Design

NEC Electronics Europe announced the release of the 78K0/Kx2-L Save it! demonstration kit, supporting the recently launched 78K0/Kx2-L microcontroller (MCU) family that offers industry-leading power consumption and high levels of system integration. The new demonstration kit is designed to provide customers with a complete out-of-the-box experience for evaluation of low power consumption MCUs.

Last year Altium announced a new approach to rapid prototyping with the NanoBoard 3000. The company has now expanded this concept, announcing a new NanoBoard 3000 hosting the Altera Cyclone III FPGA.

Cadence Design Systems Inc announced that austriamicrosystems, a leading global designer and manufacturer of high-performance analog ICs for communications, industrial, medical and automotive applications and foundry services, has broadened its deployment of Cadence technology. Over the last two decades, austriamicrosystems has relied on the Cadence Virtuoso custom IC design platform for its analog and mixed-signal designs and process design kits...

Altium has entered a partnership with the University of Wisconsin’s College of Engineering to provide Altium Designer as a resource to further educate its undergraduate students with real-world development tools.

AdaCore and SYSGO today further strengthened their partnership by announcing the release of the GNAT Pro High-Integrity Edition for DO-178B toolset targeting SYSGO’s PikeOS platform, a safety-critical real-time operating system (RTOS). GNAT Pro has been ported to this platform in direct response to growing customer demand. This new development follows GNAT Pro support for ELinOS.

Lauterbach TRACE32 PowerTools now support Discretix Secure JTAG Debug Module, Giving OEMs Highly Secure, Authenticated Way to Debug SoC Errors throughout System′s Lifetime.

Cadence Design Systems has released Cadence Encounter Digital Implementation (EDI) System 9.1, a complete and integrated digital design, implementation, and verification environment for the development of large-scale, complex SoCs. The new and expanded suite of capabilities in EDI System 9.1 answers the industry call for improved designer productivity in developing advanced low power and mixed signal SoCs at leading-edge process nodes – such as...

Cypress Semiconductor has teamed up with Keil, the tools division of ARM, to deliver high-performance compiler options for the PSoC Creator IDE for the PSoC® 3 and PSoC 5 programmable system-on-chip architectures.

AVIX-RT announced version 3.5 of its AVIX RTOS. Building on the unmatched capabilities of its predecessor this new version offers functionality to exploit the energy saving capabilities of the applied microcontroller. Especially beneficial for battery powered devices applying this new version of the AVIX RTOS can result in a substantial decrease in energy consumption.

Synopsys announced that Aeroflex Colorado Springs, Inc., a global provider of high-technology solutions to the aerospace, defense and broadband communications markets, has successfully deployed Synopsys’ CustomSim unified circuit simulation solution for the development and verification of its high reliability integrated circuits (ICs). The CustomSim solution delivers performance improvements of up to 60x over SPICE, increasing designer producti...