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RSoft Design Group Acquired by Synopsys

Ken Cheung — Tue, 08 May 2012 23:27:08 +0000

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.

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Protecode Offers QuickAudit to Catch Illegal Use of Open Source and Third Party Code

Ken Cheung — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:21:02 +0000

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.

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Mentor Embedded Linux Platform Supports Yocto Project

Ken Cheung — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:56:58 +0000

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.

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Digi International, Wind River Team on M2M Solution Builder Kit for the Clouds

Ken Cheung — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 17:43:44 +0000

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.

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Synopsys Announces 3D-IC Initiative

Ken Cheung — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 18:38:29 +0000

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.

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e-con Systems Introduces Capella Stereo Vision Camera Reference Design

Ken Cheung — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:43:46 +0000

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.

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Imec Rolls Out First Process Development Kit for 14nm Logic Chips

Ken Cheung — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:25:55 +0000

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.

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Embedded Artists, NXP Team on ARM-based Android Open Accessory Development Kit

Ken Cheung — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 19:01:00 +0000

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.

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yaSSL Announces Open Source Security Tools

Ken Cheung — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:40:42 +0000

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.

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Mentor Graphics Targets CAE Market by Acquiring Flowmaster Group

Ken Cheung — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:53:12 +0000

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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Texas Instruments DK-LM3S-DRV8312 Motor Control Kit

Ken Cheung — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:19:09 +0000

Texas Instruments introduced their DK-LM3S-DRV8312 motor control kit. It is designed for spinning three-phase brushless motors with a Stellaris Cortex-M3 microcontroller (MCU). The DK-LM3S-DRV8312 development kit is available now. It is an ideal solution for high-volume motor control applications, including low-voltage fans, blowers, pumps, tools and compressors.

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Movea GestureBuilder Now Available to Consumer Electronic OEMs and Systems Integrators

Ken Cheung — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:56:20 +0000

Thanks to Movea’s GestureBuilder software, their gesture recognition and gesture database design capabilities are now available to consumer electronic OEMs and systems integrators. Gesture Builder enables touchless gestures’ for control of smartphones, tablets, TV’s, set-top-boxes, and media center PC’s running on Linux, Android, and Windows 7 (Windows 8 support is also planned). GestureBuilder is available now.

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Synopsys Acquires Magma Design Automation for $507 Million

Ken Cheung — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:22:01 +0000

Synopsys (Nasdaq:SNPS) will acquire Magma Design Automation (Nasdaq:LAVA) for $7.35 a share in cash, which will result in a transaction value of about $507 million net of cash and debt acquired. According to the two companies, their combined technologies, development capabilities, support teams and sales channels will provide chip designers with greater access to state-of-the art electronic design automation (EDA) solutions that will enable more profitable silicon.

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ARM Development Studio 5 CE Targets Android Application Developers

Ken Cheung — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:53:04 +0000

ARM rolled out Development Studio 5 (DS-5) Community Edition (CE). ARM DS-5 CE helps Android application developers create native software that can run up to four times faster than Java code. The reference software development toolkit is available now for download. The new edition is free for use by individuals and organizations with annual revenue of $100,000 or less, and up to 10 employees.

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SPIRIT DSP Unveils TeamSpirit Voice&Video Engine Tablet

Ken Cheung — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:30:31 +0000

SPIRIT DSP introduced TeamSpirit Voice&Video Engine Tablet. TeamSpirit Tablet is a communications client-side voice and video engine that turns any iOS and Android tablet computer into a HD quality, multipoint video conferencing endpoint. The software development kit enables service providers, application developers and device manufacturers to quickly launch voice and video calling services.

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SpaceStudio Virtual Platform Technology Supports ARM-based FPGA Design

Ken Cheung — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:04:16 +0000

Space Codesign® Systems announced the support for ARM-based FPGA design in its SpaceStudio^TM 2.2 virtual platform technology. Pioneering hardware/software codesign technology enables electronic engineers to enjoy a higher level of abstraction and executable representation for embedded systems design in commercial multimedia applications. System architects and design engineers can now efficiently exploit the high performance ARM Cortex-A9 dual MPCore, and easily define which code can be moved from hardware to software using sophisticated hardware/software partitioning based on their needs.

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Extreme DA Acquired by Synopsys

Ken Cheung — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:48:43 +0000

Synopsys has acquired Extreme DA. By acquiring Extreme DA, Synopsys is extending its expertise in static timing analysis and multicore software development by adding technology and engineering talent to accelerate advancements in Synopsys’ timing analysis solutions. Extreme DA develops software to improve integrated circuit (IC) design performance, power consumption and manufacturing yields. It is a privately held company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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USPTO Awards Patent to ClioSoft for Universal Data Management Adaptor

Ken Cheung — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:51:32 +0000

The US Patent & Trademark Office has approved a patent submitted by ClioSoft. The patent (US 7,975,247 B2) is for a method and system for organizing data generated by electronic design automation tools. Their patented technology is featured in their Universal Data Management Adaptor (UDMA).

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IAR Systems Expands by Acquiring Signum Systems

Ken Cheung — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:10:32 +0000

IAR Systems is expanding. The company announced they have acquired Signum Systems Corp. As a result of the acquisition, IAR Systems will have one of the broadest offerings of development tools for the embedded systems industry. Signum Systems is a California-based vendor of hardware and software development tools for embedded systems. Their JTAG emulators, in-circuit emulators and debuggers complement IAR Systems product line.

