SAN JOSE, Calif. – Feb. 22, 2010  – The Open SystemC Initiative (OSCI), an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and advancing SystemC™ as an industry-standard language for electronic system-level (ESL) design, today announced that requirements for the configuration portion of the  SystemC Configuration, Control & Inspection (CCI) standardization effort are now available for public review.  They are currently available for download under open-source license.

The public review period of the CCI Configuration Requirements Specification extends through April 2, 2010. The worldwide SystemC community of users, architects, ESL tool developers and IP providers are encouraged to participate … Read More → "Open SystemC Initiative Announces Public Review for Configuration Requirements of Configuration, Control & Inspection (CCI) Standardization Effort"

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Feb. 21, 2010 – Jasper Design Automation, provider of advanced formal technology solutions, today announced the availability of Proof Kits for LPDDR1 and LPDDR2, and DDR3 SDRAM.  These Jasper Proof Kits are sets of properties, written in SystemVerilog, related to standard JEDEC interface protocols.  Each Proof Kit includes a Formal Testplan providing detailed instructions on verifying DDR designs, plus properties for the protocol that the JasperGold® Verification System can prove against designs employing the standard.  LPDDR solutions are experiencing high growth in mobile and embedded markets as demand for the low-power parts surges.</ … Read More → "Jasper Releases New Formal Verification Proof Kits For LPDDR1, LPDDR2, And DDR3"

SYDNEY, Feb. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Altium has announced a banner year in “new logo” acquisition. During the past 12 months, the company’s North American operation alone has acquired more than 500 new U.S. customers. All are newcomers to Altium’s electronics design solution Altium Designer.

Altium Designer’s single data model and unified architecture provide a system development platform for FPGA, PCB and embedded software development, in a single application. In addition to the electronics design authoring tools in Altium Designer, this platform architecture also provides intrinsic electronics design data management and IP support courtesy of the unified … Read More → "More Than 500 North American Companies Switch to Altium"

KEMET a leading manufacturer of tantalum, multilayer ceramic, solid aluminium, plastic film, paper and electrolytic capacitors has announced the release of a new high temperature C0G dielectric platform.

KEMET’s High Temperature Surface Mount C0G multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) feature a robust and proprietary base metal dielectric system that offers industry-leading performance relative to capacitance and case size combined with capacitance stability at extreme temperatures up to +200ºC. The new devices have extremely low ESR and ESL and high ripple current capability. The platform promotes downsizing opportunities of existing High Temperature C0G technology, … Read More → "KEMET Launches New High Temperature C0G Dielectric Platform"

RICHMOND, North Yorks., England – 22 February 2010.  Peratech Limited, the leader in new materials designed for touch technology solutions, has announced that they have been commissioned by the MIT Media Lab to develop a new type of electronic ‘skin’ that enables robotic devices to detect not only that they have been touched but also where and how hard the touch was.

The key to the sensing technology is Peratech’s patented ‘QTC’ materials.  QTC’s, or Quantum Tunnelling Composites, are a unique new material type which provides a measured response to force and/ … Read More → "MIT commissions Peratech to develop next generation tactile robotic skin"

SANTA BARBARA, CA — February 22, 2010 — Green Hills Software, Inc., the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutions, today announced that Freescale is using Green Hills Software’s MULTI® integrated development environment (IDE) to build AUTOSAR-compliant OS and 32-bit Microcontroller Abstraction Layer (MCAL) Software Packages. AUTOSAR is a growing standard requirement in all automotive body, chassis and safety software applications. The first in-car deployment is expected in 2010.

“Green Hills’ strong market penetration in the automotive sector and its industry-leading compiler performance and small code size, make the MULTI IDE a natural choice for … Read More → "Freescale’s AUTOSAR Software Developed with Green Hills Software’s MULTI IDE"

SEOUL, Korea and San Jose, CA, February, 19, 2010 – Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a global leader in advanced semiconductor technology and Xilinx Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX), the world’s leading provider of programmable platforms, announced today that Xilinx’s Spartan®-6 FPGA family has attained full production qualification on 45-nanometer (nm) process of Samsung Electronics’ Foundry business (Samsung Foundry). This advanced process node, coupled with state of the art FPGA design, produces an optimal balance of cost efficiency, low power, and high performance, enabling the Spartan-6 family of FPGAs to … Read More → "Samsung Electronics and Xilinx Announce Full Production Qualification for Xilinx’s Spartan-6 FPGA Family on 45nm Low-Power Process Technology"

SEOUL, Korea and San Jose, CA, February, 19, 2010 – Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a global leader in advanced semiconductor technology and Xilinx Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX), the world’s leading provider of programmable platforms, announced today that Xilinx’s Spartan®-6 FPGA family has attained full production qualification on 45-nanometer (nm) process of Samsung Electronics’ Foundry business (Samsung Foundry). This advanced process node, coupled with state of the art FPGA design, produces an optimal balance of cost efficiency, low power, and high performance, enabling the Spartan-6 family of FPGAs to … Read More → "Samsung Electronics and Xilinx Announce Full Production Qualification for Xilinx’s Spartan-6 FPGA Family on 45nm Low-Power Process Technology"

Jacksonville, FL and Jönköping, SWEDEN. – February 19, 2010 – CMX Systems, well-known designer of real-time operating systems, TCP/IP, Flash File Systems and USB software announces that it has now ported its embedded software products for Atollic’s TrueSTUDIO® development tools targeting the ARM Cortex-M3 Microcontroller Core.  

Read More → "CMX Systems provides RTOS, TCP/IP, USB and Flash File systems support for Atollic TrueSTUDIO® development tools"