Newport, Isle of Wight, UK – 2 February 2010 — RF Engines Limited (RFEL) has developed a highly sophisticated, 32 channel RF signal generator that is designed to enable challenging RF environments to be recreated in labs to test RF equipment.  RFEL’s world class expertise in RF and signal processing has enabled them to create a complete solution on a Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA chip that is run within a PC on a PCI-express card.  The PCI Upconverter is a very flexible and configurable system that replaces racks of expensive RF test equipment offering significant saving … Read More → "RF Engines Ltd (RFEL) launches highly configurable, multichannel RF signal generator"

Santa Clara, CA, February 2, 2010 – The Small Form Factor Special Interest Group (SFF-SIG), a collaboration of leading suppliers of embedded component, board and system technologies, today announced the availability of revision 1.5 of the SUMIT (Stackable Unified Module Interface Technology^™) Specification. This new revision offers two significant improvements over previous versions. First, it describes the implementation of USB channel shifting in SUMIT-based systems. Channel shifting in stackable systems means that when an I/O card consumes a resource such as a USB channel or PCI Express lane, it shifts the remaining available resources of a like kind … Read More → "SUMIT™ Specification Update Improves USB Channel Efficiency, Enables Easy Resource Description"

DÜSSELDORF (Germany), February 3, 2010 — NEC Electronics Europe announces the release of the 78K0/Kx2-L Save it! demonstration kit, supporting the recently launched 78K0/Kx2-L microcontroller (MCU) family that offers industry-leading power consumption and high levels of system integration. The new demonstration kit is designed to provide customers with a complete out-of-the-box experience for evaluation of low power consumption MCUs.

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Duisburg, Germany – February 3, 2010 – mimoOn, a pioneer in LTE software implementations for programmable radio platforms, Axis Network Technology, a leader in remote radio heads and software defined radios , and CommAgility, a leading manufacturer of signal processing modules for wireless baseband applications, today announced  a joint demonstration at MWC Barcelona, for HSPA and LTE base stations. The demo will be at mimoOn’s booth: Hall 2, Stand 2B17.

mimoOn’s mi!PicoT base station software has been integrated on CommAgility’s AMC-3C87F3 signal processing module targeting base station products. The software encompasses PHY and Protocol Stack layers … Read More → "mimoOn, Axis and CommAgility to demo base station reference architectures at MWC 2010"

OTTAWA, CANADA, February 3, 2010 – Zarlink Semiconductor (TSX: ZL) today introduced a reference design with Freescale Semiconductor that simplifies and speeds the development of new equipment for wireless service providers evolving their networks to support bandwidth-intense smartphone applications.</ … Read More → "Zarlink and Freescale Target Wireless Network Upgrades to Support High Bandwidth Smartphone Services"

Wirral, UK. 3 February 2010. LDRA, the leading provider of automated software verification tools, and Visure Solutions, market leader in Requirements Definition and Management, have partnered to bring together the first end-to-end application lifecycle management (ALM) system for the embedded space. With the size of complex software applications doubling annually, cost is rapidly increasing, jeopardizing project budgets and creating delivery overruns. By designing an integrated ALM solution, LDRA and Visure hope to deliver 50% cost savings to embedded software development.

The jointly developed application lifecycle management solution will be the first to help companies accomplish embedded software engineering objectives by … Read More → "LDRA and Visure Partner to Offer Embedded Application Lifecycle Management Solution"

SANTA CLARA, Calif., DesignCon, Booth 301, Feb. 2, 2010, Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced a second data channel option and a new analysis option for SER/FER for its J-BERT N4903B high-performance serial BERT. The new options significantly simplify receiver tolerance testing of USB 3.0 and SATA devices.

The J-BERT’s second output channel option provides more flexible characterization and compliance testing of receivers by enabling cross-talk testing, Out-of-Band (OOB) tests, and emulation of 2-tap de-emphasis signals on a serial BERT.

The new symbol error analysis option allows error counting of coded, packetized and retimed … Read More → "Agilent Technologies Offers Simplified Receiver Tolerance Test Setup for USB 3.0, SATA and SAS"

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Feb. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) , a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced it has acquired VaST Systems Technology Corporation to extend its virtual prototyping solutions into the automotive and consumer application space. The acquisition adds a comprehensive set of processor sub-system models frequently found in automotive and consumer applications to Synopsys’ virtual prototyping portfolio. Processor sub-system models allow developers to accelerate the virtualization of electronic systems and to start … Read More → "Synopsys Acquires VaST Systems Technology Corporation"

SYDNEY, Feb. 2 /PRNewswire/ — Last September, Altium announced a radical new approach to rapid prototyping with the NanoBoard 3000. The company has now expanded this concept, announcing a new NanoBoard 3000 hosting the Altera Cyclone III® FPGA.

The new board continues to provide electronics designers with the same hardware, software and ready-to-use, royalty-free IP of the NanoBoard 3000, but with the power of Altera’s low-cost, high power Cyclone III® FPGA at its core.

With the NanoBoard 3000, electronics designers have everything they need to design and deploy sophisticated FPGA-based designs. Complete with hardware and software, the … Read More → "The Best of Both Worlds: Altium Adds High-Performance, Low-cost Option to Its NanoBoard 3000 Range"

Unterpremstaetten, Austria (February 1, 2010) and Feldkirchen, Germany – Cadence Design Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS), the leader in global electronic design innovation, announced today that austriamicrosystems ( … Read More → "austriamicrosystems expands reliance on Cadence technology to achieve seamless mixed-signal SoC design"