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Lattice Diamond Design Software Named Finalist In Elektra Awards Competition

HILLSBORO, OR – OCTOBER 6, 2010 – Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC) today announced that an independent panel of judges has named the Lattice Diamond™ design software environment a finalist in Elektra 2010, the European Electronics Industry Awards competition.

“This highly sought-after recognition from the Elektra 2010 judges is very exciting,” said Doug Hunter, Lattice Vice President of Corporate Marketing.  “Lattice Diamond software is the new flagship design environment for Lattice FPGA products.  Read More → "Lattice Diamond Design Software Named Finalist In Elektra Awards Competition"

Testing Bits Not Waves

You start off looking for something, and an hour later you have found lots of interesting things but not necessarily the one you wanted. Libraries are great for this, but the web is even better. What brought on this introspection is that I was trying to find something said by Steve Squyres, the lead scientist on the Mars Rover project. When he explains why Spirit and Opportunity have done so much better than the ninety days that was originally planned, he has a phrase about testing. While I couldn’t find it, and neither could I find a … Read More → "Testing Bits Not Waves"

eASIC Enables Early Rollout Of On-Ramp Wireless’ eNODE Solutions

SANTA CLARA, CA, –  October 5, 2010 – eASIC Corporation, a provider of NEW ASIC devices, today announced that On-Ramp Wireless, Inc., a provider of low-power, wide area scalable wireless networking systems successfully rolled out its eNODE Wireless modules six months ahead of schedule. Its fast-turnaround was facilitated by eASIC’s Nextreme NEW ASICs, which is a part of the eNODE baseband processing engine.  eNODE wireless modules are used in wide area, low power and low data rate applications such as sensor monitoring, utility distribution automation, smart metering, and location tracking, to … Read More → "eASIC Enables Early Rollout Of On-Ramp Wireless’ eNODE Solutions"

Intel Wants Your Phone

Intel has been on a nerd offensive lately. The company best known for making PC processors is now turning its attention to us—embedded designers. The recent rollout of the Atom E6xx “Tunnel Creek” chips (see ETJ, 9/14/2010) and the company’s acquisitions of Wind River’s RTOS and Infineon’s wireless chip business means that Intel wants to be your one-stop hardware/software supplier.

Do we care? Maybe. It’s always been easy to dismiss Intel chips as too expensive, … Read More → "Intel Wants Your Phone"

LynuxWorks Announces LynxSecure 4.0 Support for new Intel Core i7 Embedded Platforms

BOSTON, MA, Embedded Systems Conference—5 October 2010 —LynuxWorks™, a leader in secure virtualization technology, today announced availability of LynxSecure 4.0 on the latest hardware platforms from Intel®. The Core™ i7 family has been widely used in the desktop and laptop market, and now the quad-core versions of the processor are available for embedded designs.

LynxSecure 4.0 provides the most flexible virtualization solution for use in embedded systems. Built from the ground up, and now in its 4th generation, LynxSecure offers the combination of security with functionality, allowing embedded … Read More → "LynuxWorks Announces LynxSecure 4.0 Support for new Intel Core i7 Embedded Platforms"

Atego ships its first multi-core Virtual Machine for ARM processors

San Diego, USA and Cheltenham, UK – 5th October 2010.  Atego, the leading independent supplier of industrial-grade, collaborative development tools for engineering complex, mission- and safety-critical architectures, systems, software and hardware, announces the release of Aonix Perc Ultra SMP® 5.4 with new support for concurrent multi-processor Garbage Collection (GC) technology atop ARM®multi-core processors.

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12 DSP Cores, 6 GHz Performance, 1 Platform Solution

Cheshire, UK – 4th October 2010 – Kane Computing Ltd (KCL) are pleased to announce that Sundance, the leading supplier and manufacturer of advanced digital signal processing and reconfigurable FPGA systems, today announced customer shipping of the first product from its new family of Multicore Developer Platforms (Sundance MDP).  The EVP6472-941 is directly targeted at the new breed of high intensity processing applications where performance and energy efficiency are critical.  Early adopter applications include digital recording, software defined radio (SDR), software reconfigurable applications in signals intelligence ( … Read More → "12 DSP Cores, 6 GHz Performance, 1 Platform Solution"

Xilinx ISE Design Suite 12.3 Introduces AMBA 4 AXI4 IP Cores, Enhances PlanAhead Design and Analysis Cockpit, Extends Power Optimization

SAN JOSE, Calif.Oct. 5 /PRNewswire/ — Xilinx, Inc. (Nasdaq: XLNX) today announced the release of ISE® Design Suite 12.3, kicking-off the FPGA leader’s roll-out of Intellectual Property (IP) cores that meet the AMBA® 4 AXI4™ specification for interconnecting functional blocks in System-on-Chip (SoC) design, as well as introducing productivity enhancements to the PlanAhead™ Design and Analysis cockpit, and Intelligent Clock Gating support for reducing dynamic power consumption in Spartan®-6 FPGA designs.

“Xilinx is the first to standardize on the AMBA 4 specification as part … Read More → "Xilinx ISE Design Suite 12.3 Introduces AMBA 4 AXI4 IP Cores, Enhances PlanAhead Design and Analysis Cockpit, Extends Power Optimization"

TEWS TECHNOLOGIES introduces Spartan-6 AMC with FMC Module Slot

Halstenbek, Germany –  October 5th, 2010. TEWS TECHNOLOGIES announces the introduction of the standard single Mid-Size or Full-Size AMC.1 module TAMC631 with a user-programmable XC6SLX25T-2 or XC6SLX75T-2 Spartan-6 FPGA. Designed for industrial, COTS, and transportation applications, where specialized I/O or long-term availability is required, the TAMC631 provides a number of advantages including a customizable interface for unique applications and a FPGA-based design to extend product lifecycle.

For flexible front I/O solutions, the TAMC631 provides a VITA 57 FMC Module slot with a low-pin count … Read More → "TEWS TECHNOLOGIES introduces Spartan-6 AMC with FMC Module Slot"

The New Step-Parent

“Your Mother and I are planning to be married…”

He looks down quickly, afraid to make eye contact.  Not wanting to avoid the subject, but not wanting to show his shock and uncertainty, he studies his shoelaces instead.  The sneakers are old and worn.  Maybe this could mean some new ones?  He feels his hands trembling, so he tries to hide the fear by slipping them under his thighs. 

“Do you have any questions?”

He replays … Read More → "The New Step-Parent"

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