Design

Green Hills Software and RADVISON, the leading provider of products and technologies for unified visual communications over IP and 3G networks, has announced the availability of integrated solutions that will enable secure, next-generation fixed and mobile IP content delivery and management.

National Instruments has announced plans for NIWeek, its graphical system design conference and exhibition that attracts more than 3,000 engineers, educators and scientists. NIWeek 2009, the company’s 15th annual customer and technology conference, running Aug. 4-6 at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas, provides three full days of technical sessions, hands-on workshops, targeted summits and interactive exhibitions on the latest devel...

Altera has announced the availability of the Transceiver Signal Integrity Development Kit, Stratix IV GX Edition. This full-featured hardware development platform has an Altera Stratix IV GX FPGA with transceivers that operate up to 8.5 Gbps, allowing engineers to prototype and test their high-speed interfaces quickly and easily. By utilising this kit, customers can test drive Altera's new 40-nm Stratix IV GX FPGA under their specific design syst...

Altium has appointed TACT Software Solutions as its new reseller in Israel. TACT will resell Altium Designer, Altium’s next generation electronics design solution, and its TASKING embedded software development tool.

The Relio R9 delivers RISC computing power in a compact, rugged package. Packed with a wealth of I/O features and using the latest embedded software environment, the system is based on the Atmel AT91SAM9263 processor boasting a 32-bit ARM instruction set for maximum performance. The Relio R9 is the perfect platform for embedded applications requiring small size, wide operating temperature range, and flexible I/O connectivity.

IAR Systems has signed an agreement with Kitron, one of Scandinavia’s leading companies in the development and manufacturing of electronics systems for medical, defence, marine, communications, and process industries, under which Kitron will become an IAR Systems distributor for Norway. With an experienced team of development engineers, Kitron can undertake assignments ranging from simple development work to complete product packages. Kitron su...

AdvancedIO Systems has announced the availability of expressXG, an FPGA framework that accelerates customers’ ability to tackle challenging system communication problems. The framework gives customers the tools to embed their own applications directly into AdvancedIO’s 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) interfaces. The applications quickly benefit from the line-rate performance capability of FPGAs by leveraging AdvancedIO’s expertise implementing ...

Digi's latest range of high performance, low power 32-bit ARM9 core processor modules is now available from Solid State Supplies. The Connect Core 9M2443 (with integrated Ethernet capability) and Connect Core Wi9M2443 (with integrated WiFi capability) are low-power alternatives to using a PC or embedded SBC in networked devices, medical devices, electronic point of sale terminals, energy management devices, building access control and other indus...

Agilent Technologies today announced an expansion of the use of its Advanced Design System (ADS) EDA software at Skyworks Solutions Inc., an innovator of high-performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors. The two companies have customized the ADS platform for an integrated and efficient design-for-manufacturing flow. The expansion enables rapid development, high performance and manufacturability for Skyworks' front-end power amplifier modul...

The PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturer Group PICMG has made available on its website the new, freely available Design Guide for COM Express. MSC Vertriebs GmbH also played an active role in the creation of the currently available version 1.0. The document contains extensive information for designing custom System Carrier Boards for COM Express modules from different manufacturers.