Thief River Falls, Minnesota (USA) – March 2, 2010 – Electronic components distributor Digi-Key Corporation, recognized by design engineers as having the industry’s broadest selection of electronic components available for immediate shipment, today launched Digi-Key Tools XpressSM in partnership with Embedded Developer, LLC, the embedded industry’s leading semiconductor research and compare site. Digi-Key Tools Xpress provides embedded design engineers with a worldwide sales and distribution network for development tools.

Digi-Key Tools Xpress is the only development tool program in the industry that gives engineers the capability to compare tools based on features and performance before making a purchase. This … Read More → "Digi-Key Corporation and Embedded Developer Launch Digi-Key Tools XpressSM Program"

Oslo, Norway, March 2nd, 2010 – Energy Micro, the energy friendly microcontroller company, has announced a range of entry-level devices for low power applications subject to stringent PCB space and product cost limitations. At a sub-Dollar price, the EFM32 ‘Tiny Gecko’ (TG) microcontrollers offer the energy-efficient performance of the company’s bigger Gecko products combined with smaller Flash and RAM combinations and a choice of space saving QFN20, QFN32 and QFN64 packaging.

Engineered around the energy-efficient ARM® Cortex™-M3 architecture, the 32-bit Gecko products use less than a quarter of the energy needed by alternative 8-, 16- … Read More → "Energy Micro launches EFM32 Tiny Gecko microcontrollers for low power, space and cost sensitive applications"

Wirral, UK – LDRA, the leading provider of automated software verification tools, and Visure Solutions, market leader in Requirements Definition and Management, announced the release of Embed-X, the first end-to-end application lifecycle management (ALM) system for the embedded space. Embed-X, like other ALM solutions, merges product requirements, business objectives and metrics in a uniform actionable perspective. However, Embed-X also delivers these ALM objectives with full certification support for critical development standards in the avionics, defense, automotive and medical markets while executing on an unrivalled track record of embedded expertise extending 35 years.</ … Read More → "LDRA and Visure Release Embed-X, a Comprehensive Embedded Application Lifecycle Management Solution"

• Real-time, Sustained Aggregate Recording Rate of 1 Gigasample/sec
• Digitizes Two Analog Inputs at 500 Megasamples/sec
• 4 Terabytes of RAID Storage
• Windows NTFS File Format Allows Immediate Access to Data
• Easy-to-use SystemFlow Graphical User Interface

NUREMBERG, GERMANY, Embedded World Conference-March 2, 2010-Pentek’s new Model RTS 2711 Real-Time Data Recording Instrument is a ready-to-run, PC-based recorder which includes a complete PC workstation running Windows XP, housed in a rack-mount 4U chassis. It’s extremely high-speed architecture allows simultaneous digitizing and recording of two signals at sampling rates of 500 Megasamples/sec. Since … Read More → "Pentek Introduces High-Speed, Real-Time Recording Instrument for Extremely Wide Bandwidth Signals"

NUREMBERG, Germany, March 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Actel Corporation (NASDAQ:ACTL) today announced the immediate availability of its comprehensive and easy-to-use development environment for the newly introduced SmartFusion ™ intelligent mixed signal FPGAs. The extensive ecosystem includes the Libero® Integrated Design Environment (IDE) v9.0 with Synplify Pro® and Identify from Synopsys®, ModelSim® from Mentor Graphics®, and SoftConsole v3.1, Keil™ and IAR Systems® software IDEs, plus access to leading RTOS and middleware from Micrium.

In conjunction with the integration of FPGA, hard ARM® Cortex ™-M3 processor based microcontroller … Read More → "Actel Releases Comprehensive Development Environment and Ecosystem for SmartFusion Intelligent Mixed Signal FPGAs"

NUREMBERG, Germany, March 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Actel Corporation (NASDAQ:ACTL) today announced the immediate availability of its comprehensive and easy-to-use development environment for the newly introduced SmartFusion ™ intelligent mixed signal FPGAs. The extensive ecosystem includes the Libero® Integrated Design Environment (IDE) v9.0 with Synplify Pro® and Identify from Synopsys®, ModelSim® from Mentor Graphics®, and SoftConsole v3.1, Keil™ and IAR Systems® software IDEs, plus access to leading RTOS and middleware from Micrium.

In conjunction with the integration of FPGA, hard ARM® Cortex ™-M3 processor based microcontroller … Read More → "Actel Releases Comprehensive Development Environment and Ecosystem for SmartFusion Intelligent Mixed Signal FPGAs"

Nuremberg, Germany, March 2, 2010 – At the Embedded World conference today, Actel Corporation (NASDAQ: ACTL) unveiled SmartFusion™, the world’s first intelligent mixed-signal FPGA. Available in production quantities, SmartFusion devices feature Actel’s proven FPGA fabric, a complete microcontroller subsystem built around a hard ARM® Cortex™-M3 processor and programmable analog blocks on a flash process. Embedded designers no longer have to compromise. Now, they can easily build the system they want, with all the features they need, on a single chip.

“SmartFusion gave us the resources to build a highly-agile smartgrid sensor with greater flexibility … Read More → "Actel Introduces SmartFusion Devices — FPGAs with ARM Cortex-M3 Processor and Programmable Analog"

Nuremberg, Germany, March 2, 2010 – At the Embedded World conference today, Actel Corporation (NASDAQ: ACTL) unveiled SmartFusion™, the world’s first intelligent mixed-signal FPGA. Available in production quantities, SmartFusion devices feature Actel’s proven FPGA fabric, a complete microcontroller subsystem built around a hard ARM® Cortex™-M3 processor and programmable analog blocks on a flash process. Embedded designers no longer have to compromise. Now, they can easily build the system they want, with all the features they need, on a single chip.

“SmartFusion gave us the resources to build a highly-agile smartgrid sensor with greater flexibility … Read More → "Actel Introduces SmartFusion Devices — FPGAs with ARM Cortex-M3 Processor and Programmable Analog"

NUREMBERG, Germany, March 2 /PRNewswire/ — At Embedded World 2010 today, Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX) introduced the Xilinx® Automotive (XA) family of Spartan®-6 field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) optimized for applications requiring high-speed connectivity and high-resolution video performance. These automotive-qualified devices provide the flexibility, scalability, and integration needed to reduce the system cost of automotive infotainment, driver assistance, driver information, and in-vehicle networking products.

XA Spartan-6 FPGAs also provide the silicon foundation for the Xilinx Infotainment Companion Chip Targeted Design Platform that will be introduced later this year. Automotive developers will be able to rapidly scale their … Read More → "Xilinx Expands Market-Leading Automotive Silicon Portfolio With Spartan-6 FPGAs Optimized to Reduce System Cost"