Design

Eltan BV and DediProg, today announced cooperation to provide SPI Flash Tools for the EMEA market. SPI Flash is a very popular memory technology used for code shadowing in Ram by current designs and for XIP code in future designs taking advantage of the Dual and Quad IO mode. SPI flash memory is low cost and available from many suppliers such as SST, Numonyx, ATMEL etc.

Freescale Semiconductor supports the newly ratified IEEE 1149.7 industry standard and plans to apply the standard on its boundary scan debug and test support portions of its embedded systems development process. The IEEE 1149.7 standard aims to improve embedded design by reducing pin operation, which translates to lower costs and the ability to add more functions on a chip.

IAR Systems today announced the latest release of its IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM. Highly optimised for code size and increased execution speed, it performs up to 13% better on CoreMark benchmarks for Cortex-M0 compared to the previous version of IAR Embedded Workbench.

ChipWrights, Inc.—part of AD Group—New Linux Software Development Kit provides OpenEmbedded support for developers who are designing multimedia applications based on the CW5631 System-on-Chip. Customers can now access thousands of open source packages, including GTK+, Qt, the X Windows System™ and Java™; plus tools, which shorten development time and speed product release to market. This software development kit release is based on the O...

Lauterbach and Cortus announced that the Lauterbach TRACE32® Power Tools now fully support the Cortus APS3 family of processors. The power of Lauterbach’s TRACE32 Power Tools is now available for the Cortus APS3 family of ultra low power embedded CPUs. Non-intrusive debugging over JTAG is supported giving engineers full visibility of program execution and profiling analysis enhancing product development times. It offers full support for the C...

AdaCore today announced the latest major release of its GNAT Pro Ada development environment. GNAT Pro 6.3 is now available on several new platforms including 64-bit Windows, Windows 7, Mac OS X Snow Leopard, VxWorks MILS, and PikeOS (ARINC 653). The product incorporates performance improvements and a variety of enhancements, many based on customer feedback, and it offers the first implementation of new Ada 2012 features. GNAT Pro 6.3 works with ...

Synopsys announced that Yamaha, a leading provider of mobile audio and Graphics LSI chip products, achieved their aggressive performance targets ahead of schedule with Design Compiler(R) Graphical and successfully taped out their latest Graphics LSI chip.

Tensilica announced today that HiSilicon Technologies has licensed Tensilica's Xtensa® customizable dataplane processors (DPUs) and ConnX(TM) DSP (digital signal processing) semiconductor IP cores. HiSilicon will use Tensilica's DPUs and DSPs in network equipment chip design.

Synopsys announced that APAC IC Layout Consultant, Inc., a global provider of IC physical design services, has adopted Synopsys’ Galaxy Custom Designer implementation solution. APAC IC, based in the Philippines, benefited from the ease with which Galaxy Custom Designer can be adopted to quickly achieve high productivity for its team of layout engineers servicing a worldwide customer base.

Maplesoft (Waterloo, Canada) has announced a product upgrade that extends connectivity to key hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) products from National Instruments (NI). In addition to connectivity to NI LabVIEW, which was announced recently, this updated MapleSim add-on, which is available from Adept Scientific (Letchworth, Herts), also lets users connect to the new NI VeriStand product.