Design

Artisan Software Tools has announced that the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory in the United Kingdom has chosen Artisan Studio for a new project requiring compliance with the Ministry of Defence Architectural Framework and recently standardized UPDM Profile.

Agilent Technologies announced that ACCO Semiconductor has selected a comprehensive suite of Agilent's RFIC design, verification and modeling software for design of its next-generation CMOS power amplifier. This software, used for integrated, mixed-signal RFIC designs, coupled with Agilent's unique wireless verification IP portfolio for design and test, enables a streamlined design flow that allows ACCO Semiconductor to quickly and effectively d...

Hitex Development Tools has successfully processed a service project for NXP Semiconductors to meet the IEC 60335 standard for automatic electronic controls.

Perforce Software today released version 2009.2 of its Software Configuration Management (SCM) system. This new release offers a variety of major productivity improvements with the addition of shelving, real-time metadata replication and additional functionality for working offline.

NEC Electronics Europe announced the release of the 78K0R/Lx3 — SENSE IT! development kit. SENSE IT! is a single-board, LCD control development platform designed specifically for the evaluation of NEC Electronics’ 16-bit 78K0R/Lx3 microcontroller. It includes an on-chip liquid crystal display (LCD) driver circuit, optimized especially for the fields of handheld healthcare diagnostic instruments such as blood glucose meter, building utility me...

Synopsys announced the immediate availability of PrimeTime 2009.12, delivering up to 2X speed up of timing signoff through the addition of threaded multicore processing. With this latest addition, Synopsys’ PrimeTime tool provides a new level of flexibility enabling design teams to achieve optimal runtime performance across their heterogeneous multicore compute environments by utilising distributed and threaded multicore processing in tandem. ...

Extreme Engineering Solutions, Inc. announces the availability of seven embedded computing products based on the new Intel Core i7 processor. X-ES is committed to supporting the Intel Core i7 embedded processor across Extreme Engineering’s entire line of form factors with support for the Intel Core i7-610E, i7-620LE, and i7-620UE processors. All products from X-ES based on the Intel Core i7 embedded processor are available in commercial, air-co...

congatec AG extends its COM Express product family with the highest performance module conga-BM57. It features the latest Intel Core i7-620M processor with a core speed of 2.66 GHz, with 4 MByte L2 cache and up to 8 GByte fast (1066 MT/s) dual channel DDR3 memory. The conga‑BM57 is a two chip solution which utilizes the powerful Mobile Intel QM57 Express Chipset. The integrated graphics controller is supporting the Intel® Flexible Display ...

Artisan Software Tools has announced the first technology solution to emerge from the European Union’s Framework7 SATURN project – a UML/SysML-based hardware/software co-design environment based on Artisan Studio.

Drawing less than 320mA, the new VDX-6317-X 800MHz Tiny processor module from ICOP UK provides embedded system designers with a cost effective solution to headless applications where a graphical interface is not required. By designing a board without a graphics chipset, ICOP’s 6317-X offers increased security and reduced cost.