Design

Silicon Frontline Technology, Inc. (SFT), an Electronic Design Automation (EDA) company in the post-layout verification market, announced today that new versions of its flagship post-layout verification products, F3D (Fast 3D) for fast 3D extraction and R3D (Resistive 3D) for 3D extraction and analysis of large resistive structures like power devices, are shipping now. F3D improves its performance by up to 10x when compared to the previous versio...

Phaedrus Systems and IAR Systems have joined together to sponsor the Imperial College Robotics Society (ICRS) Robo-Tracer Competition. The sponsorship provides the teams at Imperial with copies of IAR Embedded Workbench integrated development environment, IAR KickStart Kits (a development kit), IAR J-link debug probes, IAR visualSTATE graphical development environments, IAR compilers and cash for additional equipment. Total sponsorship is worth a...

Lantronix today announced a design contest based on its recently launched XPort Pro. About the size of two sugar cubes, XPort Pro is the newest addition to Lantronix’ popular XPort® family of embedded Ethernet networking and compute modules used in millions of devices worldwide. XPort Pro is available running Linux and IPv6, offering developers a powerful compute platform with an industry-standard development environment. Lantronix will award ...

Mistral Solutions, a leading provider of technology solutions and professional services in the embedded space, today congratulates Kopin Corporation on the launch of their Golden-i platform and is happy to be a strategic partner in the development of this game changing product that is set to redefine mobile computing and communication.

Efficient debugging techniques for architectures combining standard processors with programmable logic or CPUs that are embedded in programmable logic are demonstrated by Gleichmann Electronics Research and Lauterbach at booth 325, hall 10 during the embedded world 2010. Unlike Lauterbach′s TRACE32 PowerDebuggers, that use the JTAG interface to enable software developers to debug their embedded applications, Gleichmann′s Hpe®_JTAG bo...

LDRA, the leading provider of automated software verification, source code analysis, and test tools, has integrated the LDRA tool suite with IAR Embedded Workbench for the PIC18, AVR, AVR32 and MSP430 microcontrollers. Because IAR Embedded Workbench provides a full range of capabilities, the LDRA tool suite is able to realize its full potential, enabling companies to use these controllers for DO-178B and other rigorous certification standards.

With the brand WirelessEmbedded, emxys is launching a renewed portfolio of Bluetooth modules, specifically targeted to embedded applications developers community. The core of this new promotion are the uIceBlue2 and BTswitch embedded modules. uIceBlue2 is an embedded bluetooth module based in the PIC18F4550 microcontroller and PearlBlue Bluetooth module, also from WirelessEmbedded.

Hitex Design UK and Pebble Bay have agreed a strategic partnership that will enable the two companies to offer a uniquely capable service for software and hardware integration and embedded development. With Hitex Design UK a leader in hardware design and Pebble Bay a world leader in board support and device driver software, this collaboration is expected to be an attractive service to hi-tech development companies around the world; helping compan...

In its latest version 6.1, the tool RiskCAT (distributed by Hitex) provides essential enhancements and support for ISO 26262 (DIS). RiskCAT for ISO 26262 allows for instance comparing this standard to IEC 61508 (SIL 3) according to various aspects. E.g. RiskCAT displays all measures, which are logically present in both standards, but expressed differently.

To address the growing Dual-SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) market Infineon Technologies today launched its new XMM2138 platform, supporting Dual-SIM operation. Dual-SIM mobile phones enable simultaneous use of two SIMs in the handset, with features like call hold and swap to provide real-time switching facility between both SIMs at the touch of a button. Today there is a high growth rate for Dual-SIM phones in the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, a...