NUREMBERG, Germany, March 3 /PRNewswire/ — At Embedded World 2010 today, Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX) introduced the Xilinx® Spartan®-6 FPGA Industrial Imaging Targeted Design Platform to accelerate development of high-performance video processing applications for low-cost, low-power industrial imaging systems. Industrial equipment OEMs can now rapidly build and evaluate reprogrammable imaging solutions with high-definition image resolutions, specialized image sensor interfaces, and intelligent video and advanced image processing algorithms.

Digital IP cameras accounted for 11 percent of the worldwide surveillance camera market … Read More → "Xilinx Lowers Cost and Power of High-Performance Video Processing for Industrial Imaging Applications"

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) , a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced important new capabilities in its System Studio C/C++ model-based analysis and simulation environment, further enhancing algorithm developer efficiency. System Studio now offers matrix and vector data-type support, which significantly reduces the coding and debugging effort necessary to author signal processing simulation models. Furthermore, System Studio addresses the need for faster simulation runs by integrating highly efficient … Read More → "Synopsys System Studio Speeds DSP Algorithm Development With New Matrix Data-Type Support"

NUREMBERG, Germany, March 3 /PRNewswire/ — At Embedded World 2010 today, Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX) introduced the first market-specific Targeted Design Platform optimized for industrial automation system design with low-cost, low-power Xilinx® Spartan®-6 field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). The Xilinx Industrial Automation Targeted Design Platform accelerates development of real-time Ethernet networks enabling high-speed connectivity and reliable communications beyond the industrial enterprise to the factory floor.

Industrial equipment developers can now easily integrate multiple Ethernet protocols and custom processing algorithms into … Read More → "Xilinx Simplifies Development of Real-time Ethernet Networks for Industrial Automation Applications"

MILPITAS, Calif., – Feb. 23, 2010 – Sonics, Inc.®, a premier supplier of intelligent on-chip communications solutions, said today that its SonicsMX product has been selected by Core Logic as part of the company’s chip design for a multimedia product with HD video. Core Logic expects to ship its design by end of Q4 2010.

The selection of SonicsMX provides Core Logic a full-featured, high-speed on-chip network that simplifies SoC design. SMX provides a “socket-based” interface that allows isolation of each core in the system making it easy to integrate IP cores with different interfaces from multiple vendors. It also … Read More → "Korea’s Leading Fabless Semiconductor Company Selects Sonics for Mobile Digital Multimedia Product"

EMBEDDED WORLD NUREMBERG, March 2, 2010 – Atmel® Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), a leader in microcontroller and touch solutions, today announced a new turnkey security module to protect brand and IP (intellectual property) against counterfeiting and cloning. Based on Atmel’s AT90SO secureAVR® microcontrollers, the VaultIC200 is the newest member of the VaultIC(TM) product family – a family that offers secure microcontrollers with multiple interfaces and bundled security firmware. Atmel’s VaultIC200 can protect against cloning of various applications including ink and toner cartridges, computer and gaming console accessories, white goods, batteries and battery chargers, mp3 players, Bluetooth® earphones, … Read More → "Atmel’s VaultIC Module Offers Easy-to-Implement Security to Prevent IP Stealing"

March 2, 2010; Nuremberg, GERMANY — Diamond Systems Corp., a leading supplier of ruggedized single-board computers (SBCs) and I/O expansion modules targeting real-world applications, today unveiled the world’s first data acquisition I/O module compatible with the newly-introduced FeaturePak embedded I/O expansion module standard. Despite its diminutive size, the FP-DAQ1616 integrates Diamond’s newest and fastest analog I/O technology, and interfaces to host systems via the FeaturePak host interface’s high-speed PCI Express bus interface. 

The FP-DAQ1616 provides sixteen 16-bit A/D inputs, sampling at 2MHz and supported with … Read More → "Diamond Mints “World’s First” FeaturePak DAQ Module"

Santa Barbara, CA and Pleasanton, CA — March 3, 2010 — Green Hills Software, Inc., the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutions, and CPU Tech, a leader in trusted and secure processing solutions, today announced the availability of the Green Hills INTEGRITY® operating system for the Acalis® secure processor, the EB872 Acalis Evaluation Board, and the Acalis SentryTM security server. The Acalis CPU872 secure processor addresses the urgent need to protect critical program information (CPI) as required by DoD Instruction 5200.39.

“A key factor in Green Hills Software’s secure solutions approach is to facilitate … Read More → "CPU Tech Secure Processor Solutions Built with INTEGRITY"

EMBEDDED WORLD 2010, Nuremberg, Germany, March 3, 2010 – Atmel® Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), a leader in microcontroller and touch solutions, today announced that its low-power ATtiny 10/20/40 microcontroller (MCU) families are optimized for touch sensing support of buttons, wheels and sliders. Featuring Atmel’s AVR MCU and its patented low-power picoPower® technology, these devices are ideal for a number of applications in the cost-sensitive industrial and consumer markets including automotive control panels, LCD TVs and monitors, notebook computers, mobile handsets and more.

Atmel’s full-featured family of ATtiny 10/20/40 devices has the industry’s best-in-class power consumption and touch sensing performance, … Read More → "Atmel’s Low-Power 8-Bit MCUs Optimized for Touch Sensing"

DAYTON, OH – March 2, 2010 — Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems, a business group of Curtiss-Wright Controls and a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed systems for the aerospace and defense market, has introduced the new conduction-cooled Vortex VR-7310 3U VPX/VPX-REDI/OpenVPX™ (VITA 46/48/65) data recorder. This small form factor data recorder board enables system designers to quickly and easily integrate high-volume, continuous (streaming) data recording in a small compact package. The VR-7310 is designed for use in a broad range of space, weight and power (SWaP)-constrained critical applications in both manned and unmanned … Read More → "Curtiss-Wright Controls Introduces its First Rugged 3U OpenVPX™ Data Recorder"

LAKE FOREST, Calif., March 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — WD® (NYSE: WDC) today announced that the company is shipping its new high performance WD SiliconDrive® N1x 2.5-inch solid state drive (SSD) family. The new SSDs feature fast read/write speeds in high capacities and are designed for embedded system OEM applications that require superior performance, high reliability and long product life. The single-level cell (SLC) -based WD SiliconDrive N1x SSDs are an ideal storage solution for a wide range of embedded system OEM applications in growing markets such as automotive and transportation, data center, communications infrastructure, video surveillance … Read More → "WD® Announces New High Speed Solid State Drives"