Design

Lauterbach has announced that its TRACE32 debuggers support the Real-Time Operating System (FAMOS) of Fujitsu Microelectronics. FAMOS was developed specifically for the ARM11 based HDTV decoder chipsets of the series MB86H6x for set top boxes. The FAMOS awareness is integrated immediately in all new TRACE32 software versions for the ARM architecture.

Lauterbach, the leading manufacturer of hardware assisted microprocessor development tools, has launched a new high performance debug probe for NEC Electronics 16-bit microcontroller family 78K0R.

Real Intent is among the leading Electronic Design Automation (EDA) companies, who are supporting and exhibiting at Verify2009 in Japan.

Synopsys has announced that Sunplus Technology Co., Ltd, a leading provider of advanced IC solutions for home entertainment applications, has signed an expanded business agreement to establish Synopsys as its primary EDA partner. Under the new multi-year agreement, Sunplus has consolidated on Synopsys’ Galaxy Implementation and Discovery Verification Platforms for their chip development and design flows, and has extended its use of Synopsys Des...

Altium has launched a new addition to its NanoBoard family of FPGA-based development boards. The NanoBoard 3000 is a programmable design environment, supplied complete with hardware, software, ready-to-use, royalty-free IP and a dedicated Altium Designer Soft Design license.

Synopsys has announced that TSMC has adopted Synopsys’ HSIM hierarchical FastSPICE circuit simulator for its sub-40nm memory intellectual property (IP) characterisation flow. The HSIM simulator will be deployed for TSMC advanced SRAM compilers for timing, power simulation, dynamic IR drop and EM analysis, as well as for full-chip simulation with extracted package models. Using the latest version of the HSIM tool, TSMC is able to improve memory ...

Today German based Software company Bluestone Technology GmbH announced that its ARINC664 (AFDX) network monitor and analyzer solution, supNET(A) Rx(free), is available as freeware.

ARM and Cypress Semiconductor Corp. announced today that Cypress has licensed a broad range of intellectual property (IP) from ARM for use in next-generation programmable platforms. Cypress has licensed the ARM Cortex-M3 and ARM9 family processors, along with more than 75 other IP elements.

IAR Systems has announced availability of IAR Embedded Workbench for Cortex-M. Believed to be one of the world's first integrated development environment designed specifically for ARM Cortex-M0, Cortex-M1, and Cortex-M3 based cores, IAR Embedded Workbench for Cortex-M provides a comprehensive set of tools in a single package. Based on the latest full license edition of IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM 5.40, this limited license edition is competiti...

Toshiba Electronics Europe has announced that the TrueSTUDIO development environment from Swedish embedded systems specialist Atollic is now available for the company’s range of ARM926EJ-S and ARM Cortex-M3 microcontrollers. Two versions of the environment can be supplied: Atollic TrueSTUDIO Lite, which, while completely free-of-charge, delivers high levels of functionality; and the low-cost Atollic TrueSTUDIO Professional, which provides furt...