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Digi-Key Expands Mentor Graphics’ EDA Tools Portfolio with New Features & Low-Priced Premium Bundles

February 24, 2015

THIEF RIVER FALLS, Minnesota, USA – Digi-Key, the industry leader in electronic component selection, availability and delivery, today announced an expanded suite of the recently released professional-level Mentor Graphics EDA/CAD tools. Premium versions of both the Designer Schematic and Designer Layout tools are now available, featuring unlimited connections. In addition, Import from xDX Designer and PADS Layout for reference designs, as well as import from third party schematic capture and layout tools has been added.

Starting today, premium versions of the Designer Schematic and Designer Layout products are available exclusively from Digi-Key at special 90 … Read More → "Digi-Key Expands Mentor Graphics’ EDA Tools Portfolio with New Features & Low-Priced Premium Bundles"

GrammaTech Unveils New CodeSonar Release Designed for the IoT Era

February 24, 2015

ITHACA, N.Y., Feb. 24, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — GrammaTech, Inc., a leading maker of tools that improve and accelerate embedded software development, today announced availability of CodeSonar 4.1, the latest version of the company’s industry-leading software analysis tool for C/C++, Java, and binaries. Built to deliver unmatched depth of analysis, the latest version of CodeSonar includes new distributed analysis capabilities, deeper tainted data analysis, and … Read More → "GrammaTech Unveils New CodeSonar Release Designed for the IoT Era"

Altera Ships 20 nm SoCs

February 24, 2015

San Jose, Calif., — February 24, 2015 – Altera Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR) today strengthened its leadership position in SoC FPGA products by shipping its second-generation SoC family. Arria® 10 SoCs are the industry’s only programmable devices that combine ARM® processors with a 20 nm FPGA fabric. Arria 10 SoCs bring across-the-board improvements to enable higher performing, lower power, and more feature rich embedded systems compared to previous generation SoC FPGAs. Altera will showcase its SoC-based solutions, including the industry’s only 20 nm SoC FPGA, to attendees of Embedded World 2015 in Nurnberg, Germany.</ … Read More → "Altera Ships 20 nm SoCs"

Cadence Announces Stratus High-Level Synthesis Platform

February 24, 2015

SAN JOSE, Calif., 24 Feb 2015

HIGHLIGHTS:

Industry’s first high-level synthesis platform that can be utilized across an entire system-on-chip (SoC) design
First silicon-proven high-level synthesis platform to address real world challenges, including ECO, low power, IP reuse, and routing congestion
Consistent environment from TLM through gates improves design and verification quality

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) today announced the Cadence® Stratus™ high-level synthesis platform, the industry’s first high-level synthesis platform that can be utilized across an entire system-on-chip (SoC) design. This next-generation platform … Read More → "Cadence Announces Stratus High-Level Synthesis Platform"

Atmel Launches Automotive Grade ARM Cortex-M0+-based MCUs With Capacitive Touch Hardware Support for HMI and LIN Applications

February 24, 2015

San Jose, CA, February 24, 2015 – Atmel® Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML), a leader in microcontroller (MCU) and touch technology solutions, today announced the company has launched its next-generation family of automotive-qualified ARM® Cortex®-M0+-based MCUs with an integrated peripheral touch controller (PTC) for capacitive touch applications. The new SAM DA1 is the first series in this Atmel |SMART MCU automotive-qualified product family, operating at a maximum frequency of 48MHz and reaching a 2.14 Coremark/MHz.

Altium Announces Updates to Flagship High-Speed PCB Design Tool

February 24, 2015

San Diego, Calif. – February 24, 2015 Altium Limited, a global leader in Electronic Design Automation, Native 3D PCB design systems (Altium Designer^®, CircuitStudio^®, PCBWorks^®, CircuitMaker^®), ECAD design data management (Altium Vault^®), and embedded software development toolkits (TASKING^®), has announced the next update to its flagship PCB design tool, Altium Designer. Altium Designer 15.1 will introduce several new features for improved design productivity, documentation outputs, and high-speed design efficiency.

“We’re pushing productivity and high-speed design features further than … Read More → "Altium Announces Updates to Flagship High-Speed PCB Design Tool"

Argosim Launches STIMULUS Requirements Verification Tool to Make Requirements Right the First Time

February 24, 2015

Embedded World, Nürnberg, Germany – February 24, 2015 – Argosim, the first software company to provide tools that validate real-time systems requirements, introduces STIMULUS, a modeling and simulation environment to edit, debug, and test requirements. With STIMULUS, system architects can now verify requirements before the design phase even begins, reducing specification errors, process iterations, and compliance costs for industries battling the rising costs of certification.

In a typical software project, 40 to 60 percent of design bugs are caused by faulty requirements that lead to additional testing and re-debugging. < … Read More → "Argosim Launches STIMULUS Requirements Verification Tool to Make Requirements Right the First Time"

OneSpin Delivers First SystemC Assertion-Based Formal Verification Solution

February 24, 2015

SAN JOSE, CALIF. –– February 24, 2015 –– OneSpin® Solutions, provider of innovative formal verification and formal equivalence checking solutions, today announced that OneSpin 360 DV™ now supports the SystemC language, delivering the first SystemC Assertion-Based Formal Verification Solution.

The addition of SystemC is a natural extension of the OneSpin 360 DV tool suite, allowing engineers to receive the full benefits of formal Assertion-Based Verification (ABV) and automated design inspection solutions for their SystemC design code. Both C language assertions as well as the SystemVerilog Assertion (SVA) standard are supported to allow established … Read More → "OneSpin Delivers First SystemC Assertion-Based Formal Verification Solution"

LDRA’s Patented Software Life Cycle Traceability Gives Customers Leading Edge in Critical Software Verification

February 23, 2015

Embedded World, Nürnberg, Germany. 23 February 2015—LDRA, the leader in standards compliance, automated software verification, source code analysis and test tools, has secured a patent for TBmanager, its premiere software life cycle traceability and verification system. TBmanager enables developers to bidirectionally link industry-standard objectives, functional requirements, design, code, and test artifacts to the people responsible for those activities. By helping define, enforce, and demonstrate a comprehensive verification workflow, TBmanager provides companies with the audit trail needed to achieve regulatory compliance of safety-critical standards.

TBmanager enables development and verification organizations in industries such as aerospace, automotive, industrial controls, … Read More → "LDRA’s Patented Software Life Cycle Traceability Gives Customers Leading Edge in Critical Software Verification"

Radio chip for the “Internet of things”

February 23, 2015

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — At this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the big theme was the “Internet of things” — the idea that everything in the human environment, from kitchen appliances to industrial equipment, could be equipped with sensors and processors that can exchange data, helping with maintenance and the coordination of tasks.

Realizing that vision, however, requires transmitters that are powerful enough to broadcast to devices dozens of yards away but energy-efficient enough to last for months — or even to harvest energy from heat or mechanical vibrations.

“A key challenge is designing these circuits … Read More → "Radio chip for the “Internet of things”"

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