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AVIX RTOS Supports IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM

Ken Cheung — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:17:22 +0000

AVIX-RT, the company behind the AVIX RTOS, today announced AVIX support for the IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM (IAR EWARM). The ultra-fast AVIX RTOS, which targets all commercially available Cortex-M3 microcontrollers, is a perfect match for IAR EWARM. In addition to enabling AVIX based applications development, AVIX-RT provides a kernel aware plug-in for the IAR EWARM environment. This plug-in seamlessly integrates with IAR EWARM and can be controlled entirely from within this environment. Using IAR EWARM combined with the AVIX plug-in allows for interactive monitoring of the status of all AVIX kernel objects through the plug-in provided Graphical User Interface.

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NXP Semiconductors Sells MRAM Patents to Crocus Technology

Ken Cheung — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:15:14 +0000

Crocus Technology has acquired NXP Semiconductors’ MRAM patent portfolio. The acquisition is the latest step in Crocus Technology’s continuing efforts to build an industry leading patent position. Crocus is a developer of magnetic semiconductor technology for dense, non-volatile, high-speed, scalable chip solutions for general and special purpose applications.

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Calypto Design Systems Acquires Catapult C Synthesis from Mentor Graphics

Ken Cheung — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 14:39:13 +0000

Mentor Graphics is selling it’s Catapult C Synthesis unit to Calypto Design Systems. Mentor Graphics will continue to support current customers of the Mentor Graphics Catapult C Synthesis tool. However, moving forward, any new customer sales and support will be supplied by Calypto. Other details of the transaction were not disclosed.

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Micrium uC/OS-III Source Code Available for Free

Ken Cheung — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:51:15 +0000

Micrium’s uC/OS-III real-time kernel is now officially source available. As a result, developers, researchers, and students can download uC/OS-III’s source code free of charge. Micrium is also making several PDF versions of the uC/OS-III, The Real-Time Kernel book available for free download. Each version is tailored to a different embedded platform.

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New Version: Wind River Platform for Infotainment

Ken Cheung — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 17:18:57 +0000

Wind River announced a new version of their platform for infotainment. The Wind River Platform for Infotainment is a software platform that enables automotive original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and Tier 1 suppliers to develop in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) devices. Wind River Platform for Infotainment is one of the first GENIVI-compliant automotive solutions. The GENIVI Alliance is a nonprofit organization focused on increasing the adoption of an in-vehicle infotainment reference platform.

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Cadence Design Systems Acquires Azuro, Gains Ccopt Clock Technology

Ken Cheung — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:46:27 +0000

Cadence Design Systems have acquired Azuro, Inc. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. All key management, technical and key field applications personnel will transition to Cadence. Azuro markets software tools used to build the clock networks on digital semiconductor chips. Their technology makes chips faster, reduces chip power and dramatically accelerates chip time to market.

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ARM Gains RAVEN Verification Software, Acquires Obsidian Software

Ken Cheung — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:07:35 +0000

ARM acquired Obsidian Software last week. Obsidian Software offers processor verification tools, verification consulting and training services to processor designers. The acquisition will help ARM match their verification strategies with the rate of change in high performance, complex SoC IP components. The Obsidian Software validation team will become part of an ARM Processor validation team based in Austin, Texas.

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Content Addressable Memory Enables Electronics to Start Instantly

Ken Cheung — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 18:33:51 +0000

NEC and Tohoku University have developed the first content addressable memory (CAM) that both maintains the same high operation speed and non-volatile operation as existing circuits when processing and storing data on a circuit while power is off. The content addressable memory is a part of spintronics logic integrated circuit technologies that utilize the negative properties of electrons together with the spin magnetic moment. NEC’s new CAM utilizes the vertical magnetization of vertical domain wall elements in reaction to magnetic substances in order to enable data that is processing within the CAM to be stored on a circuit without using power.

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Element14 Knode Design Platform for Electronic Design Engineers

Ken Cheung — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 18:21:35 +0000

Premier Farnell introduced element14 knode, which is an online design platform for electronic design engineers. element14 knode features resources for research, design, development and prototype manufacturing. The online platform automates the creation of explicit dependencies and inter-relationships with other system level components to quickly build a custom design flow. knode, which is short for KNOwledge for Design Engineers, offers a single environment for the entire design flow.

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SMSC Acquires BridgeCo, Wireless Audio Solutions

Ken Cheung — Fri, 20 May 2011 14:22:07 +0000

SMSC acquired BridgeCo for $40 million in cash. Additional cash payments of up to $27.5 million may occur upon achievement of certain performance goals. The acquisition further positions SMSC as a provider of wireless audio solutions for the home or car. BridgeCo offers the industry’s only system-on-a-chip (SoC) and Software Design Kit (SDK) for networked audio. Their JukeBlox software platform enables music streaming to virtually all home audio equipment including home theater systems, A/V receivers, radios, wireless speakers and portable music player docking stations.

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Energy Micro EFM32 Tiny Gecko Starter Kit

Ken Cheung — Wed, 18 May 2011 05:54:27 +0000

Energy Micro introduced the EFM32 Tiny Gecko Starter Kit for their ARM Cortex-M3 based EFM32 Tiny Gecko microcontrollers. The EFM32TG-STK3300 kit enables engineers to create ultra low power system designs. The EFM32 Tiny Gecko Starter Kit features a 8×20 segment LCD (supported by Tiny’s sub µA LCD controller), Energy Micro’s Advanced Energy Monitoring system (AEM), and sensors for light, touch and motion. The Energy Micro EFM32TG-STK3300 kit is priced at at $69.

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