FREMONT, Calif., July 2010 – Elma Electronic Systems division, a leading supplier of embedded products and systems solutions built on open standards-based platforms like CompactPCI, ATCA, VME and VPX, has released a new two-slot VPX/OpenVPX test and development platform that accommodates both 3U and 6U boards via a shelf divider.  The new Read More → "New Elma Two-slot OpenVPX Development Platform Supports Both 3U and 6U Cards"

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. July 13, 2010 – Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced that SVTC Technologies, the leading commercialisation service provider for new, emerging silicon based technologies, has chosen Synopsys’ manufacturing tool suite to enable its customers to reduce time to market for a wide variety of innovative products using CMOS processes, MEMS, photovoltaics and other related nanotechnologies.

SVTC offers its customers access to facilities, equipment and services to perform the development, manufacturing and analytical activities required to bring new products to market. By pooling … Read More → "SVTC technologies selects Synopsys’ manufacturing tools to accelerate time to comercialisation"

Micro Digital is pleased to announce its partnership with Blue Water Embedded Inc. and to offer Prism™ with Micro Digital’s SMX® RTOS product line. Prism is optimized for embedded devices. It and SMX form a small footprint solution ideal for resource-constrained applications that require advanced user interfaces, such as medical, industrial, telematics, security, and consumer devices.

Prism is a family of leading-edge graphical user interface (GUI) development tools and libraries created by Blue Water Embedded, Inc. It is a complete framework and toolset for designing and deploying advanced graphical interfaces on embedded systems. … Read More → "Micro Digital Partners with Blue Water Embedded, Inc."

SANTA BARBARA, CA and SUNNYVALE, CA – July 12, 2010 – Green Hills Software, Inc., the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutions, and Real-Time Innovations (RTI), the global leader in Data Distribution Service (DDS), today announced that they have expanded their longstanding partnership. As a result, RTI’s DDS-compliant middleware will gain optimized support for Green Hills Software’s latest release of its safety and security-certified INTEGRITY® real-time operating system (RTOS).These enhancements include advanced support for INTEGRITY RTOS capabilities, such as Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) and Asymmetric Multiprocessing (AMP). RTI will also offer standard release support for … Read More → "Green Hills Software and RTI Expand Partnership to Ease Integration of Mission-Critical Devices"

CHELMSFORD, Mass. – July 12, 2010 – Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRCY,
www.mc.com), a trusted ISR subsystems provider, announced the Ensemble™ 6000 6U SBC6521, the first module in a line of Intel®-based, multi-plane-enabled 6U modules. The module was specifically designed and optimized for high-density processing, high memory bandwidth, and I/O in a single OpenVPX™ slot within an ISR subsystem.

Mercury’s innovative OpenVPX multi-plane architecture approach creates an extensible architecture that facilitates interoperability among the various subsystem functions. The expansion … Read More → "Mercury Computer Systems Launches Intel-based, OpenVPX Embedded Rugged Product Line for ISR Applications"

San Jose, Calif., July 12, 2010—Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) today announced it has enhanced its Arria® II GX FPGA variant with 6.375-Gbps transceivers and up to 1.25-Gbps LVDS support, while broadening the reach of the family with the addition of the new Arria II GZ FPGA variant. As a result, the 40-nm Arria II family provides the lowest power 6- Gbps transceiver solutions shipping today, featuring up to 50 percent lower static power over competitive devices.

Many applications commonly implemented in FPGAs are moving to faster transceiver speeds, driven by the need … Read More → "Altera Ships Lowest Power FPGAs with 6.375-Gbps Transceivers"

SAN JOSE, CA and PENANG, MALAYSIA–(Marketwire – July 12, 2010) – The Asia Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ASQED2010) today announced its final program consisting of several keynote speeches by industry leaders and experts from Synopsys, Texas Instruments, University of Tokyo, Elabs and Silicon Hive, tutorials, and over 70 technical presentations.

This is the 2nd annual ASQED event in Asia. The Conference is being held on August 3-4, 2010 in Penang, Malaysia. ASQED plays a critical role in promoting quality-based electronic design and manufacturing in Asia and is an integral part of establishing a communication link between semiconductor, Nano-Electronic, Bio-Electronic, MEMS/NEMS, … Read More → "Asia Symposium on Quality Electronic Design Announces Final Program"

July 8th, Uppsala, Sweden – IAR Systems today announced that it has incorporated its newly developed power debug and analysis tools within IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM. Bucking the software industry’s trend of charging for new software features, IAR Systems has opted to include its innovative technology as standard.

The new tools provide the capability to correlate current sampling alongside program execution, allowing analysis of the software’s influence on power consumption and providing developers with the means to optimize source code to minimize power consumption.

“We are working with some of the largest suppliers … Read More → "IAR Systems incorporates power debugging as standard in IAR Embedded Workbench"

SANTA CLARA, CA – July 7, 2010 – Azuro, Inc., the provider of advanced clock and timing optimization tools for digital chip design, today announced that TSMC has adopted its Rubix™ clock concurrent optimization capability for hardening of embedded CPU cores.

“With Rubix, Azuro continues its track record of strong technology innovation to help close the design productivity gap,” said S. T. Juang, senior director of design infrastructure marketing at TSMC. “Rubix increases clock frequency and reduces leakage power on our hardened CPU cores. And it … Read More → "TSMC Adopts Azuro’s Rubix for Embedded CPU Hardening"