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Freescale ColdFire+ mixed-signal microcontrollers now available

May 23, 2011

AUSTIN, Texas – May 23, 2011 – Designers of industrial and consumer applications need solutions with low power consumption and increased integration that can help them meet end users’ demands for energy-efficient, smaller-form-factor equipment. The ColdFire+ MCF51Qx and MCF51Jx microcontroller (MCU) families now available from Freescale Semiconductor were developed to help address those critical design needs. Built on 90 nanometer (nm) thin film storage flash technology with FlexMemory, ColdFire+ MCUs are one of the most low-power, integrated, cost-effective, small-package 32-bit families on the market today.

ColdFire+ MCUs are built upon Freescale’s strong heritage of 32-bit … Read More → "Freescale ColdFire+ mixed-signal microcontrollers now available"

austriamicrosystems´ chip set for Continental’s crash prevention system goes on the road

May 23, 2011

Unterpremstaetten, Austria & Lindau, Germany (May 23, 2011) – austriamicrosystems (SIX: AMS), a leading designer and manufacturer of high-performance analog ICs, has announced that their ASIC chip set for automotive Laser-based obstacle recognition systems (LIDAR) has been selected by the international automotive supplier Continental  and is now entering high volume production. 

LIDAR systems employ an invisible laser in the rear view mirror illuminating an area of about 8 meters in front of the car. The reflected light from obstacles such … Read More → "austriamicrosystems´ chip set for Continental’s crash prevention system goes on the road"

OneSpin Launches Industry’s First Comprehensive Solution For Automatic Metric-Driven Formal Assertion-Based Verification Coverage Analysis And Measurement

May 23, 2011

MUNICH, Germany, TOKYO, and SUNNYVALE, Calif. – May 23, 2011 – OneSpin Solutions, an EDA company that provides innovative formal assertion-based verification solutions, today announced Quantify MDV, the industry’s first formal metric-driven verification (MDV) solution that automatically and comprehensively analyzes and measures formal verification progress and quality in register transfer level (RTL) designs.

This breakthrough enhancement to the flagship OneSpin 360® MV product family provides precise feedback throughout a project, enabling verification engineers for the first time to answer three key questions quantitatively and accurately:

Cortus will be exhibiting their APS3 32 bit processor core at the Design Automation Conference 2011 (DAC), San Diego 6th-8th June

May 23, 2011

Montpellier, 23rd May 2011. Cortus S.A., the technology leader in ultra low power, silicon efficient 32-bit processor IP cores will be presenting their APS3 technology at the 48th Design Automation Conference in San Diego.

The Design Automation Conference (DAC) exhibition runs from 6th – 8th June, at the San Diego Convention Center, is recognised as the world’s largest industry event for the design of electronic circuits and systems. This year’s conference has an increased emphasis on Embedded Software and Systems (ESS). Cortus S.A. will be exhibiting for the first time at DAC … Read More → "Cortus will be exhibiting their APS3 32 bit processor core at the Design Automation Conference 2011 (DAC), San Diego 6th-8th June"

IAR Systems supports new ultra-low-power MSP430 FRAM microcontrollers from Texas Instruments Inc.

May 23, 2011

Uppsala, SWEDEN—May 23, 2011—IAR Systems® today announced that its software development toolsuite IAR Embedded Workbench® now offers a complete support for the recently released ultra-low-power MSP430FR57xx FRAM (Ferroelectric Random Access Memory) microcontroller series from Texas Instruments (TI). The new MSP430FR57xx FRAM series ensures data can be written more than 100 times faster and uses as little as 250 times less power than flash- and EEPROM-based microcontrollers. Because of their low power consumption and write endurance of over 100 trillion cycles, these devices will prove ideal for applications that require continuous data logging or … Read More → "IAR Systems supports new ultra-low-power MSP430 FRAM microcontrollers from Texas Instruments Inc."

Rohde & Schwarz and Synopsys Form Strategic Collaboration for LTE/LTE-Advanced Design Acceleration

May 23, 2011

MUNICH and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, and Rohde & Schwarz, a premium supplier of test and measurement solutions to the wireless and cellular industry, today announced the formation of a strategic collaboration to accelerate the design and verification of chipsets, handsets and base stations that serve the next-generation LTE and LTE-Advanced standards. Synopsys is contributing to the collaboration its strength in Read More → "Rohde & Schwarz and Synopsys Form Strategic Collaboration for LTE/LTE-Advanced Design Acceleration"

Pentek Brings Power of Cobalt Virtex-6 Family to CompactPCI System Designs

May 23, 2011

UPPER SADDLE RIVER, NJ–May 23, 2011–Pentek, Inc., today announced that its highly popular Cobalt® board family is now available for use in CompactPCI (cPCI) systems. The migration to cPCI gives system designers full access to Pentek’s advanced modular technology, which features high-performance signal acquisition and the processing power of Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGAs. 

“With the adaptation of our Cobalt modules to CompactPCI, we have rounded out the family to serve … Read More → "Pentek Brings Power of Cobalt Virtex-6 Family to CompactPCI System Designs"

Verific Unveils Perl Interface for its SystemVerilog, VHDL Front-End Solutions

May 20, 2011

ALAMEDA, CALIF. –– May 19, 2011 –– Verific Design Automation, long known for its SystemVerilog and VHDL front-end solutions used by leading EDA, FPGA and semiconductor companies worldwide, today unveiled a Perl interface to its industry-standard, IEEE-compliant SystemVerilog and VHDL parsers and elaborators.

“We get strong interest for our parser technology from ASIC and FPGA design engineers looking to solve a specific problem in their RTL code or netlist,” says Rob Dekker, Verific’s founder and chief technology officer.  “These engineers are not necessarily C++ programmers and … Read More → "Verific Unveils Perl Interface for its SystemVerilog, VHDL Front-End Solutions"

Carbon Design Systems Adds ARM Cortex-A15 Models to its IP Exchange Web Portal

May 20, 2011

ACTON, MASS. –– May 19, 2011 –– Carbon Design Systems™, the leading supplier of solutions for architectural analysis, performance optimization and pre-silicon firmware debug,announced today availability of 100% accurate models of ARM®’s Cortex™-A15 processor on Carbon’s IP Exchange web portal through its early access program.

Carbon is the first model provider to offer support for the Cortex-A15 intellectual property (IP) core.  Cortex-A15 models are compiled directly from ARM’s early access implementation register transfer level (RTL) code and maintain 100% functional accuracy.  Models are integrated … Read More → "Carbon Design Systems Adds ARM Cortex-A15 Models to its IP Exchange Web Portal"

Agilent Technologies Introduces Benchtop Source/Measure Units with Superior Performance, Wide Voltage/Current Ranges for Testing of Semiconductors, Components and Materials

May 20, 2011

SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 18, 2011 – Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced the B2900A Series, its first line of compact benchtop source/measure units for testing of semiconductors, components and materials. These SMUs provide wide voltage/current ranges and superior performance at modest prices – and they provide an intuitive graphical interface with the industry’s first color displays. They excel at fast, simple current-versus-voltage (I-V curve) characterization of semiconductors, active/passive components and materials in research, development, manufacturing and education applications.

The series provides best-in-class voltage/current ranges and precision in a single … Read More → "Agilent Technologies Introduces Benchtop Source/Measure Units with Superior Performance, Wide Voltage/Current Ranges for Testing of Semiconductors, Components and Materials"

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