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Altium Releases Major Productivity-Focused Update to Flagship PCB Design Tool

  • Altium Limited, a Global Leader in Electronic Design Automation, Has Announced the Release of a Major Update to Their Flagship PCB Design Tool, Altium Designer. Altium Designer 16 Includes Several New Productivity and Automation Focused Features, Allowing Engineers to Design Complex, Error-Free PCBs in Less Time

Santa Clara, Calif. – 11 November 2015 – Altium Limited <http://www.altium.com/>  has announced the release of a major update to their flagship PCB … Read More → "Altium Releases Major Productivity-Focused Update to Flagship PCB Design Tool"

IAR Systems reports breakthrough as provider of code analysis tools

ARM TechCon, Santa Clara, California / Uppsala, Sweden—November 11, 2015—IAR Systems® reports that its add-on tool for static analysis, C-STAT®, has been a successful launch with many customer requests all over the world, a strong sales growth and an ongoing rollout in a number of product versions.

“C-STAT has been successfully received by our customers and by the market, and I am proud to say that its success is another true acknowledgement that we focus on the right things at the right time,” says Stefan Skarin, CEO, IAR … Read More → "IAR Systems reports breakthrough as provider of code analysis tools"

Morpho?s MovieSolid and Morpho Video WDR Now Available on Cadence Tensilica Imaging/Vision DSPs

SAN JOSE, Calif., November 11, 2015?Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) and Morpho, Inc. (TSE Mothers: 3653) today announced that Morpho’s MovieSolid® and Morpho Video WDR? are now available on the Cadence® Tensilica® Vision P5 digital signal processor (DSP). Ported by vision industry experts at Morpho, these products make it much easier for designers to offer applications with advanced stabilization and image-correction capabilities with lower power consumption.

MovieSolid is an embedded software program for stabilizing videos. It utilizes SOFTGYRO® for detecting motions accurately between consecutive image frames and correcting them in up to six degrees of freedom including … Read More → "Morpho?s MovieSolid and Morpho Video WDR Now Available on Cadence Tensilica Imaging/Vision DSPs"

New smart amplifier from TI enables deeper, richer and louder audio than ever for next-generation smartphones

DALLAS (Nov. 11, 2015) – Texas Instruments (TI) (NASDAQ:TXN) today introduced a low-power smart amplifier that allows designers to develop next-generation smartphones with industry-leading audio quality at peak volumes while maximizing battery efficiency. The TAS2555 Class-H audio amplifier with integrated speaker protection uses back electromotive force and low power of 5.7 W to produce bigger sound from small devices. TI is the first in the industry to provide both integrated and nonintegrated smart amplifiers, giving engineers a broad range of design options. For more information on the new audio amplifier, visit Read More → "New smart amplifier from TI enables deeper, richer and louder audio than ever for next-generation smartphones"

PRO DESIGN to use ARM Juno Development Platform with proFPGA Prototyping System

Santa Clara, 10 November 2015 – PRO DESIGN has announced a collaboration with ARM to extend its usage of ARM® technology by interfacing the popular Juno ARM Development Platform to proFPGA, the scalable and modular FPGA-based prototyping solution, to increase design and verification efficiency for ARMv8-A based designs.

The Juno ARM Development Platform is a software development platform for ARMv8-A. It includes the Juno Versatile Express board and an ARMv8-A reference software port available through Linaro. The Juno hardware provides software developers with an … Read More → "PRO DESIGN to use ARM Juno Development Platform with proFPGA Prototyping System"

RS Components introduces highly versatile Robox professional-quality 3D printer for rapid prototyping applications

OXFORD, UK, 10 November, 2015 – RS Components (RS), the trading brand of Electrocomponents plc (LSE:ECM), the global distributor for engineers, has announced the availability of the first 3D printer from CEL: the Robox offers professional-quality specifications and exceptional print speed with future-proofing adaptability that is unprecedented in the rapidly developing 3D printer market. The Robox is suitable for a wide range of users including electronics, mechanical, and product engineers involved in creating designs and needing rapid prototyping capabilities, or those in the education field as well as … Read More → "RS Components introduces highly versatile Robox professional-quality 3D printer for rapid prototyping applications"

NEW! Lightweight, Compact, Wide Temperature Embedded PC from Amplicon

Brighton, UK, 10th November 2015 – The Amplicon Impact-E 200HT is a lightweight and compact, fanless embedded PC which features Intel® Core™ 3rd generation mobile processor supported by high bandwidth DDR3 SO-DIMM memory.

The Impact-E 200HT utilises the QM77 chipset that introduces high bandwidth SATA III allowing for data transfer speeds up to 6 Gb/s. It ensures that the data bus bottleneck, which previously hindered data transfer speeds, is now a thing of the past. Other features include high speed data transfer, RAID functionality and the option for two mechanical/solid-state drives, you can be assured that … Read More → "NEW! Lightweight, Compact, Wide Temperature Embedded PC from Amplicon"

Atollic unifies fragmented ARM tools market with free no limitations TrueSTUDIO C/C++ IDE

Jonkoping, Sweden, November 10th 2015  – Atollic® today announced the launch of the new TrueSTUDIO Lite, a completely free, commercial-quality IDE without code-size or device usage limitations. This gives the ARM development community a high-quality, free-of-charge tool that everyone can standardize on. The tool is free to download, use and share. No registration is required.

The industry at large is suffering from the fragmentation caused by a vast amount of similar development tools with little differentiation. They all offer basic edit/compile/debug capabilities … Read More → "Atollic unifies fragmented ARM tools market with free no limitations TrueSTUDIO C/C++ IDE"

Zuken Saves Harness Designer 60% Design Time and Opens Up New Business Opportunities

10 November 2015 – Munich, Germany and Westford, MA, USA – ?Racetech Harnessing Ltd, a designer and manufacturer of high quality electrical and electronic systems for the professional motorsport industry, has adopted Zuken’s E³.series for its harness design. E³.series is Zuken’s powerful electrical CAD tool for electrical wiring, control systems and fluid engineering design.

The company decided to move from a manual to digital design flow to help increase … Read More → "Zuken Saves Harness Designer 60% Design Time and Opens Up New Business Opportunities"

LDRA Extends TÜV Certification of Compliance Tools, Further Solidifying Leadership Role in Safety and Security Markets

Santa Clara, CA and Wirral, U.K. 10 November 2015. LDRA, the leader in standards compliance, automated software verification, source code analysis and test tools, has been awarded TÜV certification for all major safety-critical standards, further securing LDRA’s leadership in the software compliance and certification space. The TÜV certificate assures LDRA customers and partners that the LDRA tools fulfil the requirements for support tools and are qualified to be used in safety-related software development. This TÜV certification confirms LDRA’s compliance to industrial safety (IEC 61508), automotive (ISO 26262), … Read More → "LDRA Extends TÜV Certification of Compliance Tools, Further Solidifying Leadership Role in Safety and Security Markets"

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