Peratech to Develop Tactile Robotic Skin for MIT Media Lab
Peratech Limited, the leader in new materials designed for touch technology solutions, has announced that they have been commissioned by the MIT Media Lab to develop a new type of electronic ‘skin’ that enables robotic devices to detect not only that they have been touched but also where and how hard the touch was.
SystemC Configuration, Control & Inspection Standardization Review
The Open SystemC Initiative (OSCI), an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and advancing SystemC[tm] as an industry-standard language for electronic system-level (ESL) design, announced that requirements for the configuration portion of the SystemC Configuration, Control & Inspection (CCI) standardization effort are now available for public review. They are currently available for download under open-source license.
Elektrobit Debuts Scalable AUTOSAR for Renesas R32C Microcontroller
EB (Elektrobit) has integrated the new R32C Microcontroller Abstraction Layer (MCAL) by Renesas Technology into the AUTOSAR 3.1 basic software EB tresos AutoCore. Automobile manufacturers and suppliers will thus benefit, starting in late March 2010, from fully integrated AUTOSAR software for the R32C microcontroller series from Renesas, which corresponds to the specification of the Manufacturer Software Initiative HIS of the German OEMs.
Open-Silicon, Virage Logic Team on Silicon Proven IP for SoC Design
Open-Silicon, Inc., a leading ASIC design and semiconductor manufacturing company, and Virage Logic (Nasdaq: VIRL), the semiconductor industry’s trusted IP partner, announced a partnership agreement to provide customers with comprehensive design solutions including access to Virage Logic’s extensive Physical and advanced Interface intellectual property (IP) portfolio. In particular, as more and more customers develop energy efficient devices, Virage Logic’s low power IP combined with Open-Silicon’s lower power design technology enable the development of significantly lower power silicon.
SEMATECH Announces EUVL Mask Infrastructure Partnership Consortium
SEMATECH has launched a global consortium at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering’s (CNSE) Albany NanoTech Complex to develop critical metrology tools for detecting defects in advanced masks needed for extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUVL) – filling an industry need considered too costly for individual companies to develop independently.
Verific Design Automation Tools Front Vennsa OnPoint
Vennsa Technologies Inc., the leader in automated debugging and error localization software, announced that de facto standard front-end software from Verific Design Automation serves as the front end for OnPoint[TM], its breakthrough tool in automated debugging. Vennsa, a Verific customer since its inception, licenses the SystemVerilog and property specification language (PSL) analyzers and elaborators. Both have been tightly integrated with OnPoint, revolutionary software that automates completely the manual root cause analysis performed by engineers today once a functional failure occurs.
Continua Certified Platform for Development of Healthcare Devices
Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) and S3 Group, a connected healthcare technology solutions company, announced the availability of the first Continua Certified[tm] USB-enabled platform for building agent healthcare devices. The platform consists of TI’s ultra-low power MSP430 microcontroller (MCU) and S3 Group’s Embedded Agent Stack (EAS) – an 11073 PAN device (agent) stack, which has been optimized for resource constrained platforms. The platform for agent devices will enable original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to bring personal health devices to market quicker and easier.
IEEE Approves Accellera and SPIRIT Consortium EDA and IP Standards
The IEEE, Accellera and The SPIRIT Consortium, announced that the IEEE has approved a record number of Accellera and The SPIRIT Consortium Electronic Design Automation (EDA) and Intellectual Property (IP) standards in 2009.
MagicDraw UML Modeler to Integrate with CoFluent Studio
CoFluent Design, a leading Electronic System Level (ESL) company that provides system-level modeling and simulation to accelerate innovation in embedded devices, and No Magic, Inc., the leading global provider of integrated modeling software and services, announced that they have initiated a partnership agreement to integrate the MagicDraw UML (Unified Modeling Language) modeler with the CoFluent Studio embedded system modeling and SystemC-based simulation environment.
embWiSe Ports SDIOWorx Package to Microsoft’s Windows CE 6.0
embWiSe Technologies, the only third party vendor to offer SDIO stacks on different embedded OS platforms, had announced support for its SDIOWorx package on Microsoft’s Windows CE OS. Riding on the decent success of its SDIOWorx package with SDIO-WiFi support on popular embedded OS platform, embWiSe had developed and ported its SDIOWorx package on Microsoft’s Windows CE 6.0 as well. embWiSe is also supporting SDIO-WiFi drivers for leading WLAN chipsets with SDIOWorx for WinCE. embWiSe plan to target multimedia applications like the fast growing PMP/ Video Surveillance Camera, Portable Navigation Devices market as well as industrial control and Medical Devices.
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