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Programmable Logic and Systems has launched a version 3.3 of its universal debug engine. The engine is suitable for the Freescale MPC57xx Qorivva automotive multi-core microcontrollers and the STMicroelectronics SPC57x microcontro... More about Universal Debug Engine 3.3

Berkeley Design Technology has released a free, quick-start kit for engineers to develop computer vision applications using OpenCV, the free, open source library of computer vision algorithm building block software components. The... More about Starter Development Kit

Fujitsu Semiconductor Europe has launched Easy DesignSim, a web-based design simulator for PMICs (power management ICs). The simulator provides online design simulation and supports operating with the company's PMICs, such as conv... More about Web-based design simulation tool are for power management ICs

Claimed to accelerate design productivity of programmable logic and I/O, the Vivado Design Suite has been built from the ground up, says Xilinx. the suite of software tools is designed to accelerate the integration and implementat... More about IP and System-Centric Tool Suite

Mentor Graphics has introduced Veloce2 which can accommodate up to two billion gate designs, delivering twice the performance, twice the capacity and four times productivity gain in the same footprint and power consumption as the ... More about Emulation Tool Verifies

A secure, scalable platform for managing semiconductor IP has been developed by semiconductor licensing company, IPextreme. SoC designers can use Xena Cloud or Xena Enterprise to manage IP assets within a company and by IP compani... More about Manage Semiconductor IP

To address the challenges of low power design, Apache Design announced RedHawk-3DX software. It can be used to meet the power, performance and price demands of low-power mobile, high-performance computing, consumer and automotive ... More about Fourth-Generation Software

Curtiss-Wright Controls Defense Solutions has announced the availability of SoftScan/1905, its integrated embedded radar acquisition and scan conversion system that combines the company's SoftScan radar scan conversion software an... More about Embedded radar acquisition and scan conversion system on a single Versa module European card

Microchip has announced the MPLAB XC8, XC16 and XC32 simplified C compilers that provide good execution speed and code size for all 900 PIC microcontrollers and dsPIC digital signal controllers. The compilers are claimed to offer ... More about Simplified C compilers for PIC microcontrollers and dsPIC digital signal controllers

IAR Systems has announced that its C, C++ compiler and debugger tool suite embedded Workbench supports the ARM Cortex-M0+ core and Freescale Semiconductors' Kinetis L series of microcontrollers. The ARM Cortex-M0+ processor is sui... More about Compiler and debugger tool suite embedded workbench supports ARM Cortex-M0+ and Kinetis L series microcontrollers

Wind River expands its Android offerings with automotive-specific software. The accelerator helps IVI (in-vehicle infotainment) device manufacturers shorten development time, says the company as often these manufacturers do not po... More about Android Development Software

Vishay Intertechnology has introduced the PowerCAD Simulation tool, a free online tool for testing and optimising DC/DC circuits built with Vishay Siliconix regulator ICs. Using an intuitive interface, the simulation tool supports... More about Online simulation tool for testing DC/DC circuits in PoL applications

Altium has announced Altium Designer 12, a design tool. With the design tool, the company has provided the structure for a content-delivery platform, offered advanced board layout capabilities, powerful next-generation design data... More about Design tool provides structure for content-delivery platform

ARM has released the community edition of version 5.9 of the development studio 5 toolchain with additional support for graphics analysis on the company's Mali GPUs. The toolchain can be downloaded and can be used to achieve integ... More about Community edition of development studio 5 toolchain for android applications

Support for two popular protocol standards used in cloud computing applications, 12Gb/s SAS and NVM Express, have been introduced by Cadence Design Systems. The company claims that it is the only provider with a complete VIP suite... More about Interface supports The Cloud

Cadence Design Systems has introduced the release of Encounter RTL (register-transfer level) -to- GDSII (graphic database system II) flow for giga-scale designs, including those at a 20nm technology node. The 20nm design, implemen... More about Giga-scale, 20nm design with register-transfer level to graphic database system II flow

The Portland Group has announced availability of the 2012 release of parallelising compilers and development tools for Linux, OS X and Windows. The release includes support for the OpenACC directive-based programming model for Nvi... More about Parallelising compilers and development tools for Lunix and Windows

The first in a series of software drivers has been introduced by Zytronic. Designed to work with its ZXY100 touch controller series, the initial drivers will support Linux OS and, for industrial users, Windows CE. The Linux driver... More about Display Driver Software

Vector has extended its AutoSAR basic software modules and the runtime environment to support AUTOSAR 4.0. The software specialist now covers the latest version of this ECU software standard. The MicroSAR basic software has any fu... More about Software Supports AutoSAR 4.0

Atollic has announced the addition of support tool for NXP's family of ARM Cortex-M0 and Cortex-M3-based microcontrollers in its TrueSTUDIO for ARM C and C++ development environment. The version 3.0 of the company's TrueSTUDIO dev... More about Development and debugging tool for ARM Cortex-M0 and Cortex-M3-based microcontrollers

Expanding the programming model of Cortex-M processor-based devices with standardised RTOS capabilities, ARM has added a standardised API for RTOS kernels and support for SVD (System View Desicription) XML files. Version 3.0 of th... More about Software Expands Interface Standard

MathWorks has announced an HDL coder, which automatically generates HDL code from MATLAB, and an HDL verifier, which includes FPGA hardware-in-the-loop capabilities for testing FPGA and ASIC designs. The coder generates portable, ... More about HDL coder and verifier for testing FPGA and ASIC programming and designs

A free PC software package from Toshiba Electronics speeds up the development, prototyping and testing of embedded motion control applications built around ARM Cortex-M3 motor control microcontrollers. MotorMind software is compat... More about Free Motor Design Software

Analog Devices has released version 1.6 of its ADIsimRF design tool. The tool is the software accompaniment to the company's portfolio of RF-to-digital functional blocks. It supports 29 RF ICs and data converters. The design tool ... More about Design Tool to Support RF ICs