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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

LDRA has extended the tool suite to support direct integration with Altera's embedded design suite for Nios II soft core processors. The company claims that its integration ensures that standards such as DO-178B/C, MISRA and IEC 6... More about Design tool suite to support direct integration for Nios II soft core processors

IAR Systems has announced that its embedded software development tool chain IAR Embedded Workbench supports the XMC4500 series of microcontrollers from Infineon Technologies, including examples for the modular hexagon development ... More about Embedded software development tool chain supports ARM Cortex-M4 based microcontrollers

Kontron has announced that the power-on built-in test software is available on its 3 and 6U VPX (virtual path cross-connect), OpenVPX and Versa processor boards. The software provides modular and scalable test routines to assess t... More about Power-On Built-In Test Software

Powervation has released the PowerSMART, the setup, monitor, and reporting tool for the design of digital power converters. The design tool is said to allow the communication with and configure the company's PV3012 digital power c... More about Design Tool for Control IC

SpringSoft has added the Laker Blitz chip-level layout editor software to its family of Laker custom IC design and layout automation solutions for chip finishing applications. It enables high-speed viewing and editing of chip-leve... More about Chip-level layout editor software for chip finishing applications

Energy Micro has introduced a software tool for accurate prediction of battery cell life based on its low power EFM32 Gecko microcontrollers called the energyAware Battery Estimator. This tool provides a full simulation of total s... More about Software tool accurately predicts the battery cell life

STMicroelectronics has introduced the HardCache-SL3/PC single-chip data encryption engine for protecting confidential and secret information stored on PCs and laptops. The engine is embedded within the chip and performs the encryp... More about Single-chip data encryption engine for PC and laptop security

Xilinx has announced the availability of integrated software environment design suite 13.3 featuring capabilities for implementing bit-accurate single, double and full custom precision floating-point math operations in their desig... More about Design suite implements precision floating-point math operations

Lattice Semiconductor and Valens Semiconductor has announced a HDBaseT camera reference design. Up to two cameras can be supported with the output being a HDBaseT CAT5 cable containing both uncompressed video streams. The referenc... More about Camera reference design provides good image quality with zero latency

To protect A/V content in the growing digital media market, Elliptic Technologies has released the HDCP 2.1 software development kit, claiming it is the first commercially available development kit that complies with the recent st... More about Software Development Kit

Green Hills Software has announced a support package for Fujitsu Semiconductor's Emerald and Jade graphics processors, which are targeted primarily at driver assistance and automotive infotainment applications.  Fujitsu's Emerald ... More about Support package for automotive driver assistance and infotainment applications

Zuken has announced the CR-8000, a PCB design product family that is designed for concept-to-manufacturing, system-level multi-board design. The suite's integrated design flow ranges from initial system planning, where critical de... More about PCB design suite for multi-board system design