Design

Silicon Logic Engineering Inc. (SLE) a high-end ASIC design firm that specializes in complex, right-first-time ASIC and ASIC system designs has now added high-end FPGA design services to its service offering. Silicon Logic Engineering is the design services division of Tundra Semiconductor Corporation.

Simplifying system design of hands-free cellular phone kits for automobiles, Texas Instruments has announced the availability of a complete Hands Free Kit Reference Design for use with the new TMS320C54HFK digital signal processor (DSP). This complete small form factor reference design from Lyrtech provides original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) all the necessary hardware and software for creating unique Bluetooth and audio streaming-enabled, hi...

Green Hills Software, the technology leader in device software optimization (DSO) and real-time operating systems (RTOS), has announced that the SuperTrace Probe and TimeMachine suite are now available for Freescale’s ColdFire microcontrollers. TimeMachine enables developers to visualize and replay their software’s execution, allowing bugs and inefficiencies to be easily and quickly eliminated, thereby resulting in higher reliability product...

Synplicity has announced its Synplify Pro synthesis software supports the newest members of the Xilinx (NASDAQ: XLNX) Virtex-5 family of 65-nanometer FPGAs. The Xilinx Virtex-5 LXT FPGAs, announced October 16, are the second of four domain-optimized platforms, featuring built-in PCI express block and low-power serial I/Os. Synplicity's timely support for the newest Xilinx devices is a result of the long-term relationship between the two compani...

Esterel Technologies has released its new SCADE Display 5.1 product. SCADE Display is a hi-quality low-footprint embedded graphics design tool suite for the development of display systems in the aerospace industry. It is used to prototype and develop Cockpit Display Systems (CDS), Head Up Displays (HUD), Flight Management Displays (FMD), and many other display systems.

Green Hills Software has announced several major new products as part of its MULTI 5.0 release: source code analyzer, distributed project builder, and a high speed target system prototyping and simulation tool. These new products further extend MULTI's ability to improve developer efficiency and the quality of the resulting software.

Ramtron has launched the FM3130, a 64 kilobit, 3-volt FRAM-Enhanced Processor Companion product that combines the benefits of non-volatile ferroelectric RAM with an integrated real-time clock/calendar in one tiny package. The FM3130 has been streamlined to further reduce system cost and board space in consumer and computing markets, supporting commonly-needed system functions in applications such as printers and high-definition televisions, wit...

Tundra Semiconductor has announced availability of the its Tsi578 Serial RapidIO Development Platform. The addition of this design support tool, using the Tsi578 Serial RapidIO Switch, offers customers flexibility and the overall benefit of reducing both their design risk and time-to-market. The Tsi578 SRDP, ideally suited for a broad spectrum of wireless, video, communications and military products, gives designers the ability to rapidly proto...

Texas Instruments has expanded its portfolio of complete wireless signal chain solutions for WiMAX applications, introducing three release-to-production radio frequency (RF) transceiver reference designs. These designs support IEEE's 802.16d/e standard RF front end requirements for a variety of wireless infrastructure technologies, including base stations, access points, wireless backhaul, point-to-point microwave, safety band and Frequency Divis...

Frontier Silicon has announced the Naples FS2011, said to be the industry’s first miniature, highly advanced and integrated standalone dual-band DAB / FM radio module for handheld battery powered products. The compact, low-cost, low-power, high performance unit is available now and is also incorporated in two new portable DAB/FM radios from leading manufacturers Bush and Ministry of Sound.