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ARM and Synopsys Sign ARM Cortex Processor Models Agreement

September 29, 2011

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. and CAMBRIDGE, England, Sept. 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) and ARM® today announced a licensing agreement enabling Synopsys to distribute ARM’s Fast Models and create models of ARM Cortex Series processors. Designers will be able to accelerate embedded software development for ARM technology-based designs by up to nine months by creating virtual prototypes using ARM models with Synopsys’ DesignWare® TLM, SystemC TLM Libraries and Virtualizer™ tool set. ARM Fast Models and other ARM transaction-level models (TLMs) are listed on the newly launched TLMCentral</ … Read More → "ARM and Synopsys Sign ARM Cortex Processor Models Agreement"

Tektronix Unveils Industry’s Most Cost-Effective Solution for MIPI® Alliance M-PHYSM Testing

September 28, 2011

BEAVERTON, Ore., September 27, 2011 – Tektronix, Inc., the world’s leading manufacturer of oscilloscopes, today announced the industry’s most cost-effective and only customer-proven solution for the MIPI Alliance M-PHY testing based on the newly-ratified M-PHY v1.0 specification. Building on theindustry’s first M-PHY test offering introduced last September, Tektronix now offers mobile device hardware engineers a simple, integrated solution for M-PHY Transmitter and Receiver debug, validation and … Read More → "Tektronix Unveils Industry’s Most Cost-Effective Solution for MIPI® Alliance M-PHYSM Testing"

Xilinx Releases Pocket Power Estimator App for the iPhone

September 28, 2011

SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 27, 2011 – Designers who rely on their iPhones as much as their PCs now have a quick and easy way to determine the power consumption of Xilinx’s (NASDAQ: XLNX) 28nm 7 series Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA). The new Pocket Power Estimator (PPE) application for Apple’s iPhone enables designers to see how Xilinx’s 28nm programmable platforms stack up to alternatives in delivering the lowest power consumption for their systems. Designers can download the PPE from the Apple App Store today and, for the first time ever, quickly and easily … Read More → "Xilinx Releases Pocket Power Estimator App for the iPhone"

Pico Computing Releases Embedded M-Series Module

September 28, 2011

Seattle, WA – September 27, 2011 – Pico Computing today announces the release of a new M-Series Module, the M-504. An adaptation of the M-503, this new module addresses the ever-increasing demands for memory and I/O bandwidth in embedded systems. With the inclusion of 128MB NOR FLASH, the Virtex-6 FPGA can now be configured independently of a host system. This enables the M-504 to be a stand-alone module for embedded applications such as medical imaging, signal processing, machine vision, and robotics.

The M-504 features a Xilinx Virtex-6 LX240T FPGA with two independent banks of … Read More → "Pico Computing Releases Embedded M-Series Module"

Touchstone Semiconductor Extends Free Demo Board Program Through Dec. 31

September 28, 2011

MILPITAS, Calif. — Wed., Sept. 28, 2011 – Touchstone Semiconductor, a developer of high-performance analog integrated circuit solutions, today announced that it will extend its free demo board program through Dec. 31.

The offer includes all demo boards in Touchstone’s growing portfolio of high-performance analog products, including the groundbreaking 0.8V, 0.6μA TS1001 operational amplifier, and the new TS9001-1 and TS9001-2 ultra low-power voltage monitor ICs.

Engineers can register for their free demo boards at http://www.touchstonesemi. … Read More → "Touchstone Semiconductor Extends Free Demo Board Program Through Dec. 31"

Cavium Ships New Multi-Format High Definition Set Top Box SoC for OTT, IPTV and Pay Cable Markets

September 28, 2011

Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for networking, communications and the digital home, today announced the Celestial™ CNC1800L multi-format, high definition Set Top Box System-on-a-Chip (SoC) processor is sampling to customers for Over the Top (OTT), IPTV, and Digital Cable Set Top Box applications.

Internet OTT and digital cable entertainment markets are growing rapidly. Informa Telecoms and Media predict that OTT-to-the-TV viewers will outnumber traditional managed IPTV viewers by 2013 globally. … Read More → "Cavium Ships New Multi-Format High Definition Set Top Box SoC for OTT, IPTV and Pay Cable Markets"

AdaCore Releases Major New Version of GNAT Programming Studio

September 28, 2011

BOSTON, Mass., NEW YORK and PARIS, September 27, 2011 – Embedded Systems Conference – AdaCore, a leading supplier of Ada language tools and support services, today announced the upcoming release of GNAT Programming Studio (GPS) 5.1. This new major version of AdaCore’s graphical Integrated Development Environment (IDE), to be available in October, offers extended feature support for C and C++, improved integration with CodePeer (automated code reviewer and validator), more powerful source editing, and … Read More → "AdaCore Releases Major New Version of GNAT Programming Studio"

HELIOS Team Will Present Results of 40Gbit/s Optical Modulator Demonstration At Group IV Photonics Conference, Sept. 14-16, in London

September 28, 2011

GRENOBLE, France – Sept. 12, 2011 – CEA-Leti announced today that a team of European researchers and companies has achieved a major milestone towards fabricating silicon photonics circuits in CMOS foundries.

By demonstrating for the first time a 40Gbit/s optical modulator in silicon with a record extinction ratio of 10dB (the power difference between the 1 and 0 data levels), members of the HELIOS Project accomplished one of the key project goals needed to build and optimize the entire supply chain for fabricating complex functional silicon- photonics devices from design to the process level.

In addition … Read More → "HELIOS Team Will Present Results of 40Gbit/s Optical Modulator Demonstration At Group IV Photonics Conference, Sept. 14-16, in London"

Express Logic’s NetX™Achieves Near Wire Speed on Freescale Kinetis

September 28, 2011

ESC Boston, September 27, 2011 — Express Logic, Inc., the worldwide leader in royalty-free, real-time operating systems (RTOS), announced that its NetX™ TCP/IP stack has achieved 94 Mbps, an outstanding 94% wire speed on Freescale’s ARM Cortex-M4-based Kinetis processor</ … Read More → "Express Logic’s NetX™Achieves Near Wire Speed on Freescale Kinetis"

Empress Embedded Database Searches 3000 Year Old Athenians Data

September 28, 2011

Beltsville, MD, September 28, 2011 – Empress Software, developers of the robust, agile Empress Embedded Database, announce a new, dynamic, database driven website powered by Empress for the Athenians Project. Athenians Project is a multi-year, ongoing project of compiling, computerizing and studying data about the persons of ancient Athens. The project is headed by Professor John S. Traill, a world-renowned antiquities expert as well as instructor in “Latin and Greek Scientific Terminology” at the University of Toronto.

Following in the footsteps of the great German scholar Johannes Kirchner, over 100,000 entries of age-faded, handwritten card-files collected since the early 1930s … Read More → "Empress Embedded Database Searches 3000 Year Old Athenians Data"