| First Industry-Wide Web Portal for TLM Access Welcomes Model Developers and Users |
September 29, 2011 -- Synopsys, Inc. has launchedf TLMCentral, the first industry-wide web portal for developers and users of transaction-level model (TLM) technology. TLMCentral aggregates information about free and commercial system-lev ... read more |
| Atmel to Acquire ADD Semiconductor |
September 28, 2011 -- Atmel Corp. has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Advanced Digital Design, S.A., a privately held company based in Zaragoza, Spain that develops power line communication solutions. The transaction is subject t ... read more |
| Samsung Unveils Next High-Performance Application Processor for Smartphone and Tablet Devices |
September 28, 2011 -- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today introduced the latest addition to its Exynos product family — the Exynos 4212, a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 application processor, designed on Samsung's 32-nm High-K Metal Gate ... read more |
| XJTAG Releases BGA Testing App for Oscilloscopes |
September 28, 2011 -- Boundary scan specialist XJTAG is one step closer to integrating its debugging software with an oscilloscope, following talks with several leading manufacturers.
With Ball Grid Arrays (BGAs) becoming ... read more |
| Atmel and Redpine Signals Collaborate to Provide Ultra-Low-Power 802.11n Wi-Fi Capability for AVR and ARM-Based Microcontrollers |
September 27, 2011 -- Atmel Corp. and Redpine Signals, Inc. today announced that system engineers can easily implement 802.11n Wi-Fi to all Atmel AVR and ARM-based MCUs using Redpine Signals' Connect-io-n and n-Link modules. System ... read more |
| Xilinx Releases Pocket Power Estimator App for the iPhone |
September 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, Inc.'s 28-nm 7 series FPGAs. The new Pocket Power Estimator (PPE) application for A ... read more |
| Synapse SNAP Now Available on ARM7 |
September 28, 2011 -- Synapse Wireless, Inc. announced the availability of its 2.4-GHz surface mount transceiver module based on a 32-bit TDMI ARM7 microprocessor. With 96kBytes of RAM, not only can applications be uploaded to the RF modu ... read more |
| Open-Silicon Licenses Broad Range of ARM Technology for Low-Power Networking, Telecommunications, Storage and Computing SOCs |
September 28, 2011 -- ARM and Open-Silicon, Inc. have signed a comprehensive multi-year licensing agreement for a broad portfolio of ARM technology. This includes ARM Cortex processors and associated ARM Processor Optimization Pack ... read more |
| Atmel Launches Secure, Ultra-Low-Power AES-128 AVR MCU with Immobilizer |
September 28, 2011 -- Atmel Corp. today announced availability of a new ultra-low-power AVR microcontroller (MCU) with AES-128 immobilizer protocol stack. The Atmel ATA5790N includes LF immobilizer functionality and a 3D LF receiver in a ... read more |
| Opal Kelly Releases Industrial Versions of XEM6010-Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA USB Modules |
September 27, 2011 -- Opal Kelly, Inc. today announced two industrial-temperature versions of its recently-released module XEM6010. Based on the Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA with high-speed USB 2.0 interface for downloading and communication, th ... read more |
| Cycleo and NRFLAb Join Forces on RF Test and Wireless IP |
September 27, 2011 -- Cycleo and NRFLAb today announced their partnership to ensure wireless IP testability and manufacturability. With this partnership, wireless and RF developers have access to a unique combination of wireless IP and RF ... read more |
| Synopsys' CODE V Enhances Analysis of Precision Optical Systems |
September 28, 2011 -- Synopsys, Inc. today announced the availability of enhancements to its CODE V optical design and analysis software, acquired as part of Synopsys' acquisition of Optical Research Associates (ORA). CODE V 10.4 delivers ... read more |
| IAR Systems' Tools Improve Software Performance for STM32 ARM Cortex-M4 Family |
September 27, 2011 -- IAR Systems AB today announced full tool support for all devices in the STM32 F4 family of ARM Cortex-M4-based microcontrollers, recently launched by STMicroelectronics. Intelligent compiler optimizations and integra ... read more |
| Via-Configurable RF Receiver Introduced by Triad Semi and Kaben Wireless |
September 27, 2011 -- Triad Semiconductor, Inc. and Kaben Wireless Silicon, Inc. have announced the development of a programmable and via-configurable RF array (RF-VCA) for use in a variety of wireless applications. Implemented in ... read more |
| Ambarella A7L Enables Next Generation of Digital Still Cameras with 1080p60 Fluid Motion Video |
September 26, 2011 -- Ambarella, Inc. has announced availability of the A7L system-on-chip (SOC), enabling the development of a new generation of HD video-enabled digital still cameras (DSCs).
The A7L supports full 1080 ... read more |
| Cadence Enables ST-Ericsson to Achieve Significant Productivity Gain for Its 40-nm Baseband Chip Design |
September 27, 2011 -- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. today announced that ST-Ericsson achieved a 10X productivity gain by using the Cadence mixed-signal solution. By deploying the latest release of the Cadence Virtuoso unified c ... read more |
| ClioSoft Enables Moortec Semiconductor to Collaborate Seamlessly in the Synopsys Custom Design Flow |
September 27, 2011 -- Moortec Semiconductor, Ltd. has used ClioSoft, Inc.'s hardware configuration management (HCM) solution for data management and version control in the development and tape-out of its embedded temperature senso ... read more |
| Fraunhofer IIS Becomes Tensilica Authorized Design Center Partner |
September 27, 2011 -- Tensilica, Inc. today announced that Fraunhofer Institut fur Integrierte Schaltungen (Fraunhofer IIS) has joined Tensilica's Xtensions partner network and become an authorized design center. Fraunhofer IIS wi ... read more |
| Green Hills Software Supports Development of Phase One Digital Camera |
September 27, 2011 -- Green Hills Software, Inc. has announced that its compilers, Green Hills Probe and MULTI integrated development environment (IDE), have been used by Phase One, a maker of professional digital photography equipment, i ... read more |
| New Magillem Sequence Editor Simplifies Creation and Verification of Register Sequences |
September 27, 2011 -- Magillem has launched software to solve the communication loop issue between the system architect (the spec owner), the designers and the verification engineers.
According to Magillem, its Sequence ... read more |
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