Xilinx ISE 8.2i Includes Support for World’s Largest 65nm FPGA
Xilinx today announced immediate availability of a downloadable extension to the 8.2i Integrated Software Environment (ISE(TM)) Foundation tool suite allowing access to the Virtex(TM)-5 LX330 FPGA, the industry’s largest 65nm FPGA. ISE Foundation 8.2i delivers a unique, integrated timing closure environment and new productivity-enhancing features to fully exploit the performance and power advantages of Virtex-5 devices, delivering a 30 percent performance advantage over previous generation FPGAs. ISE 8.2i provides an implementation environment optimized to leverage the superior routing architecture of the Virtex-5 family including its enhanced diagonal routing which supports block- to-block connectivity with minimal hops.
MagnaChip Debuts Optimized Passive Matrix Organic LED for Mobile Displays
MagnaChip Semiconductor Ltd., a leading global designer, developer and manufacturer of image sensor solutions, mixed-signal and digital multimedia semiconductors, today, announced the launch of its optimized Passive Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode (PMOLED), the D53C4EP7003 (EP7003) product designed for use in the sub-displays of mobile phones and displays of MP3 players.
TI Develops World’s Lowest Cost Floating-Point DSP
Expanding on the industry’s largest portfolio of digital signal processors (DSPs), Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) today announced the industry’s lowest cost floating-point DSP, the TMS320C6720 DSP, designed for cost-sensitive applications, such as musical instruments, medical, biometrics, radio broadcasting, audio conferencing, instrumentation and industrial applications. TI floating-point DSPs, including the C6720 DSP priced at $5.75 (10KU), are based on the TMS320C67x(TM) DSP generation.
VaST Unveils Models for ARM PrimeCellR Controller, AMBAT AXI Bus
VaST Systems Technology Corporation-the technology leader in embedded design-today announced the availability of VaST models of the ARM PrimeCellR PL080 DMA Controller, PL011UART, PL190 Vector Interrupt Controller, PL131 Smart Card Interface, and the AMBAT AXI bus.
Pulsic Ranks Third in Sunday Times Microsoft Tech Track 100
Pulsic Limited, the leading software company in delivering shape-based physical design solutions, has been ranked the third fastest-growing technology company in The Sunday Times Microsoft Tech Track 100 league table. The highly coveted survey ranked Britain’s eligible technology companies by their annual growth rate in sales between 2003 and 2005; during this period, Pulsic’s sales rocketed 272% a year.
TeamF1 SecureAire Supplicant Enables Secure Embedded WLAN Clients
TeamF1, Inc., the leader in embedded security, continues a long tradition of bringing enterprise-level security to embedded devices with today’s release of its latest offering: SecureAire Supplicant, a complete, secure 802.11 supplicant software solution for wireless LAN (WLAN) client devices. It is one of the industry’s first middleware products specifically designed from the ground-up to seamlessly offer secure WLAN access to traditionally wired devices such as medical equipment, printers, projectors, phone handsets and other networked embedded devices.
Kozio’s kDiagnostics Ships with Sidewinder XScale IXP465 Access Gateway
Kozio, Inc., the leading provider of advanced embedded functional-test and diagnostics ideally suited for board bring-up, manufacturing test and power-on self test, today announced that evaluation versions of the company’s kDiagnostics software product now ship with ADI Engineering’s new Sidewinder XScale(R) IXP465 Access Gateway Reference Design.
Open Core Protocol International Partnership (OCP-IP) Gains New Members
Open Core Protocol International Partnership (OCP-IP) today announced six new members: Bluespec, Digital Dynamics Corporation (Digimics), DMP (Digital Media Professionals) Inc., Georgia Institute of Technology, Sci-worx, and TrustIC. The breadth of technologies represented by the new members illustrates the combined industry-wide acceptance and adoption of the OCP standard.
Orange Tree Debuts High Performance Xilinx Spartan-3 FPGA Board with USB
Orange Tree Technologies announces ZestSC2, a high performance FPGA board that can be used stand-alone or connected by USB to a host computer. The board is aimed at data acquisition, and stand-alone embedded processing and control applications such as image processing, radar, industrial, and test.
ST Unveils ARM7 Microcontrollers with Full-spec Operation at 3.3V, 5V
STMicroelectronics (NYSE:STM) has extended its popular STR7 range of 32-bit microcontrollers based on the ARM7TDMI-S(TM) core with the introduction of the super-integrated STR750F family. The first general-purpose ARM7 Flash microcontrollers to support full-spec operation at both 3.3V and 5V, the new family delivers 54 MIPS (at 60MHz) performance while providing outstanding low power modes down to 12 micro A in STOP or 10 micro A in STANDBY modes, making it ideal for battery-operated applications. The ability to operate from either 3.3V or 5V gives maximum flexibility in electrically noisy environments without additional costs.
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