HILLSBORO, OR — JULY 19, 2010 — Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC) today announced that it has released more than 90 reference designs optimized for the MachXO^TM and ispMACH® 4000ZE PLDs. Reference designs enable the quick and efficient design and deployment of commonly used functions such as general purpose I/O expander, I2C bus master / slave, LCD controller and SD Flash controller, as well as other interfaces, in a variety of markets including consumer, communications, computing, industrial and medical. The reference designs, coupled with complete documentation and design source code, are fully customizable and enable designers to reduce design … Read More → "Lattice Expands Reference Design Portfolio For Popular MachXO and ispMACH 4000ZE PLDs"

July 19, 2010 – Foster City, California and Quebec City, Quebec. IAR Systems® and Ariane Controls today announced that IAR Systems’ integrated development environment has been chosen as the tool chain for the Ariane Controls AC-EDP6 Powerline Communication (PLC) Evaluation Platform. IAR Embedded Workbench® for Renesas 78K was selected due to its intimate chip support and highly efficient code generation.

The Ariane Controls AC-EDP6 Powerline Transceiver is a multi-interface reference platform ideal for testing Ariane’s technology and to start developing with the PLM-1 modem. The device features a flexible design that provides several operation modes for quick … Read More → "IAR Systems Development Tools Selected by Ariane Controls for its new Powerline Communication Transceiver Platform AC-EDP6"

July 19, 2010 – Foster City, California and Quebec City, Quebec. IAR Systems® and Ariane Controls today announced that IAR Systems’ integrated development environment has been chosen as the tool chain for the Ariane Controls AC-EDP6 Powerline Communication (PLC) Evaluation Platform. IAR Embedded Workbench® for Renesas 78K was selected due to its intimate chip support and highly efficient code generation.

The Ariane Controls AC-EDP6 Powerline Transceiver is a multi-interface reference platform ideal for testing Ariane’s technology and to start developing with the PLM-1 modem. The device features a flexible design that provides several operation modes for quick … Read More → "IAR Systems Development Tools Selected by Ariane Controls for its new Powerline Communication Transceiver Platform AC-EDP6"

Erfurt, Germany, July 15, 2010. X-FAB Silicon Foundries, the leading analog/mixed-signal foundry and expert in “More than Moore” technologies, today announced the industry’s first 100V high-voltage 0.35 micrometer foundry process. It enables a new class of reliable, high-performing battery monitoring and protection systems for lithium ion battery management. It also is ideal for power management applications and for ultrasonic imaging and inkjet print head apps using piezoelectric drivers. In addition, X-FAB added new and enhanced N- and P-type double-diffused … Read More → "X-FAB Announces First 0.35 Micrometer 100V High-Voltage Pure-Play Foundry Technology and Shrinks Silicon Footprint of Existing Devices"

July 2010, Northwich, Cheshire, Kane Computing Ltd (KCL) have announced the availability of µDigitizer, a new range of µTCA FPGA based processing and digitizer solutions.

µDigitizer solutions are customizable, embedded solutions incorporating tremendous FPGA logic and memory, and that combine high-speed, multi-channel A/D and D/A I/Os. Based on the µTCA architecture, µDigitizer offer limitless channel expansion possibilities and the number of AMC slots necessary for any specific application.

The µDigitizer 250 is an entry level dual slot system providing an FPGA based multi-channel, high-speed digitizer utilizing the Lyrtech … Read More → "New µTCA FPGA based Digitizer Solution"

July 2010, Northwich, Cheshire, Kane Computing Ltd (KCL) have announced the availability of µDigitizer, a new range of µTCA FPGA based processing and digitizer solutions.

µDigitizer solutions are customizable, embedded solutions incorporating tremendous FPGA logic and memory, and that combine high-speed, multi-channel A/D and D/A I/Os. Based on the µTCA architecture, µDigitizer offer limitless channel expansion possibilities and the number of AMC slots necessary for any specific application.

The µDigitizer 250 is an entry level dual slot system providing an FPGA based multi-channel, high-speed digitizer utilizing the Lyrtech … Read More → "New µTCA FPGA based Digitizer Solution"

CAMBRIDGE, UK and FORT GRATIOT, MI — July 15, 2010 — eCosCentric Limited, the eCos and RedBoot experts, today announced the availability of eCosPro-Prism, a certified port of the Prism Runtime Framework^TM graphical user interface development tools to eCosCentric’s range of eCosPro® Developer’s Kits and custom eCosPro releases. Prism Runtime Framework, developed by Blue Water Embedded, Inc., is a portable, feature rich, small footprint GUI created for the embedded space and is an ideal match for the eCos real-time operating system.

eCosCentric will provide front-line support for … Read More → "eCosCentric partners with Blue Water Embedded, introduces eCosPro-Prism"

Albuquerque, New Mexico, July 2010 – Innovasic Semiconductor is pleased to announce the
availability of its new RapID™ Platform connectivity solution for EtherNet/IP adapters. The entire platform can be downloaded directly from the Innovasic website for a risk-free, no cost evaluation. This is not a demo version – it is fully functional and pre-tested for EtherNet/IP conformance including electronic schematics, bill of materials, and layout files, as well as all necessary software, stacks, and development environment. Evaluation of the RapID Platform download can be performed on hardware via the Internet or at … Read More → "Innovasic Semiconductor Announces World’s First Downloadable EtherNet/IP Connectivity Solution"

July 15th, 2010 – Uppsala, Sweden. IAR Systems today announced the availability of IAR J-Link Ultra debug probe. Designed for use with ARM Cortex devices, this JTAG/SWD probe supports IAR Systems’ recently announced pioneering power debugging technology available within IAR Embedded Workbench. The J-Link Ultra JTAG/SWD debug probe features higher performance with USB 2.0 Hi-speed interface, SWO frequency up to 25 MHz and JTAG speeds up to 25 MHz.

By using the probe’s capability to measure a target’s power consumption combined with the power debugging technology in IAR Embedded Workbench, it is possible to correlate current sampling alongside … Read More → "J-Link Ultra debug probe enables power debugging"

July 15th, 2010 – Uppsala, Sweden. IAR Systems today announced the availability of IAR J-Link Ultra debug probe. Designed for use with ARM Cortex devices, this JTAG/SWD probe supports IAR Systems’ recently announced pioneering power debugging technology available within IAR Embedded Workbench. The J-Link Ultra JTAG/SWD debug probe features higher performance with USB 2.0 Hi-speed interface, SWO frequency up to 25 MHz and JTAG speeds up to 25 MHz.

By using the probe’s capability to measure a target’s power consumption combined with the power debugging technology in IAR Embedded Workbench, it is possible to correlate current sampling alongside … Read More → "J-Link Ultra debug probe enables power debugging"