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In its latest version 6.1, the tool RiskCAT (distributed by Hitex) provides essential enhancements and support for ISO 26262 (DIS). RiskCAT for ISO 26262 allows for instance comparing this standard to IEC 61508 (SIL 3) according to various aspects. E.g. RiskCAT displays all measures, which are logically present in both standards, but expressed differently.

To address the growing Dual-SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) market Infineon Technologies today launched its new XMM2138 platform, supporting Dual-SIM operation. Dual-SIM mobile phones enable simultaneous use of two SIMs in the handset, with features like call hold and swap to provide real-time switching facility between both SIMs at the touch of a button. Today there is a high growth rate for Dual-SIM phones in the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, a...

ChipWrights' new Linux software development kit provides OpenEmbedded support for developers who are designing multimedia applications based on the CW5631 System-on-Chip. Customers can now access thousands of open source packages, including GTK+, Qt, the X Windows System and Java; plus tools, which shorten development time and speed product release to market.

Wind River today released an updated version of Wind River Hypervisor, its embedded virtualization solution for single and multicore processors. The new Wind River Hypervisor 1.1 release supports the latest Intel processors and enables new inter-virtual machine communication capabilities. Additionally, debugging of virtual boards is now supported by the latest version of Wind River On-Chip Debugging.

IPextreme and Lauterbach, the leading manufacturer of hardware assisted microprocessor development tools, today announced complete interoperability between Lauterbach′s TRACE32 debug systems and IPextreme′s IEEE 1149.7 cJTAG semiconductor IP core.

STMicroelectronics and ST-Ericsson, a global leader in mobile platforms and semiconductors, are working with Adobe to accelerate Adobe® Flash® Player 10.1 and Adobe AIR® on their powerful chipsets with best-in-class multimedia and graphics capabilities, used in smartphones and connected digital-home devices.

Toshiba Electronics Europe today announced availability of three new bridge chips for use in mobile phones, a Mobile Industry Processor Interface (MIPI®) camera serial interface (CSI) to a Mobile Display Digital Interface (MDDI®) chip (part number TC358740XBG) and two MDDI-MIPI display serial interface (DSI) chips (part numbers TC358760XBG and TC358761XBG).

Green Hills Software, Inc., the largest independent supplier of embedded software solutions, has announced the INTEGRITY Multivisor, a multicore hypervisor for ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processors. The INTEGRITY Multivisor is built on INTEGRITY, the world’s market-leading, high-reliability RTOS and the only technology certified by USA’s National Security Agency to EAL6+ High Robustness, the highest level of security ever achieved for any software ...

Freescale Semiconductor released today its CodeWarrior for Microcontrollers v10.0 Beta – a major new release of CodeWarrior Development Studio. It integrates development tools for the RS08, HCS08 and ColdFire architectures into a single product based on the Eclipse open development platform. Eclipse offers an excellent framework for building software development environments and is becoming a standard framework used by many embedded software ve...

Imagination Technologies, the leading multimedia chip technologies company is working with partners including Digital Legends, Fishlabs, Teleca, Digital Aria and TAT to bring the best in new mobile multimedia and communications demonstrations and devices to MWC 2010 in Barcelona from February 15 – 18th.