Design

CoWare, Inc., and Tensilica, Inc., today announced the integration of Tensilica’s Diamond Standard 106Micro, the smallest licensable 32-bit processor core, with CoWare Platform Architect. The integration provides designers with the first and most productive ESL 2.0 solution for platform architecture design, platform verification, and software development using Tensilica’s processor core with the smallest area, lowest power, and highest perfor...

picoChip has announced the PC6532 Wave 2 femtocell, the next version of its industry-standard WiMAX basestation reference design. Femtocell access points are optimized for deployment inside buildings to improve coverage and data rates. The new PC6532 WiMAX femtocell is the industry’s only single-chip (PHY + MAC) reference design to support WiMAX Wave 2 and full IO-MIMO in both downlink and uplink.

The NISE 3110, is the first industrial fan-less computer system of its type to utilize Core 2 Duo and Core Duo Processors. By incorporating the Intel® 945GME Chipset, the NISE 3110 offers users all the advantages of Core Duo technology, such as impressive levels of performance and amazingly low power consumption in a totally Fan-less, noise-free, maintenance-free Industrial computer system.

IDT has introduced a family of central packet switches (CPS) that address the interconnect needs of embedded applications that utilize DSPs, FPGAs or processors. The CPS solutions incorporate in-house third-generation IDT SERDES and serial RapidIO core switch technology to provide customers with superior flexibility, scalability, performance, and power consumption at very competitive costs. These best-in-class switches provide significant syste...

National Instruments has announced a new suite of software and hardware intellectual property (IP) to make using field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) in measurement, control and signal processing applications easier. Collaborating with its worldwide network of customers, integrators and National Instruments Alliance Partners, NI is now making available the FPGA IPNet to provide an open forum for sharing LabVIEW FPGA IP and new hardware I/O mod...

Green Hills Software, Inc has announced that its TÜV-certified INTEGRITY RTOS is available for Freescale’s MPC8360-based Industrial PowerQUICC platform (MPC8360E-RDK). The unique protection architecture of INTEGRITY, coupled with the PowerQUICC II Pro processor’s memory management unit (MMU) and advanced communications support, helps to shorten the time and effort required for device safety-certification. The technology solution helps delive...

National Instruments and QNX Software Systems have announced an OEM evaluation bundle of software and hardware that reduces the barrier to entry for engineers and scientists using graphical system design to create embedded devices that require measurement-quality analogue I/O. The new bundle features a low-cost USB data acquisition device from NI, a single-board computer and drivers as well as evaluation versions of the QNX Momentics development...

CoWare Inc., the supplier of platform-driven electronic system-level (ESL) design software and services, has announced the first product release supporting companies in their transition from the proof-of-concept ESL era to ESL 2.0. ESL 2.0 refers to a second generation of ESL solutions, which aim to facilitate the design and development of processor-centric, software-intensive products with complex interconnect and memory architectures, in a pro...

National Instruments has announced the availability of the LabVIEW 8.5 Student Edition, the latest version of the graphical system design software that gives students a flexible, hands-on environment to design, prototype and deploy engineering and science concepts into real-world applications. The student edition offers all the features of the popular LabVIEW graphical development platform including multicore processing and hybrid programming, p...

Toshiba Electronics Europe has announced a reference design platform optimised for integrated Digital Television (IDTV) designs, combining the hardware functions and interfaces required for an LCD-TV with Aurora middleware by Cabot Communications enabling a feature-rich digital media solution. The new reference design combines an ALPS tuner and front-end with single-stream standard definition decoding as well as the sound-interface, AV interfaces...