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Synplicity has announced its revolutionary new Identify Pro ASIC and ASSP verification solution. The Identify Pro software, featuring Synplicity's TotalRecallT technology, provides designers with full visibility into FPGA-based ASIC and ASSP prototypes enabling them to find, fix and verify functional errors at speeds approaching that of the final device. Identify Pro software improves the productivity of existing verification methodologies, su...

Synopsys and Synplicity, have announced the signing of a joint marketing agreement intended to improve verification flows for their mutual customers. Under terms of the agreement, the companies intend to work together on next-generation, high-performance verification solutions for ASIC designers. Targeting FPGA-based prototyping environments, Synopsys and Synplicity plan to demonstrate Synopsys' VCS functional verification solution working se...

Green Hills Software has announced that its optimizing compilers for the Power Architecture were used by both Freescale and IBM for certified, published Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC) benchmark scores on the MPC8641D and PowerPC 750CL microprocessors. Green Hills compilers have been chosen by microprocessor manufacturers four times more often than other compilers to produce EEMBC published benchmark scores for 32-bit process...

BVM has further expanded its range of embedded boards with the introduction of the LV-681 Mini-ITX motherboard. The high-level integration and comprehensive on-board capability of the LV-681 offers high performance, low-power-consumption solutions for embedded products, particularly suitable for thin clients, gaming, kiosk, point-of-sale, and other graphics-centric embedded applications.

TurboTools Corporation has announced the availability of an integration link with Autodesk Inventor 2008, the 3D mechanical design software. The company also announces that CablEquity 2007 has been certified for Autodesk Inventor 2008 under the Autodesk Inventor Certified Applications Program. Certification is granted only after a product has been thoroughly tested internally by Autodesk staff. Certified applications meet certain implementation g...

Software developers can more rapidly respond to the dynamic needs for enterprise applications with Telelogic Tau 3.1, which was announced today by Telelogic. This new version of the company’s popular model-driven development (MDD) solution makes it easier to design and develop comprehensive service architectures and Web services for enterprise applications including those in IT, telecom, defense, finance and transportation.

Now available from Computer Solutions are the Micro Digital range of USB drivers - the smxUSBH USB host stack, the smxUSBD USB device stack and the smxUSBO 'On-The-Go' stack - all of which help embedded developers by providing easy interfacing between their embedded systems and USB. The smxUSBD USB device stack is designed for situations in which a developer wants the embedded application to plug into a PC and exchange data with the PC or to be ...

Aldec, Inc. has announced the availability of the RTAX-S Prototyping Board for radiation-tolerant RTAX-S FPGAs from Actel Corporation (NASDAQ:ACTL). Easing the prototyping process of space-flight systems, the new RTAX-S Prototyping Board provides the flexibility Actel's flash-based ProASIC3 FPGAs offer, allowing designers to utilize a design across multiple aerospace projects, shorten design cycles and lower project costs. Together with automati...

Schroff UK has launched a new development system designed to provide engineers with a quick and easy way of evaluating MicroTCA technology. The MicroTCA specification, which allows AdvancedMC modules to be plugged directly into a backplane without the need for a carrier, is rapidly emerging as a key architecture for telecoms network systems and is also attracting other market sectors such as industrial automation, image processing, medical equipm...

National Instruments has announced the release of MATRIXx 8.0, an industry-proven software suite for model-based design, simulation and embedded code generation. In addition to a revamped user interface, MATRIXx 8.0 introduces a project-based development environment to help engineers, designers and researchers in industries such as aerospace and automotive better manage large projects. The latest version of the software also offers backward compa...