Design

Hendon Semiconductors has announced that its IES5501 2-wire bus buffer IC is in full production. One of the new Bus Buffers in the IES550x family, the IES5501, is compatible for extending and expanding I2C(1),SMBus(2), PMBus(2), IPMB and other similar 2-wire bus systems.

The latest additions to BVM's range of embedded computer boards are a range of industrial long-life ATX motherboards that support a broad performance spectrum, allowing the user to optimise the chipset and CPU combination to best suit the application. Pentium 4, Pentium D and Core 2 Duo chipset families can be combined with the 915, 945 and the latest 965 Intel chipsets; all motherboards include graphics with VGA and LVDS connection.

The VTM2 is an industry standard 6U form factor, dual PMC carrier. The VTM2 enables communication between a VME chassis and up to two industry standard (IEEE 1386.1) PMC modules. The VTM2 can be deployed in a wide range of applications - for example telecommunications, medical imaging and industrial automation. PMC’s deliver the flexibility of PCI add-in cards to embedded systems designers, in a more rugged and compact form factor. PMC’s are ...

Synplicity has announced the expansion of its ESL software offering. Following the company's strategy of delivering technology-independent solutions, the new Synplify DSP ASIC Edition software allows users to automatically develop high-quality RTL code from designs specified at the algorithm level for implementation into either an FPGA or ASIC device.

Frontier Silicon today announced availability of a reference design that enables audio manufacturers to quickly produce low-cost DAB/FM radios with iPod docking capability. The Jupiter 3 (FS4023) platform is based on Frontier Silicon’s Venice 5 (FS2025) DAB/FM module which now has an integrated docking interface for communication and control of iPods, something that was previously only achievable using a separate microcontroller and DAB module...

Green Hills Software has announced that the Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium has adopted the Green Hills Software DoubleCheck static analysis tool to help ensure the highest level of quality for EEMBC benchmark software.

Aldec has announced the release of co-simulation support for fixed-point in Simulink. Active-HDL coupled with The MathWorks Simulink provides support for fixed-point types and HDL co-simulation of black-boxes, which allows seamless integration with Simulink-based DSP tools.

National Instruments has extended the NI LabVIEW graphical programming environment to now target the Wind River VxWorks real-time operating system (RTOS), which has been deployed in more than 350 million devices worldwide including the latest National Instruments CompactRIO controllers. The NI cRIO-9012 and cRIO-9014 controllers combine the productivity of LabVIEW Real-Time and the reliability of the VxWorks device software, making it easy for e...

EDA Solutions (Southampton, UK), the exclusive European representative for Tanner EDA and MOSIS multi-project wafer services for IC fabrication, has signed a representation agreement for Germany, the UK, Benelux and the Nordic region with SoftMEMS to market and support its open-platform, system-level design environment, MEMS Pro. The MEMS Pro environment accelerates development of MEMS devices and incorporates a multi-domain simulator for a var...

Control Techniques is a leader in the design, production and supply of intelligent electronic drives for the control of electric motors. Its intelligent drives, from simple standalone products to complex multi-drive solutions, are used for electric motor control in an extremely wide range of industrial applications. Constant innovation and rapid development is critical to ensure Control Techniques’ continued success in what is a highly compet...