Design

STMicroelectronics has announced a low-cost, complete evaluation and development package for the tiny 8-pin versions of the ST7Lite microcontroller family, with a recommended resale price of just $12.00. The ‘ST7Ultralite Primer’ is a compact USB-powered tool based on the ST7FLITEUS MCU, pre-programmed with a real-world software application which is designed to demonstrate all of the MCU’s main features and peripherals.

Telelogic has announced the availability of Telelogic Tau 3.0. This release is said to represent a breakthrough in Model-Driven Development (MDD) environments for enterprise IT applications, including those currently supporting or slated to support a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).

Telelogic has announced the release of the Telelogic Rhapsody AUTOSAR Pack for the Model-Driven Development (MDD) of automotive systems and software applications. This pack is the first automotive-specific MDD environment to leverage the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and the Systems Modeling Language (SysML). Using Telelogic Rhapsody, automotive engineers can now reuse specifications for common vehicle features across multiple automobile produ...

Frontier Silicon has launched what is says is the world’s smallest and lowest-cost DAB digital radio module available today. The small size and high level of integration in the new Capri FS3010 module makes it ideal for low-power product applications such as tiny pocket DAB players and personal media MP3 handhelds, as well as PDAs and other portable entertainment devices.

Altium Limited today announced the release of a new TASKING VX-toolset for the C166/ST10 microcontroller family which offers substantial performance gains over traditional C166 development tools. Initial benchmarking of the TASKING VX-toolset for the C166/ST10 microcontroller family indicates that it provides an average improvement of 45% in code compression and 24% in code speed optimization, enabling customers to deliver high-quality applicatio...

National Instruments has announced the latest version of the NI LabVIEW Digital Filter Design Toolkit, a comprehensive collection of tools for designing and implementing digital filters. As a part of the LabVIEW graphical system design platform, the Digital Filter Design Toolkit delivers features – including new text-based MathScript functions for advanced filter design, new support for multirate filter design and implementation and enhanced fi...

CoWare Inc. has announced that Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan has selected CoWare Processor Designer for its custom processor design development. OKI selected CoWare Processor Designer because it will be instrumental in enabling OKI to differentiate its SoC designs in the marketplace. Prior to this, the company has used commercial, general-purpose digital signal processors (DSPs), but the hardware costs in terms of area and power...

Aldec, Inc has announced System Verification Environment (SVE) support for Altera Corporation's new high-end Stratix III FPGA device family. SVE supports all aspects of system-level design development and verification. It includes an industry-leading common kernel HDL simulator, a set of on-line debuggers, code coverage, cross-probing tools and an industry-first integrated simulator server farm manager (SFM) for automatic verification of ultra-...

National Instruments has announced the release of the new NI cRIO-9012 high-performance, real-time controller in collaboration with Freescale Semiconductor and Wind River. The controller is based on Freescale’s MPC5200 processor built on Power Architecture technology and Wind River VxWorks real-time operating system (RTOS) to deliver fast performance while maintaining the ruggedness, reliability and low cost of the NI CompactRIO platform.

Green Hills Software has announced the next generation of GHNet, the Green Hills Software flagship TCP/IP networking software suite. GHNet is based on a field-proven dual-mode IPv4/IPv6 stack that is certified “IPv6 Ready” by Phase-2 of the IPv6 Ready Logo Program and has been through the rigors of TAHI, Moonv6 and IxANVL testing, providing additional product validation and completeness.