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Enea Extends its Optima Tools to Support Heterogeneous Multicore and Linux

May 11, 2011

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, May 3, 2011 – Enea (NASDAQ OMX Nordic:ENEA) today announced extended support in its Eclipse-based integrated development environment (IDE) Enea® Optima(www.enea.com/optima) for heterogeneous multicore systems-on-chips (SoC) with both CPU and DSP processor architectures. In addition to the profiling, log and debug capabilities for the Enea OSE® RTOS on both CPUs and DSPs, Optima now also supports the Linux operating system with C/C++ application debug functionality and visualization and … Read More → "Enea Extends its Optima Tools to Support Heterogeneous Multicore and Linux"

Mercury Signal Processing Subsystems Support Spectral Dominance

May 11, 2011

CHELMSFORD, Mass. -May 10, 2011-Mercury Computer Systems, a trusted provider of commercially developed ISR subsystems, announced new 3U and 6U OpenVPX^™ modules in support of customers developing Electronic Warfare/Signals Intelligence (EW/SIGINT) applications. The new modules combine multiple technologies used in systems to detect, deceive and defeat electronic transmissions from opposing forces in missions ranging from radar targeting suppression to counter-IED.

“Today’s electronic battlefield is defined by complex technical challenges,” said Didier Thibaud, senior vice president and general manager of Mercury Computer Systems’ Advanced Computing Solutions business … Read More → "Mercury Signal Processing Subsystems Support Spectral Dominance"

Carbon Design Systems and MIPS Technologies Collaborate to Enable Virtual Platforms

May 11, 2011

ACTON, MASS. –– May 11, 2011 –– Carbon Design Systems™ and MIPS Technologies (NASDAQ: MIPS), a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for digital, home, networking and mobile applications, announced today that they are collaborating to create and distribute virtual platform models of MIPS Technologies’ processor intellectual property (IP) cores.

The first models are available already from Carbon, the leading supplier of solutions for architectural analysis, performance optimization and pre-silicon firmware debug.

Carbon’s processor models are generated from the production register transfer level (RTL) code for each … Read More → "Carbon Design Systems and MIPS Technologies Collaborate to Enable Virtual Platforms"

Enea Announces Bare Metal Performance Tools for NetLogic Microsystems’ XLP® Multi-Core, Multi-Threaded Processors

May 11, 2011

STOCKHOLM, Sweden and Santa Clara, California, May 3, 2011 – Enea® (NASDAQ OMX Nordic:ENEA) today announced an industry first tools solution for “bare metal” multicore implementations on the NetLogic Microsystems (NASDAQ: NETL) XLP® multi-core processor, called the Enea® Bare Metal Performance Tools (Enea BMP Tools). The term “bare metal” refers to multicore applications whereby a given processor core executes a function or application without any sort of multitasking executive – usually a simple control loop that runs in an OS-free environment for minimal overhead and maximum processing bandwidth.</ … Read More → "Enea Announces Bare Metal Performance Tools for NetLogic Microsystems’ XLP® Multi-Core, Multi-Threaded Processors"

Springsoft Rolls Out Advanced Technology Platform For Certitude Functional Qualification System

May 11, 2011

HSINCHU, Taiwan, May 11, 2011 — SpringSoft, Inc., a global supplier of specialized IC design software, today announced advancements to its Certitude™ Functional Qualification System that enable broader and more efficient deployment of verification qualification methodologies. New detection automation and checker qualification capabilities are among the key innovations developed to quickly identify potential problems in chip verification environments with fewer resources and drive continuous improvements throughout the verification flow.

Functional verification is the process of confirming that chip design implementations function as specified. Certitude software is … Read More → "Springsoft Rolls Out Advanced Technology Platform For Certitude Functional Qualification System"

Agilent Technologies Ships Latest IC-CAP Platform for DC and RF Device Characterization and Modeling

May 11, 2011

SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 10, 2011 – Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced shipment of the latest release of its device modeling software platform, Integrated Circuit Characterization and Analysis Program. IC-CAP 2011.04 provides significant improvements in the modeling flow of semiconductor devices by enabling the IC-CAP Wafer Professional automated measurement solution to link with IC-CAP’s CMOS model extraction packages.

Modern CMOS device modeling requires that a high volume of measurements … Read More → "Agilent Technologies Ships Latest IC-CAP Platform for DC and RF Device Characterization and Modeling"

Synopsys DesignWare ARC Sound IP Solution First to Support the Dynamic Resolution Adaptation Audio Standard

May 11, 2011

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced the availability of an optimized version of the Dynamic Resolution Adaptation (DRA) decoder software for the widely used DesignWare® ARC™ Sound AS211SFX and AS221BD audio processors. The DesignWare ARC Sound DRA decoder supports the Chinese National HD audio standard that is included in the Blu-ray™ Disc specification and is the first optimized implementation available … Read More → "Synopsys DesignWare ARC Sound IP Solution First to Support the Dynamic Resolution Adaptation Audio Standard"

NAND Flash Memory Controller IP Core from CAST now Faster and Easier to Integrate

May 11, 2011

May 11, 2011, Woodcliff Lake, NJ — A recent new version of the NAND Flash Controller Core from semiconductor intellectual property (IP) provider CAST, Inc. now helps designers work with the latest advanced memory devices available. It does this by using faster error correction code, and by including better features for simplifying integration and improving performance in demanding System-on-Chip (SoC) implementations. (See http://bit.ly/cast-nandflash.)

“This fifth-generation FLASH controller continues CAST’s commitment to making SoC design with the latest technologies as quick and risk-free as … Read More → "NAND Flash Memory Controller IP Core from CAST now Faster and Easier to Integrate"

MIPS Technologies and eCosCentric Announce Availability of eCosPro® Developer’s Kit for microMIPS™

May 10, 2011

SUNNYVALE, Calif. and CAMBRIDGE, UK – May 4, 2011 – MIPS Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MIPS), a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for digital home, networking and mobile applications, and eCosCentric Limited, the eCos and RedBoot experts, today announced that eCosCentric has ported its eCosPro® open source real-time operating system (RTOS) to the microMIPS™ instruction set architecture (ISA). eCosCentric has also made available its eCosPro Developer’s Kit for the MIPS32® M14K™ and M14Kc™ cores, which are based on the microMIPS ISA. This builds on support for other MIPS cores … Read More → "MIPS Technologies and eCosCentric Announce Availability of eCosPro® Developer’s Kit for microMIPS™"

LDRA Tool Suite—First to Provide Requirements to Object-Code Traceabilit

May 10, 2011

San Bruno, CA, May 2, 2011. LDRA, the leader in standards compliance, automated software verification, source code analysis and test tools, has developed another first—requirements-to-object–code traceability. In the safety-critical domain, devices required to meet the most critical levels of certification must verify software traceability from requirements through design to code at both source- and object-code levels.By providing the most comprehensive traceability, LDRA ensures that verification problems found at the object-code level can be quickly and easily traced to the originating source code and requirements levels.

Evidence that all lines … Read More → "LDRA Tool Suite—First to Provide Requirements to Object-Code Traceabilit"

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