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Esterel Technologies Announces Immediate Availability of SCADE System

April 4, 2012

Elancourt, France and Boston, Massachusetts — April 3, 2012 – Esterel Technologies, the leading worldwide provider of model-based development solutions for critical systems and software, today announced the immediate availability of SCADE System™

SCADE System is a systems design and modeling tool suite that has been developed specifically for use on critical systems with high dependability requirements, providing a full support of industrial systems engineering processes, such as ARP 4754, ISO 26262 and EN 50126.

SCADE System Designer™, the first module available within the SCADE System product line, … Read More → "Esterel Technologies Announces Immediate Availability of SCADE System"

Atmel Unveils XSense – Revolutionary Flexible Touch Sensors that Enable a New Era of Capacitive Touchscreen Designs

April 4, 2012

San Jose, CA, April 4, 2012 – Atmel® Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML), a leader in microcontroller and touch technology solutions, today announced that it is sampling to select customers XSense(TM), its revolutionary, highly flexible film-based touch sensor. XSense touch sensors will not only enable a new generation of smartphones and tablets, but also extend touch capabilities into a wider array of new consumer and industrial products.

Based on a proprietary roll-to-roll metal mesh technology, XSense touch sensors provide a high-performance alternative to existing touch sensors. Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) will now be able to develop larger, … Read More → "Atmel Unveils XSense – Revolutionary Flexible Touch Sensors that Enable a New Era of Capacitive Touchscreen Designs"

VDC Research Presents Eighth Annual Software Embeddy Award to GrammaTech at ESC DESIGN West

April 4, 2012

Natick, MA – April 3, 2012 – VDC Research Group, Inc. (VDC), the leading authority on the embedded systems software development solutions market,  announced GrammaTech as the winner of the annual “Embeddy” software award at the 2012 ESC DESIGN West conference. The award recognizes the company’s CodeSonar visualization system as the best in show at the event.

“We chose GrammaTech because we believe the CodeSonar visualization system represents a unique solution that has the ability to materially impact the way developers test and analyze their source code,” said Jared Weiner, Analyst for … Read More → "VDC Research Presents Eighth Annual Software Embeddy Award to GrammaTech at ESC DESIGN West"

Atmel University Program Kicks Off 2012 Robotics Contest

April 3, 2012

San Jose, CA, March 27, 2012 – Atmel® Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML), a leader in microcontroller and touch solutions, today launched the 2012 Atmel Robotics Contest (ARC) through the Atmel University Program.

University students 18 years or … Read More → "Atmel University Program Kicks Off 2012 Robotics Contest"

Green Hills Software Achieves More Processor Performance Records

April 3, 2012

SAN JOSE, CA — March 27, 2012 — DESIGN West/ESC 2012, Booth #1227 — Green Hills Software, the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutions, today announced the highest compiler performance scores ever certified by EEMBC® CoreMark™, outperforming the nearest competing compilers by 35.5%. Higher performing processors mean embedded device designers gain a larger performance budget on the same core, enabling them to add new features, make existing features run faster and improve user interface response time without the need to add a faster or more expensive core.

The Green Hills Compiler 2012 achieved the highest ever … Read More → "Green Hills Software Achieves More Processor Performance Records"

ITTIA DB SQL and IAR Embedded Workbench® Make Embedded Development Smarter

April 3, 2012

March 28, 2012 — Bellevue, WA — ITTIA DB SQL is now available for IAR Embedded Workbench® and allows developers of embedded system and device applications to benefit from a complete leading-edge relational embedded database and comprehensive embedded workbench tools, empowering them with flexibility and ease of use.

ITTIA’s next generation embedded database technology, ITTIA DB SQL, delivers capabilities culminated from decades of database evolution in a compact, self-managing software library. IAR Embedded Workbench® is a high-performance C/C++ compiler and debugger tool suite for applications based on a variety of controllers. This combination opens … Read More → "ITTIA DB SQL and IAR Embedded Workbench® Make Embedded Development Smarter"

Green Hills Software’s MULTI Integrated Development Environment Selected by Nintendo for Wii U Development

April 3, 2012

SAN JOSE, CA — March 27, 2012 — DESIGN West/ESC 2012, Booth #1227 — Green Hills Software, the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutions, has entered into a global license agreement that will enable Nintendo Co., Ltd. to provide Green Hills Software’s MULTI® integrated development environment (IDE) to developers that are creating video game software for the upcoming Wii U platform, which is scheduled to be launched later this year.

“We selected the Green Hills Software solution because it generates highly optimized code, and Green Hills provides excellent global support,” commented … Read More → "Green Hills Software’s MULTI Integrated Development Environment Selected by Nintendo for Wii U Development"

flow90 – The power module of choice for 90-degree mounting from Vincotech

April 3, 2012

March 30th 2012 – Vincotech offers a wide range of power modules, one line of which is the perfect match for book-sized inverters and 19-inch rack-mounted power supplies with a 90-degree angle between the heat-sink and PCB. Called flow90 and featuring pins arrayed at a 90-degree angle, these modules are available as standard products with CON, PIM, and PACK configurations. Furthermore customized topologies like for switching mode power supplies and battery chargers are also commonly used in this package. This concept gets rid of flexible PCBs. The use of flow90 … Read More → "flow90 – The power module of choice for 90-degree mounting from Vincotech"

Dialog Semiconductor And TSMC Create A Process Platform To Advance BCD Power Management Leadership

April 3, 2012

Kirchheim/Teck, Germany and Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C, 29 March 2012 – Dialog Semiconductor plc (FWB: DLG), a provider of highly integrated innovative power management, audio and short range wireless technologies, today announced it is working closely with TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) to develop its next generation of bipolar-CMOS-DMOS (BCD) technology specifically tailored to high-performance power management ICs (PMICs) for portable devices.

The BCD process can support the integration of advanced logic, analogue and high-voltage features, including FET type transistors. It will also enable Dialog to create even more highly integrated, smaller form factor single … Read More → "Dialog Semiconductor And TSMC Create A Process Platform To Advance BCD Power Management Leadership"

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