Design

Xilinx Inc. today announced the foundation for a next-generation of Xilinx programmable platforms that will give system designers FPGAs that consume half the power at twice the capacity than previously possible for addressing the Programmable Imperative. Xilinx is maximizing the value of the 28nm technology node by choosing a high-performance, low-power process technology, a common scalable architecture across product ranges, and tool innovations...

Altera Corporation today announced it is shipping in volume production the first members of its 40-nm Arria II GX FPGA family. The Arria II GX device family delivers customers a low-power, low-cost and high-performance FPGA solution specifically targeting 3-Gbps transceiver applications. Arria II GX FPGAs are currently leveraged in a wide variety of high-volume applications in the broadcast, military, wireless and wireline markets.

Zuken has teamed up with the Marine Design Centre in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK; and will be hosting a seminar focusing on the advances in electrical system design for complex marine projects. The one day event on 2nd March 2010 invites people to understand how they can overcome design issues associated with the ever increasing electrical complexity across all disciplines of the marine, off-shore, oil and gas and renewable industries.

ADLINK Technology, Inc. announced the release of the PACwiz series, ADLINK's first programmable automation controller (PAC) solutions for automation applications using the IEC 61131-3 programming standard. PACwiz provides automation application developers a platform offering the performance and convenience of PAC development, with full compatibility with IEC 61131-3 syntaxes, including the five programmable logic controller (PLC) programming lang...

IC Nexus Co. Ltd, announces the NXC2620 HDVK10, a Handheld Development Kit1.0, a battery-powered and compact-sized computer board with a richest of features. It is a flexible, high performance and inexpensive development kit designed for handheld applications such as remote control, home automation, and portable data collectors.

The target platform MSC Q7-MB-EP2 from MSC Vertriebs GmbH supports the development of innovative POI/POS and Digital Signage applications based on a compact power saving MSC Qseven module.

IAR Systems has been selected by Rescue Alert, a manufacturer of personal medical alert systems aimed at helping people with medical conditions. Rescue Alert's new product is called the 'MXD Personal Response System'. It comes in the form of a base unit combined with a small transmitter button worn on a wrist band or on a necklace. The MXD device features two way voice communications between the user and the monitoring service, has a transmitter ...

XMOS has launched a reference design for iPhone and iPod docks, which keeps the audio signal path end-to-end digital, from the iPod or iPhone via USB to the amplifier. Implemented entirely in software, using the XMOS XS1-L1 event driven processor, the flexible design eliminates analog audio processing components making it resistant to RF interference and enabling bit-perfect digital audio streaming for highest fidelity audio performance.

Engineers looking to work with multicore devices or exploit symmetrical multi-processing for embedded systems will be pleased to hear that both of these topics are central to this year's agenda at The Embedded Masterclass 2010, 6th and 11th May. www.embedded-masterclass.com

OneSpin Solutions, an electronic design automation (EDA) company that provides innovative functional RTL verification solutions, today announced the customizable integration between OneSpin’s 360 MV formal assertion-based verification (ABV) solution and Platform Computing’s LSF infrastructure, the industry’s leading workload management solution for high-performance computing environments. The integration enables 360 MV users to transparentl...