Design

At Embedded World 2009, Artisan Software Tools will further elaborate on its Work as One philosophy for the development of complex, embedded, mission and safety-critical systems and software. Artisan will be exhibiting the latest version of Artisan Studio, its award-winning collaborative modeling environment that provides comprehensive support for the leading industry standards including OMG SysML, UML and Architectural Frameworks as well as Art...

Adeneo Embedded has announced the full commercial release of the Linux 2.6 Board Support Package (BSP) for Freescale’s i.MX27 Product Development Kit (PDK_ ARM9 processor-based micro-controller. This BSP targets the i.MX27 PDK, a standard development platform from Freescale. It supports key features of the i.MX27 PDK.

Green Hills Software has announced that it has formed a new division, Software Acceleration. Software Acceleration will provide consulting services, leveraging the company’s extensive software performance engineering expertise, to make products run faster, use less power, and require less memory. Software Acceleration utilizes an extensive library of advanced profiling and optimization tools, combined with expert application methodology, to ens...

Adding to its extensive support for ARM-based processors, Quadros Systems, a leading provider of real-time operating systems (RTOS), today announced support for the LPC32x0 series of microcontrollers (MCUs) from NXP Semiconductors. Developers can now combine the efficiency, flexibility and scalability of the RTXC software family with the versatile, performance-boosting LPC32x0 family.

Altium will be joined by customers from a range of industries to provide demonstrations and insights into the winter 09 release of Altium Designer at this year’s embedded world show. Altium’s live demonstrations will focus on how Altium Designer can help designers exploit today’s low-cost, high-performance FPGA devices. Altium’s latest release has a number of new design technologies and concepts to help electronics designers innovate, cap...

At Embedded World, Green Hills Software will be showcasing its INTEGRITY real-time operating system for applications that require high levels of security, safety and/or reliability. The exhibition will host the first European public demonstration of the EAL6+ certified INTEGRITY-178B OS, which is the world’s first and only operating system certified to protect classified information against sophisticated hackers. In addition to the high securit...

Artisan Software Tools has announced the appointment of Dennis Andrews as Vice President of Sales -USA. Dennis will assume responsibility for driving the growth of the company’s direct sales efforts in the American market.

Tensilica has announced that it will demonstrate DTS-HD Master Audio Lossless decoding on the HiFi 2 Audio DSP (digital signal processor), the industry’s lowest power, most area efficient audio processor core, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, January 8-11, 2009. The HiFi 2 DSP offers significant cost savings and a simplified programming model, as all Blu-ray audio processing can be done in one core, unlike other solutions that req...

Altium has added a new file importer, for CADstar design files, to the latest release of its next generation electronics design solution, Altium Designer. It’s the latest addition to Altium Designer’s design translation wizard, which already supports legacy design files from Allegro, OrCAD, DX Designer, and PADS, as well as Altium’s earlier P-CAD and Protel design tools.

Toshiba Electronics Europe’s ASIC & Foundry Business Unit has launched two new mixed-signal IP cores that will simplify and speed integration of LVDS (low-voltage differential swing) transmitter and receiver functionality into system-on-chip (SoC) designs for flat panel display (FPD) applications.