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SymTA/S supports ECU software development on new multicore AURIXTM automotive microcontrollers from Infineon

June 19, 2012

Braunschweig, Germany – 19th June 2012.  Symtavision, the global leader for timing design and timing verification for embedded real-time systems, has announced that SymTA/S supports the timing design and verification of embedded software developed for the new multicore AURIXTM microcontroller family from Infineon Technologies. 

Featuring up to three independent 32-bit TriCoreTM CPUs, the AURIX MCUs from Infineon have been designed to meet the exacting ISO 26262 safety requirements for automotive applications while significantly increasing performance. The modular design and memory approach of AURIX provide the scalability that customers increasingly demand and … Read More → "SymTA/S supports ECU software development on new multicore AURIXTM automotive microcontrollers from Infineon"

Cypress, Nuvation and Arrow Electronics Introduce New USB 3.0 SuperSpeed Interface Board for Altera FPGAs

June 19, 2012

SAN JOSE, Calif., June 19, 2012 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: CY) and Nuvation Research Corp. today announced the production release of a rapid-prototyping solution that simplifies streaming video, images and other data from Altera FPGAs to a host processor at speeds up to 400 Megabytes per second. This solution includes a SuperSpeed USB 3.0 device interface board that connects to Arrow Electronics’ BeMicro SDK (Software Development Kit), the popular FPGA evaluation platform featuring an Altera Cyclone IV FPGA. This new USB 3.0 expansion board enables BeMicro users to prototype a simpler, uncompressed, cost-effective alternative to traditional slower interfaces such as USB 2.0 and Gigabit Ethernet.</ … Read More → "Cypress, Nuvation and Arrow Electronics Introduce New USB 3.0 SuperSpeed Interface Board for Altera FPGAs"

Agilent Technologies’ Newest 3D-EM Software Release Increases Integration with Circuit Design Flow

June 18, 2012

SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 12, 2012 – Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced the latest release of its Electromagnetic Professional software. EMPro 2012 will make it easier to create 3-D models and analyze the electrical performance of packages, connectors, antennas, and other RF and high-speed components.

Agilent will demonstrate EMPro 2012, along with solutions that range from circuit-level modeling through system verification for general RF, microwave, 4G communications, and aerospace/defense applications at IMS 2012/IEEE MTT-S (Booth 1015), June 19-21, in Montréal, Canada. A range of premier partner solutions will … Read More → "Agilent Technologies’ Newest 3D-EM Software Release Increases Integration with Circuit Design Flow"

Xilinx Targets Reduced OpEx and CapEx for Network Operators with Expanded FEC IP Core Offering

June 18, 2012

SAN JOSE, Calif., June 18, 2012 – Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced its expanded Forward Error Correction (FEC) Intellectual Property (IP) Core offering at the WDM and Next Generation Optical Networking 2012 Conference being held in the Grimaldi Forum, Monaco. The offering includes GFEC, EFEC and high gain FEC (xFEC) solutions used to obtain error control in signal transmission and extend the distance of a transmission that reduces the number of regenerators (hops) along the route, which reduces OpEx and CapEx costs … Read More → "Xilinx Targets Reduced OpEx and CapEx for Network Operators with Expanded FEC IP Core Offering"

Minalogic’s NOMAD Project Provides Technology Solutions to Design Human-Machine Interfaces for Tomorrow’s Tablets and Smartphones

June 18, 2012

GRENOBLE, France – June 18, 2012 – Minalogic, worldwide competitive cluster dedicated to micro and nanotechnologies and embedded software, today announced the results of a four-year collaborative R&D project, NOMAD (Navigation on Mobile Objects and 3D Access). 

The project was created to provide practical technology solutions to help small and mid-sized companies meet the increasing challenges for improved user experience in the consumer electronics market. These solutions include new human-machine interaction techniques for future smartphones, tablets etc, adapted to more complex usages and sophisticated applications. 

The partnership explored new kinds of interfaces for mobile devices – by using … Read More → "Minalogic’s NOMAD Project Provides Technology Solutions to Design Human-Machine Interfaces for Tomorrow’s Tablets and Smartphones"

Synopsys Celebrates 25th Anniversary by Helping Local Students

June 18, 2012

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — 

Highlights:

  • Refurbishment activity will take place Saturday, June 23, 2012 from 9:00 a.m.- 4:00 p.m. at Lee Mathson Middle School, San Jose, California
  • Opening ceremony speakers (9:35-10:00 a.m.)
    • Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren, California’s 16th District
    • Mayor Chuck Reed, City of San Jose
    • Dr. Chi-Foon Chan, Synopsys President and co-CEO
    • Jacqueline Montejano, Lee Mathson Middle School Principal
  • The day’s projects will include repainting buildings, building benches and planter boxes, … Read More → "Synopsys Celebrates 25th Anniversary by Helping Local Students"

Green Hills Software Partners with Tuxera for Interoperable File Systems

June 18, 2012

SANTA BARBARA, CA — June 18, 2012 — Green Hills Software, the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutions, and Tuxera, Inc., the leading provider of file systems that allow music, pictures, videos and other content to be ported across devices, today announced that the companies have partnered to extend Tuxera file system support to Green Hills Software INTEGRITY® RTOS customers. In phase one, Tuxera NTFS, the market-leading interoperable file system solution, is ported to INTEGRITY RTOS for the first customer deployments. Tuxera NTFS provides INTEGRITY developers full read/write support for the industry-standard Windows interoperability solution with the highest level of … Read More → "Green Hills Software Partners with Tuxera for Interoperable File Systems"

Allinea Software unveils support for Intel® Xeon® Phi™ Product Family at ISC12

June 18, 2012

Hamburg, Germany, 2012-06-18, The Intel® Xeon® Phi™ product family based on Intel® Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture represents a leap forward in performance and compatibility. With the ability to run over a trillion calculations per second, it is more important than ever to have an easy-to-use, scalable and dependable debugging toolkit – Allinea DDT. 

Support for the Intel MIC architecture will be available by Allinea Software with the first release of the Intel® MIC architecture product – Intel® Xeon® Phi™ family) in the second half of this year.  Intel® Xeon® Phi™ has been … Read More → "Allinea Software unveils support for Intel® Xeon® Phi™ Product Family at ISC12"

Altera and TI make RF design fast and easy with complete development kit for Arria V FPGAs

June 18, 2012

MONTREAL (June 18, 2012) – Today at the International Microwave Symposium, Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) and Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NASDAQ: TXN) introduced a complete RF development kit that eases RF prototyping for systems based on Altera’s 28-nm Arria® V FPGAs. The modular Arria V FPGA RF Development Kit includes all the hardware and software needed for RF transmit, receive and digital pre-distortion feedback, reducing the amount of time needed to design and verify RF systems, such as wireless base stations, remote radio heads, and military radio and intelligence equipment, from months to weeks. For more information, visit Read More → "Altera and TI make RF design fast and easy with complete development kit for Arria V FPGAs"

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