Design
Green Hills Announces Formation of Software Performance Division
Green Hills Software has announced that it has formed a new division, Software Acceleration. Software Acceleration will provide consulting services, leveraging the company’s extensive software performance engineering expertise, to make products run faster, use less power, and require less memory. Software Acceleration utilizes an extensive library of advanced profiling and optimization tools, combined with expert application methodology, to ens...
Quadros Systems supports LPC32x0 microcontroller family
Adding to its extensive support for ARM-based processors, Quadros Systems, a leading provider of real-time operating systems (RTOS), today announced support for the LPC32x0 series of microcontrollers (MCUs) from NXP Semiconductors. Developers can now combine the efficiency, flexibility and scalability of the RTXC software family with the versatile, performance-boosting LPC32x0 family.
Altium to showcase latest Altium Designer at embedded world
Altium will be joined by customers from a range of industries to provide demonstrations and insights into the winter 09 release of Altium Designer at this year’s embedded world show. Altium’s live demonstrations will focus on how Altium Designer can help designers exploit today’s low-cost, high-performance FPGA devices. Altium’s latest release has a number of new design technologies and concepts to help electronics designers innovate, cap...
Green Hills to show first EAL6+ certified operating system at Embedded World
At Embedded World, Green Hills Software will be showcasing its INTEGRITY real-time operating system for applications that require high levels of security, safety and/or reliability. The exhibition will host the first European public demonstration of the EAL6+ certified INTEGRITY-178B OS, which is the world’s first and only operating system certified to protect classified information against sophisticated hackers. In addition to the high securit...
Artisan to boost US sales with new senior management appointment
Artisan Software Tools has announced the appointment of Dennis Andrews as Vice President of Sales -USA. Dennis will assume responsibility for driving the growth of the company’s direct sales efforts in the American market.
Tensilica Enables Single Audio Core Blu-ray Disc Player SOCs
Tensilica has announced that it will demonstrate DTS-HD Master Audio Lossless decoding on the HiFi 2 Audio DSP (digital signal processor), the industry’s lowest power, most area efficient audio processor core, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, January 8-11, 2009. The HiFi 2 DSP offers significant cost savings and a simplified programming model, as all Blu-ray audio processing can be done in one core, unlike other solutions that req...
Altium supports CADstar users with new import wizard
Altium has added a new file importer, for CADstar design files, to the latest release of its next generation electronics design solution, Altium Designer. It’s the latest addition to Altium Designer’s design translation wizard, which already supports legacy design files from Allegro, OrCAD, DX Designer, and PADS, as well as Altium’s earlier P-CAD and Protel design tools.
Mixed-signal IP cores from Toshiba provide LVDS integration in SoCs for flat panel displays
Toshiba Electronics Europe’s ASIC & Foundry Business Unit has launched two new mixed-signal IP cores that will simplify and speed integration of LVDS (low-voltage differential swing) transmitter and receiver functionality into system-on-chip (SoC) designs for flat panel display (FPD) applications.
3D PCB design performance benchmarks from Altium
Altium has published a set of benchmarks for 3D PCB design performance using Altium Designer, its next generation electronics design solution. Altium is a pioneer of real-time, 3D PCB design environments, with the introduction of 3D board layouts, real-time 3D ECAD-MCAD collaboration, and now (with the launch of the winter 09 release of Altium Designer) enhanced performance in the PCB design engine. The latest winter 09 release uses less memory a...
5.25 Miniboard with Intel Socket P for Core 2 Duo processors frrom BVM
BVM's new LS-573 high performance feature-rich embedded motherboard is based on the Intel 45nm Core 2 Duo Pentryn or Extreme processor conforming to the Socket P configuration and a FSB up to 1066MHz. Designed to comply with the 5.25 Miniboard mechanical standard, the LS-573 supports up to 4GB of DDR3 SDRAM and provides 6 x GigaLAN ports, 4 x SATA interfaces, 8 x USB2.0 ports and has embedded HD Audio.