Design

Cypress Semiconductor introduced a new development platform for Apple iPhone and iPod accessories based on its new PSoC 3 architecture. Designers can use Cypress’s new CY8CKIT-023 PSoC Expansion Board Kit For iPhone & iPod Accessories – a plug-in board to Cypress’s CY8CKIT-001 PSoC Platform Development Kit – to streamline design of innovative mobile accessories using the flexible PSoC programmable system-on-chip architecture. The new kit...

JTAG Technologies is introducing at IPC/Apex 2010 in Las Vegas a new approach to supplying tools for debugging boards with a mix of free and paid for products targeted at different aspects of the debugging process. JTAG Live is for electronics engineers and technicians to use in checking PCBs for basic continuity and correct operation. The family consists of three products, Buzz, Clip, and Script.

Ophir-Spiricon, the global leader in precision laser measurement, today announced StarLab 2.00, laser measurement software that converts a PC into a multi-channel laser power/energy station. Features of the newest version of the software include synchronization and display of multiple channels in one window, user-defined and multi-channel calculations, and an easy-to-use configuration panel for all channels. StarLab works with Ophir-Spiricon's sm...

Lattice Semiconductor announced the immediate availability of Service Pack 1 for Version 8.0 of its ispLEVER FPGA design tool suite. Service Pack 1 is an important update for users of LatticeECP3™ FPGA devices.

Green Hills Software today announced that Megger, a premier provider of electrical test equipment and measuring instruments for electrical power applications, is using Green Hills Software's INTEGRITY real-time operating system (RTOS) and MULTI integrated development environment (IDE), for its PAT300 series of portable appliance testers.

During APEX 2010 at the New Mandalay Bay Resort & Convention Center in Las Vegas, ASTER Technologies, the leading supplier in Board-Level Testability and Test Coverage analysis tools, will introduce the first Design for Test (DfT) software to combine electrical and mechanical analysis. It has been developed to address a new vision of the DfT market that has to solve the many challenges that developers face today, such as: shrinking release cyc...

Avnet Memec, today announced a series of free, hands-on SmartFusion engineering workshops in partnership with Actel in the UK. The new SmartFusion product family from Actel is the world’s first intelligent mixed-signal FPGA to integrate an ARM Cortex-M3 processor and programmable analogue.

Synopsys introduced Design Compiler 2010, the latest RTL synthesis innovation within the Galaxy Implementation platform, which delivers a twofold speedup in the synthesis and physical implementation flow. To meet aggressive schedules for increasingly complex designs, engineers need an RTL synthesis solution that enables them to minimise iterations to speed up physical implementation. To address these challenges, topographical technology in Design...

EnSilica, a leading independent provider of front-end IC design services, has launched a major new version of its eSi-RISC Development Suite. The eSi-RISC Development Suite v2.1 provides a comprehensive platform for easily evaluating EnSilica’s family of eSi-RISC highly configurable and low-power soft processor cores, along with a complete development environment for the creation, implementation and test of eSi-RISC processor embedded applicat...

Mitsubishi Electric is introducing an Evaluation Board for its Intelligent Power Modules (IPMs) of the entire L1/S1 Series. The new board named EVBL1S1XX enable the design engineer to functionally test the features and the performance of these IPMs from Mitsubishi Electric. The board can be used as a reference design regarding layout and selected components.