Design
TI's new DSP+ARM software tools dramatically reduce DSP development starting time
Today, Texas Instruments Incorporated is launching two free software development tools to enable ARM®, Linux™ and system developers to easily leverage the real-time, intensive signal processing power of the TMS320C6000™ digital signal processor (DSP) in TI’s integrated floating- and fixed-point DSP + ARM processors. The C6EZRun and C6EZAccel software development tools allow ARM developers to quickly and easily program the DSP. This simpl...
AWR Announces Microwave Office Library For Freescale’s RF High-power Models
AWR Corporation, the innovation leader in HF EDA, today announced the availability of a Microwave Office® 2010 design software library for Freescale Semiconductor’s RF high-power models. Freescale’s validated RF high-power models enable power amplifier and base station designers to meet increasing performance demands with a cost-effective and timely solution.
Solving Today's Design Security Concerns
This white paper describes the various threats to design security and the solutions offered by modern FPGAs.
Whitepaper - Military Design Trends: Applications Migrating to Intel x86 Architecture
Today’s military and defense systems designers are seeing the inherent benefits of Intel® x86 Architecture for new designs as well as legacy applications that have started to migrate from other processor architecture technologies.
Synopsys Enhances Synplify FPGA Synthesis Software With up to 4X Faster Runtime and New Team-Design Capabilities
Synopsys announced the availability of enhancements to its Synplify Pro® and Synplify® Premier FPGA synthesis tools. The new features in the 2010.09 release shorten logic synthesis runtimes and enable faster post-netlist incremental design turns. Comprehensive support for Synopsys DesignWare® Library datapath and building blocks components enables the use of common RTL from prototype to production. In addition, a unique team-design interface a...
AgO to show AnXplorer analog and RF circuit optimization tool at SAME 2010
AgO Inc, a technology leader in analog and RF circuit optimization, will show AnXplorer – a new tool for optimizing analog and RF circuits – at the SAME 2010 Exhibition. AnXplorer with an unsized SPICE netlist, variables for device dimensions and a set of design objectives and constraints, then optimizes device sizes by rigorously exploring the design space. By centering the design across all specified, process, temperature and voltage corner...
Free Board Analysis
GOEPEL electronics Ltd. offers a free board analysis for Design for Testability (DfT) and opportunities to increase test coverage with Boundary Scan. Application engineers of the Cambridge based Company will provide an analysis of Boundary Scan chain and ICs, project analysis focusing on resolving test issues and optimising test coverage. As a result, there will be recommendations how to increase test coverage, reduce test points and increase the...
Imagination enables developers to use 3D navigation data in new SDK
Imagination Technologies, a leading multimedia and communications technologies company, announces that the latest version of its POWERVR Insider software development kit (SDK), version 2.7, includes a new tutorial showing developers how to take full advantage of graphics acceleration using OpenGL ES2 to display map and advanced visual guidance data in graphics-rich applications.
LynuxWorks Announces LynxSecure 4.0 support for New Intel Embedded Platforms
LynuxWorks, Inc., a leader in secure virtualization technology, today announced availability of LynxSecure 4.0 on the latest hardware platforms from Intel. The Core i7 family has been widely used in the desktop and laptop market, and now the quad-core versions of the processor are available for embedded designs.
PGI to Develop Compiler Based on NVIDIA CUDA C Architecture for x86 Platforms
The Portland Group, a wholly-owned subsidiary of STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) and a leading supplier of compilers for high-performance computing (HPC), today announced it is developing a CUDA C compiler targeting systems based on the industry-standard general-purpose 64- and 32-bit x86 architectures. The new PGI CUDA C compiler for x86 platforms will be demonstrated at the SC10 Supercomputing conference taking place in New Orleans, LA, November...