Design

Focus EDL, the leading electronic components distributor specializing in providing the communications and high-performance datacoms industries with a broad range of products from the United States, Asia and Europe, announces that it signed MorethanIP, the design house recognised for its ability to support FPGA devices from leading vendors including Altera and Xilinx.

Start-up EDA company, Teklatech will debut its new EDA software tool, FloorDirector, at the DATE show March 10-14 ICM in Munich. Using its new floorplanning and clock distribution technology, semiconductor vendors can overcome critical dynamic voltage drops which can result in unpredictable signal integrity and noise effects that can cause silicon failure.

STMicroelectronics has made the NicheLite TCP/IP stack available free of charge with its STR91x 32-bit Flash microcontrollers featured for networking applications, lowering cost-of-entry to that of open-source offerings but with the advantage of vendor support facilities. Compared to other third-party stacks, NicheLite is also royalty-free, helping manufacturers predict and manage their production costs.

Mouser Electronics, Inc. has announced it is stocking FTDI’s V-EVAL hardware development platform for Vinculum VNC1L-based embedded USB host designs. FTDI (Future Technology Devices International Limited) is a leading supplier of silicon and software solutions for the Universal Serial Bus (USB).

The BDI3000 is the latest in Abatron's popular range of BDM/JTAGJTAG interface for use with the GDB debugging package or as a flash programmer. They offers substantial performance enhancements compared with earlier models with support for GDB debugging and flash programming for ColdFire, PowerPC, ARM, Xscale and MIPS processors.

Analog Devices, Inc. has announced that semiconductor distributor SILICA, an Avnet Company, has designed a development platform that will enable its customers to bring embedded computing solutions from concept to production in record time. The ‘FireCracker’ Development Platform is based on the powerful Blackfin processor and is designed with industry standard interfaces and peripherals. These streamline the customer development process by p...

The latest addition to BVM's range of ultra-small fanless PCs for embedded applications is the EPC-500, a compact 115 x 115 x 35mm unit with VESA mounting capabilities. Powered by an external single 5V @ 3A supply, the unit is completely silent in operation as forced air cooling is not required.

Green Hills Software has announced it has added secure virtualization support for Wind River’s VxWorks embedded real-time operating system with its Padded Cell Secure Hypervisor. This technology breakthrough provides safe, reliable, independent execution and containment of the VxWorks guest operating system and unmodified VxWorks applications while allowing parallel execution of mission critical applications on the Green Hills INTEGRITY RTOS.

Green Hills Software has announced the availability of a comprehensive collection of advanced layer 3 IPv4 and IPv6 routing software products intended for use with its Platform for Secure Networking.

Orange Tree Technologies, a board level embedded hardware and software company focused on high performance system-host communications interconnect today reported on 2007 sales performance. Figures showed a sharp rise in industrial demand for its FPGA USB 2.0 solutions with deployment into the control automation segment being particularly strong.