Design

Ismosys has signed a Pan-European agreement with 6WIND, the provider of embedded software which maximizes multi-core performance while significantly minimizing design complexities, time and costs.

Agilent Technologies Inc. today introduced a new LTE baseband exploration library for the SystemVue 2009 design platform. The library (version W1912) provides full source-code access to PHY golden reference algorithms that are consistent with the 3GPP LTE March 2009 standard. Agilent's new LTE library provides key advances for 3GPP LTE baseband algorithm and hardware developers designing next-generation 4G wireless systems, enabling simulation-ba...

Imagination Technologies has released version 2.5 of its industry leading POWERVR Insider SDK (software development kit). The POWERVR Insider SDK is developers' preferred development environment for the creation of OpenGL ES 2.0 as well as OpenGL ES 1.1 and OpenVG applications. It includes a complete PC-based emulation environment, and is backed by Imagination's unrivalled technical support team.

IAR Systems and Ember Corporation have teamed together to deliver a reliable and easy to use ZigBee development and debugging platform for sensing and control applications such as smart metering and home automation. Ember recently launched the EM35x InSight Development Kit. The EM35x Insight Development Kit is built around ARM Cortex-M3 processor technology and comes with the latest version of IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM, a completely integ...

Green Hills Software will be featuring demonstrations of secure networking and medical device platforms, multicore development and JTAG debugging at ESC UK. The company will also be presenting papers in the technical conference on topics including writing efficient code, embedded hypervisors and effective debugging techniques.

JTAG Technologies has launched JTAG Function Test (JFT), which bridges the gap between standard structural boundary-scan testing and functional verification. As a complement to JTAG’s existing vector-based cluster test generators, JFT makes use of an open-source programming language to give test designers the ability to verify quickly the functionality of non-boundary-scan devices and device ‘clusters’.

Synopsys has announced its new StarRC Custom parasitic extraction solution for analogue mixed-signal (AMS) and custom digital IC design. By combining the gold standard Star-RCXT extraction technologies and the Raphael NXT 3D fast field solver into a single, unified extraction solution, the StarRC Custom solution offers high performance runtime with tuned accuracy to meet the analysis demands of high sensitivity custom circuits.

MSC Vertriebs GmbH offers ready-to-use starter kits for the quick evaluation and development of its Intel Atom processor based Qseven platform MSC Q7-US15W. The complete starter kit MSC Q7-SK-US15W-RP-002 contains the reference platform MSC Q7-MP-RP integrating the Qseven module MSC Q7-US15W with Intel Atom Z530 CPU, the Qseven heatspreader MSC Q7-Heatspreader-US15W, an ADD2 VGA interface card and a SVGA TFT display including backlight inverter.

Texas Instruments today announced the availability of the TMS320VC5505 eZdsp USB stick development tool, which drops the cost of a full-featured emulator and integrated development platform down to $49. This enables rapid creation of DSP applications including portable audio players, voice recorders, IP phones, portable medical devices, biometric USB keys, software defined radios (SDRs), hands-free headsets and metering applications. At this extr...

Altium has appointed Premier Farnell as the web distributor for its new NanoBoard 3000 FPGA-based development board. The agreement extends to Premier Farnell’s family of global marketing and distribution services.