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Artisan Software Tools and Aonix have merged to create a new, stronger independent force in the mission- and safety-critical systems and software development tools market. The merged company is named Atego and headquartered in San Diego CA, USA. Artisan Software Tools is the world’s largest independent supplier of industrial-grade, collaborative modeling tools for complex, mission and safety-critical systems and software and Aonix is a leading...

On behalf of everyone at the Electronic Specifier Group let me welcome you to the very first edition of our monthly digital magazine. Combining all the benefits of a print magazine with the advantages of the internet, the Electronic Specifier Digital Magazine brings to its pan-European readership a monthly selection of the very best products and the key technology news from an industry that continues to surprise us on so many fronts.

Kingston University recently purchased thirty NI ELVIS (National Instruments Educational Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Suite) units to equip its state-of-the-art laboratories for its new Mechatronic Engineering course, which started in 2009.

Green Hills Software has announced corporate engineering support for the ARM Solution Center for Android, a collaborative resource for designers and developers of ARM technology-based products running on Android, the open source platform from the Open Handset AllianceTM. Green Hills Software provides INTEGRITY Secure Virtualization (ISV) coupled with a complete ecosystem of software solutions that enable developers of Android-based devices to ach...

Napatech has been selected as one of the top 100 private companies in North America, Europe and Asia by Red Herring. This follows Napatech’s selection for a Red Herring Top 100 Europe award in April 2009. Napatech received the Red Herring Global 100 award in recognition of the superior innovation, technology and financial performance that Napatech has exemplified.

With the ACP-GM45 DATA MODUL AG presents a new Gaming Board with special security and I/O features. The ACP-GM45 (170 x 200mm) is based on the new long-time available mobile Intel GM45 chipset and is equipped with Socket P for Intel Core 2 Duo mobile processors. It has two SODIMM sockets onboard which support up to 4 GB DDR2 667/800 SDRAM.

Freescale Semiconductor’s StarCore SC3850 core technology used in the MSC8156 multicore digital signal processor (DSP), has garnered leading benchmark results from independent signal-processing technology analysis firm, Berkeley Design Technology, Inc. (BDTI). Specifically, Freescale’s SC3850 1 GHz core registered the highest fixed-point BDTImark2000™ score of any DSP architecture tested by BDTI to date.

STMicroelectronics and CEA-Leti, the leading French semiconductor research institute, have signed an agreement for STMicroelectronics to join the new industry/research multi-partner program IMAGINE, led by CEA-Leti, which includes TSMC, for mask-less lithography for IC manufacturing. This three-year program is meant to allow companies to assess a maskless lithography infrastructure for IC manufacturing and the use of MAPPER Technology for high-th...

Altium has appointed 4TEST Instrument AS as its reseller in Norway. 4TEST will support Altium by providing pre- and post-sales support for its next generation electronic design solutions, Altium Designer, the NanoBoard family of reconfigurable development boards and its TASKING embedded software development tool.

Movidius today announced the launch of the Android version of its new Myriad multimedia processing platform for mobile phones. Based on the technology underlying its premiere product, the MA1110, the Myriad silicon and software platform enables a wide range of differentiating mobile media features including real-time video editing and 3D imaging. In Myriad, device manufacturers can bring to market differentiated products that deliver the best mob...