Design

National Instruments has announced its collaboration with WisyTech, a wireless systems specialty spin-off of Italy’s National Research Council and Politecnico di Milano and partnership with ATE integrator Alfautomazione, on a forthcoming WiMAX toolkit for the NI LabVIEW graphical system design platform. The plug-in toolkit extends the ease-of-use of LabVIEW graphical programming to engineers and scientists developing WiMAX RF compliant devices,...

The LEDules2 range of LED modules from CML Innovative Technologies, now available in the UK from Aerco, is supplied with an on-line ‘designer’s pack’ that includes application notes and technical data sheets on how to incorporate drivers, heatsinks and other aspects of LED technology.

Green Hills Software has announced that µ-velOSity is now available for ARC International’s ARC 600 Core Family of configurable cores and ARC Sound Subsystem. With a ROM footprint as small as 2K bytes, RAM footprint as small as 1K bytes, and service call times as low as 30 cycles, µ-velOSity is ideal for the cost-sensitive, high-performance applications for which ARC cores and subsystems are ideally suited.

International Rectifier has introduced the IRAUDAMP7 reference design for Class D audio amplifiers above 25W per channel including home theatre applications, musical instruments and car entertainment. With a power range from 25W to 500W, the IRAUDAMP7 offers a high degree of scalability on a single layer PCB.

Aonix has released TeleUSE version 4.0, the latest version of its object-oriented User Interface Management System environment, for 64-bit architectures. New platform support in TeleUSE 4.0 enables seamless cross-platform Motif graphical user interface (GUI) application development on the latest 64-bit systems running Linux, Solaris, and HPUX. A 32-bit edition of TeleUSE 4.0 continues to support development of applications on 32-bit platforms.

RS Components has announced the launch of its Embedded Development Platform (EDP) designed to help deliver additional cost and time saving options to design engineers. This new solution consists of a baseboard able to hold a combination of up to four CPU or application modules, an innovation in this technology area. The EDP is RS’ first step in a process that will see the introduction of new processor and application modules on a regular basis...

NEC Electronics Europe has announced the availability of Applilet2 device configuration software. The Applilet2 software provides an easy to use graphical user interface to configure all of the features and peripherals available on all of NEC Electronics’ microcontrollers. This new free to down load software tool significantly reduces the development cycle for new products and applications.

Texas Instruments has introduced an evaluation module (EVM) that combines TI’s fastest 14-bit analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) in an interleaved fashion with a Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA to create the best-performing high-speed digitizer solution in the market. The FPGA comes pre-installed with SP Devices’ proprietary time-interleaving technology to eliminate interleaving spurs, which enhances performance and facilitates rapid system-lev...

Artisan Software Tools has launched version 7.0 of Artisan Studio, its flagship model-driven development tool suite. Artisan Studio provides complete support for UML, OMG SysMLTM, and Architectural Frameworks in a single, integrated environment.

IAR Systems, NXP Semiconductors, and Micrium have announced the launch of a new reference design platform targeted at RTOS-based, ARM-powered embedded systems for industrial applications. The new platform gives software and hardware engineers a fast time to market for systems based on the LPC2468 ARM7 microcontroller from NXP Semiconductors, starting from a proven hardware/software platform with flexible pre-designed modules for a wide range of a...