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Green Hills Software Delivers World’s Most Powerful Embedded Linux C/C++ Debugger

SANTA BARBARA, CA — December 11, 2014 — Green Hills Software, the largest independent software vendor for the Internet of Things (IoT), today announced a new MULTI® software development environment for embedded Linux developers. MULTI for Linux leapfrogs all other solutions in the market.

Until now, the state of the art for debugging Linux was a sad combination of print statements, command-line tools, and rudimentary graphical debuggers that are difficult to learn, setup, and use and lack the powerful control and visibility that modern electronic systems demand. This lack of high quality development tools presents a tremendous time-to-market … Read More → "Green Hills Software Delivers World’s Most Powerful Embedded Linux C/C++ Debugger"

LDRA Unveils Unique and Cost-Effective Software Verification on VxWorks 7 Platform

Wirral, U.K. December 11, 2014—LDRA, the leader in standards compliance, automated software verification, source code analysis and test tools, has fully integrated the LDRA tool suite with the next generation Wind River® VxWorks® 7 real-time operating system (RTOS) to achieve full compliance with industry safety- and security-critical standards. The reduced overhead and comprehensive support of the LDRA tool suite for a wide range of target architectures, regardless of their respective footprints, ensures that VxWorks-based systems can be built and verified faster and at lower cost.

LDRA, a well-established leader in the compliance and certification market, brings advanced software … Read More → "LDRA Unveils Unique and Cost-Effective Software Verification on VxWorks 7 Platform"

STMicroelectronics and Politecnico di Milano Build FASTER 3D Graphics Application using FPGAs

Geneva, December 11, 2014 — STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, today announced that it had tested and validated an experimental 3D-graphics application based on ray-tracing technology that had been implemented on an ARM®-processor-based test chip attached to a Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). Partially funded by the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7 IC T 287804), the effort for “Facilitating Analysis and Synthesis Technologies For Effective Reconfiguration” (FASTER) was performed as part of a tight R&D cooperation with Politecnico di Milano that also involved Foundation for Research and Technology – … Read More → "STMicroelectronics and Politecnico di Milano Build FASTER 3D Graphics Application using FPGAs"

Cadence Perspec System Verifier Delivers Up to 10X Productivity Improvement in System-on-Chip Verification

HIGHLIGHTS:

  • Reduces complex use-case scenario development effort for SoC verification from weeks to days
  • Automates traditionally manual, and often complex, system-level coverage-driven test development
  • Improves SoC quality by accelerating the development of complex software-driven tests and integrated debug to reproduce, find and fix complex SoC-level bugs

SAN JOSE, Calif., December 11, 2014? Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS), today announced the Cadence® Perspec ? System Verifier platform for use-case scenario-based software-driven system-on-chip (SoC) verification. Using an intuitive graphical specification of system-level verification scenarios and a definition of the SoC topology and actions, … Read More → "Cadence Perspec System Verifier Delivers Up to 10X Productivity Improvement in System-on-Chip Verification"

PLS’ Universal Debug Engine (UDE) now also supports the Infineon TLE986x and TLE987x Embedded Power ICs

Lauta (Germany), December 11, 2014 – PLS Programmierbare Logik & Systeme presents the latest version 4.3.4 of its Universal Debug Engine (UDE), an optimized test and debug tool for the new Infineon TLE986x and TLE987x Embedded Power IC series.

The highly integrated Embedded Power family was specifically designed for intelligent motor control in a wide range of automotive applications. The devices come in a standard QFN package with a footprint of only 7 mm x 7 mm. In addition to an ARM® Cortex™-M3 core, the devices include flash memory of up to 128 kB, up to six NFETs, … Read More → "PLS’ Universal Debug Engine (UDE) now also supports the Infineon TLE986x and TLE987x Embedded Power ICs"

STMicroelectronics Widens Access to High-Performance STM32 Microcontroller Line with New Devices in Small Memory Sizes

Geneva, December 10, 2014 – The latest STM32F446 microcontrollers from STMicroelectronics introduce new choices for designers by combining enhanced ARM® Cortex®-M4 processing performance, compact 256Kbyte or 512KByte on-chip Flash options all with 128Kbyte RAM, efficient memory-extension interfaces, and extended connectivity and communication capabilities.

Leveraging ST’s proprietary ART Accelerator[1], smart architecture, and advanced 90nm Flash technology boosts the performance of the standard ARM Cortex-M4 … Read More → "STMicroelectronics Widens Access to High-Performance STM32 Microcontroller Line with New Devices in Small Memory Sizes"

IAR Systems partners up with IP provider CAST to boost 8051 development

Uppsala, Sweden—December 10, 2014—IAR Systems®, the world-leading vendor of development tools for embedded systems, today announces that the company has partnered up with the semiconductor IP provider CAST Inc. to offer new possibilities for developers working with 8051-based applications. With the recently introduced version 9.10 of the high-performance development toolchain IAR Embedded Workbench® for 8051, complete tool support for CAST’s 8051 microcontrollers is available.

CAST helped pioneer 8051 intellectual property in 1999, and continues as an 8051 IP leader with hundreds of customers successfully shipping products. Partnering with 8051 … Read More → "IAR Systems partners up with IP provider CAST to boost 8051 development"

Latest S2C Xilinx SingleE Virtex-7 FPGA Prototyping Solution Boasts Smallest Form-Factor, All-Purpose, Stand-Alone System

SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 10, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — S2C Inc., a leading provider of FPGA-based rapid prototyping solutions, today announced the availability of its latest Xilinx SingleE Virtex-7 Logic Module. The S2C SingleE V7 Logic Module is the industry’s smallest form-factor (260mm X 170mm), all-purpose, stand-alone prototyping system based on Xilinx’s … Read More → "Latest S2C Xilinx SingleE Virtex-7 FPGA Prototyping Solution Boasts Smallest Form-Factor, All-Purpose, Stand-Alone System"

Coverity Scan Report Shows Big Data Projects Reducing Defects to Take on Internet of Things

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Dec. 10, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq:SNPS), today announced its latest Coverity Scan® Project Spotlightreport, which analyzed the defects in big data projects detected by the Coverity Scan open source software scanning service. In a sample of 16 big data projects that included Apache™ Hadoop®, HBase™ and Cassandra™, the data showed that the average defect density rate for the projects decreased since the release of the Read More → "Coverity Scan Report Shows Big Data Projects Reducing Defects to Take on Internet of Things"

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