Design

Aonix, a provider of complete solutions for safety- and mission-critical applications, announced the selection of the PERC Ultra virtual machine for Taranis, a $166.6M UK technology demonstrator program for the next-generation of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD).

Toshiba Electronics Europe has launched a Starter Kit that will allow engineers to rapidly and cost effectively develop and prototype applications featuring the company’s new TMPA910CRAXBG 32-bit ARM926EJ-S-based microprocessor. Believed to be the lowest cost tool in its category, Toshiba’s BMSKTOPASA910 ‘Plug & Play’ Starter Kit brings together all of the hardware and software needed to develop and test applications based on the TMPA910C...

Renesas Technology Europe has announced the immediate availability of the MIGO-R, “Multimedia Integration GO”, reference design based on the Linux Operating System and the SH7722 low power multimedia processor with dedicated video processing engine supporting H.264 video encode and decode.

Artisan Software Tools is previewing the forthcoming Artisan Studio Version 7.0, its all-in-one standards-based development tool suite, at Embedded World 2008 (Hall 10, Stand 408).

LDRA has launched TBreq 2.0, the latest version of its collaborative, requirements-based embedded software development and verification solution. TBreq 2.0 incorporates important new and enhanced features for the automation of key verification activities along with a new, more intuitive GUI that significantly improves usability.

At the Embedded World in Nuremberg February 26-28 Imsys announced a new device - the IM3240 - to complement its product range for IEEE1588 clock synchronization. At the tradeshow its sibling products are demonstrated showing slave accuracies of 15 nanoseconds using sub-dollar clock oscillators.

National Instruments has announced the release of the NI LabVIEW 8.5 Control Design and Simulation Module, an extension of the LabVIEW graphical system design platform that helps engineers and scientists analyse open-loop model behavior, design closed-loop controllers, simulate systems and create real-time implementations. The latest version of the module introduces new design features such as analytical proportional integral derivative (PID) for...

IAR Systems and SEGGER Microcontroller, leading manufacturers of software packages for embedded systems, today announced the availability of ‘Flash Breakpoints’ integrated into IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM.

AdvancedIO Systems, the leading provider of configurable 10-Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) connectivity for real-time computing systems, today announced the release of the V1021 configurable 10GbE connectivity and packet processing XMC/PMC module. Thanks to the integration of SFP+, the latest 10-gigabit optical transceiver technology, the V1021 provides high bandwidth data-pipe performance with flexible processing functionality in a single chassis slot...

Nu Horizons Electronics has announced availability of the LAN9218i from SMSC. This single-chip 10/100 Ethernet controller is designed for high performance embedded applications. Packet loss is reduced or eliminated through the use of 16KByte of internal SRAM that can hold over 200 received packets. If the receive FIFO gets too full, the device automatically generates flow control packets to the remote node, or asserts back-pressure on the remote ...