RSoft Design Group Acquired by Synopsys
Synopsys has acquired privately held RSoft Design Group. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. RSoft Design Group is a leader in photonics design automation software. Industries there serve include optical communication, optoelectronics and semiconductor manufacturing. RSoft also offers design tools for passive and active optoelectronics components and subsystems as well as advanced electromagnetic modeling software for optical metrology and lithography. RSoft Design Group is headquartered in Ossining, New York.
Protecode Offers QuickAudit to Catch Illegal Use of Open Source and Third Party Code
Protecode is offering a new service called QuickAudit. The Protecode service audits code for small projects of 5,000 software files or less. Depending on the number of files, Protecode’s streamlined audit can be completed in as little as five days. This speeds up the quality review process because a code audit is often one of the last steps in the quality assurance process reviewed by a company.
Mentor Embedded Linux Platform Supports Yocto Project
Mentor Graphics rolled out the latest release of the Mentor Embedded Linux platform. The latest version of the Mentor Embedded Linux platform supports the Yocto Project, which is an open source collaborative project established by The Linux Foundation. Mentor Graphics is a key contributor to the Yocto Project and OpenEmbedded community.
Digi International, Wind River Team on M2M Solution Builder Kit for the Clouds
Digi International and Wind River teamed together on the M2M Solution Builder kit, which is a new family of cloud-connected wireless machine-to-machine (M2M) solutions. The kit integrates iDigi Device Cloud with Wind River software. The M2M Solution Builder kits will help developers and OEM’s to quickly build connected products and cloud-enabled services. The M2M Solution Builder kit will be available in June 2012.
Synopsys Announces 3D-IC Initiative
Synopsys announced a 3D-IC initiative to accelerate the design of stacked multiple-die silicon systems. The initiative will use 3D-IC integration to meet the requirements of faster and smaller electronic products that consume less power. The Synopsys 3D-IC solution is available now in beta and is expected to be in production next quarter. As part of its 3D-IC initiative, Synopsys is working closely with IC design and manufacturing companies to deliver a comprehensive EDA solution, including enhanced versions of its IC implementation and circuit simulation products.
e-con Systems Introduces Capella Stereo Vision Camera Reference Design
e-con Systems introduced their stereo vision camera reference design (code-named Capella). The new reference design features a DM3730-based Gumstix Overo Water Storm COM, a Gumstix Tobi expansion board and e-con’s camera daughter board (e-CAM_9V024_STEREO). The Capella reference design is the first stereo vision camera reference design based on Texas Instruments’ OMAP/DM37x family of processors and Gumstix Overo computer-on-module (COM) series.
Imec Rolls Out First Process Development Kit for 14nm Logic Chips
Imec released an early version of a process development kit for 14nm logic chips. The 14nm PDK was developed as part of imec’s INSITE program, and together with all the partners involved in this collaborative affiliation program. The process development kit will be made available to imec’s partners, and will include incremental updates. In addition, imec and its partners are developing a 14nm test chip to be released in the 2nd half of 2012 using this PDK.
Embedded Artists, NXP Team on ARM-based Android Open Accessory Development Kit
Embedded Artists and NXP Semiconductors teamed on a new Android Open Accessory Application (AOAA) development kit. The AOAA Kit for Android includes the NXP LPC1769 and the LPC11C24 microcontrollers, which are based on the 32-bit ARM Cortex-M architecture. The board in the kit features a remote CAN node and interfaces for Ethernet, CAN and IEEE 802.15.4. The AOAA Kit for Android makes it easy for designers to develop, evaluate and prototype more complex accessories for Android smartphones and tablets. It is available now for $79.99.
yaSSL Announces Open Source Security Tools
yaSSL is making their IT-level security tools available for the Open Source Community. The company is doing this to ensure that mature, advanced security tools like Kerberos, wpa_supplicant, and OpenSSH are readily available for devices. By bringing widely adopted standards like Kerberos, OpenSSH, and wpa_supplicant to developers, yaSSL provides developers the resources they need to easily integrate their applications with the larger enterprise infrastructure and market.
Mentor Graphics Targets CAE Market by Acquiring Flowmaster Group
The Flowmaster Group has been acquired by Mentor Graphics. Flowmaster is a leader in 1D Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation software for system design. The acquisition consolidates the position of Mentor Graphics as the first EDA company to move into the adjacent Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) mechanical analysis space. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
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