Design

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, 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 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.

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.

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 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 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.

Geensys, the specialist provider of embedded development tools, value-added embedded engineering and consulting services, and embedded software IP, will give Reqtify 3.1 its exhibition debut at Embedded World 2008 (Hall 10, Stand 527). Reqtify 3.1 is the new and improved version of Geensys’ flagship tool for the automated management of embedded hardware and software requirements capture, traceability and impact analysis throughout the developme...

Renesas Technology Europe and its alliance partner Thesycon have announced the immediate availability of a complete USB stack support for the H8SX/1664-based, RSK1664 Renesas Starter Kit (RSK). The H8SX/1664 features a USB function and a 50 DMIPS H8SX CISC CPU core. From the PC side, Thesycon provides a generic USB device driver for Windows, called USBIO. This allows Windows application developers to control any kind of USB device. No DDK develop...

Green Hills Software has announced that EZURiO is using its INTEGRITY family of operating systems, including the velOSity real-time operating system, in EZURiO’s Wireless Intelligent Serial Module (WISM) for medical and point-of-sale terminals and in its Wireless Intelligent Telematics System (WiTS).