Design

Verific Design Automation, supplier of de facto standard front-end software to the EDA and semiconductor community, announced today that Forte Design Systems has renewed its license for Verific’s HDL software for use with its CellMath Designer datapath synthesis.

Green Hills Software announced the availability of its embedded software solutions for the Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) Sitara™ AM3505 and AM3517 microprocessors (MPUs) based on the ARM® Cortex™-A8. Green Hills Software’s ARM-optimized solution includes the INTEGRITY® real-time operating system (RTOS), MULTI® integrated development environment (IDE), optimizing C/C++ compilers and Green Hills Probe. Green Hills Software brings mor...

Synopsys announced enhanced FPGA synthesis support is available for Actel Corporation's (Nasdaq: ACTL) new SmartFusion™ intelligent mixed signal FPGAs. Synopsys' Synplify Pro® FPGA synthesis tools have been enhanced to offer advanced support and timing optimization for the flash-based FPGA architecture that provides the programmable digital portion of the SmartFusion devices.

Future Technology Devices International (FTDI) announced the launch of a range of VNC2 evaluation modules (V2DIP-x), a VNC2 evaluation kit (V2-EVAL) and a VNC2 debug module. These modules are designed to help designers quickly develop embedded USB 2.0 Host/ Slave designs based on FTDI's recently announced Vinculum VNC2 devices. VNC2 is a user programmable dual USB 2.0 Host/ Slave intelligent SOC controller featuring a customised 16 bit MCU core, ...

Synopsys introduced the HAPS-60 series of rapid prototyping systems—a comprehensive solution that eases complex SoC design and verification challenges. The HAPS-60 series, part of the Confirma(tm) Rapid Prototyping Platform, is an easy-to-use and cost-effective rapid prototyping system that enables early hardware/software co-verification and system-level integration at near-real-time run-rates, using at-speed, real-world interfaces.

GL Communications Inc., announced the release of its latest product Real-Time Multi-Channel Audio Bridge software. Briefing the media, Mr. Jagdish Vadalia, Senior Manager of Development, said, “The ability to send/receive from a sound card directly to T1 E1 timeslots is available once again for the latest HD cards, USB units and Universal Analyzers.

Tensilica Inc. and Express Logic Inc. announced that Express Logic’s ThreadX® real-time operating system (RTOS) is now available for Tensilica’s new third-generation Diamond Standard dataplane processor (DPU) cores. A free demo download of the ThreadX RTOS is available on the Tensilica web site at http://www.tensilica.com/partners/operating-systems/express-logic/threadx.htm. Designed for small-footprint, demanding real-time control, the Thr...

LDRA, the leading provider of automated software verification, source code analysis, and test tools, and Netrino, the leader in embedded software architecture and process consulting, are partnering to implement the Embedded C Coding Standard. Support for the Embedded C Coding standard complements the LDRA tool suite’s extensive support for C language programming standards such as MISRA-C:1998 and MISRA-C:2004, CERT C, SEC C and GJB (Chinese Mil...

Avnet Embedded, Europe’s leading distributor of Microsoft’s Embedded Operating Systems and Direct Insight, an official Windows Embedded Training Partner and Windows Embedded Gold Partner, are partnering to provide a compelling half day seminar for embedded developers entitled “The power of Windows 7 in an Embedded Device”. With Microsoft's forthcoming release, the Windows 7 user experience will be available to the embedded...

Cypress Semiconductor announced a new software tool for selection and customization of Cypress’s market-leading programmable timing solutions. The CyClockWizard 1.0 tool includes a parametric search engine that allows customers to quickly identify the right product for their system needs. The free tool also integrates custom configuration and field programming of supported Cypress timing solutions.