| MCUs include power-saving tech for security, home apps
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2006-12-21 |
| Atmel Corp. has released four AVR MCUs that incorporate a power-saving technology for multiyear battery life in LCD, lighting control, security, home automation, ZigBee and other battery applications. The AVR products are upgraded versions of the 64-pin ATmega325/329 and the 100-pin ATmega3250/3290 MCUs. |
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| Agilent debuts oscilloscope-based DDR2 compliance tester
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2006-12-18 |
| Test-and-measurement equipment supplier Agilent Technologies is debuting what it says is the industry's first oscilloscope-based DDR2 compliance test application. DDR2 memory is an evolutionary upgrade to predecessor DDR technology. |
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| Mathworks' RF Toolbox includes signal integrity capability
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2006-12-15 |
| The Mathworks is rolling out the RF Toolbox 2, which adds time-domain capabilities to this Matlab add-on package. As a result, the company said, engineers can significantly reduce the time needed to develop I/O circuitry for high-speed digital systems. |
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| Wind River adds support for Eclipse framework
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2006-12-06 |
| With added support for the Eclipse framework, Wind River Systems' Workbench 2.6 release lets users integrate Wind River tools into existing development projects or workflows, or install the tools into pre-existing Eclipse apps. |
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| Renesas preps emulator for on-chip flash
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2006-12-01 |
| Renesas Technology America Inc. is readying its E8a emulator, an ultrasmall tool for debugging embedded systems and programming Renesas MCUs' on-chip flash memory |
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| Simulator to support virtual prototyping
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2006-11-29 |
| Bluespec Inc. will roll shortly release a new version of its Bluesim simulator that supports virtual prototyping for software development and hardware validation. |
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| IAR announces devt kit for NXP's LPC2148 MCU
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2006-11-29 |
| IAR Systems has announced the IAR Advanced Development Kit for LPC2148. This is the second in the recently launched family of full product development kits. |
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| Atmel expands 8051 flash MCU line
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2006-11-29 |
| Atmel Corp. has expanded its 8051-based MCU line with the launching of a new MCU with 128KB of flash program memory. The device is an addition to the existing 16-, 32- and 64KB 8051 flash family of AT89C51RB2/RC2/RD2/ED2 MCUs. |
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| Molex develops chassis for MicroTCA design
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2006-11-28 |
| Molex Inc. has developed a MicroTCA backplane and development chassis to allow developers to build and debug MicroTCA designs before going to production. This evaluation platform is suitable for telecommunication applications such as access products, FTTX, cellular and WiMAX base stations as well as industrial, instrumentation and medical applications. |
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| Starter-kit provides real-time in-circuit debugging
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2006-11-24 |
| The Raisonance STR750-SK Starter-kit offers a complete, flexible, and affordable software and hardware development solution for STR7 (ST ARM7) applications. |
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| Xilinx releases logic design solution for Virtex-5 LXT platform
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2006-11-21 |
| Xilinx Inc. has released a complete logic design solution including an update to its Integrated Software Environment (ISE) design tools for their latest Virtex-5 LXT Platform FPGAs. |
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| Ciranova rolls out solution for p-cells
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2006-11-16 |
| EDA start-up Ciranova Inc. said that it will roll out a solution for the creation and reuse of parameterized IC layout cells (p-cells). As a result, both new and legacy p-cells can be read by any tool based on the OpenAccess database. |
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| Xilinx unveils new design solution for Virtex-5 LXT
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2006-11-07 |
| Xilinx announced the availability of a complete logic design solution including an update to its ISE design tools for their newest Virtex-5 LXT Platform FPGAs. |
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| National Semicon debuts 'fastest' 16-bit AFE
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2006-11-06 |
| A new three-channel, 16-bit analogue front end from National Semiconductor Corp. improves the performance of multi-function peripherals targeted to small office environments, allowing colour copying speeds exceeding 40 pages per minute. |
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| Microchip offers emulation system for PIC MCUs, DSCs
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2006-11-03 |
