Design

Green Hills Software has announced that its µ-velOSity RTOS is now available for the NEC Electronics V850 family of embedded microcontrollers. 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 V850 is intended.

Teklatech, the start-up EDA company that specializes in floorplanning and clock distribution networks for system-on-chip design, today announced the immediate availability of its new FloorDirector product - an advanced floorplanning software tool. FloorDirector offers SoC power-shaping, clock-cycle stretching and robustness to on-chip-variation, accelerating the broad adoption of advanced nanometer geometries.

By taking advantage of lower component profiles, reduced stray inductance, capacitance and resistance and enhanced electrical characteristics, converters using chip scale packaging (CSP) from AnalogicTech enable designers of cell phones, Bluetooth headsets and other space-constrained portable systems to reduce footprint, improve AC performance, and drive down manufacturing costs.

Synplicity Inc. has confirmed new product capabilities, widespread customer adoption and increased demand for its Confirma ASIC/ASSP Verification Platform. Since the introduction of the Confirma Platform just six months ago, Synplicity has received over one hundred orders with leading electronics companies worldwide, including the BBC, and has received dozens of positive reports from global design teams who have shaved months off their design tim...

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Coresonic AB has announced the first of a series of complete hardware solutions which will allow semiconductor manufacturers to quickly and cost-effectively implement WiMax functionality into their semiconductor devices. The new WiMax ‘personality pack’, provides complete IEEE802.16 functionality, from the RF interface through to the central processor interface.

QuickLogic has announced the Visual Enhancement Engine (VEE) to enable next generation multimedia products. The proprietary VEE technology provides high quality contrast optimisation for a wide range of mobile consumer and prosumer devices. It specifically addresses the mobile industry's need to provide consumers with a TV-quality viewing experience while extending battery life at the same time.

Tanner Tools V13.0 is a significant upgrade to Tanner EDA’s Windows-based tool suite for analog and mixed-signal IC and MEMS design. Tanner Tools consists of S-Edit for schematic capture, T-Spice for simulation, L-Edit for layout and HiPer Verify for design verification. The latest upgrade adds Verilog-A model support to T-Spice. L-Edit is boosted with better library support, improvements in schematic driven layout (SDL) and a new SDL automatic...

Artisan Software Tools and Objektum Solutions are working with BAE Systems to resolve the HOOD-to-UML migration challenge for its Nimrod project legacy designs. By providing a solution combining Objektum Solutions’ HOODbridge utility, the Artisan Studio UML/SysML tool suite and the BAE Systems Ada Profile, the resulting solution significantly reduces the time it takes to migrate legacy designs into Artisan Studio ready for use.

Kontron has introduced the high-performance, low power and long life COM Express compliant Kontron ETXexpress-690 computer-on-module based on the latest AMD M690T + SB600 embedded chipset and AMD Sempron single core and AMD Turion 64 X2 dual core processors.