Costa Mesa, California, December 1, 2009 – Micro Digital Inc. is pleased to announce that the GoFast floating point library has been ported to the Thumb-2 instruction set for Cortex processors. GoFast for Thumb-2 was carefully designed for high performance operation in embedded applications and ease of use including “link and go” compatibility with the IAR compiler. GoFast provides ROMable, reentrant, IEEE and ANSI compatible Thumb-2 single- and double-precision floating point support.

GoFast is a family of high-performance, reentrant, floating-point libraries designed for embedded applications. They are ANSI C compatible, IEEE 754 compliant, and designed to directly replace a C compiler’ … Read More → "Micro Digital Announces GoFast® Floating Point Library for Thumb-2 (Cortex) and IAR EWARM"

SYDNEY, Dec. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Altium has released a new prototyping peripheral add-on board for its NanoBoard FPGA-based development boards.

The new board works with both the fixed-FPGA NanoBoard 3000 and the fully-configurable NanoBoard NB2. It will be available from December from Altium’s on-line distribution partners, in packs of either three or 20.

The board does away with having to create special, custom PCBs for circuit prototyping. A single on-board connector plugs into the NanoBoard to give direct access to the I/O on the host NanoBoard FPGA and common NanoBoard resources, including power and JTAG lines. Designers … Read More → "One Less Custom PCB to Design for Prototypes"

HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C., Nov. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced that it plans to launch the automotive industry’s first process qualification specification and service package for automotive-grade semiconductor manufacturing at the China IC Design Conference being held in Xiamen on December 2.

CHELMSFORD, Mass. – November 24, 2009 – Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRCY, www.mc.com), a leading provider of embedded computing systems and software for image, sensor, and signal processing applications, announced availability of its family of OpenVPX™ Reference Design Read More → "Mercury Computer Systems Announces Availability of OpenVPX Reference Design Kits"

SYDNEY, Australia – November 24, 2009& … Read More → "Instant prototyping – in the time it takes to make a cup of coffee"

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – November 24, 2009 – Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced the release of a broad range of data converter IP solutions for 40 nanometer (nm) process technologies. The IP is targeted at broadband wireless communications, wired communications and video designs requiring high-performance, ultra-low power consumption and very compact area. With this latest addition, Synopsys’ DesignWare(r) Data Converter IP portfolio now offers more than 100 data converter IP products comprised of analogue-to-digital converters (ADCs) and digital-to-analogue converters (DACs) … Read More → "Synopsys expands DesignWare Data Converter IP portfolio with 40nm solutions"

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 16, 2009 — Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today introduced an economically priced 2-channel external output amplifier that provides up to 50 Vpp (Volts peak-to-peak) amplification of function/arbitrary waveforms. The instrument is designed to work in conjunction with engineers’ existing function generators to extend the voltage range and offer low-distortion outputs.

The new Agilent 33502A 2-channel 50 Vpp Isolated Amplifier is ideal for R&D development and test engineers who need signal sources greater than 20 Vpp without sacrificing accuracy. It also has a programmable pass-through mode for use in high-voltage applications including aerospace defense, automotive … Read More → "Agilent Technologies’ New External Output Amplifier Extends Voltage Range of Existing Function Generators to 50Vpp"

Technical User Presentations Explore Virtual Platforms, Power Analysis, SoC Modeling and More

WHO: The Open SystemC Initiative (OSCI), an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and advancing SystemC™ as an industry-standard language for electronic system-level (ESL) design, announced the European SystemC User Group (ESCUG) will host its twentieth meeting Dec. 1, 2009 in Grenoble, France. For the first time, the meeting will be co-located with IP-ESC 2009, a technical conference focused on intellectual property (IP) based system-on-chip ( … Read More → "European SystemC Users Meeting @ IP-ESC 2009"

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 17, 2009 — Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced the inclusion of faster PC hardware in the Infiniium 90000 Series oscilloscope family. These award-winning, high-performance, real-time oscilloscopes are the most responsive in their class with waveform update rates more than 20 times faster than comparable scopes.

Engineers designing high-speed serial data links such as USB, SATA or PCI Express(r) rely on high-performance oscilloscopes to measure jitter and other signal parameters. Complex analysis is often critical but can be time consuming to execute. For example, a jitter separation algorithm can take more than 30 seconds to run on … Read More → "New Agilent Infiniium 90000 Series Oscilloscope Hardware Yields Waveform Update Rates More than 20 Times Faster than Other High-Performance Scopes"

MONTPELLIER, France – November 19, 2009 – Satin IP Technologies, the company that delivers design quality closure with fast return on investment, will participate in a panel to discuss improving intellectual property (IP) quality without losing design productivity at the IP-Embedded Systems Conference in Grenoble, France on December 1, 2009.

What: The panel — entitled “Improving IP Quality vs. Losing Design Productivity – What Are the Tradeoffs?” — will discuss issues that arise when time-to-market and cost reductions dominate IP design and integration, since instituting design practices for enhanced quality can be seen as overhead by engineers and engineering managers. This … Read More → "Satin IP to Participate in Panel on Improving IP Quality vs. Losing Design Productivity at IP-ESC Conference"