| Microchip Technology Inc. has begun offering its MPLAB Real ICE emulation system for the development of applications employing its PICmicrocontrollers and dsPIC DSCs. |
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| IAR unveils embedded tool suite for Renesas H8
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2006-10-31 |
| IAR Systems has launched a suite of essential build and debug tools for embedded projects using both C and C++, IAR Embedded Workbench V2.10 for Renesas H8. |
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| IR remote MCU features learning ability
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2006-10-26 |
| ZiLOG Inc. extends its Crimzon Infrared (IR) remote MCU family with the launch of the ZLR64400 family of 8bit MCUs. These 64KB devices feature an "on-chip" capability to learn codes from other IR remote controls for consumer products via a learning circuit. |
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| Real-time features added to mainline Linux kernel
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2006-10-16 |
| According to Linux developer service provider TimeSys, the need of embedded developers to maintain real-time patch sets outside the mainline Linux kernel may be coming to an end. |
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| 8bit MCU cuts board space, power consumption
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2006-10-11 |
| Freescale Semiconductor has launched a member of its 8bit S08 MCU family, designed to reduce board space, system cost and power consumption for small appliance and DC fan applications. |
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| ST introduces single-chip ZigBee solution
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2006-10-04 |
| STMicroelectronics has announced a single-chip ZigBee wireless networking solution – the SN250 – which integrates a 2.4GHz IEEE 802.15.4-compliant radio transceiver and a state-of-the-art 16-bit microprocessor with EmberZNet software stack. |
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| Macraigor Systems announces debug interfaces
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2006-10-03 |
| Macraigor Systems LLC has released its usb2Sprite devices for Freescale Semiconductor Inc.'s, ColdFire and DSP 56300 families of microprocessors. |
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| Mentor announce new low-cost development tools
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2006-09-28 |
| Mentor Graphics said its Edge Development Suite lowers the price barrier for development tools, allowing developers to cost-effectively take advantage of a commercial-grade Eclipse-based package for the most popular 32bit processor architectures. |
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| Java modules and tools comply to RoHS directive
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2006-09-26 |
| Imsys Technologies has released an RoHS compliant line of products based on its TINI compatible SNAP module. |
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| Tektronix, FS2 announce debug tool for Xilinx FPGAs
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2006-09-26 |
| Tektronix Inc. and FS2 have announced the FPGAView software package for Tektronix TLA Series logic analysers that enables real-time debugging of Xilinx FPGAs |
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| PGI delivers Fortran compilers for multi-core processors
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2006-09-21 |
| The Portland Group has released the PGI Visual Fortran which integrates the PGI suite of high-performance parallelizing 64-bit and 32-bit Fortran compilers and tools with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. |
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| Atmel unveils low-cost development tool for AVR MCUs
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2006-09-20 |
| Atmel Corp. has announced the AVR Dragon development tool for AVR MCUs which provides an on-chip debugging and programming tool for more than 30 different AVR Flash microcontrollers at only Rs.2,277.03 ($49 |
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| TI's PCIe x1 PHY chip supports source synchronous clocking
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2006-08-28 |
| Texas Instruments Inc.'s PCIe x1 PHY chip supports source synchronous clocking and DDR clocking, easing board layout design and enabling customers to choose low-cost FPGAs that don't run faster than 125MHz. |
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| Xilinx updates embedded design tool suite
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2006-08-25 |
| Xilinx Inc. has announced the immediate availability of version 8.2i of the Xilinx Platform Studio tool suite for embedded processing design. |
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| Evaluation kit supports Luminary Micro LM3S102
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2006-08-22 |
| IAR Systems has announced the latest version of its KickStart Kit that supports the Luminary Micro LM3S102, a member of the Luminary Stellaris family of MCUs that feature the ARM Cortex-M3 32bit microcontroller (MCU) core.. |
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| SCORE compilers released for Wind River Workbench
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2006-08-04 |
| DDC-I's SCORE compilers have been released for the Wind River Workbench, an eclipse-based development suite, and Wind River's VxWorks RTOS. |
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