Design

National Instruments has announced the NI LabVIEW Unit Test Framework and LabVIEW Desktop Execution Trace toolkits, which are new software engineering tools for the LabVIEW graphical development environment. This coincides with the release of NI Requirements Gateway 1.1 requirements management software.

Altium continues to expand programmable device options for its desktop NanoBoard reconfigurable hardware development platform. It’s released a new daughter board aimed at high performance signal processing, FPGA-based applications. The new daughter board hosts a member of the Xilinx Virtex-4 device family, the XC4VSX35-10FFG668C device. It’s housed in a 668-ball grid Array and comes complete with on-board memories for application use, and a 1...

Maxim and Transim Technology Corporation have announced the launch of Maxim's EE-Sim Design Center, powered by Transim's WebSIM online design technology. A virtual design environment, EE-Sim allows engineers to create and simulate complex circuits online in a matter of mere minutes, greatly reducing design time.

IAR Systems will make three significant announcements at the Embedded World 2009 Exhibition and Conference, 3rd-5th March 2009, in Nuremberg, Germany. One of the first trace debuggers for ARM Cortex-M3 cores will be demonstrated. The IAR J-Trace tool connects to the PC host running Windows via USB and integrates seamlessly into IAR Embedded Workbench for plug-and-play operation.

Future Technology Devices International (FTDI) has announced the availability of two evaluation modules to support their recently announced FT2232H and FT4232H USB 2.0 High Speed devices, which have the capability of being configured in a variety of industry standard serial or parallel interfaces such as UART or FIFO. The module PCB measures just 36mm (L) x 30mm (W) x 12mm (H –including connector pins). Each module provides access to all the re...

picoChip has announced the PC8219, a complete baseband solution for eight-user WCDMA femtocells designed to run on its established PC202 processor chip. Two of picoChip’s lead customers are key development partners for the product.

congatec has introduced the conga-ARkit, a complete solution package for the implementation of PLC functions. This comprehensive package was developed in conjunction with 3S-Smart Software Solutions GmbH, Real-Time Systems GmbH and OSCAT (‘Open Source Community for Automation Technology’). It addresses PLC manufacturers and companies that intend to integrate PLC functionality in their applications.

GOEPEL electronic has developed a dedicated model library for the XScale processors PXA2xx and PXA3xx that supports the innovative emulation technology VarioTAP. The libraries, described as VarioTAP models, are structured modularly as intelligent IP and enable a complete fusion of Boundary Scan test and JTAG emulation. Employing this technology, frequently used NAND flash can be in-system programmed with the help of the processor function. Furthe...

Densitron will be running two interactive workshops in March and April to help design engineers tackling problems they encounter in the display interfacing process. The workshop offers a unique opportunity to gain practical knowledge on the interfaces of TFT and OLED displays, and discusses and provides solutions to common interfacing problems.

Artisan Software Tools has announced that Westinghouse Rail Systems Limited (WRSL) has extended its use of Artisan Studio to develop an automated Safety Integrity Level 4 (SIL4) validation process that has dramatically improved validation speed, resulting in a 70% reduction in its SIL4 validation effort.