Design
Magma and SynTest Integrate DFT into RTL-to-GDSII Design Flow to Increase Designer Productivity
Magma Design Automation (Nasdaq: LAVA), a provider of chip design software, today announced a collaborative effort with MagmaTies Partner SynTest Technologies, Inc., provider of design-for-test (DFT) solutions, to integrate SynTest DFT PRO Plus products into Magma’s Talus RTL-to-GDSII IC design flow. The integration complements Magma’s scan-based DFT methodology and mutual customers have validated the flow.
National Instruments Announces Module for Camera Link FPGA Image Processing
National Instruments has announced the release of a new vision module for the PXI platform that provides a high-performance parallel processing architecture for hardware-defined timing, control and image pre-processing. The new NI 1483 Camera Link adapter module, in combination with an NI FlexRIO field-programmable gate array (FPGA) board, offers a solution for embedding vision and control algorithms directly on FPGAs. Engineers and scientists c...
Vishay Enhances ThermaSim Online MOSFET Thermal Simulation Tool to Offer Designers Increased Simulation Accuracy, Efficiency, and User Friendliness
Vishay announced that it has improved its ThermaSim online MOSFET thermal simulation tool to provide designers with increased simulation accuracy, efficiency, and user friendliness.
EAGLE - Europe’s best selling CAD Tool of its kind from Premier Farnell now incorporates DesignLink
Premier Farnell plc has announced the launch of EAGLE software version 5.10.0. The latest version of CadSoft’s award winning EAGLE software, the best selling CAD tool of its kind, incorporates “DesignLink”, giving electronic design engineers (EDEs) complete flexibility to manipulate component data. Unlike any other CAD tool, designers can ‘cut and slice’ information however they want to; the only barriers to how they want to use being ...
New Low Cost Brevia Development Kit Accelerates Application Development For Popular LatticeXP2 FPGA Family
Lattice Semiconductor Corporation today announced the immediate availability of a new versatile LatticeXP2 Brevia Development Kit and 28 new silicon-proven reference designs, which are ideal for developing high volume, cost sensitive, high density applications. The low cost Brevia Development Kit is currently available for a promotional price of only $29. The instant-on, easy to use LatticeXP2 FPGA family offers users the benefits of increased ...
Altium makes touch sensor design more affordable
Altium recently announced the industry’s first integrated touch sensor development solution which combines Atmel’s QTouch® Suite with Altium Designer.
Atego launches Artisan Studio 7.2
Atego has launched Artisan Studio 7.2, a major new version of its flagship model-driven development tool suite.
Synopsys Announces Synphony HLS Support for Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGAs
Synopsys, Inc. today announced that its Synphony HLS (High Level Synthesis) product now includes optimized support for Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGAs. The high level synthesis flow provides Virtex-6 FPGA users with more automatic target-specific optimizations and architecture exploration from high level models and delivers up to 10X higher design and verification productivity than traditional RTL flows for communications and multimedia applications.
Boundary-scan Tools Keep On Developing
JTAG Technologies is delighted to announce further advances in the boundary-scan tool arena with the latest release of its development and hardware debug tool, JTAG ProVisionT V1.8, that features on the latest tools CD.
Digital DC/DC LED Developer's Kit based on TI's Piccolo MCU
Bringing the intelligence and precision of real-time digital control to expanding LED applications, Texas Instruments Incorporated today announced its new TMS320C2000™ Piccolo microcontroller DC/DC LED Developer’s Kit. The new LED controller kit enables developers to leverage the performance of low-cost Piccolo MCUs to differentiate LED designs with advanced features such as dimming, color tone adjustment, power line communication and fault d...