Design
Data Converter Evaluation and Development Toolkit Helps Designers Speed Time to Market
Analog Devices has introduced an advanced Converter Evaluation and Development (CED) toolkit that is said to be the industry’s first to combine leading data converter evaluation technology with a robust end-product development environment. Thanks to a flexible design that provides four interface ports and up to eight separate power supplies, the CED toolkit platform is capable of shaving six to eight weeks off the converter selection and desi...
Arrow announces advanced motor control development platform
Arrow has announced an advanced, FPGA-based development platform that will dramatically speed the design, prototyping and testing of motor control applications. Created by Arrow’s European reference board team in conjunction with key suppliers and partners, the MotionFire platform provides all of the hardware, software and documentation needed to rapidly and cost-effectively implement motion control systems.
Ultra-low power PC/104 PXA270 SBC
Eurotech Ltd has announced the TITAN, a RoHS compliant PC/104 single board computer based on the Intel 520MHz PXA270 XScale RISC processor. TITAN is targeted at ultra-low power, fanless embedded systems and is available with a wide operating temperature range. This highly efficient board design has a typical consumption of just 1.5W but also supports several dynamically adjusted sleep modes to further reduce its power.
Alenia Aermacchi chooses Artisan Studio for new OMG SysML/UML software development methodology
Artisan Software Tools has announced that Artisan Studio, the all-in-one UML, OMG SysML and Architectural Framework tool suite used by teams of engineers for the analysis, design and development of complex, mission critical systems, has been chosen by Alenia Aermacchi, a Finmeccanica company, as the preferred tool for its new OMG SysML/UML-based software requirements, design, development and analysis process in the flight control systems area.
Synplicity’s Synplify Premier Platform Delivers Additional Time-to-Market Benefits and Expanded Device Support for FPGA Designers
Synplicity, Inc has announced that its Synplify Premier software has been enhanced to provide more time-to-market benefits to designers using high-density FPGAs. In release 9.0, the company’s award winning graph-based physical synthesis technology has been optimized for Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGAs to deliver exceptional timing closure, analysis and debug for these advanced devices. This latest release extends the graph-based physical synthesis techno...
LDRA tool suite to support the new MISRA-C++:2008 standard
LDRA has further enhanced the capabilities of the LDRA tool suite to comply with the soon to be released MISRA-C++:2008 standard from the Motor Industry Software Reliability Association (MISRA). The support for MISRA-C++:2008 complements the LDRA tool suite’s existing enforcement support for the MISRA-C:1998 and MISRA-C:2004, HIS (Herstellerinitiative Software) and GJB (Chinese Military Standard) standards for the C programming language.
Compact COM Express baseboard for validation and small volume projects
Kontron has introduced a compact and COM Express compliant ETXexpress miniBaseboard with a footprint of merely 170 mm x 145mm. For applications designed to run on COM Express compliant designs, the Kontron ETXexpress miniBaseboard serves as a universal platform for rapid software validation.
Low power SBC operates from -40 to +85 deg C
Ideal for applications which require a high end microcontroller without the price and power consumption to match, the ICOP-6115 gives engineers the opportunity to produce this type of application using x86 tools. The power saving benefits of the board can be seen its consumption of a mere 300mA from a single +5V DC supply.
IAR Systems partners with System Semiconductor on motion controller developer’s kit
IAR Systems has announced that IAR Embedded Workbench has been selected by System Semiconductor for inclusion in its newly announced M3000 Developer’s Kit for chip level motion control. The M3000 Developer's Kit contains all the tools needed to begin developing applications using the System Semiconductor M3000 Motion Controller, which is a highly integrated, mixed signal system-on-a-chip. The device combines all the major building blocks neces...
Tensilica Adds Support for High-Speed, Hardware-Based Processor Simulations Using Avnet's Xilinx Virtex-4 LX200 Development Kit
Tensilica has announced it has added support for Avnet's Xilinx Virtex-4 LX200 Development Kit for high-speed hardware-based simulations of its Xtensa configurable and Diamond Standard processor families. Now software developers can choose between the cost-effective Avnet LX60 board and the high-capacity Avnet LX200 board to speed their software design, debug and program optimization processes.