Design
The Portland Group Releases PGI Visual Fortran for Visual Studio 2010
The Portland Group today announced the general availability of PGI Visual Fortran for Visual Studio 2010. PVF integrates PGI high-performance parallel Fortran compilers and tools with Microsoft Visual Studio to offer a high-productivity development solution to scientists and engineers upgrading to the latest 64-bit multi-core platforms running Microsoft Windows.
HawkBoard development platform combines ARM plus floating-point DSP for high-performance, low-power Linux innovations
Innovators, engineers, developers and hobbyists can now effortlessly create state-of-the-art products with the flexible, user-friendly HawkBoard, an open source embedded processor development board. This low-cost development board provides processing power through a robust ARM® and digital signal processor (DSP) and has multiple expansion and interface options to allow users to create end-use applications such as portable test and measurement...
Texas Instruments’ TMS320C6457 DSP delivers high performance, high value solution for processing intensive applications
Texas Instruments announces the introduction of a new development platform and a new speed grade option for the TMS320C6457 digital signal processor (DSP). TI’s simplified development platform coupled with the TMS320C6457 - 850MHz device will allow customers in markets such as defense, networking, test, imaging and industrial to quickly ramp up their development efforts while providing design flexibility and upgrade ability to existing TMS320C6...
Express Logic Introduces PrismX for Graphics Development in Consumer, Industrial and Medical Devices
Express Logic, Inc., today announced PrismX, an integration of Blue Water Embedded’s Prism GUI (graphic user interface) development solution with Express Logic’s ThreadX RTOS. PrismX™ represents a complete family of leading-edge graphical interface development tools and libraries for designing and deploying advanced graphical interfaces on embedded systems.
Witech Introduced Third Generation OK2440 ARM9 development
Witech again updated their OK2440, the most popular ARM9 development kit for the Samsung S3C2440 micro processor. The OK2440-III development kit features the workhorse S3C2440 processor clocked to 533MHz, and targets embedded development training applications, industrial control equipment, and consumer electronics devices such as PDAs and PNDs (personal navigation devices).
Blue Water Embedded Launches Royalty-free GUI Toolkit
Incorporating all the leading-edge GUI development tools and libraries needed to make user interface visions a reality, Prism is comprised of the Prism Runtime Framework™, a full-featured GUI toolkit, Prism Micro™, a GUI toolkit for monochrome to 8-bit color-depth targets, and Prism Insight, a desktop GUI design and resource editing tool. The complete framework and toolset automates the design and deployment of advanced graphical interfaces f...
Ophir-Spiricon's New StarLab Laser Power/Energy Software Adds Support for Windows 7 64-bit and LabVIEW
Ophir-Spiricon, the global leader in precision laser measurement, today announced StarLab 2.01, laser measurement software that converts a PC into a multi-channel laser power/energy station. Features of the newest version of the software include Windows 7 64-bit compatibility and LabVIEW support for Ophir-Spiricon's Juno USB laser sensor to PC interface. Earlier this year, StarLab added synchronization and display of multiple channels in one wind...
SchmartBoard Releases Development Board for TI Microcontrollers
SchmartBoard, a company that makes prototyping electronic circuits easier, has announced a single development board supporting Texas Instruments Incorporated's (TI) broad microcontroller portfolio, including ultra-low power MSP430, ARM® Cortex™-M3-based Stellaris and real-time control C2000 MCU platforms.
Zuken announces CADSTAR Lite PCB Design Software
Zuken today launched as part of its take-care strategy a new version of its CADSTAR PCB design software called CADSTAR Lite. Designers working on smaller scale projects no longer need to be weighed down with complexity that they don’t need – now they can buy a simplified package to match the size of their projects and wallet.
Eurotech awarded 1.35M USD order with long-term customer for industrial application
Eurotech, a leading supplier of embedded technologies, products, and systems, today announces a 1.35M USD follow-on order from a long-term customer. This order is for the embedded computing platform for an industrial controls application that manages environmental controls for hospitals, schools, and other buildings where facilities managers need to efficiently operate lighting, heating/cooling, security and other systems.