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Automating the analogue and RF design process is currently an area where a number of start-up companies are claiming to have made real strides, filling gaps in established flows. Wireless and multimedia designs are the product sector of the moment, and small firms are coming up with niche tools that offer to solve specific problems, for example synthesising PLLs, or ...

The inclusion of affordable wireless communications in a range of industrial security, control and monitoring systems has been made possible through the availability of embedded wireless systems modules. Relatively high cost GSM/GPRS data communications technology has successfully made the leap from being just a mobile phone technology to a widely used embedded wireless communications standard. The slow but steady adoption ...

Cable modems and digital phone lines based on ISDN or ADSL technologies may be able to provide faster Internet access and, as a...

There is a general concern in the industry that component availability can mean that certificates of conformance may not be worth the paper they are written on. Speaking at a recent meeting of the Component Obsolescence Group, Charles Battersby, a consultant with Semelab, highlighted the problems posed by product obsolescence, saying that while any system offering an approval or a ...

Display Solutions is moving to larger premises and recruiting staff in response to an expansion of its embedded computer design and manufacturing business. The new facility, which becomes operational at the end of the month, includes a system configuration and test area for a rapid prototyping service. It can currently get prototypes manufactured in Taiwan in three weeks but the ...

<b>Testing arm goes at Inchcape</b><br /> Inchcape, the international distribution group, is determined to sell all its worldwide testing businesses by the end of the year. The plan, unveiled after...

Texas Instruments is targeting its voice-over-Internet-protocol (VoIP) over wireless LAN (WLAN) mobile phone platform at the healthcare, retailing, manufacturing and university campus market. VoIP on WLAN networks will also be aimed at the residential market, said Angela Raucher, IP phone business manager at TI. “Service providers are interested in offering VoIP phones to meet a need,” she said. The platform ...

Mentor Graphics has agreed to provide EDA tools to chip entrepreneurs through the university partnership SETsquared. SETsquared is part of an enterprise partnership between the universities of Bath, Bristol, Southampton and Surrey which recently received £13m from the Government’s higher education innovation fund. The organisation aims to help early stage, high growth potential technology ventures across the south of the ...

There are reported to be hundreds of thousands of designers working with FPGAs and programmable logic – most of them using the free or very low cost tools from the device vendors. But a rapid performance gain in FPGAs is attracting interest, especially from Asic-savvy designers, and this has not escaped the notice of EDA firms, who are supporting the ...

At a quarter the size of a standard PC Card, the flash card is already small. However, if mobile phone makers have their way, how...