FEATURE ARTICLES

Flying Embedded Technology
When Business and Pleasure Overlap
(May 29, 2007)

Cranking up the MIPS
Introducing the 74K
(May 22, 2007)

William Shockley
Dick Selwood reviews "Broken Genius"
(May 15, 2007)

LeanPath Weighs In
Choosing Between Open-source and Commercial OS
(May 8, 2007)

It Isn’t Easy Being Green
Weee Review RoHS Basics
(May 1, 2007)

NEWSLETTERS

May 29, 2007 :: volume VII, no. 08

May 22, 2007 :: volume VII, no. 07

May 15, 2007 :: volume VII, no. 06

May 8, 2007 :: volume VII, no. 05

May 1, 2007 :: volume VII, no. 04

May 30, 2007

HARDI Electronics teams with LSI to offer SerDes for ASIC Prototyping

Stephen Bailey to Receive Accellera's 2007 Technical Excellence Award at DAC
Award Recognizes Bailey's Leadership of the Unified Power Format Standard

Jasper Design Automation Highlights ‘Low-Effort, High-Leverage’ Formal Verification at DAC 2007

Dell, Intel and Microsoft Join Forces to Increase Adoption of NAND-Based Flash Memory in PC Platforms

OSGi™ Alliance Publishes New Version of Its Release 4 Core Specification

OneSpin Joins EDA Design and Verification Standards Group Accellera

The MathWorks Highlights Model-Based Design for Electronic Systems and Software at DAC 2007

Trolltech Releases Qt and Qtopia Core 4.3

EVE’s ZeBu Proven High-Speed Verification Solution for IBM PowerPC 405, 440 SoC Designs

AVST Demonstrates CallXpress® Unified Communications Solution at ITPX in Las Vegas

MontaVista Expands in Europe to Serve Growing Number of Companies That Accelerate Product Development with Its Embedded Linux Solutions

May 29, 2007

Lattice's ispLEVER 7.0 FPGA Design Tool Suite Delivers New Levels Of FPGA Performance

Real-Time Innovations Awarded Contract for Navy Hawkeye Weapons System

Lattice Semiconductor Announces Industry's First True 90NM Non-Volatile FPGA Family

Microchip Technology Expands Offering of 8-bit MCUs with Integrated Certified USB 2.0 Peripheral Optimized for Embedded Applications

AMCC’s Cycle Accurate Simulator Enables Earlier Software Verification for nP3705 Packet Processor Designs

Tundra Semiconductor Tsi578 Serial RapidIO Switch Passes RIOLAB™ Level 3 Device Interoperability Test

Magillem Design Services and STMicroelectronics announce Partnership in ESL Solutions

picoChip first with WiMAX Wave 2 and MIMO basestation reference design

Optimal to Showcase 3D Power, Signal Integrity Analysis Tools for IC Package, SiP, PCB Design During DAC

May 24, 2007

Synplicity Announces Breakthrough ASIC Verification Solution

Synopsys and Synplicity Establish Alliance to Advance High-Performance ASIC Verification

Comsys baseband processor awarded 'Best WIMAX Product' at Wireless Broadband Innovation Awards

Virage Logic to Present at the Cowen & Company 35th Annual SMid-Cap Technology Conference

SkyeTek Expands European Distribution Network to Meet Robust Demand for Intelligent, Low-Cost RFID Readers

Sierra Design to Host a Luncheon Panel Focused on 65/45nm Design Challenges at the 2007 Design Automation Conference

Novatel Wireless to Present at the Cowen and Company 35th Annual SMid-Cap Technology Conference

May 23, 2007

Xilinx Virtex-5 SXT FPGAs Achieve PCI Express v1.1 Compliance

Avery Design Systems Announces Support for PCI Express IO Virtualization and AMBA AXI

Stream Processors Inc. Delivers Industry’s Highest-Performing Digital Signal Processor

Check Point Unveils Industry’s First Fully-Hosted Security Management Service for MSSPs

Freescale Expands Availability of Flash Programming for Consumer and Industrial Microcontrollers

Novas Offers Interactive Verification Enhancement Experience at DAC 2007

May 22, 2007

VMETRO FPGA Design Kit Accelerates DSP Development for Xilinx® Virtex™-5 FPGAs

Brightscale Adopts Target's Retargetable C Compiler For Its Programmable Media Processor

Enhancements to SkyWave D+ Network In-service

AMD Chooses TSMC 65nm Process for GPU Product Line

MIPS Technologies Unveils Industry's First Fully Synthesizable Processors to Surpass 1 GHz; Broadcom Takes Early License

