Design

To answer security designers needs to create advanced surveillance products with less resources, Texas Instruments has announced today two comprehensive and cost-effective reference designs for Internet Protocol cameras and digital video recorders. These reference designs, powered by the new TMS320DM365 digital media processor based on DaVinci technology, provide high-definition (HD) H.264 in high, main or base profile (D1, 720p @ 30 fps or 1080p...

IAR Systems has announced the release of a new, low-cost development kit for the ARM® Cortex-M3 in partnership with Toshiba. Toshiba became the first Japanese semiconductor manufacturer to develop a 32-bit ARM Cortex-M3 core-based microcontroller unit (MCU) when it released the TMPM330FDFG in late 2008. It leveraged the Cortex-M3 core to create a high-performance, low-power general-purpose MCU device with a large Flash memory, a real time clock,...

Cadence and NEC Electronics have announced the development of prototypes of NEC Electronics’ state-of-the-art V850 -based System LSI, made possible by support of Cadence’s new Encounter Digital Implementation System v8.1. NEC Electronics developed its LSIs next-generation CPU core, successfully reducing the total design turnaround time by fifty percent while including complete full multi mode, multi-corner analysis and optimization througho...

Tundra Semiconductor today announced its new RapidIO Gen2 program. Backwards compatible with RapidIO Specification Rev 1.3, Tundra's new RapidIO solutions will offer OEMs increased system performance, reduced power consumption and lower system costs when designing next generation systems.

congatec has announced that the company will be further extending its design activities in the Czech Republic as of May 1, 2009. For this purpose congatec will be taking on the complete design team of a major business alliance partner. This team, situated in Brno, consists of eight experienced hardware and software engineers and will be concentrating on the development of customized carrier boards for Qseven, XTX and COM Express computer modules....

Texas Instruments has announced the availability of an embedded processor software toolkit developed for medical diagnostic ultrasound manufacturers. The first in a family of products, TI’s toolkit helps manufacturers quickly and easily develop ultrasound applications on the improved processing power of TI’s C64x+ DSP platforms, enabling clinics and practitioners to deliver faster, more accurate results to their patients.

Renesas Technology Europe today announced the MCRP06 motor control reference platform that can use either asynchronous or synchronous motor control techniques. With an integrated power module, it is designed to drive any 3-phase motor up to 2kWatts rating using sensorless field oriented control algorithms.

IAR Systems will use the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC), in San Jose, California, as a stage on which to present its embedded tools for wireless system development. IAR Systems has partnered with microcontroller manufacturers Atmel and Texas Instruments to provide visitors to the show with working examples of how its hardware and software development tools for can be utilized in wireless applications. IAR Embedded Workbench is an independent...

STMicroelectronics has announced that registration is now open for two of its most popular North America seminar series: motor- and motion-control solutions and STM8S, ST’s new 8-bit microcontroller. Developed by STMicroelectronics and promoted in partnership with its distributors*, the series of free seminars provide hands-on training that delivers practical design guidance and showcases ST’s leading-edge technologies.

Green Hills Software has announced that Ecliptic Enterprises Corporation is using it’s INTEGRITY real-time operating system in Ecliptic’s next-generation RocketCam Digital Video System (DVS). INTEGRITY manages all DVS command and telemetry functions as well as demanding, real-time video processing tasks in a rugged environment. The INTEGRITY-based RocketCam DVS is being successfully applied in NASA’s Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle capsule P...