Design

Synopsys has announced the broad availability of silicon-proven High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) transmitter and receiver digital controllers and PHY IP solutions as part of Synopsys’ DesignWare IP portfolio. Synopsys’ DesignWare IP for the HDMI interface is compliant to the standard specification and supports High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP). Synopsys also provides a roadmap for HDMI 1.4 with product availability a...

Orchid Technologies Engineering & Consulting has completed the development of a LORAN Software Radio Receiver designed for long range navigation. Orchid Technologies selected the Texas Instruments TMS320C6713 floating point DSP processor for the four-channel LORAN receiver implementation.

Infolytica Corporation today announced that MagNet, the company’s electromagnetic field simulation software based on finite element analysis, will include significant changes in the next release which is due out this fall. Version 7 will be a multi-threaded application and will leverage the computation power available with multicore platforms.

National Instruments has announced LabVIEW 2009, the latest version of the graphical system design software platform for control, test and embedded system development. LabVIEW 2009 simplifies the development challenges of parallel hardware architectures with new virtualization technology that takes advantage of multicore systems as well as by offering new compiler improvements and IP that enhance field-programmable gate array (FPGA) design.

Engineers working on the design of power delivery networks will benefit from CST’s latest addition to CST STUDIO SUITE. The new CST PCB STUDIO Power Integrity solver, based on a special 3D FEM approach, helps calculate accurate impedance profiles within a full 3D simulation, but in a fraction of the time required by traditional 3D solvers.

The Portland Group, a wholly-owned subsidiary of STMicroelectronics, today announced the general availability of PGI Visual Fortran (PVF) Release 9.0 for Windows workstations, servers and clusters. PVF 9.0 is the first general release to include support for the building, launching and debugging of Microsoft MPI (MSMPI) Fortran applications from within the Microsoft Visual Studio integrated development environment.

Wittenstein High Integrity Systems has announced a completely free evaluation license for its OpenRTOS CONNECT software package. The licence gives access to High Integrity Systems’ suite of embedded middleware components that vastly simplify development cycles.

Real Intent Inc., the innovator in automating the intelligence of formal techniques for design verification, announced today that its early functional verification product family AscentTM now includes the first commercially available automated solution to ensure X-robust designs, available through the Ascent Path-Based Verification (PBV) product.

Hitex has introduced the STM32-comStick designed for an easy and low-cost start in STMicroelectronics’ new Cortex-M3-based STM32 Connectivity Line. The STM32-comStick is a complete small-sized development kit that provides a comprehensive entry to the STM32 Connectivity Line’s features.

Synopsys has introduced the latest release of its Galaxy Implementation Platform delivering 2x faster design implementation and signoff throughput with new multicore performance and multi-corner/multi-mode (MCMM) technologies. Built-in support for multicore processing across the Galaxy Platform enables engineering teams to immediately boost runtime performance using their existing compute servers. Additionally, the Galaxy Platform includes new MC...