News & Analysis

IAR Systems has announced that IAR Embedded Workbench for ARMand IAR PowerPac for ARM now feature full support for the 4th generation of Texas Instruments award-winning ARM Cortex-M3-based Stellaris microcontroller (MCU) family.

NXP has announced that Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro) is the world’s first transport operator to implement NXP’s MIFARE Plus contactless technology for its automatic fare collection infrastructure. LA Metro, which already uses a MIFARE Classic-based system, is upgrading the Transit Access Pass, or TAP card, to include MIFARE Plus microcontroller smart card ICs. On an annual basis, LA Metro attracts approxi...

Link Microtek, the manufacturer and supplier of RF and microwave components, subsystems and instrumentation, has successfully completed its move into new premises in the centre of Basingstoke. For the first time since it was established in 1995, the company now has all its operations – including the design and manufacturing activities of its Engineering Division – under one roof.

Verigy announced today that the automated test equipment users have ranked it the number one test equipment supplier in the VLSI Research Inc 2009 Customer Satisfaction Survey. Verigy ranked first among the world’s 10 BEST Test Equipment suppliers, and was the highest-ranking ATE supplier in the category of Large Suppliers of Chip Making Equipment. This year marks the fourth consecutive year in which Verigy has ranked in the 10 BEST, and al...

Atmel Corporation announced today a “plug-and-play” CryptoAuthentication host-side IC that allows designers to implement authentication-ready embedded systems, without any knowledge of security protocols or algorithms and without writing any special cryptographic software. When used with Atmel’s AT88SA family of CryptoAuthentication ICs and a system microprocessor such as Atmel’s AVR or ARM, the AT88SA10HS provides a compl...

Senior management from leading operators and OEMs will be meeting in London on 23rd – 25th June to discuss the way forward for ‘femtocells’ – a new technology that will give home owners and businesses their own cellular Basestation hooked into their broadband network.

ARM today announced its support for the new EEMBC (Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium) CoreMark processor benchmark. CoreMark is a synthetic benchmark, but carries out meaningful calculations, and is claimed to be a significant improvement on current Dhrystone benchmarks which is overly dependent on the performance of the C library.

Camden Electronics has launched a new range of inductive components designed to satisfy standard commercial and high technical requirements or demanding environmental conditions. The company offers a total turnkey solution from design, materials, manufacturing, quality assurance, sales and customer service all supported by Camden’s worldwide logistics operations.

Sundance has announced the release of its next generation WiMAX development system. The SMT703 is a complete lifecycle solution from R&D, design verification and conformance, through network deployment for Fixed or Mobile WiMAX designs. The announcement provides wireless OEMs with enormous performance and design flexibility and builds on Sundance’s existing portfolio of multiprocessor solutions for advanced communications technologies includin...

congatec AG has announced that the company has been elevated from Affiliate to Associate status in the Intel Embedded and Communications Alliance (Intel ECA). The Intel ECA is an ecosystem of companies that provide embedded systems, services and applications in support of Intel’s embedded and communication business.