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IAR Systems adds extensive functionality to world-leading tools for Texas Instruments MSP430

June 29, 2012

Uppsala, Sweden—June 29, 2012—IAR Systems® has released a new version of its world-leading embedded development tool suite for the ultra-low-power 16-bit MSP430 microcontroller family from Texas Instruments (TI), and continues to deliver functionality for ease-of-use and high performance.

IAR Embedded Workbench® for MSP430, version 5.50, includes a new text editor and source browser. The new editor introduces user-friendly features such as auto-completion, code folding, block selection, block indentation, bracket matching, and zooming. Word/paragraph navigation have also been improved, and parameter hints show the function arguments. The new features makes it easier for embedded developers to quickly navigate … Read More → "IAR Systems adds extensive functionality to world-leading tools for Texas Instruments MSP430"

New Xilinx Kintex-7 FPGA Connectivity Kit Dramatically Increases Productivity for Designing High Bandwidth Applications

June 28, 2012

SAN JOSE, Calif., June 28, 2012 – Xilinx Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced the availability of the Kintex™-7 FPGA Connectivity Kit for customers creating advanced serial I/O designs across a broad range of high bandwidth applications. The Kintex-7 FPGA Connectivity Kit dramatically increases designer productivity by including a fully validated and supported reference design that integrates an entire PCIe® solution with DDR3 sub-system, including both the HDL and the complete software stack.

“The Kintex-7 FPGA Connectivity Kit helps increase our customers’ productivity by offering a Targeted Reference Design that removes much of the … Read More → "New Xilinx Kintex-7 FPGA Connectivity Kit Dramatically Increases Productivity for Designing High Bandwidth Applications"

New PSoC® Power Monitoring and Fan Control Solutions Simplify System Design and Deliver Highest Reliability for Telecom, Server and Storage Markets

June 28, 2012

SAN JOSE, Calif., June 28, 2012 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: CY) has released an extension to its revolutionary PSoC Creator™ Integrated Design Environment (IDE) for the PSoC® 3 and PSoC 5 programmable system-on-chip families. Known as a “Component Pack,” the update includes new functions for Power Monitoring and Fan Control. Customers can easily “drag and drop” these functions into existing PSoC devices to realize new capabilities within their designs.

Components are “virtual” chips represented by an icon in Cypress’s PSoC Creator software that are dragged and dropped into a design. Each component is fully tested and characterized … Read More → "New PSoC® Power Monitoring and Fan Control Solutions Simplify System Design and Deliver Highest Reliability for Telecom, Server and Storage Markets"

Industrial display systems with integrated Intel® Core™ processor of the second generation

June 28, 2012

Munich, June 2012 – DSM Computer’s new large-area ABLE industrial display systems offer increased dust protection and are protected against spray water in accordance with the IP44 degree of protection. For deployment in public buildings, a fire-load calculation is also available for the industrial display systems. The robust displays are currently available in three variants with screen diagonal sizes of 140 cm (55 inch), 119 cm (47 inch) and 107 cm (42 inch).

The high-quality display systems are controlled with an integrated industrial mini-ITX board based on the high-performance Intel® Core™ i5-2510E processor … Read More → "Industrial display systems with integrated Intel® Core™ processor of the second generation"

Nordic’s new nRF51 Series ULP wireless SoCs slash power consumption, up RF performance, and free designers from proprietary software frameworks

June 28, 2012

Oslo, Norway – June 28, 2012 – Ultra low power (ULP) RF specialist Nordic Semiconductor ASA (OSE: NOD) today announces the first members of its new nRF51 Series of ultra-low power (ULP) RF integrated circuits (ICs) that feature a new multi-protocol 2.4GHz radio and a 32-bit ARM®Cortex™-M0 based processor. Nordic’s novel software architecture for Bluetooth® low energy and ANT™ System-on-Chip (SoC) solutions frees designers from the integration effort, complexities, and restrictions of chip vendor-supplied software frameworks and instead allows customers to develop their designs quickly and easily using the highly popular and familiar ARM Cortex programming environment.

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Elliptic Technologies Joins ARM TrustZone® Ready Program

June 28, 2012

June 28, 2012 – Ottawa, Canada: Elliptic Technologies, a leading supplier of content protection software and security semiconductor IP, has joined the ARM TrustZone® Ready Program to provide system wide embedded security based on Trusted Execution Environments (TEE) to mobile and home entertainment devices. As a partner of this program, Elliptic will join other industry leaders to develop solutions for chip and design manufacturers based on a strong security foundation which is a pre-requisite for deploying large-scale trusted applications … Read More → "Elliptic Technologies Joins ARM TrustZone® Ready Program"

Systems on Silicon Manufacturing Company Selects Synopsys’ Proteus LRC

June 27, 2012

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP used in the design, verification and manufacture of electronic components and systems and Systems on Silicon Manufacturing Company (SSMC), a Singapore-based joint venture of NXP Semiconductors and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd., today announced their adoption of Synopsys’ Proteus LRC. SSMC has deployed Proteus LRC in their production and development flows for post-OPC lithography verification to identify critical manufacturing hotspot locations that are sensitive to process variation and … Read More → "Systems on Silicon Manufacturing Company Selects Synopsys’ Proteus LRC"

Consortium to Accelerate Dramatic Advances in Memory Technology Announces New Members

June 27, 2012

BOISE, Idaho, 2012-06-27 14:00 CEST (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Hybrid Memory Cube Consortium (HMCC), led by Micron Technology (Nasdaq:MU) and Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., today announced that new members ARM, HP, and SK hynix, Inc. have joined the global effort to accelerate widespread industry adoption of Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) technology. The HMCC is a collaboration of original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), enablers and integrators who are cooperating to develop and implement an open interface standard for the innovative new memory technology.

Micron and Samsung, the initial developing members of the HMCC, are working closely with Altera, IBM, … Read More → "Consortium to Accelerate Dramatic Advances in Memory Technology Announces New Members"

Cadence Encounter Digital Technology Provides Ambarella With Big Improvements in Power, Performance and Area

June 27, 2012

SAN JOSE, CA–(Marketwire – June 27, 2012) – “The complete Cadence Encounter RTL-to-GDSII flow allowed us to tape out a complex 32-nanometer SoC design and achieve significant and meaningful improvements in power, performance and area,” said Chan Lee, vice president of VLSI engineering at Ambarella. “The Clock Concurrent Optimization (CCOpt) technology alone saved us weeks of manual work by allowing us to optimize clocks and datapaths at the same time, while still delivering excellent results in power, performance, and area.”Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS), a leader … Read More → "Cadence Encounter Digital Technology Provides Ambarella With Big Improvements in Power, Performance and Area"

Wind River Introduces Quick Start Capability for Wind River Simics

June 27, 2012

ALAMEDA, Calif. – June 27, 2012 – Wind River®, a world leader in embedded and mobile software, has introduced the latest version of Wind River Simics which features a quick start capability allowing embedded developers to easily and immediately benefit from using full system simulation when developing, debugging, and testing software.

Wind River Simics now includes Quick Start Platform (QSP), which provides a synthetic virtual platform coupled with an instruction set simulator for specific architectures. QSP is also bundled with board support packages (BSPs) for VxWorks® and Linux, including additional BSPs planned … Read More → "Wind River Introduces Quick Start Capability for Wind River Simics"

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