Design

Atmel has announced the AVR32 ATEVK1105 Digital Audio Gateway kit, demonstrating digital audio streaming, decoding and playback. These audio capabilities serve the exploding market of audio accessories and peripherals that connects home and car Hi-Fi audio systems to the digital age. This includes the popular iPod docking stations. The kit is based on the AVR high performance AT32UC3A 32-bit Flash microcontrollers and provides developers with a r...

Arrow’s European Reference Board team has expanded its family of embedded system support tools with the launch of a development platform for the Intel Atom processor family. The new platform will support the development of embedded applications ranging from mobile devices and gaming machines to building automation, interactive kiosks and industrial systems.

National Instruments has announced enhancements to the NI Multisim and NI Ultiboard printed circuit board (PCB) design experience, including the release of the Multisim and Ultiboard 10.1.1 software packages. The latest versions of the software deliver functional enrichments, such as several enhancements to user interface functionality including improved database synchronisation, added temperature simulation parameter support and more than 300 ne...

Plextek has launched its customisable core processor module which combines a robust hardware platform, Microsoft WinCE 6.0 R2 operating system and comprehensive Board Support Package (BSP), is designed to provide the processing power and interfacing capability to support rapid integration into a range of automotive and consumer applications. Plextek is also able to customise the module’s form factor and connectivity for other target solutio...

3L, the Multiprocessor Design Company and DFCDesign, a specialist provider of custom embedded systems and IP, has announced the integration of Diamond TCP, a full function, high performance TCP/IP networking stack into the 3L Diamond multiprocessor tool-suite. Optimized for multiprocessing and Gigabit Ethernet the stack supports the low level TCP, UDP, IP, IGMP, ICMP and ARP stack protocols. Diamond TCP provides multiprocessor designers with a ...

e-con Systems Inc and MosChip Semiconductor have announced an alliance, where e-con Systems will offer Microsoft Windows Embedded CE support for MosChip’s range of network appliance processors. e-con Systems is acknowledged by Microsoft as a GOLD LEVEL Partner, offering complete solutions built on Windows Embedded CE. These solutions include Windows Embedded CE BSP development, BSP porting, device driver development and application development...

Geensys, the provider of embedded development tools, value-added embedded engineering/consulting services and embedded software IP, has announced Reqtify 2009-1a, a new and improved version of its flagship tool for the automated management of embedded hardware and software requirements capture, traceability and impact analysis throughout the entire development lifecycle.

Atmel has announced its next generation CryptoCompanion (AT88SC018) plug-and-play embedded security chip. CryptoCompanion provides designers an affordable option for cryptographic hardware security on systems that are currently prone to firmware theft and/or product counterfeiting. CryptoCompanion, when used in conjunction with Atmel’s CryptoMemory chip, provides secure storage of the secrets necessary to authenticate consumable items or so...

Following an extensive early adopter program, PRQA/Programming Research has announced the general release of QA•C/QA•C++ Legacy Mode, which offers a solution for managing the quality of legacy code. In targeting the maintenance of legacy code it provides developers with the tools they need to re-use valuable legacy software with confidence.

Artisan Software Tools has announced Artisan Workbench, which provides a fully integrated, collaborative engineering framework for the trouble-free deployment and maintenance of best-in-class tools for mission and safety-critical embedded systems and software development.