Design

XMOS, the creator of Software Defined Silicon, has announced the shipment of 300 development kits in the two months following their introduction. Take-up of the XMOS development kits has been worldwide, covering a diverse range of users and a broad spectrum of applications, from networked audio and LED display panel control through to industrial automation. Two-thirds have gone to commercial users, a third to research and academia.

Altium has launched the winter 09 release of its next generation electronics design solution Altium Designer. Altium has introduced a number of new design technologies and concepts to help electronics designers innovate, exploit advances in technology, and make the task of designing a product and getting it to market easier and faster.

Adding to its existing line of Camera Solutions, e-con Systems a leading product development services company based out of St Louis, USA & Chennai, India announced the availability of 3 Mega pixel camera sensor with e-CAM – the widely known Plug and Play camera solution for embedded platforms.

Tensilica has announced that P-Product, of Needham, MA, has joined Tensilica’s Xtensions Partner network as an authorized software design center, specializing in efficient implementations of digital signal processing (DSP) software. P-Product has extensive expertise in audio and video as well as in WiMAX and LTE. P-Product has already ported multiple audio software modules to Tensilica’s popular HiFi 2 Audio Engine.

3L, a provider of multiprocessor design software and Impulse Accelerated Technologies Inc., creators of the CoDeveloper suite of C-to-FPGA design tools today announced a new design flow that targets multiprocessor systems from signal processing specialist Lyrtech Inc. By integrating the 3L Diamond multiprocessor tool suite and CoDeveloper, the design flow accelerates the creation, debug, verification and implementation of very complex applicatio...

Sundance announced today that is has partnered with Dillon Engineering to deliver a joint solution that provides leadership in the fixed width and floating point FFT FPGA market. The solution makes available Dillon’s benchmark portfolio of Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) IP on the Sundance SMT702 dual ADC, PXIe embedded computing module. By combining Dillon’s cores with Sundance's modular FPGA design, developers have access to a uniquely confi...

Helping PC programmers and embedded developers move their embedded devices into the familiar Windows operating environment without losing critical design time or added costs, BSQUARE Corporation announced the availability of a Windows Embedded CE 6.0 board support package (BSP) for the Cortex-A8 processor-based OMAP35x evaluation module (EVM) from Texas Instruments. Developers of industrial, automotive and consumer applications now have access to...

Extreme Engineering Solutions (X-ES) has introduced XPedite5201, a conduction-cooled PrPMC / XMC targeting Freescale Semiconductor’s MPC 8548E PowerQUICC III processor. This card comes standard with PCI-X support and optional PCI Express support via an XMC connector. XPedite5201 is an optimal solution for military system designers that need to include additional processing in an existing system, or want to utilize the advantageous performance...

Measuring 100 x 100 mm, the MINI2440 Development Board includes 64 M DRAM, 32-bit data bus, 64 M Nand Flash, and 2 M Nor Flash. The S3C2440 Microprocessor features ARM920T core for hand-held devices and general applications. By providing comprehensive set of common system peripherals, S3C2440 eliminates need to configure additional components. Additional board features include LCD control, Ethernet RJ-45 interface, 3 serial ports, 4 user LEDs, an...

National Instruments has introduced the NI VXIpc-882, a two-slot VXI embedded controller featuring the Intel Core 2 Duo processor T7400. As the industry’s highest-performing VXI embedded controller, the VXIpc-882 delivers much faster processing capabilities than typical single-core controllers. Additionally, by combining the controller with the multicore support of NI LabVIEW 8.6 graphical programming software, engineers can create superior-per...