MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 3 — Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) , a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced the immediate availability of the DesignWare® MIPI® 4G DigRF(SM) Master Controller IP. By complementing its current silicon-proven DesignWare MIPI 3G DigRF Controller and PHY IP, Synopsys becomes the first vendor to offer a comprehensive IP portfolio for both the MIPI DigRF v3 and v4 standards. The configurable MIPI 4G DigRF Master Controller is compliant to the … Read More → "Synopsys Launches Industry’s First MIPI® DigRF(SM) v4 IP"

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 3 — Xilinx (NASDAQ:XLNX) today introduced the ISE® Design Suite 12 software to enable breakthrough optimizations for power and cost with greater design productivity. For the first time, ISE design tools deliver ‘intelligent’ clock-gating technology that reduces dynamic power consumption by as much as 30 percent. The new suite also provides advances in timing-driven design preservation, AMBA 4 AXI4-compliant IP support for plug-and-play design, and an intuitive design flow with fourth-generation partial reconfiguration capabilities that lowers system cost for a … Read More → "Xilinx ISE Design Suite 12 Enables Up to 30% Dynamic Power Reduction with Intelligent Clock-Gating Technology"

San Diego, USA and Cheltenham, UK – April 27, 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 support for concurrent multi-processor garbage collection technology. Aonix PERC Ultra SMP responds to the need for multiprocessor and multicore solutions in complex mission-critical embedded and real-time Java™ applications.

Atego’s flagship Virtual Machine technology and supporting tool chain, Aonix PERC Ultra® is one of the most deployed embedded and real-time Virtual Machines in the industry and … Read More → "Atego launches Aonix PERC Ultra SMP 5.4"

CONCORD, CA. APRIL 29, 2010 – D-Tools, Inc., the worldwide leader in system integration software, today announced that SurgeX, a leader in AC power conditioning and surge elimination products has joined the D-Tools Manufacturer Vantage Point (MVP) program. SurgeX product data will be accessible, better enabling D-Tools System Integrator™ users to specify SurgeX high-end products to their end customers. 

SurgeX is a leading manufacturer of premium AC power conditioning products for the residential, professional audio, video, broadcast, and multi-media marketplace. Its patented SurgeX Advanced Series Mode® surge elimination technology is built exclusively to properly protect … Read More → "SurgeX and D-Tools Form Partnership"

Richard Barry, founder of FreeRTOS, penned the books to simplify the design process when using OpenRTOS and FreeRTOS, with a special version targeted at NXP LPC17xx processors. The books are based on his already popular eBook and he feels they will reach a wider audience in printed form.

The books are called:

• Using The FreeRTOS Real Time Kernel
• Using The OpenRTOS Real Time Kernel
• Using The FreeRTOS Real Time Kernel – NXP LPC17xx Edition

Earlier this month it was reported that FreeRTOS continued to … Read More → "FreeRTOS and OpenRTOS books unveiled at ESC, San Jose"

ESC 2010, San Jose, CA, April 28, 2010 – Atmel® Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML), a leader in microcontroller and touch solutions, today announced the availability of Atmel BitCloud® Profile Suite, a ready-to-use framework for rapid development of ZigBee®-certified applications. The suite includes a complete set of fully functional reference implementations of the ZigBee Application Profiles for ZigBee Smart Energy (ZSE), ZigBee Building Automation (ZBA) and ZigBee Home Automation (ZHA). Atmel is also introducing the RZ600 evaluation kit, a tool accompanying BitCloud Profile Suite, and enables designers to prototype, develop and deploy ZigBee standards-compliant wireless applications for smart energy, home automation … Read More → "Atmel Targets Smart Energy, Building and Home Automation with Easy-to-Use BitCloud Profile Suite"

SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 27, 2010 — Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today introduced the Infiniium 90000 X-Series oscilloscope family with industry-leading, real-time bandwidth of 32 GHz. Ten new models range from 16 GHz to 32 GHz and are bandwidth upgradable. These new scopes deliver the lowest noise and have the lowest jitter measurement floor in the industry, ensuring superior measurement accuracy.

“Agilent is excited to have achieved clear performance leadership in our new oscilloscope lineup,” said Jay Alexander, vice president and general manager of Agilent’s oscilloscopes business. “Our customers have demanding roadmaps, so it is important for us to deliver the high-bandwidth … Read More → "Agilent Technologies Introduces World’s Fastest Real-Time Oscilloscopes with 32 GHz True Analog Bandwidth"

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 28, 2010 — Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq:SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced the availability of the high performance DesignWare(r) Universal DDR Protocol and Memory Controllers, both supporting the DDR2, DDR3, Mobile DDR and LPDDR2 SDRAM standards. The DesignWare Universal Memory Controller helps reduce both the latency and silicon area by up to 50 percent compared to Synopsys’ previous generations of DDR memory controllers thus improving the DRAM interface performance and reducing overall chip costs. The DesignWare Universal Protocol Controller provides efficient DDR control and protocol translation … Read More → "New Synopsys Universal DDR Controllers improve performance and reduce cost of embedded DRAM interfaces"

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 27 — Embedded Systems Conference — Xilinx Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX) today introduced the architecture for a new Extensible Processing Platform that will deliver unrivaled levels of system performance, flexibility and integration to developers of a wide variety of embedded systems. The ARM® Cortex(TM)-A9 MPCore(TM) processor-based platform enables system architects and embedded software developers to apply a combination of serial and parallel processing to address the challenging system requirements presented by the global demand for embedded systems … Read More → "Xilinx Unveils ARM-Based Processing Architecture for Delivering Unrivaled Levels of Performance in Embedded Systems"

SAN JOSE, CA — April 27, 2010 – Embedded Systems Conference, Booth 1510 – Green Hills Software, Inc., the largest independent vendor of embedded development solutions, and Extreme Engineering Solutions, Inc. (X-ES), who designs and manufactures chassis, single-board computers, I/O, power, backplane, and system-level products within the embedded computer industry, announce the availability of INTEGRITY® RTOS board support packages (BSPs) on all Extreme Engineering Solutions embedded computing products based on the new Intel® Core™ i7 processor. These BSPs enable system developers to build embedded computing solutions based on Green Hills Software’s certified safe and secure INTEGRITY … Read More → "Green Hills Software INTEGRITY® RTOS Available on All Extreme Engineering Solutions, Inc. (X-ES) Boards with Intel® Core™ i7 Processors"