Design
Agilent Claims First Complete Front-to-Back Solution for MMIC and RF Module Design
Agilent has announced Advanced Design System (ADS) 2009 Update 1, said to be the industry's first complete, front-to-back solution for monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) and RF module design. The release integrates 3-D electromagnetic (EM) analysis, wireless standards-based design verification libraries, X-parameter simulation, and statistical design and yield optimization. Advanced Design System 2009 Update 1 enables designers to sta...
NXP Demonstrates 3-way Doherty Reference Design for More Energy Efficient RF Base Stations
Expanding its portfolio of industry-leading RF power solutions, NXP, the independent semiconductor company founded by Philips, today unveiled an efficient 3-way Doherty amplifier, enabling a new standard of energy efficient RF base stations.
Fourth generation development tools from XMOS put C programmers in control of pins
XMOS has announced the latest version of its integrated development environment (IDE) allowing programmers to directly program IO and watch the source code control the pins. James Foster, President and CEO, XMOS, commented: “XMOS event-driven processors are so predictable that they enable C programmers to implement hardware interfaces.
Green Hills Announces Additional High Assurance Software Components for its Certified and Field-Proven RTOS
Green Hills Software has announced the availability of three new high assurance software components for its INTEGRITY-178B real-time operating system (RTOS): an RTCA/DO-178B Level A-compliant Partitioning Journaling File System called PJFS-178B, an RTCA/DO-178B Level A-compliant network stack, called IPFLITE, and an ARINC 615A dataloader.
LFoundry Releases Low Power and RF 0.15 µm PDK for Tanner EDA’s Analog/Mixed-Signal Electronic Design Software
LFoundry today announced the availability of a high performance process design kit (PDK) for A/MS electronic designs, developed using Tanner EDA’s HiPer Silicon software, for its LF150 modular 0.15 µm Low Power and RF CMOS process. This grants Tanner EDA customers access to Europe’s leading pure-play foundry CMOS technology.
e-con Systems supports 3.2M pixel camera for OMAP 35xx series of processors
e-con Systems Inc has unveiled its 3.2MP camera solutions for the OMAP35xx processors from Texas Instruments. Taking forward its leadership over the CMOS camera support for the various Application Processors, e-con has now announced the CMOS camera boards available for TI OMAP35x Evaluation Modules. e-con’s camera daughter board, e-CAM32_OMAP35x can be directly interfaced on the TI TMDXEVM3503 EVM board. Logically, the e-CAM32_OMAP35x connects...
SiliconXpress is latest Tensilica Design Center
Tensilica has announced that SiliconXpress has become its newest authorized design center. SiliconXpress is a fabless chip provider, headquartered in Lubbock, Texas, offering one-stop design, fabrication, test, and packaging services. Tensilica is a major semiconductor IP supplier specializing in dataplane processor cores which are a combination of CPU and DSP that can be rapidly customized to provide 10-100x the performance of standard CPUs and ...
Abacus Embedded and MPC launch self-funding Windows Embedded Standard port
Abacus Embedded, now an Avnet Embedded Business, and MPC Data have launched Embedded XPert, a new service to port embedded systems running under Windows XP Professional to Windows Embedded Standard or Windows XP Embedded. According to the two companies, customers should recoup the cost of the port and see in the benefits of lower license costs in as little as 200 units, thanks to the lower cost of licensing Windows Embedded.
Atmel Rhino+ USB Demonstration/Evaluation Kit for SHA-256 Cryptographic Authentication Chip
Atmel has announced its AT88SA-ADK1 Rhino+ AVR -based development kit for its AT88SA102S CryptoAuthentication IC. Atmel’s AT88SA102S device is the industry’s most secure authentication IC, with an embedded SHA-256 engine and 256-bit cryptographic key that make it virtually impossible to crack using brute force methods. The nearest competing authentication IC has a key size of only 128 bits. Priced at less than $1, the AT88SA102S Crypt...
Artisan continues worldwide expansion with plans for a direct office in France
Artisan Software Tools is continuing to expand its global operations with a direct office in France. The new French office will complement Artisan’s global sales and support operation. In addition, Artisan has announced the appointment of Olivier Casse as the Territory Channel Manager for France with responsibility for representing Artisan in France and the Benelux region and co-ordinating its distribution channels. Olivier has extensive expe...