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Maxim Integrated’s 12/16-Channel Analog Front-Ends (AFEs) Double Accuracy While Reducing Battery-Management Systems Cost by up to 35%

April 24, 2013

San Jose, CA–April 24, 2013–Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. (NASDAQ: MXIM) announced it is sampling the MAX14920/MAX14921, high-accuracy, 12/16-channel cell-measurement analog front-ends (AFEs) that lower battery-management electronics costs by up to 35%. These devices double the accuracy of cell voltage readings through the use of high-accuracy common-mode level shifting and an integrated high-precision amplifier that simplifies ADC data conversion.

Higher accuracy improves state-of-charge determination and cell balancing that in turn lengthen the … Read More → "Maxim Integrated’s 12/16-Channel Analog Front-Ends (AFEs) Double Accuracy While Reducing Battery-Management Systems Cost by up to 35%"

Kozio releases Verification and Test OS (VTOS™) support for Intel’s 4th Generation Processors; Haswell and Haswell Mobile ULT Processors

April 23, 2013

LONGMONT, Colo., April 23, 2013 – Kozio, Inc. (www.kozio.com), the leading provider of software solutions for embedded hardware design verification and production test, today announced the release of a Verification and Test OS (VTOS™) for Intel’s 4th generation processors, Haswell™ and Haswell Mobile ULT. Haswell designs can now experience the benefits of VTOS in engineering, production and field deployment. VTOS combines over 300 functional tests, scripting, in-system programming and command line access to provide a unique and powerful solution for embedded hardware design verification and test.

VTOS can be utilized in engineering, production and the field providing a … Read More → "Kozio releases Verification and Test OS (VTOS™) support for Intel’s 4th Generation Processors; Haswell and Haswell Mobile ULT Processors"

IAR Systems now shipping I-scope probe for real-time current and voltage measurements

April 23, 2013

Design West, San Jose, California—April 23, 2013—Today, IAR Systems® starts shipping the latest addition to its innovative Power Debugging technology. The I-scope™ probe extends the power optimization possibilities available in IAR Embedded Workbench®. Used together with IAR Systems’ in-circuit debugging probe I-jet™, I-scope lets developers optimize their applications for power consumption and possibly extend battery lifetime by offering them knowledge of the power consumed by individual modules and detect if design flaws in the code are causing unnecessary power consumption.

Power Debugging is a methodology that provides developers with information about how the … Read More → "IAR Systems now shipping I-scope probe for real-time current and voltage measurements"

HDL Design House Introduces JESD204B PCS IP Core – HIP 600

April 23, 2013

Belgrade, Serbia – April 23^rd, 2013 – HDL Design House, provider of high performance digital and analog IP cores and SoC design and verification services, has announced the availability of its JESD204B Physical Coding Sublayer (PCS) IP core (HIP 600), which enables transmission and reception of data via a configurable number of lanes in compliance to JEDEC’s JESD204B specification.

The JESD204B PCS IP Core performs frame generation, encoding, and scrambling for data transmission, as well as decoding, frame recovery, intra and inter lane alignment, and descrambling on data … Read More → "HDL Design House Introduces JESD204B PCS IP Core – HIP 600"

eCosCentric adds integrated USB Host support to eCosPro

April 23, 2013

SAN JOSE, USA — April 22, 2013 — eCosCentric Limited, the eCos experts, today announced the introduction of eCosPro-HostUSB, a USB host stack for eCosPro. The stack initially targets popular ARM based controllers from TI and Atmel, enabling mass storage devices and USB hubs to be attached, with hot-plug support.

eCosPro-HostUSB is tightly integrated with the eCos file system layer, providing compatibility with existing eCos RTOS, library and application code. The stack works alongside the existing eCosPro automounter and FAT file system (delivering FAT16/32, long filename, multi-byte character support, and other features). eCosPro-HostUSB … Read More → "eCosCentric adds integrated USB Host support to eCosPro"

Green Hills Software Announces INTEGRITY RTOS and MULTI IDE Support for Altera’s Cyclone V SoC

April 23, 2013

SANTA BARBARA and SAN JOSE, CA — April 23, 2013 — DESIGN West, Booth 1320 — Green Hills Software, the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutions, today announced the upcoming availability of its industry-leading INTEGRITY^® RTOS and comprehensive software development and run-time solutions for the Altera^® Cyclone^® V SoC. Green Hills Software supported solutions include the INTEGRITY real-time operating system (RTOS) with SMP configuration; its award-winning Read More → "Green Hills Software Announces INTEGRITY RTOS and MULTI IDE Support for Altera’s Cyclone V SoC"

GrammaTech Integrates Static Analysis with Eclipse Development Environment

April 23, 2013

SAN JOSE, CA, Design West?April 23, 2013?GrammaTech, Inc., a leading manufacturer of software-analysis tools, today announced that their flagship static analysis tool, CodeSonar, is now integrated with theEclipse IDE. This integration provides developers with the ability to correct programming defects found by CodeSonar without leaving Eclipse.

Developers can use CodeSonar’s Eclipse plug-in to run a CodeSonar … Read More → "GrammaTech Integrates Static Analysis with Eclipse Development Environment"

ADLINK Launches Flagship VPX Product Line with VPX3000 Series

April 23, 2013

SAN JOSE, CA – April 23, 2013 – ADLINK Technology, Inc., a leading provider of embedded computing products and application-ready intelligent platforms, today announced its flagship VPX product line, the VPX3000 Series rugged 3U VPX processor blade. The VPX3000 Series is ideal for system integrators who have a need for an advanced VPX board with VPX REDI and OpenVPX compliance in order to deploy high performance military and aerospace applications requiring quick time-to-market.

“ADLINK’s history of delivering rugged and extreme rugged solutions for industrial and mobile environments allows our move into VPX to … Read More → "ADLINK Launches Flagship VPX Product Line with VPX3000 Series"

element14 sets engineers a potentially lifesaving challenge

April 23, 2013

London 18 April 2013 – Engineers on the element14 Community are being invited to develop an intelligent solution for people living with cognitive impairments and other long term conditions that could change their lives.

Project Nocturne, run in conjunction with the Bath Institute of Medical Engineering and Armley Helping Hands in Leeds, UK, hopes to find a reliable solution that will alert a relative or carer if their loved one is not safely in bed at night, or … Read More → "element14 sets engineers a potentially lifesaving challenge"

AMD Targets High-Growth, Embedded Markets with New AMD Embedded G-Series System-on-Chip

April 23, 2013

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 23, 2013 — DESIGN West — AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced at DESIGN West the new AMD Embedded G-Series System-on-Chip (SOC) platform, a single-chip solution based on the AMD next-generation “Jaguar” CPU architecture and AMD Radeon™ 8000 Series graphics. The new AMD Embedded G-Series SOC platform further signifies a strategic push to focus on high-growth markets outside the PC industry, with an emphasis on embedded systems.