Design

AVX has developed a new component modeling and simulation software that can save cost, time to market and reduce potential quality issues. Designated AVX Component Simulator, the software enables designers to view all basic characteristics and parameters for Accu-P, Accu-L, Thin Film Low Pass Filters, Couplers, 3dB Splitters, Hi-CV SMT, LICC, LGA and IDC products. The simulation software features multiple parameter graphing options including S...

Circuit Design has recently developed and released a 434 MHz low-power radio modem, the MU-2-R. Circuit Design’s MU series are modems for embedding in industrial equipment. They incorporate the RF circuit required for radio communication and a CPU for control, and data is exchanged with an external CPU using the UART serial interface based on commands.

EDA Solutions, the exclusive European representative for Tanner EDA, and Cascoda, a semiconductor design company, has announced a partnership to provide design support to Tanner EDA customers in Europe. The agreement will enable EDA Solutions to offer seamless support to Tanner users, from initial set-up and training to physical design kit development and design services. Tanner is the world’s leading vendor of PC-based EDA tools for analogue a...

Luminary Micro has announced the new Stellaris Intelligent 3.5-inch Landscape Display Single-Board Computer Reference Design Kit (RDK-IDM-SBC), featuring fully integrated 10/100 Ethernet (MAC+PHY), USB Host, and CAN interfaces. Based on the feature-rich Stellaris LM3S9B92 microcontroller, the new intelligent display reference design combines a 3.5-inch QVGA landscape-oriented touch-screen user interface with several serial, digital, and analog co...

Microchip announces it has expanded the security capabilities of the patented KEELOQ authentication system. The KEELOQ 3 Development Kit demonstrates these enhancements to the KEELOQ system with a patented secure-learning algorithm that prevents differential power analysis attack techniques. Additionally the technology now supports 128-bit encryption keys, longer data transmissions and bi-directional communication authentication; and also support...

LDRA has launched v8.0 of the LDRA tool suite, the first fully automated end-to-end solution for software verification support. With the integration of requirements management, LDRA has enabled companies for the first time to trace, verify, and test their code through all stages of software development from requirements through static and dynamic analysis and testing. By tailoring standardized best-programming practices for cross-industry adoptio...

Express Logic today introduced a new development tool that helps developers avoid stack overflow problems that traditionally have plagued embedded systems. The new tool, StackX, performs a comprehensive analysis of a complete application at the executable code level, computing the worst-case stack usage the application can experience. As a result, Express Logic can tell its customers how large a stack they need for each application thread, and wi...

Express Logic today announced the release of TraceX V5, the most advanced version of its graphical event analysis tool for real-time systems. To ensure faster identification of errors, TraceX V5 adds several new features that enable embedded system developers to better visualize and understand the behavior of their real-time systems.

Aonix, the provider of the PERC product line for embedded and real-time Java developers, announced that it is partnering with Real-Time Innovations (RTI) to provide integrated standards-based data distribution services to PERC Ultra for the Wind River Systems VxWorks MILS platform. The companies have also formed a partnering agreement paving the way to jointly market RTI Data Distribution Service and Aonix PERC technologies to their mutual custo...

Lantronix has announced support for Linux on their wired embedded device server product, MatchPort AR. The new offering caters to the growing Linux development community, expanding the market opportunity for the product.