Design

Altium is following its challenge to electronics designers to answer the question “What makes you so special?” (20 April 2009) by introducing a powerful alternative for front-end electronics designers that lets them reach into new areas of design and stay relevant in a fast changing industry.

Green Hills Software has announced a major enhancement to its Platform for Secure Networking, adding secure virtualization and new reference platforms. Green Hills Software’s approach to system virtualization enables a complete Linux operating system and its applications ecosystem to securely and seamlessly coexist with the performance, reliability-critical, and real-time portions of networking devices – all on a single general purpose microp...

Artisan Software Tools has launched Artisan Studio: DoD Architect Edition and Artisan Studio: DoD Advanced Architect Edition, responding directly to the architectural framework needs of the US DoD, its suppliers and DoDAF users.

Altium is making dramatic changes to how it prices its solutions, changes which remove a key barrier to designers and their organizations being able to design the new wave of intelligent, connected electronic products. “Electronics designers and their organizations must answer one question: what makes me so special? This is the crucial question for everyone seeking to more than just survive this recession,” said Emma Lo Russo, President of Al...

ARM has announced the availability of the industry’s most comprehensive IP platform for TSMC’s 40nm G manufacturing process. This latest silicon- validated physical IP from ARM enables cost-effective development of performance driven consumer devices requiring advanced functionality without increasing power consumption. Created for developers looking to advance their designs using the 40nm process, the platform enables higher levels of techn...

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 utilizing this kit, customers can test drive Altera's new 40-nm Stratix IV GX FPGA under their specific design syst...

Adding to its support for ARM processors, Quadros Systems, Inc., a leading provider of real-time operating systems (RTOS), today announced support for ARM1136 and ARM1176 cores from ARM Ltd. Now, embedded developers can get the most out of these powerful processors without having to employ an oversized operating system.

congatec AG announces the immediate availability of Version 1.0 of the COM Express Design Guide for developers of COM Express modules.

National Instruments has introduced the NI Educational Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Suite (NI ELVIS) II+ design and prototyping platform, a single, integrated system that is ideal for the lab or classroom because it connects theory to real-world applications. The latest addition to the NI ELVIS family incorporates an onboard, 100 MS/s oscilloscope and features a series of new add-on boards to extend the platform beyond instrumentation and c...

MSC Vertriebs GmbH has announced a complete starter kit for the evaluation and development of its Intel Atom processor based COM Express platform CXB-A945M. The ready-to-use starter kit contains the industrial platform MSC CX-MB-IP1 integrating the COM Express module CXB-A945M and a bootable Linux and drivers for the Windows XP operating system. The development package is also available in conjunction with a 15 inch TFT display including a cable...