SoftJin Announces Fast Layout and Mask Data Comparison Tool

FS2® Introduces System Navigator™ Tools For MIPS32® 74K™ Core Debug

GE Fanuc Embedded Systems To Demonstrate Range of Sonar Solutions At UDT Europe

Freescale Presents Latest Technology Advancements at Premier Industry Conferences

SiConnect Evaluation Kit Provides Instant Demonstration of High Quality Powerline Communication

Fulcrum Microsystems Unveils ControlPoint 10G Ethernet Switch Management Software Suite

Silicon Navigator Announces New Engines for the RDE Framework,
Extends EDA Component Offerings for CAD Developers

May 21, 2007

New DSP Libraries now available from Kane Computing Ltd

Freescale Unveils Versatile Multi-Core Processor for Telematics, Consumer and Industrial Applications

AMCC Announces the New QT2055 10GBASE-KR PHY, Increasing Today’s Backplane Bandwidth by a Factor of Four

Renesas Technology to Develop New CPU Architecture for Microcontrollers

AMCC Announces Titan: 2 GHz Power Architecture Processor for Embedded Applications

Genesys Testware Adds Graphical User Interface to Embedded Test Tool

Mellanox Delivers Single-Chip 10 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter

Mocana Attains VPNC Certification for Embedded IPsec/IKE

NI Announces Industry’s First PXI Express High-Speed Instruments and 18-Slot PXI Express Chassis

Cirque Corporation Launches GlideSensor Development Kit for Use in Embedded Devices

Novelics Announces MemQuestTM, a Suite of Memory Compilers Built on a Common Platform That Concurrently Excels in Active Power, Leakage Current, Speed, Portability, and Cost

New RS-232 Daughtercard for TI DSPs

Real Intent Announces EnVision TCV™, Timing Closure Verification Software

May 17, 2007

eSOL Co., Ltd. Released the "PrCONNECT/Pro": their new high-speed TCP/IP Protocol Stack

Faraday Partners with eSOL to Support µITRON for its ARM™ CPU

44th Design Automation Conference to Host 4th UML for SoC Design Workshop June 3

May 16, 2007

Mistral announces latest Power Management feature from Curtiss-Wright for their COTS Products

Macrovision’s Solution Creates New Model for Hardware Manufacturers to Profit From Embedded Software

Nallatech Launches the Industry’s only Scalable Family of PCI-104 FPGA Solutions

S2C Partners With Verific Design Automation to Support SoC Design

BroadLight Continues 3rd Generation of PON System Deployment Success With Denali DDR Memory System Solution

May 16, 2007 continued

SILEX TECHNOLOGY Announces Industry’s Most Powerful Wired/Wireless Video Distribution System

Vitesse Introduces World’s Most Highly-integrated Server Baseboard Management Controller

Carbon to Introduce Revolutionary Performance Technology

May 15, 2007

CriticalBlue Announces Multicore Methodology for Single Threaded Software

Avnet Technology Solutions Launches Online Store for Enterprise Mobility Solutions

3DLABS Semiconductor Previews 3D Navigation at Telematics Update Detroit

NI LabWindows™/CVI and Measurement Studio Now Compatible with Windows Vista

VirtualLogix Announces Japan Expansion

DisplayLink Debuts USB and Wireless Network Display Technology for Windows Vista

Global Graphics Launches Next Generation Solution for Embedded Controllers

SafeNet Launches the Fastest, Most Complete Hardware Security Module Solution on the Market

Cebatech Announces GZIP Family of CebaIP Cores™ for Efficient High Speed Compression and Decompression inside Data and Storage Networking ASICs and FPGAs

Xilinx Celebrates One Year at 65nm with Production Qualification of Virtex-5 FPGAs

Atmel Releases New CryptoMemory Development Kit

Jungo Releases USBTester Version 1.01, Enabling Quick and Easy USB Device Validation USBTester 1.01 enables developers to test for USB chapter 9 conformance and verify mass storage functionality

Ericsson's cost-efficient, optimized DC/DC converter helps reduce global energy consumption

May 14, 2007

Codefast, Inc., Teams With Borland to Deliver Next-Generation “Push Button” Continuous Integration and Testing for Developers and Development Managers

NI TestStand 4.0 Accelerates Test System Development With New, Streamlined Sequence Editor

Third-Annual Embedded Software Development Survey Reveals That Traditional Edit-Compile-Debug Cycle is No Longer Adequate

QuickLogic Introduces “Boot From Managed NAND” Solution Eliminating Need for NOR Flash in Mobile Products

