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RF Engines Releases ChannelCore Flex – the World’s Most Flexible Ultra-Wideband Channelizer Solution

Newport, Isle of Wight, UK – 14 June 2011 – The ultimate radio receiver is capable of detecting and processing signals across all of the radio spectrum, all of the time.  RF Engines Limited (RFEL) has taken a large step towards this goal with the introduction of an innovative and highly flexible, ultra-wideband, Channelizer IP core – the ChannelCore Flex™.

ChannelCore Flex is a major breakthrough as it provides the customer with the ability to extract from a very wide input signal any number of channels simultaneously in real time.  These can be … Read More → "RF Engines Releases ChannelCore Flex – the World’s Most Flexible Ultra-Wideband Channelizer Solution"

Green Hills Software and Clarinox Sign Agreement to Jointly Support Wireless-enabled Embedded Systems

SANTA BARBARA, CA — June 14, 2011 — Green Hills Software, the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutions, has signed an agreement with Clarinox Technologies, a provider of embedded wireless solutions, to promote both companies’ joint offerings. The Clarinox application suites and drivers for short-range wireless protocols – including Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and RFID – will be integrated with Green Hills Software’s INTEGRITY® real-time operating system (RTOS) and the MULTI® development toolchain to deliver comprehensive application support for developers of embedded systems that utilize short-range wireless protocols.

Christopher Smith, vice president of marketing at … Read More → "Green Hills Software and Clarinox Sign Agreement to Jointly Support Wireless-enabled Embedded Systems"

Cirrus Logic CS1501, CS1601 Digital Power Factor Correction ICs Improve Power Supply System Performance and Simplify Designs

AUSTIN, Texas – June 14, 2011 – With the introduction of the CS1501/CS1601, Cirrus Logic Inc. (Nasdaq: CRUS), a leader in high-precision analog and digital signal processing components, continues to expand its line of digital power factor correction (PFC) ICs and sharpen its focus on new digital energy control-related products. Much like the CS1500/CS1600, which were introduced in 2010, these new digital PFC devices compete head-to-head with legacy analog PFC controllers by offering superior performance and allowing for simpler and smaller system designs.

The CS1501 and CS1601 are digitally controlled, variable frequency discontinuous conduction mode (VF-DCM), active power … Read More → "Cirrus Logic CS1501, CS1601 Digital Power Factor Correction ICs Improve Power Supply System Performance and Simplify Designs"

TI re-architects embedded control to make the world greener with new Concerto™ dual-core microcontrollers

HOUSTON, TX (June 14, 2011) – Empowering developers to design greener, more connected applications, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) today announced its new C2000™ Concerto dual-core microcontroller (MCU) series. The new Concerto 32-bit microcontrollers combine TI’s class-leading-performance C28x core and control peripherals with an ARM Cortex-M3 core and connectivity peripherals to deliver a clearly partitioned architecture that supports real-time control and advanced connectivity in a single, cost-efficient device. To make them easy to use, Concerto MCUs are supported by an intuitive software infrastructure as well as application and connectivity libraries within controlSUITE™ software. The series … Read More → "TI re-architects embedded control to make the world greener with new Concerto™ dual-core microcontrollers"

Methodics unveils next generation SoC Management Platform™ to improve consistency, efficiency, quality of SoC realization methodologies

San Diego, Calif. – June 6, 2011 – Targeting the escalating design data and IP management issues related to advanced system on chip (SoC) design, Methodics LLC, today announced the latest version of its SoC Management Platform solution. The standards-based solution, which is easily integrated into IC design environments, is geared toward improving both enterprise-level collaboration and management, while also increasing individual productivity and efficiency when dealing with the complexity of modern SoC design methodologies and IP use. The result is higher quality SoC design, lower development and infrastructure/IT … Read More → "Methodics unveils next generation SoC Management Platform™ to improve consistency, efficiency, quality of SoC realization methodologies"

NASA Grants 4DSP License for Sensing Technology

June 6, 2011, Austin, TX, USA – 4DSP LLC announced today that it has licensed a signal processing technology from NASA that overcomes the inherent limitation found when deploying a certain type of fiber optic sensing systems. The emergence of fiber optics sensors in recent years has seen a number of applications embrace this novel way of characterizing the environment in harsh conditions.  Engineers have however been confronted with severe processing-speed limitations that prevented the technology … Read More → "NASA Grants 4DSP License for Sensing Technology"

MIPS Technologies and SiS Continue to Drive Android™ into the Digital Home

SUNNYVALE, Calif. and HSINCHU, Taiwan – June 6, 2011 – MIPS Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MIPS), a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for digital home, networking and mobile applications, and Taiwan’s Silicon Integrated Systems Corp. (SiS) announced their latest milestones in driving the Android™ platform into the digital home. The companies collaborated to deliver an optimized Android solution on SiS’ new MIPS-Based™ integrated internet TV platform, which is available now. SiS has also licensed the new superscalar multiprocessing MIPS32® 1074Kf™ Coherent Processing System (CPS) for next generation designs. 

& … Read More → "MIPS Technologies and SiS Continue to Drive Android™ into the Digital Home"

S2C Announces a Breakthrough Verification Module

San Jose, CA – June 6, 2011 – S2C Inc., a leading rapid SoC/ASIC prototyping solutions provider, announced that they have developed the TAI Verification Module (patent pending), a prototype verification product that allows user designs in FPGA-based prototypes to be verified with massive and fast test benchs  through a x4 PCIe Gen2 channel to the PC. The Altera Stratix-4 GX FPGA-based TAI Verification Module has integrated Altera SignalTap Logic Analyzer with S2C’s TAI Player software enabling concurrent debugging of multi-FPGA design using the RTL names. This innovative technology  … Read More → "S2C Announces a Breakthrough Verification Module"

Jasper to Release First of Its Kind System-Level-Verification IP (VIP) for ARM ACE-based SoCs

Mountain View, CA, June 07, 2011.  Jasper Design Automation, the leading provider of verification solutions based on formal technology, today announced the availability of its suite of system-level VIP for AMBA 4 ACE-based SoCs.  The VIP is the first of its kind for the ACE specification and was a direct result of the tight collaboration between ARM and Jasper for validating the quality and robustness of the specification.

“Our goal was to support a specification … Read More → "Jasper to Release First of Its Kind System-Level-Verification IP (VIP) for ARM ACE-based SoCs"

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