Design

Avnet Embedded has announced a new corporate structure. The company has successfully completed the integration of Abacus Embedded, part of the Abacus Group that Avnet acquired earlier this year. Headed up by Martin Brooks, Avnet Embedded now has over 100 employees and has extended its activities to cover the whole of Europe.

The latest intellectual property from Toshiba Electronics Europe’s ASIC & Foundry Business Unit will simplify and speed the implementation of MIPI-compliant system-on-chip (SoC) designs for mobile phones and associated devices. The Toshiba MIPI (Mobile Industry Processor Interface) offering comprises a physical layer and protocols that build on this layer to support the rapid development of complete MIPI-compliant transmit and receive solutions...

NXP Semiconductors has launched an innovative new web-based design and monitoring solution for power management ICs. To help designers keep development time as short as possible, the tool provides comprehensive online design support and technology to create a one-stop shop for the full design cycle.

Agilent Technologies and AMCAD Engineering today announced that AMCAD has endorsed Agilent's Advanced Design System (ADS) electronic design automation (EDA) software for the development of advanced high-power device models. Using ADS, the industry's leading RF EDA tool, AMCAD engineers have achieved a significant breakthrough in RF/microwave device modeling -- successfully modeling hot and cold operation modes of high-power devices such as amplif...

Synopsys has announced that Achronix Semiconductor Corporation, maker of ultra-fast field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), has signed an expanded business agreement to establish Synopsys as its leading EDA partner for the design of its next generation FPGAs. As a result of the new multi-year agreement, Achronix has consolidated on Synopsys’ Galaxy Implementation and Discovery Verification Platforms throughout its internal development and desig...

The Portland Group has announced the general availability of the PGI Release 9.0 line of high-performance parallelizing compilers and development tools for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. PGI Release 9.0 is the first general release to include support for the high-level PGI Accelerator programming model on x64 processor-based Linux systems incorporating NVIDIA CUDA-enabled GPUs.

The Portland Group, a wholly-owned subsidiary of STMicroelectronics and a supplier of compilers for high-performance computing (HPC), today announced an agreement with NVIDIA under which the two companies plan to develop new Fortran language support for CUDA GPUs.

Extreme Engineering Solutions (X-ES) has announced a commitment to deliver Freescale Semiconductor’s QorIQ P4080 in eight unique form factors covering the entire embedded product market. Hosting eight e500 cores based on Power Architecture technology with IEEE754 compliant double precision floating point unit support and running each core up to 1.5 GHz, the P4080 delivers enhanced performance and efficiency for today’s embedded computing app...

Green Hills Software has been selected to provide the real-time operating system (RTOS) and development tools for the Scannex ip.buffer range of PBX data collection products. Scannex chose Green Hills Software’s INTEGRITY RTOS, MULTI integrated development environment, optimizing compilers and Green Hills Probe for its ARM9-based system.

Adeneo Embedded, a Microsoft Windows Embedded Gold Partner with facilities in Europe and in the USA, announced today the full commercial release of the Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Board Support Package (BSP) for Freescale’s i.MX25 Product Development Kit (PDK) applications processor based on the ARM9 core. This BSP targets the i.MX25 PDK, a standard development platform from Freescale. It supports key features of the i.MX25 PDK.