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Synopsys announced the immediate availability of the DesignWare MIPI 4G DigRF(SM) Master Controller IP. By complementing its current silicon-proven DesignWare MIPI 3G DigRF Controller and PHY IP, Synopsys becomes the first vendor to offer a comprehensive IP portfolio for both the MIPI DigRF v3 and v4 standards. The configurable MIPI 4G DigRF Master Controller is compliant to the recently ratified MIPI DigRF v4 1.00 specification and enables desig...

Express Logic today announced that its NetX TCP/IP networking stack has achieved the highest reported network packet throughput on the Xilinx MicroBlaze soft-core processor. NetX is a small, fast network stack designed for embedded applications. With extremely low overhead, NetX provides zero-copy packet transfers to achieve very high throughput. Running on the Xilinx MicroBlaze processor at 100MHz, NetX delivered outstanding packet performance, ...

Express Logic announced the introduction of TraceX/MC, a multicore-enabled and expanded version of its powerful TraceX graphical real-time event analysis tool. TraceX/MC enables embedded developers to visualize and better understand the behavior of their real-time systems by showing thread and core activity graphically across a common timescale. With TraceX/MC, system events like interrupts and context switches that occur out of view of standard ...

Express Logic announced the availability of its popular ThreadX RTOS for the MIPS32 1004K Coherent Processing System (CPS). Working cooperatively with MIPS Technologies, Express Logic has developed ThreadX/SMP, an enhanced version of ThreadX that provides synchronous multicore support that preserves real-time responsiveness called “Real-Time SMP.”

Green Hills Software and Cavium Networks, a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for networking, communications, and the digital home, today announced the availability of Green Hills Software’s multicore development solutions for Cavium Networks’ OCTEON family of multicore processors. Green Hills Software’s portfolio of optimized software solutions and comprehensive services for OCTEON’s cnMIPS64®...

Agilent Technologies announced the release of Agilent VEE 9.2, an interactive graphical programming software application for test and measurement. Agilent VEE 9.2 provides support for Microsoft Windows 7.

STMicroelectronics announced several microcontroller-based activities at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose, CA, April 27-29, 2010. The broad range of activities are intended to highlight ST’s comprehensive portfolio of robust 8-bit and high-performance 32-bit ARM-based microcontrollers including the new ultra-low-power EnergyLite™ versions of both families. A range of demonstrations will provide engineers with hands-on experience an...

Energy Micro has launched a companion energy debugging tool for its 32-bit ARM®Cortex-M3-based energy friendly microcontroller kits. Called the energyAware Profiler, the Windows software reads the kits' Advanced Energy Monitoring (AEM) system data and enables simple graphical visualization and optimization of application energy consumption and code.

Synopsys announced the availability of the high-performance DesignWare Universal DDR Protocol and Memory Controllers, both supporting the DDR2, DDR3, Mobile DDR and LPDDR2 SDRAM standards. The DesignWare Universal Memory Controller helps reduce both the latency and silicon area by up to 50 percent compared to Synopsys' previous generations of DDR memory controllers thus improving the DRAM interface performance and reducing overall chip costs.

Cambridge Consultants, a leading technology product design and development firm, today unveiled the second phase of its innovative Suma enabled technology. With more and more internet, computer and gaming based applications being displayed in 3D, this flexible platform technology offers enhanced functionality for PC peripherals, giving users a futuristic level of navigation.