devices are used by OEMs globally to deliver extremely small, fully software-based multimode 4G LTE/3G/2G cellular modems for smartphones, and mobile broadband devices such as USB sticks, tablets and netbooks. Icera chose Magma’s Talus pl...
IAR Systems becomes the first independent tool vendor to support the ARM Cortex A5 core
IAR Systems today announced support for the ARM Cortex-A5 core within IAR Embedded Workbench. Adding to the extensive list of ARM cores already supported by IAR Embedded Workbench, this is the first of the Cortex 'A' high performance application processor cores to benefit from the features of this comprehensive tool chain.
LDRA Speeds Medical Device Design with IEC 62304 Compliance
LDRA has integrated IEC 62304, a standard for software design of medical products, into automated software verification, source code analysis, and test tools. The standard, recently adopted by the European Union and the United States, harmonizes both European and American medical standards, ensuring that development teams improve their software quality, while minimizing the time and cost of development and maximizing market coverage.
Freescale and CriticalBlue expand collaboration on multicore software development environments
Freescale Semiconductor and CriticalBlue Limited have expanded their relationship with an alliance focused on streamlining embedded multicore software development for Freescale platforms. CriticalBlue’s Prism development environment will support a broader range of Freescale’s QorIQ and Power Architecture-based multicore products. In addition, the companies will co-develop tools, extensions and methods to help customers more easily migrate sof...
Melfas Uses Magma’s Talus and FineSim SPICE to Tape Out Low-Power, ARM Cortex Processor-Based Mixed-Signal SoCs
Magma Design Automation Inc. today announced that Melfas, a leader in capacitive-sensing touch input solutions, has used the Talus platform, including Talus RTL, Talus Vortex and Talus Power Pro, and the FineSim™ SPICE circuit simulation tool to implement two of its next-generation MCS-8000 touch sensor chips, which feature ARM Cortex processors. The Melfas ICs are used in mobile phones, smartphones, MP3 players, monitors and other consumer ele...
Green Hills Software ships world's fastest trace probe with largest storage capacity
Green Hills Software has announced SuperTrace Probe v3, the fastest trace probe with the largest storage capacity ever built. Starting with 4 gigabytes of trace, expandable to higher capacities, and a sustained JTAG download speed of over 10 megabytes per second, SuperTrace Probe v3 once again resets the standards for all trace probes. SuperTrace Probe v3 is tightly integrated with Green Hills Software’s award-winning, patented MULTI® TimeMach...
CST Announces Joint Marketing Agreement with Cadence Design Systems
As world leaders in their respective fields of layout and 3D full wave simulation, Cadence and CST are collaborating in order to offer an effective workflow for PCB and package layout co-design in high-speed and mixed RF systems. Cadence and CST applications teams will be working together to address customer requirements and offering best in class solutions.