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Freescale and Mentor Graphics streamline embedded Android OS development
Freescale Semiconductor has introduced a hardware/software platform that helps systems designers and OEMs deploy the popular Android operating system on Freescale products based on Power Architecture technology.
Collaboration provides NX users the ability to use Maple’s computational power to analyse and optimise designs
Maplesoft, the leading provider of high performance software tools for engineering, science and mathematics, announced a partnership with Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division and a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services. Maple, the technical computing software from Maplesoft, and available from Adept Scientific (Letchworth, Herts), supplies important analysi...
Hectronic announces Qseven Starter Kit with Intel AtomT
Hectronic, a specialist in embedded PC development and manufacturing, has announced a Qseven Starter Kit for rapid development of ultra compact and low power embedded systems. The Starter Kit is based on the H6049 Qseven Module with an Intel Atom Z510/530 processor. The H4103 Reference Carrier Board and Board Support Packages for Windows XP Pro/XP Embedded and Linux are included to save time by enabling customers to start developing the applicati...
Safety-Critical Software Platform Combines DDC-I’s DO-178B RTOS with LDRA’s Analysis and Test Tools
DDC-I, a leading supplier of software and professional services for safety-critical applications, and LDRA, provider of the industry’s most complete automated software testing technology, today announced the integration of DDC-I’s DO-178B-certifiable Deos real-time operating system (RTOS) and LDRA’s tool suite. The integrated solution will help developers get to market faster with optimized, robust and certifiable software that meets the mo...
ARM launches Mali center for graphics developers
ARM announced today at ARM TechCon 3, Santa Clara, Calif., the launch of the ARM Mali Developer Center – a comprehensive suite of resources for graphics and embedded applications developers working with the Khronos OpenGL ES 1.1 and 2.0, OpenVG 1.0 and 1.1, as well as other APIs. Accessing these resources as members of the Mali ecosystem will enable developers targeting Mali graphics processing unit (GPU) platforms to bring best-in-class conte...
Imagination Technologies says POWERVR SGX driving migration towards shader-based graphics in mobile
Imagination Technologies reports that mobile graphics hit a new milestone this month, with over 100 leading consumer electronics products now utilising Imagination’s POWERVR SGX to deliver advanced shader-based graphics.
Imagination and Futuremark team up to bring Kanzi UI engine to POWERVR Insiders
Imagination Technologies is working with Futuremark to make Futuremark’s Kanzi UI engine and toolkit available to members of Imagination’s POWERVR Insider developer ecosystem.
Safety-Critical Software Platform Combines DDC-I’s DO-178B RTOS with LDRA’s Analysis and Test Tools
DDC-I and LDRA today announced the integration of DDC-I’s DO-178B-certifiable DeosTM real-time operating system and LDRA’s tool suite. The integrated solution will help developers get to market faster with optimised, robust and certifiable software that meets the most demanding safety-critical requirements, including DO-178B Level A, the FAA’s highest level of safety criticality.
Synopsys enables optimised high performance energy efficient ARM processor-based designs
Synopsys, Inc. today announced that it has created an optimised reference implementation methodology for the ARM Cortex-A8 processor that achieves greater than 2GHz (4000 DMIPS) at 540mW. This result was accomplished by combining optimised methodology, tools and ARM Physical IP to enable new classes of mobile and tethered devices requiring the combination of high performance and energy efficiency.
AT88CK109STK3 - Atmel Starter Kit Prevents Data Counterfeiting In Medical and Electronics Markets
Atmel Corporation today announced its CryptoAuthentication Starter Kit. The AT88CK109STK3 is a modular and versatile development kit for Atmel’s CryptoAuthentication AT88SA102S and AT88SA100S client security devices and AT88SA10HS host security companion IC. Atmel’s CryptoAuthentication devices are the industry’s most secure authentication ICs that include an embedded SHA-256 engine and 256-bit cryptographic key to make them vir...