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National Instruments UK & Ireland To Present LabVIEW Developer Days
Taking place in eight locations around the UK and Ireland, the National Instruments LabVIEW Developer Day offers free introductory and advanced technical sessions designed to help engineers and scientists improve product skills, knowledge and productivity using the award-winning LabVIEW graphical programming software.
ChipWrights Stacks Linux Application Development Kit with Major Enhancements for IPTV Set-Top Boxes and IP Cameras
ChipWrights, Inc New Linux® Application Development Kit for the CW5631 System-on-Chip provides the components to develop low-cost IPTV set-top boxes and IP cameras and significantly improve time to market. The Kit—based on the OpenEmbedded build system—leverages thousands of open source packages.
Reducing Switching Power with Intelligent Clock Gating
Xilinx introduces the first automated, fine-grain clock-gating solution that can reduce dynamic power by up to 30 percent for Virtex®-6 and Spartan®-6 FPGA designs
Partial Reconfiguration of Virtex FPGAs in ISE 12
This white paper addresses the flexible partial reconfiguration options when designing with Virtex®-6, Virtex-5, and Virtex-4 FPGAs.
AMD Unlocks 3D Internet Potential with OpenGL ES 2.0 Driver
At SIGGRAPH 2010, AMD today announced availability of the first software driver for desktop computing environments to support the WebGL industry standard, which is designed to bring plugin-free 3D graphics to the Internet. The AMD OpenGL® ES 2.0 driver is intended to help developers easily create exciting 3D content that can be rendered more quickly for consumers using open-source web browsers, thereby helping create an application-like browser ...
AMD Spurs Software Development to Benefit from Heterogeneous Compute Architectures and APUs
AMD today announced the availability of the ATI Stream Software Development Kit (SDK) v2.2 with full OpenCL™ 1.1 support to provide developers with the tools they need to build incredible next-generation applications. By taking advantage of both CPU and GPU processing power in a given system, applications like 3D video, HD video chat and multi-display 3D gaming are possible.
Synopsys Launches DesignWare USB Software Alliance Program
Synopsys, Inc. announced the launch of the DesignWare® USB Software Alliance Program with leading USB software providers emsys, Jungo, MCCI and MicroDigital as inaugural members. This alliance program establishes an ecosystem of qualified USB software providers for drivers, firmware and stacks which have proven interoperability with Synopsys' DesignWare USB 2.0 and SuperSpeed USB 3.0 IP. Synopsys and its DesignWare USB Software Alliance Program ...
Silicon Labs Offers Comprehensive Symbol Model Library To Accelerate Embedded System Design
Silicon Labs introduced a web-based library of schematic symbols and printed-circuit board (PCB) footprints to help developers designing with Silicon Labs' embedded mixed-signal products streamline application development and accelerate time to market. The online symbol library supports Silicon Labs' latest microcontrollers (MCUs) including the Si10xx wireless MCU family, ultra-low-power F99x/F98x devices and capacitive touch-sense MCUs; USB, Eth...
SchmartBoard to Give Away Development Board for TI Microcontrollers
SchmartBoard has announced a new monthly contest for their new development board which supports Texas Instruments Incorporated's broad microcontroller portfolio, including ultra-low power MSP430, ARM Cortex™-M3-based Stellaris and real-time control C2000 MCU platforms.
UK AEC Industry Makes a Significant Move Towards Building Information Modelling
“The building design, construction and infrastructure industries must improve productivity, while at the same time completing complex projects on time and at or under budget,” said Jay Bhatt, senior vice president of AEC Industry Solutions on a recent visit to the UK. He was speaking at a time when a string of big-name contractors and architects including Aedas, WSP, Architype and Halcrow have made investments in Autodesk Revit Software, alo...