Design

Cypress Semiconductor Corp. today announced its founder, president and CEO T.J. Rodgers will present the keynote address at the 2009 ARM techcon3 in Santa Clara, California on Wednesday, October 21 at 12:00 p.m. at the Santa Clara Convention Center. The presentation, entitled “Not Your Father's Embedded Design: How System-Level Programmability is Now Changing the Engineer's World,” will examine how a new embedded design paradigm is enabling g...

ByteSnap Design (www.bytesnap.co.uk), a Windows CE and Windows Mobile design consultancy, has today launched SnapUI, a lightweight user interface (UI) customisation tool. SnapUI enables graphic designers to edit an application's UI independently from the core of the application itself. This means that designers can amend and edit the UI design while developers work on customising core application functionality, resulting in improved usability and...

IAR Systems today announced comprehensive support for ARM Cortex-R4(F) processor in version 5.40 of IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM.

Methodics LLC has announced that its VersIC tool suite supports the latest release of the Subversion version control system. The Subversion 1.6 release from the Subversion open-source community delivers powerful new features, including the ability to detect tree conflicts, enhanced file system storage mechanisms that reduce repository space requirements, authentication data handling improvements and improved management of credentials. The VersIC...

Arrow Electronics Northern Europe is offering customers in the UK, Eire and the Nordic and Baltic countries the opportunity to use the latest development tools from some of the industry’s major semiconductor vendors free-of-charge for 28 days.

IDT has announced the availability of its Serial RapidIO® Gen2 program consisting of a comprehensive portfolio of IP, switches, evaluation platforms and tools. RapidIO Gen2 addresses designers’ increased bandwidth requirements by doubling the speed of RapidIO Rev 1.3, increasing link speeds to 6.25Gbaud and by offering more port choices, increasing flexibility and system level features.

Artisan Software Tools has launched a major new version of its flagship model-driven development tool suite, Artisan Studio Version 7.1. It delivers some major new modeling features including comprehensive support for the new OMG Unified Profile for DoDAF and MODAF (UPDM 1.0) standard, improved model diagram presentation through glossUML, all new documentation generation through Artisan Publisher, increased extra-large model support and enhanced ...

Synopsys has introduced its Synphony HLS (High Level Synthesis) solution that integrates M-language and model-based synthesis to deliver up to 10X higher design and verification productivity than traditional RTL flows for communications and multimedia applications. Synphony HLS creates optimised RTL for ASIC and FPGA implementation, architecture exploration and rapid prototyping. In addition, Synphony HLS complements C/C++-based flows by generat...

GL Communications Inc. announced today the release of its enhanced VoIP Testing tool PacketGen - a software based VoIP Testing tool for real-time VoIP bulk call generation, stress testing, and analysis of VoIP networks and equipment.

IBASE Technology, a leading manufacturer of industrial motherboards, launches the MI952 embedded platform featuring the AMD 780E chipset that packs excellent performance, scalability and power efficiency into a solution targeted at high-end embedded client applications such as industrial automation, test and measurement, digital signage and surveillance systems.