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Embedded control engineers prefer the simplified programming provided by floating-point architectures, but are often deterred by the higher cost. Addressing this paradox, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) today announced what is said to be the first fixed-point digital signal controllers (DSCs) that are entirely compatible in hardware and software with high-performance floating-point DSCs. TI’s new TMS320F282x series of DSCs combine the a...

Express Logic, Inc has announced the availability of NetX Duo its new dual IPv4/IPv6 TCP/IP stack. NetX Duo is built upon the solid field-proven foundation of Express Logic’s NetX TCP/IP stack, an IPv4-only solution. Now, as developers recognize the greatly expanded demands of Internet enabled devices, NetX has been extended to support IPv6 as well.

Green Hills Software has announced the availability of its software development solution targeting Applied Micro Circuit Corporation’s (AMCC) PowerPC 405EX and 405EXr embedded processors. Components of the Green Hills Software development toolkit include: optimizing C/C++ compilers for Power Architecture, MULTI integrated development environment (IDE), virtual prototyping platform, DoubleCheck static analyzer, and high-speed hardware debug prob...

Aonix, the provider of complete solutions for safety- and mission-critical applications, and Green Hills Software, a technology leader in device software optimization (DSO), real-time operating systems (RTOS), and related development tools, have joined forces to enable commercial availability of the Aonix PERC Ultra Virtual Machine (VM) for Green Hills INTEGRITY to the embedded market.

e-con Systems, Embedded Design Services company based out of Chennai, and offices in St. Louis, USA has announced price reductions on Windows CE 6.0 BSP for its PXA270 Development Kit SIRIUS. Windows CE BSP for SIRIUS along with the source code was available for US $ 2499 and e-con has slashed this price by 20%. “Windows CE 6.0 has been widely adopted by everyone and hence the support requests from the customer on the Windows CE BSP have come ...

The latest addition to the BVM family of industrial motherboards is the PMSA, a MicroATX format unit, based on the Socket P pin-out compatible with Intel Core 2 Duo Mobile Mercom processors. Optimised for a broad range of embedded applications such as interactive clients, gaming, medical, POS, digital signage, surveillance, industrial automation equipment and other graphic intensive applications, the unit offers excellent performance-per-watt, i...

Altium has previewed its extended range of deployment NanoBoards at DesignCon 2008 and will showcase the new solution in Europe at Embedded World 2008.

Adding to it’s existing line of Camera Solutions, e-con announced the availability of 2Megapixel camera sensor with e-CAM – the widely known Plug and Play camera solution for PXAxxx Platforms. e-con Systems had earlier announced its 1.3M pixel camera solution for fixed focus applications such as 1D and 2D bar code capture solutions.

Altium Limited has launched the Altium Innovation Station which combines the Altium Designer unified electronics design software with the newly-extended Altium NanoBoard range of reconfigurable hardware platforms.

The first public demonstration of the world's first MicroTCA broadband transceiver reference design will be given at Mobile World Congress by the design's originator, Lime Microsystems. Mobile World Congress (formerly 3GSM) will be held in Barcelona, February 11 – 14, 2008. Demonstrations will be given on the Freescale Semiconductor stand (stand 8B91 in hall 8) throughout the show.