ESLX Merges with XtremeEDA
XtremeEDA Corporation, an Ottawa-based professional services company specializing in the verification and design of ASICs and FPGAs, announced it has merged with ESLX, Inc., a US-based company offering design and educational services at the electronic system-level (ESL). Now a wholly-owned subsidiary of XtremeEDA, ESLX has been renamed and will operate as a US-based company, XtremeEDA USA. The combined companies will offer custom solutions across the full spectrum of the electronics design chain for architectural modeling, intellectual property (IP) integration and verification of highly complex chips and systems. With a strong track record of working with both tool providers and developers, XtremeEDA is now uniquely positioned as a leading supplier of comprehensive design solutions to electronics companies worldwide – from concept at the system-level all the way through to silicon.
Orchid Technologies Engineering Designs Medical Amplifer System
Orchid Technologies Engineering & Consulting designed a high-speed sensitive transconductance amplifer for detection of plaque build up in veins and arteries for their medical client. The client needed an amplifer system that could detect the smallest variations in florescent light levels inside the human body. Detecting the florescence of foreign materials inside the human body is subject to a variety of competing technical challenges. Orchid met those challenges by designing a reliable, highly repeatable, and accurate transconductance amplifer.
IMEC, CEA-LETI Launch ePIXfab Silicon Photonics Prototyping Service
IMEC and CEA-LETI launch ePIXfab, the continuation of their successful multi-project wafer silicon photonics prototyping service started in 2006. Co-funded by the European Union through the Seventh Framework Program and coordinated by IMEC, ePIXfab aims at reducing the large barriers for access to and market take-up of silicon photonics technology by focusing on reduced cost, risk and design effort, education, and roadmapping.
e-con System Becomes Gold Level Partner in Windows Embedded Partner Program
e-con Systems Inc., a leading Embedded Design Services company based out of St Louis, USA & Chennai, India announced that it has been escalated by Microsoft as a GOLD LEVEL Partner with Windows Embedded Partner Program (WEPP), a premium level status in strategic worldwide initiative that provides partners with increased business opportunities, market awareness and technology advice.
Orchid Technologies Develops Data Logging Cockpit Communications System
Orchid Technologies Engineering and Consulting, successfully completes a multi-channel data logging cockpit communications system. The Marvell PXA270 ARM-based processor, data logger permits post-flight review and analysis. Supporting up to four microphones, two NTSC video channels, and I/O with daylight readable LED enunciators, and multiplexed audio codecs from Texas Instruments, makes this compact avionics design flight-ready.
Tensilica Partner Program Gains CircuitSutra
Tensilica,® Inc. announced that CircuitSutra has joined its Xtensions[tm] partners network as a provider of SystemC consulting services. CircuitSutra offers comprehensive SystemC services including TLM modeling of complete SOC (System on Chip) and individual IP (intellectual property) blocks at various abstraction levels, and in the creation of virtual platforms for embedded software development and architectural exploration.
Arrow Electronics Announces ARM Processor Options for Altera Devices
The North American Components business of Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE: ARW) announced a new design services and IP access model to integrate ARM industry-standard processors, in the Altera® Stratix® FPGA series and HardCopy® ASIC series devices, through Arrow’s Custom Logic Solutions group. “Arrow is proud to be the first to offer a wide array of ARM processors into the FPGA marketplace,” said David West, vice president of engineering and new business development at Arrow. “Arrow customers can now deploy ARM® processors consistently across FPGA, ASIC and foundry platforms for prototyping and high-volume production uses.”
Orchid Technologies Completes AdvancedTCA Carrier Blade
Orchid Technologies Engineering & Consulting completes the development of a high-speed AdvancedTCA carrier blade design based on a Freescale Power-PC MPC8548 supported by 400MHz DDR2 RAM design.
RF Engines Creates SpectraChip IF Design for LIG Nex1 Spectrum Analyzer
RF Engines Limited (RFEL), the UK-based signal processing on FPGA specialist, have completed the delivery of their latest designs for LIG Nex1′s latest spectrum analyser instrument. RFEL have been working with LIG Nex1 of Korea for a number of years, and have most recently supplied an advanced SpectraChip[TM] IF design that effectively is a digital replacement for the analogue intermediate frequency (IF) filtering section of LIG Nex1′s latest instrument.
ATS Offers Thermal Management Analysis, Design Services, Webinar
Advanced Thermal Solutions, Inc. (ATS), a leading electronics cooling provider, offers comprehensive thermal management analysis and design services tailored to help bring telecommunications, networking, embedded computing and other high performance electronic products to market faster, ensure their reliability and reduce development costs. To help companies realize the potential of expert thermal analysis and design services, ATS will be holding a special webinar, Ensuring Reliability, Speeding Time-to-Market and Reducing Costs with Thermal Management Analysis and Design Services, on Tuesday, August 26, 2008, from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. EDT.
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