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RadiSys Reveals ATCA 4.0 Initiative for AdvancedTCA Products

Posted by Ken Cheung in Networking on Tuesday, October 27, 2009

RadiSys® Corporation (NASDAQ: RSYS), a leading global provider of embedded computing solutions for telecommunications and other industries, announced the RadiSys ATCA 4.0 initiative, the company’s 4th generation of AdvancedTCA (ATCA) products that are designed to support the next generation of high bandwidth applications. A first in the marketplace, this fully integrated platform features the latest technology in the industry, incorporating a 10GBASE-KR and 40GBASE-KR4 capable backplane and 40G switching capability. As Telecom Equipment Manufacturers (TEMs) focus on building next generation network elements, including 4G and Broadband, the RadiSys ATCA 4.0 platform will provide them with the next generation switching, power and cooling that they require.

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Synopsys, Freescale Expand Verification Collaboration

Posted by Ken Cheung in EDA Tools on Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, announced the expansion of its verification collaboration with Freescale. The integration of complex hardware enabled by Moore’s law, IP, and embedded software content in modern devices is causing a rapid increase in verification complexity. Freescale and Synopsys have broadened their ongoing collaboration to manage this growing complexity. In addition to verification performance, efficiency, and methodology, the expanded collaboration will focus on managing the ever-increasing cost of verification, which can encompass up to 75 percent of the total cost of product development.

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Trident Verifies Digital TV SoCs with Mentor Veloce Hardware Emulator

Posted by Ken Cheung in EDA Tools on Monday, October 26, 2009

Mentor Graphics Corp. (NASDAQ: MENT), the leader in advanced system verification solutions, announced that Trident Microsystems, a leader in high-performance semiconductor system solutions for the multimedia and digital television markets, has adopted Mentor’s Veloce® platform for the complete system-level verification of its next-generation digital TV SoC chips. Trident chose the Veloce platform due to its superior compiler and debug technologies, performance, accuracy, and innovative portfolio of iSolve[tm] vertical market solutions for the verification of their multimedia-based designs.

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Concurrent Announces TR 501/36x 3U VPX-REDI Single Board Computer

Posted by Ken Cheung in Boards, Busses on Monday, October 26, 2009

Concurrent Technologies introduces a leading edge high performance 3U VPX-REDI single board computer based on Intel’s latest dual-core processors. The TR 501/36x is designed to comply with the OpenVPX VITA 65 standard, and utilizes the 1.86 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo SL9400 processor and the Intel® GS45 mobile class chipset both from the Intel® embedded roadmap, ensuring long term availability. The board supports up to 8 Gbytes DDR3-1066 soldered SDRAM and a wide variety of I/O interfaces including an XMC site. The rugged conduction cooled variant, TR 501/36x­RC, supports VPX­REDI Type 1 Two Level Maintenance.

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Kontron nanoETXexpress-SP Computer-on-Module Scores High in Benchmarks

Posted by Ken Cheung in Boards, Busses on Friday, October 23, 2009

Kontron announced that the company’s Kontron nanoETXexpress-SP Computer-on-Module was tested in a software defined radio (SDR) solution and delivered breakthrough performance. According to performance testing conducted by PrismTech on its new SDR solution jointly developed with Wind River, Kontron’s Intel Atom-based Computer-on-Module has yielded exceptional results in a variety of performance benchmarks.

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IAR Systems, Micrium Address Growing Complexity of Embedded Designs

Posted by Ken Cheung in EDA Tools on Friday, October 23, 2009

IAR Systems Software, Inc., a leading supplier of embedded software tools, and Micrium, a leader in embedded middleware, announced plans to expand their partnership efforts to jointly address the growing complexity of embedded designs. The technology alliance will allow the companies to increasingly design, develop, and market embedded tool/software solutions, especially for the 32-bit segment.

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ARM RealView Development Suite Supports Nucleus RTOS, Graphics

Posted by Ken Cheung in EDA Tools,RTOS on Friday, October 23, 2009

Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ:MENT) and ARM (LSE:ARM) (NASDAQ:ARMH) announced at ARM TechCon 3, Santa Clara, Calif., a comprehensive software development solution for Nucleus® RTOS and Nucleus Graphics on ARM® processors. This is the result of a close collaboration to develop Nucleus RTOS awareness in the ARM RealView® Development Suite and to include the RealView Compiler in the Nucleus distribution.

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RadiSys, Aricent, 6WIND Team on Long Term Evolution Evolved Packet Core

Posted by Ken Cheung in Networking on Friday, October 23, 2009

RadiSys® Corporation (NASDAQ:RSYS), a leading global provider of advanced embedded solutions, announced that it has partnered with Aricent and 6WIND to deliver application-ready platforms for the Long Term Evolution (LTE) Evolved Packet Core (EPC). Data traffic and mobile video usage are growing at a rapid pace, and Service Providers are demanding quick delivery of next-generation networks to satisfy ever-increasing consumer demand. Telecom Equipment Manufacturers (TEMs), in turn, are seeking solutions that enable shorter internal development cycles to deliver upon the time-to-market pressures they are facing.

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TSMC Integrated Sign-off Flow Features Calibre Physical Verification

Posted by Ken Cheung in Design Flow,EDA Tools,Foundry on Thursday, October 22, 2009

Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) announced that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) selected the Calibre® physical verification platform for its Integrated Sign-Off (ISO) Flow, which integrates tools, setup files, and flow management utilities to provide mutual customers with an automated design solution for implementing their chips in TSMC technologies. The new flow is now available for 65nm designs with planned extensions into other process technology nodes.

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TI Expands, Reduces Prices of Stellaris ARM Cortex-M3 Microcontrollers

Posted by Ken Cheung in Microcontrollers on Thursday, October 22, 2009

Providing developers with greater flexibility to meet embedded design requirements, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) announced the expansion and reduced pricing of its Stellaris ARM Cortex-M3-based microcontroller (MCU) family. Twenty-nine new Stellaris MCUs include unique IP for motion control applications, intelligent analog functionality and expanded advanced connectivity options to provide a broad range of price/performance solutions for industrial applications. The portfolio also offers extended memory range pin-compatibility, along with new compact packages for space and cost savings.

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