SMSC Delivers Industry’s Smallest Hi-Speed USB 2.0 Hub and Most Full-Featured Transceiver Solutions

OneSpin Enhanced 360 Module Verifier Delivers Industry’s First Complete Multi-Configuration IP Verification Solution

ITTIA Previews New Release of ITTIA Database for ESEC 2007 in Japan

Comsys ComMAX™ Mobile WiMAX Processors to Power dmedia Advanced Personal Navigation Devices

CoWare Virtual Platform Product Family Adopted by Fujitsu

Nallatech and Impulse Announce the Availability of the Impulse C Compiler on Nallatech’s H100 Series of FPGA Accelerator Products

May 11, 2007

Accellera Approves High Performance Electronic Design Verification Standard

May 10, 2007

Blaser Swisslube AG Utilizes Process Visualization to Save Money and Protect The Environment

Avnet Experts Set to Explore New Frontiers and Opportunities

Dongbu HiTek Adds ARM926EJ-S Processor to Intellectual Property Portfolio in Support of System-on-Chip Designs

May 9, 2007

Ensequence Co-sponsors Blu-ray Disc Authoring Contest with Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment and Panasonic

VeriSilicon and ARM Extend Partnership to Further Address Advanced Consumer and Networking SoC Designs

Cypress’s PSoC® CapSense Enables Touch Sensing Inside HP Compaq Notebook PCs

GE Fanuc Embedded Systems Announces DDR-200 High Performance Portable Data Recorder

SILEX TECHNOLOGY Introduces SX-2600CV at GovSec

Arasan Chip Systems Releases a SDIO neX Software Stack to Optimize Performance and Reliability

Embedded Technology Forum for Machine Designers Introduces Cutting-Edge Mechatronics Technology

Optimal Boosts Features of IC Package, SiP, PCB Electro-Magnetic Analysis Tool

Lightspeed Logic Introduces Reconfigurable Logic for TSMC 90nm with ARM Standard Cell Libraries

GE Fanuc Embedded Systems Announces Network-centric Data Acquisition and Signal Conditioning Systems

May 8, 2007

Altera Introduces Arria GX Family of Low-Cost, Transceiver-Based FPGAs

Achieve 2X Faster Compile Times and Half the Memory Footprint With Altera Quartus II Software v.7.1

VMETRO to OEM and Distribute AdvancedIO’s 10GbE Products

Emerson Conference Explores Communications Industry Power Challenges

Agilent Technologies Announces Strategic Partnership With Mentor Graphics on Automotive Network Design, Test and Validation Tools

National Instruments to Host 13th NIWeek Virtual Instrumentation Conference

May 7, 2007

Lattice Semiconductor's Online Store Is Open For Business

Microchip Technology Doubles the Flash and RAM of Its LCD PIC18 Microcontrollers, Lowers the Cost

The MathWorks and Analog Devices Introduce Link for Analog Devices VisualDSP++

Symphony Services to Participate in Software 2007 Panel Focusing on the Synergies between Global Product Development and Innovation

TranSwitch and TPACK Cooperate on End-to-End Ethernet over NG-PDH Solution

CebaTech Joins Chip Estimate's Prime IP Partner Program

May 3, 2007

Ciena’s CoreDirector Multiservice Optical Switch Honored in Diamond Technology Reviews from Broadband Gear Report

CSR Launches BlueVOX Flash, The Only Fully Flexible, Reprogrammable Solution for Low Cost Headsets

Avnet Electronics Marketing, IBM and Tundra Offer New Combined Industry Solution

May 2, 2007

BSQUARE Announces Windows CE Support for Devices Built with Embedded Intel® Architecture Chipsets

May 1, 2007

Intel Pentium M / Celeron M Control Board from WIN Enterprises Features Six GbE LAN Ports

BSQUARE SDIO Hx Product Now Supports High-Capacity Memory Cards to 32 GB for Windows Mobile® Devices

Kyocera Wireless Meets Sarbanes-Oxley Requirements and Improves Business Processes Using LogicalApps

44th Design Automation Conference Announces Winners of 2007 DAC/ISSCC Student Design Contest

Alien Technology® And Unisys Unveil Joint FLIER Program For RFID Solutions Configuration and Demonstration

Avnet Technology Solutions Expands Enterprise Mobility Solutions with Vangard Voice Systems

Magellan DG14 RTK™ GPS Board Makes High-Precision Possible without High Cost

Microchip Technology Opens Registration for Worldwide 16-bit Embedded Control Seminar Series