Design

Avalue Technology has introduced the ASM-CX700; a fan-less embedded system with a maximum chipset power consumption of only 1W* in a slim package measuring just 25mm high. Thin Clients are popular in many organisations, with large installations common place. ASM-CX700 is both an ideal replacement and alternative that should reduce power consumption.

Express Logic has announced the availability of its ThreadX RTOS for the new PIC32 microcontroller family from Microchip Technology Inc, a leading provider of microcontroller and analog semiconductors. In August, Express Logic announced its ThreadX/MCU Edition for Microchip’s 16-bit PIC24 and dsPIC33 controllers. With this addition, ThreadX users can easily migrate between Microchip’s 16- and 32-bit families using the same RTOS and the same M...

The Eclipse Foundation today announced the creation of a new open-source project called Hibachi. The Hibachi project provides an industrial-strength, vendor-neutral Ada integrated development environment (IDE) that also serves as a platform for other contributors to provide value-added functionality for Ada developers. Hibachi is a sub-project of the Eclipse Tools Project, and it parallels and complements CDT, the C/C++ Development Tooling projec...

Synplicity and Lattice Semiconductor have expanded their relationship to include delivery of a highly optimized, non-proprietary ESL synthesis flow for DSP design. Synplicity’s Synplify DSP software now supports the LatticeECP2 and LatticeXP2 Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) devices, creating a powerful solution for DSP algorithm implementation in aerospace, wireless, telecom and digital multimedia applications.

CoWare has announced the first product release supporting companies in their transition from the proof-of-concept ESL era to ESL 2.0. It 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 production environment.

Plexus, the specialist electronic design and manufacturing services company, has entered a new phase of its relationship with France-based medical start-up SuperSonic Imagine, to deliver an ultrasound system with breakthrough technology. Having been involved throughout design and prototyping, Plexus will now help SuperSonic Imagine prepare the system for production and market approval.

Engineering students from the Robotics & Mechanisms Laboratory (RoMeLa) at Virginia Tech have developed a bipedal humanoid robot using the National Instruments LabVIEW graphical system design platform. The Dynamic Anthropomorphic Robot with Intelligence (DARwIn) was originally developed to study human locomotion for the research and development of prosthetic limbs. DARwIn achieves full range of motion and accurately imitates human movement so eff...

Express Logic has teamed up with GlobalEdge Software Ltd., a leading embedded software solutions and services company based in Bangalore, India, to provide ThreadX customers with embedded software solutions and IP-based services. GlobalEdge services combine ready solutions and engineering services to offer complete product realization.

Altium Limited, the developer of unified electronic product development solutions, has announced that NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) has chosen Altium Designer as its standard electronics design software. The Center’s Engineering Directorate will use Altium Designer as its electronics design standard on both manned and unmanned mission support. These include the Space Shuttle and International Space Station programs, as well as the Constel...

QuickLogic has announces the addition of a SPI (serial peripheral interconnect) Host Controller to its customer specific standard product (CSSP) functional library. The SPI interface gives mobile device designers a low pin-count alternative to SDIO or mini-PCI for implementing high speed connections to wireless modules and other popular peripheral functions.