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Curtiss-Wright Controls Adds Support for Green Hills Software’s INTEGRITY® RTOS on its VPX6-187 QorIQ™ P4080 Single Board Computer

ORLANDO, FL — June 23, 2010 — Freescale Technology Forum — Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a business group of Curtiss-Wright Controls and a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VME, VPX, OpenVPX™, VXS and CompactPCI products for the rugged deployed aerospace and defense market, and Green Hills Software, Inc., the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutions, have announced the availability of an INTEGRITY® real-time operating system (RTOS) board support package (BSP) from Green Hills Software for the VPX6-187 Power Architecture® QorIQ™ P4080 single board computer (SBC).

The new BSP enables system … Read More → "Curtiss-Wright Controls Adds Support for Green Hills Software’s INTEGRITY® RTOS on its VPX6-187 QorIQ™ P4080 Single Board Computer"

austriamicrosystems introduces the industry’s highest efficiency series of dual DC-DC converters

Unterpremstaetten, Austria (June 23, 2010) – austriamicrosystems (SIX: AMS), a leading global designer and manufacturer of high performance analog ICs has introduced the industry’s highest efficiency high current, dual step-down DC-DC converters in a compact 3×3 mm TDFN package. For space-limited applications with low power consumption requirements, the new AS134x series provides small size and high efficiency — up to 95% — for maximum time between battery charges. The AS134x series is targeted forRead More → "austriamicrosystems introduces the industry’s highest efficiency series of dual DC-DC converters"

Atmel maXTouch Solution Accelerates Touchscreen Innovation for Samsung’s ‘Touch Control’ Televisions

San Jose, CA, June 23, 2010 – Atmel® Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML), a leader in microcontroller and touch solutions, today announced that its maXTouch(TM) controller has been designed into Samsung’s new ‘Touch Control’ smart touchscreens, supporting Samsung’s premium full HD 3D LED 9000 series televisions (TVs). These innovative touch controls feature touch interface management for controlling all menu and control applications, offering the ability to enter text, as well as stream video from the TV screen to the 3-inch color screen on the handheld remote, which then allows the user to take the TV anywhere around the home.

“ … Read More → "Atmel maXTouch Solution Accelerates Touchscreen Innovation for Samsung’s ‘Touch Control’ Televisions"

Veni! Vidi! Virtex!

The World Cup happens once every four years.  The Olympics are each on four-year cycles as well.  American football, baseball, and basketball hold their championships annually.  The America’s Cup gets a new owner about every 36 months.

In FPGA, however, the championship of the world is held approximately once every two years – a pace that was apparently unwittingly set by Gordon Moore in 1966, long before the first FPGA existed.  Every two years, we get a new semiconductor process node. Read More → "Veni! Vidi! Virtex!"

Sensor-Rama! Coming Soon!

Embedded systems are getting all touchy-feely. The iPhone ushered in the era of touch-sensitive user interfaces, and now everybody wants one. Nintendo’s Wii introduced most of us to MEMS accelerometers that can tell whether you’re holding it sideways or upside-down or swinging it around. Jogging shoes come with sensors that measure the length of your stride and count the number of steps you’ve taken, even calculating calories burned on the way to the next Starbucks.

None of this is new, really. Embedded systems have always been all about … Read More → "Sensor-Rama! Coming Soon!"

Tackling IC Development Management

Product life-cycle management tools are a double-edged sword. They help to solve a serious problem by standardizing how things are done and reducing uncertainty, but they can end up bogging a company down in process and tools development. The more complex the product whose life is being managed, the more this is true.

The name ‘life-cycle” would indicate a womb-to-tomb scope, and it often is, but the challenges of such tools also accrue to the somewhat less comprehensive tools that cover just one major element of the life cycle, whether … Read More → "Tackling IC Development Management"

Mentor Graphics Announces Commercial Linux Platform for Freescale Semiconductor’s Processors Based on Power Architecture Technology; Support for New QorIQ P3 and P5 Platform

FREESCALE TECHNOLOGY FORUM, Orlando, FL., June 22, 2010 – Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced its commercial Mentor Embedded? Linux® platform supporting Freescale Semiconductor, resulting from the recent strategic alliance signed between Freescale and Mentor for embedded Linux technology. The platform, built upon shared Freescale and Mentor technology, provides comprehensive open source Linux software and tools, as well as maintenance and support. This provides a unified workflow methodology, enabling customers to create innovative and customized applications for Freescale’s QorIQ and PowerQUICC processors—with greater productivity and reduced risk.

The Mentor Embedded Linux platform currently … Read More → "Mentor Graphics Announces Commercial Linux Platform for Freescale Semiconductor’s Processors Based on Power Architecture Technology; Support for New QorIQ P3 and P5 Platform"

Mentor Graphics Announces Commercial Linux Platform for Freescale Semiconductor’s Processors Based on Power Architecture Technology; Support for New QorIQ P3 and P5 Platform

FREESCALE TECHNOLOGY FORUM, Orlando, FL., June 22, 2010 – Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced its commercial Mentor Embedded? Linux® platform supporting Freescale Semiconductor, resulting from the recent strategic alliance signed between Freescale and Mentor for embedded Linux technology. The platform, built upon shared Freescale and Mentor technology, provides comprehensive open source Linux software and tools, as well as maintenance and support. This provides a unified workflow methodology, enabling customers to create innovative and customized applications for Freescale’s QorIQ and PowerQUICC processors—with greater productivity and reduced risk.

The Mentor Embedded Linux platform currently … Read More → "Mentor Graphics Announces Commercial Linux Platform for Freescale Semiconductor’s Processors Based on Power Architecture Technology; Support for New QorIQ P3 and P5 Platform"

Freescale ARM Cortex-M4 family gains early support from IAR Systems

June 22, 2010 – Uppsala, Sweden. Earlier this year IAR Systems released support for the ARM Cortex-M4 processor core. Now support has been added for Freescale’s Kinetis family, which is the first microcontroller family based on the new core to reach the market.

The tools from IAR Systems are intended for developing, building, and debugging embedded applications with tough requirements on performance and reliability. They are the world’s most widely used tool chain for ARM based microcontrollers.

Kinetis support has been added in close cooperation with Freescale, and as a result IAR Embedded Workbench is the … Read More → "Freescale ARM Cortex-M4 family gains early support from IAR Systems"

Freescale ARM Cortex-M4 family gains early support from IAR Systems

June 22, 2010 – Uppsala, Sweden. Earlier this year IAR Systems released support for the ARM Cortex-M4 processor core. Now support has been added for Freescale’s Kinetis family, which is the first microcontroller family based on the new core to reach the market.

The tools from IAR Systems are intended for developing, building, and debugging embedded applications with tough requirements on performance and reliability. They are the world’s most widely used tool chain for ARM based microcontrollers.

Kinetis support has been added in close cooperation with Freescale, and as a result IAR Embedded Workbench is the … Read More → "Freescale ARM Cortex-M4 family gains early support from IAR Systems"

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