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Extending the Reach of Free Boundary-scan Tools

July 5, 2011

Eindhoven, The Netherlands – 5^th July 2011. JTAG Technologies is proud to announce the latest extension to its popular JTAGLive family of boundary-scan powered design and repair debug tools for PCBs. JTAGLive Buzz-plus is an extension to the acclaimed free-of-charge Buzz tool that was launched in 2009.

While Buzz allows the user to sample activity on boundary-scan pins and test continuity of nets across a circuit board – and is free to all users – Buzz-plus extends … Read More → "Extending the Reach of Free Boundary-scan Tools"

Xilinx to Deliver Industry Perspective at SEMICON West 2011 at SEMI/Gartner Market Symposium & ‘3D in the Deep Submicron Era’ TechXSPOT Session

July 5, 2011

SAN JOSE, Calif., July 5, 2011 – Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced its participation in the SEMI/Gartner Market Symposium and 3D in the Deep Submicron Era TechXSPOT session at Read More → "Xilinx to Deliver Industry Perspective at SEMICON West 2011 at SEMI/Gartner Market Symposium & ‘3D in the Deep Submicron Era’ TechXSPOT Session"

Siltronic AG Joins imec’s GaN-on-Si Research Program to Develop Technology for Next-Gen Power Semiconductors and LEDs

July 1, 2011

Munich / Leuven (Belgium), July 1, 2011 – Siltronic AG and the Belgian nano-electronics research institute imec have concluded an agreement to collaborate on the development of silicon wafers with a gallium nitride layer as partner of imec’s GaN-on-Si industrial affiliation program (IIAP). The endeavor aims to enable production of solid-state lighting (e.g. LEDs) and power semiconductors of the next generation on 200 mm silicon wafers.

Gallium nitride (GaN) is a very promising material. Combining superior electron mobility, high breakdown voltage and good thermal conductivity, it is particularly suitable for optoelectronics and advanced power semiconductors. These are used, … Read More → "Siltronic AG Joins imec’s GaN-on-Si Research Program to Develop Technology for Next-Gen Power Semiconductors and LEDs"

SMX® RTOS Now Available for Kinetis™ K60 Cortex™-M4 Microcontrollers from Freescale

July 1, 2011

Costa Mesa, California, June 30, 2011 — Micro Digital, Inc. is pleased to offer SMX^® RTOS support for the Kinetis™ K60 Cortex™-M4 microcontrollers from Freescale. This includes immediate availability of the smx preemptive real-time multitasking kernel, smxUSBH USB host stack, smxUSBD USB device stack, smxNS TCP/IP stack, and smxFS FAT file system with MMC/SD card driver.

SMX RTOS fully supports the Freescale K60 Tower development board TWR-K60N512 with the IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM toolsuite. smxAware extends … Read More → "SMX® RTOS Now Available for Kinetis™ K60 Cortex™-M4 Microcontrollers from Freescale"

Curtiss-Wright Controls Introduces Industry’s First NVIDIA® GPGPU OpenVPX™ Engine based on NVIDIA Fermi architecture

July 1, 2011

ASHBURN, VA – June 30, 2011 – Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing (CWCEC), a business group of Curtiss-Wright Controls and a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VME, VPX, OpenVPX™ and CompactPCI products for the rugged deployed aerospace and defense market, has announced its first general purpose graphics processing unit (GPGPU)- multi-core engine, theVPX6-490 GPU Application Accelerator. The VPX6-490 features … Read More → "Curtiss-Wright Controls Introduces Industry’s First NVIDIA® GPGPU OpenVPX™ Engine based on NVIDIA Fermi architecture"

Konica Minolta Accelerates Hardware Debugging with EVE’s ZEMI-3 Transaction-Level Modeling Methodology

June 30, 2011

SAN JOSE, CALIF. –– June 30, 2011 –– Konica Minolta Technology Center, Inc., of Tokyo, Japan today announced that it accelerated its hardware debugging process through the use of EVE’s ZeBu hardware-assisted verification platform and ZEMI-3 transaction-level modeling methodology.

Over the past year, Konica Minolta has deployed ZeBu to accelerate the simulation of its high-speed, high-performance large-scale integrated circuits (LSIs) used in image processing. Konica Minolta designers adopted EVE’s ZEMI-3 transaction-level … Read More → "Konica Minolta Accelerates Hardware Debugging with EVE’s ZEMI-3 Transaction-Level Modeling Methodology"

Enea Announces FastTrack Evaluation Kit for Freescale’s QorIQ Qonverge™ Products

June 30, 2011

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, June 22, 2011 – Enea® (NASDAQ OMX Nordic:ENEA) today announced that it is launching its first iteration of FastTrack, a software evaluation kit for Freescale’s QorIQ Qonverge™(www.enea.com/qonverge) products. FastTrack combines many of Enea’s proven runtime software products … Read More → "Enea Announces FastTrack Evaluation Kit for Freescale’s QorIQ Qonverge™ Products"

MIPS Technologies and Ingenic Semiconductor Collaborate to Bring Android™ ‘Honeycomb’ to New 1GHz MIPS-Based™ Mobile SoC

June 30, 2011

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – June 30, 2011 – MIPS Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MIPS), a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for digital home, networking and mobile applications, and Ingenic Semiconductor, a leading China-based CPU provider for mobile multimedia applications, today announced that they are collaborating to bring Android™ 3.0, also known as ‘Honeycomb’, to Ingenic’s new JZ4770 mobile applications processor, which leverages a MIPS-Based™ XBurst™ CPU running at 1GHz. Honeycomb is the newest version of the Android operating system designed specifically for tablets and other large format products. MIPS and Ingenic will work … Read More → "MIPS Technologies and Ingenic Semiconductor Collaborate to Bring Android™ ‘Honeycomb’ to New 1GHz MIPS-Based™ Mobile SoC"

Microsemi Achieves AS9100 Rev C and ISO 9001 Certifications

June 30, 2011

IRVINE, Calif.–June 30, 2011–Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq: MSCC), a leading provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance, today announced that the company’s SoC Product Group achieved compliance with new, stringent AS9100 Rev C quality system requirements for aviation, space, and defense markets. The new revision of AS9100 includes an increased focus on risk management, supplier management controls, on-time delivery, and product conformity measurements, including taking appropriate actions against vendors when planned results are not achieved. Microsemi has more than 20 years of flight-proven reliability, and offers low-power flash- and antifuse-based FPGAs for use in aerospace and … Read More → "Microsemi Achieves AS9100 Rev C and ISO 9001 Certifications"

Vector Fabrics Joins The Synopsys System-Level Catalyst Program

June 30, 2011

Eindhoven, The Netherlands, June 2011 – Vector Fabrics announced today that it has joined Synopsys’ System-Level Catalyst Program. Aimed at accelerating the adoption of system-level design, the program promotes interoperability between its partners’ design solutions. The combination of system-level design tools from Synopsys and Vector Fabrics can increase the design productivity of systems engineers that develop multicore embedded systems.

Mike Beunder, CEO at Vector Fabrics comments, “Designing a next-generation multicore SoC and optimizing the required software for it is a complex task. You can achieve this efficiently with the use of state-of-the-art software and hardware tools. We are delighted … Read More → "Vector Fabrics Joins The Synopsys System-Level Catalyst Program"

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