Design

Six new PowerWise® reference designs from National Semiconductor Corp. empower design engineers to speed through the design process, delivering products that consume less power, extend battery life and generate less heat. PowerWise reference designs combine energy-efficient devices and arrange them in a system to actively lower power consumption and reduce heat dissipation.

BVM's latest addition to its family of Mini-ITX form factor motherboards is the LV-67B, which, based on the Intel GM45 Chipset, provides a platform for the latest 45nm Core 2 Duo Mobile family of processors that conform to the Socket P pin-out. Offering low power consumption, outstanding graphics processing, memory and I/O bandwidth, the LV-67B is optimised for embedded applications such as interactive clients, gaming platforms and industrial au...

picoChip has announced three software reference designs that provide the first integrated network listen (or ‘sniffer’) capabilities for femtocells. The PC8210, PC8211 and PC8810 Radio Environment Scanners (RESs) enable femtocells to detect WCDMA, GSM and TD-SCDMA networks respectively.

Geensys has announced that its AUTOSAR Builder is the first AUTOSAR development tool to provide compliance with ARTOP – the new AUTOSAR Tool Platform being established by the ARTOP User Group (ARTOP-UG) and officially launched to the AUTOSAR community on October 27th.

Orange Tree Technologies, a board-level embedded hardware and software company focused on high performance system-host communications interconnect, has recorded 3 years of product and service delivery to National Semiconductor Corp. The announcement is witness to both the quality and high performance of technology from Orange Tree and the company’s track record of supplying board-level services and solutions to some of the world’s lea...

IAR Systems has announced the launch of IAR Embedded Workbench for Atmel AVR32 Version 3.10, the latest version of the world’s only professional tool chain for AVR32 microcontrollers. IAR Embedded Workbench now supports all Atmel AVR32 devices, including the AP7 and UC3 families, and introduces enhanced emulation and trace debugging support, code checking to the MISRA C:2004 standard, multi-file compilation, and the integration of IAR visualSTA...

Microchip has announced the MPLAB ICD 3 - a cost-effective, high-speed development tool that supports in-circuit programming and debugging of Microchip’s Flash-based 8-bit PIC microcontrollers (MCUs), and its entire line of 16- and 32-bit MCUs and 16-bit dsPIC Digital Signal Controllers (DSCs). With robust system capabilities and high-speed circuitry, flash MCU programming times are 15X or faster than the current generation, plus the MPLAB ICD...

Artisan® Software Tools has announced the Artisan GSN Modeler. Artisan GSN Modeler provides developers of safety-critical systems with a powerful and easy-to-use visual modeling environment for the creation of well-structured, complex Safety Arguments using the Goal Structuring Notation (GSN). Artisan GSN Modeler will particularly appeal to Safety Case developers within the aerospace, defense, transportation and power industries that need to r...

National Semiconductor Corp. today announced the addition of a sophisticated but easy-to-use graphical tool to its WEBENCH® online design environment as well as 11 new SIMPLE SWITCHER® step-down voltage regulators. The voltage regulators are well-suited for a wide variety of applications including automotive, industrial and communication.

Extreme Engineering Solutions is pleased to introduce the XPand1000, a VITA 46 3U dual-slot conduction-cooled chassis. The chassis is intended to provide 3U VPX system engineers with an inexpensive desktop platform to jump-start their software or hardware development.