Digital Core Design, the Poland-based IP core design house, has developed the DSPI_FIFO, a fully configurable SPI master/slave device, which allows the SoC designer to configure polarity and phase of a serial clock signal SCK. The core enables microcontroller to communicate with serial peripheral devices, but also to communicate with an interprocessor in a multi-master system. It supports all the ...
TSMC has validated Mentor Graphics design tools for its 3D-IC design flow which implements through-silicon via (TSV)-based 3D stacking of semiconductor die. TSMC’s 3D-IC design flow incorporates capabilities for metal routing and bump implementation, multi-chip physical verification and connectivity checking, chip interface and TSV parasitics extraction, thermal simulation, and comprehensive pre- and post-package testing. Mentor’s Olympus-SoC place and route tool implements physical design for both ...
PCB design can now be done on a smartphone or tablet. Zuken has launched a PCB design app that allows designers to access and change layouts using their own tablet or smartphone. The CADSTAR Touch App for iOS or Android can be used to control Zuken’s CADSTAR expert desktop PCB design software, giving simultaneous control of view and program functions. The free app is ...
MathWorks has announced Release 2013b of its MATLAB and Simulink design and analysis tools. R2013b delivers new analysis, design, code generation and implementation and other features in MATLAB and Simulink, two new Polyspace products, as well as updates to 79 other products. There are two new Polyspace analysis tools for proving the absence of run-time errors in software and for identifying software defects via static analysis. For ...
Vector Software, the embedded software test specialist, has extended support for the multicore real-time operating systems from Green Hills Software. VectorCAST’s multiprocessing support applies to the entire family of Green Hills’ operating systems, from the standard INTEGRITY to INTEGRITY-178B and INTEGRITY-178 tuMP. This includes support for all multicore architecture configurations currently supported by Green Hills Software. The multicore operating systems support both ...
Imagination Technologies has extended its partnership with Mentor Graphics supporting the use of the Sourcery CodeBench open-source embedded development tools for MIPS microprocessors. Mentor’s Sourcery CodeBench for MIPS CPUs will provide a complete C/C++ development environment that includes an optimised GNU compiler and debugger. Imagination Technologies says it wants to give the industry a credible alternative in CPUs and has given details about its ...
GB Patent Number: 2467183 Granted to: Innovision Research and Technology I am being repeatedly told that one of the up-and-coming technologies of the future which is going to revolutionalise our lives is NFC. To the uninitiated, NFC stands for “near field communications”, the soon-to-be ubiquitous technology which allows objects to ‘talk’ to each other when they are brought in close ...
National Instruments has announced the latest release of its LabVIEW system design software for engineers and scientists, which now includes native support for new higher performance silicon from ARM and Xilinx, including the Xilinx Zynq All Programmable system on chip. Unveiled at the NI Week technology event in Austin, Texas last week, this latest release of LabVIEW incorporates new design reliability features including a suite of code ...
As FPGA die geometries shrink, larger amounts of the die can be hit by a single radiation particle, making the design more susceptible to the impact of radiation-induced errors that cause bit values to flip unexpectedly. The impact of these bit flips, or soft-errors, can range from reduced quality-of-service and interruption to service, such as a communications infrastructure or financial ...
Consumer demand for intelligent devices and components based on embedded software shows no signs of slowing down, believes Robert Dickau, Principal Engineer at Flexera Software. The challenge for manufacturers is to produce families of these devices in a variety of market-specific configurations, without increasing production costs. In these situations, the use of embedded licensing to distinguish product configurations provides a ...
