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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

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

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

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

Dresden-DATE 2012: Tanner EDA previews its HiPer Simulation analogue and mixed signal EDA tool suite in Dresden, Germany at DATE 2012 this week. The tool suite integrates the company's analogue design, layout and physical verifica... More about Mixed-Signal EDA Suite

Blue Pearl Software announced that it is shipping Release 6.0 of its EDA software, Blue Pearl Software Suite, for Windows and Linux OS. It includes enhancements that improve support for SystemVerilog and VHDL, as well as FPGA desi... More about EDA Software Suite

Cadence Design Systems says that the company's virtual platform for the Xilinx Zynq-7000 Extensible Processing Platform (EPP) is available as a production release. Designed to streamline the embedded software development process, ... More about Embedded World: Virtual Platform

Board-level components from STMicroelectronics' Power Management catalogue has been added to Altium's online content delivery ecosystem, AltiumLive. The partnership allows the software company to deliver online content and service... More about Power Management Components

PLS presents its Universal Debug Engine (UDE) 3.2. The engine includes a multi-core program loader that controls loading of the application to multiple cores as well as a control manager for synchronous runtime control. The data r... More about Universal Debug Engine

Rittal's RiCAD-3D software version 3 supports the creation of models to provide a complete 3D picture of the company's products with the visualisation, layout and spacing of single components. The software database includes both 2... More about Software supports creation of 3D picture of products

For designers of power distribution systems, CST has added features to its PCB Studio design suite for post-layout analysis. The first addition is the IR-Drop Solver which allows the quick calculation of the current distribution a... More about PCB Design Suite

Magma Design Automation has introduced the SystemNav, a tool that extends CAD navigation and circuit debug from ICs to stacked die, PCBs and MCMs (multichip modules). The tool integrates multiple, interactive IC and PCB online tra... More about Tool for CAD Navigation

Magma Design Automation has announced the SystemNav tool that extends CAD navigation and circuit debug from ICs to stacked die, PCBs and MCMs (multi-chip modules). It is claimed to be the only commercially available tool that inte... More about Navigation and Debugging Tool

Siemens PLM Software has announced the latest release of NX software, the company's computer-aided design, manufacturing and engineering analysis for CAD, CAM and CAE solution. NX 8 includes enhancements to its CAE offering - incl... More about Computer-aided design software for optimisation and multi-physics analysis

Calypto Design Systems believes it is the first company to deliver ESL (electronic system level) hardware implementation to the mainstream market, following its acquisition of the Catapult C synthesis tool from Mentor Graphics. Th... More about Verify, Optimsation Tools

Building on the Nucleus RTOS (real-time operating system), Mentor Graphics has released the third generation version which provides built-in power management capabilities claimed to seamlessly use hardware features such as DVFS (d... More about RTOS With Power Management

Altium has announced the Satellite Vault server application, which complements Altium Designer 10, the company's unified electronic product development system, by allowing management and sharing of designs. The vaults can be acces... More about Server application vaults maintain electronic product design data

Synopsys has added the Virtualizer toolset which, the company claims, accelerates both the development of virtual prototypes and their deployment to software teams. The prototypes allow engineers to accelerate software development... More about Next-Generation Virtual Prototyping

AWR and LFoundry have announced the availability of a process design kit for LF150, the modular 0.15µm RF CMOS process. The process offers up to six levels of aluminum and thick metal from two to 6µm, an optional MIM capacitor, as... More about RF CMOS Process Design Kit

Advances to Springsofts's Certitude, functional qualification system adds detection automation and checker qualification capabilities to identify potential problems in chip verification environments with fewer resources and drive ... More about Functional Verification

As the capacity and performance of FPGAs increases, more companies are moving to FPGA prototyping for system-level validation. However, progress can be slowed by implementation complexity and debug capabilities, believes Springsof... More about Probe Visualiser for FPGAs

Based on the NetBeans open source platform, MPLAB X IDE from Microchip has cross-platform support for Linux, Windows XP and above and Mac OS X.5 and over. It can debug multiple processors and support multiple compilers with simult... More about Open-Source Integrated Development

The Analog FastSPICE (AFS) platform delivers nanometer SPICE accuracy with five to 10 times higher single core performance and up to 50 times faster characterisation with multi-core parallel mode, claims Berkeley Design Automation... More about Full Circuit Verification