Design
Autodesk Announces AutoCAD for Mac and AutoCAD WS App for iPad and iPhone
Autodesk, a leader in 3D design, engineering and entertainment software, announced AutoCAD for Mac software. This version of AutoCAD, one of the most widely used software for professional design and engineering, runs natively on Mac OS X and will increase choice of hardware for millions of users around the world. Autodesk also announced the AutoCAD WS mobile application, a new app for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch that will allow users to edit and ...
Autodesk Embraces Software as a Service with New Inventor Optimization Technology Preview
Autodesk today announced that Inventor Optimization is now available for download from the Autodesk Labs website as a free* technology preview. The web-based technology, which works with Autodesk Inventor 2011, allows engineers to tap into immense cloud-based processing power—at no additional cost—to perform digital simulation on their product designs.
Wind River and Its Partners Bring Out-of-the-Box PC Experience to Embedded Market
Wind River has partnered with an ecosystem of processor board vendors to provide Embedded Development Kits that enable embedded developers to begin application development in less than one hour versus what traditionally can take days or weeks. As part of the new program, called the Wind River On-Board Program, the Embedded Development Kits comprise processor boards with optimized trial versions of Wind River’s market-leading operating systems, ...
Eurotech and Wind River Announce Collaboration to Speed Embedded Application Development
Eurotech and Wind River today announced a strategic collaboration to support joint sales, marketing and distribution of Embedded Development Kits, which enable embedded developers to begin application development in less than one hour versus what traditionally takes more than days or weeks. As part of the Wind River On-Board Program, Eurotech will offer Embedded Development Kits with validated board support packages of Wind River's embedded Linux...
Wind River Introduces New Safety Critical Platform for DO-178B and IEC 61508 Standards
Wind River announced Wind River VxWorks Cert Platform, a combination of Wind River's existing VxWorks DO-178B and IEC 61508 safety critical platforms in one product offering. The new software platform introduces support for C++ and real-time processes (RTP) providing more flexibility in programming and design and enabling improved compatibility with existing, imported or reused code.
Wind River Updates VxWorks MILS Platform with High Assurance Network Stack and Wind River Linux Guest OS
Wind River announced an updated version of its VxWorks MILS Platform, featuring an optional high assurance network stack and support for Wind River Linux as a guest operating system (OS). VxWorks MILS Platform 2.1 is designed for high security ensuring customers have a protected platform for developing high assurance applications.
Xilinx and VSofts Demonstrate Low Latency Real-Time H.264/AVC-I IP Core Compression Solution for Xilinx FPGAs
Xilinx and Vanguard Software Solutions, Inc. (VSofts) today demonstrated at the IBC2010 conference the ability of VSofts' H.264/AVC-I IP core to deliver a very low latency, ITU (International Telecommunication Union) and Panasonic AVC-Intra compliant Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) implementation of the industry-standard codec for providing minimal delay from source to encoded video in real-time video broadcast applications.
Agilent Technologies' SystemVue Now Offers Modeling, Scripting Capability Using MATLAB
Agilent today announced the release of its SystemVue 2010.07 software. This system-level design environment now provides the ability to perform complete mathematical modeling and scripting in SystemVue using MATLAB software. SystemVue also supports a new W1905 RADAR model library, which provides intellectual property (IP) reference blocks for scenario modeling and early R&D verification. The new features help system-level architects accelerate de...
mimoOn claims market leadership in LTE PHY software on SDR silicon for mobile terminals
mimoOn GmbH, the LTE software for Software Defined Radio (SDR) company, has won a further licensing deal for mi!MobilePHY Physical Layer (PHY) software from a leading chip vendor. The agreement means that mimoOn now supplies the majority of SDR chip vendors in the mobile terminals business.
Sondrel brings its IC design services to China
Sondrel, the global design services and consultancy for the semiconductor industry, today demonstrated commitment to the Chinese semiconductor market by expanding its business in Shanghai, China. The office opening was attended by Mark Prisk, the UK Minister for Business and Enterprise.