FEATURE ARTICLES

Breaking New Ground
ARM Dev Con and Stuff
(September 25, 2007)

Ritual Ring
Behind the Canadian Engineering Obligation
(September 18, 2007)

Simplifying Storage
Freescale Family Targets SMB, SOHO, Consumer
(September 11, 2007)

Expanding IP Horizons
MIPS Acquires Chipidea
(September 4, 2007)

NEWSLETTERS

September 25, 2007 :: volume VIII, no. 13

September 18, 2007 :: volume VIII, no. 12

September 11, 2007 :: volume VIII, no. 11

September 4, 2007 :: volume VIII, no. 10

September 28, 2007

Connect One and Wi2Wi Release New Lowest Cost Secure Socket iWifi Module for M2M Applications

Mistral effects first ARINC 653 RTOS implementation for Indigenous Civilian Aircrafts

Powerful Debug Tool for ARM11 Derivative from Freescale

September 27, 2007

picoChip partners with L&T Infotech for WiMAX and advanced DSP systems

Parallax selects Vinculum embedded USB host controller for datalogger application

MontaVista Provides Real-Time Linux for AMCC Power Architecture 440EPx Processor

September 26, 2007

Synopsys HSPICE Simulator Accelerates ARM's 45-Nanometer Physical IP Development

picoChip multicore-DSP: Forty-Fold Better Cost-Performance than Traditional DSP in BDTI Independent Benchmarks

Synplicity and Xilinx® to Hold Worldwide ASIC Verification Seminar Series

Atmel Announces the Only WiMAX Transceiver with Internal Calibration

New MontaVista® Mobilinux 5.0, the World’s Most Advanced Mobile Operating System, Enables Next Wave of Game-Changing Mobile Devices

September 25, 2007

Synplicity Launches Newest Addition to the HAPS ASIC Prototyping System

NI Introduces USB Data Acquisition Devices With 80 I/O Channels, BNC Connectivity

Agilent Technologies Showcases Powerful Fixed, Mobile WiMAX™ Test Solutions at WiMAX World 2007

September 24, 2007

Xilinx Announces New Low Cost, High Performance DSP Development Platform

Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) Selects MIPS32(R) M4K(R) Core for Next-Generation Video Processing

Denali Software Celebrates One Hundredth Chip With DDR Controller IP Product

ConnectX InfiniBand Adapters and 10Gb Ethernet NICs Designed for PCI Express 2.0 Technology with Denali PureSpec Verification IP

Wind River and Freescale Introduce Multiprocessing Solution for the Freescale MPC8572 Processor

Lattice Semiconductor And Silicon Laboratories Collaborate On SONET/SDH Compliant Solutions

Freescale Leverages Power Architecture™ Technology to Evolve Robotic, Kiosk and Unmanned Vehicle Capabilities

AMCC Announces a New Member of its Power Architecture Processor Family Targeted for Wireless Infrastructure and Enterprise Networking Applications

QuickLogic’s High-Density Configurable Technology Now Available in Military Temperature Rating

AKA Launches High Performance PRISM200 with Huge Processing Power and Massive Bandwidth Capabilities

CoWare Platform-driven ESL Design Methodology Reduces Design Cycles for IBM PowerPC® 440 and IBM CoreConnectTM-based Applications

September 21, 2007

Macrovision and eSOL to market Embedded Software for Consumer Electronic Products

September 20, 2007

Power IC Model Library for Cadence PSpice Expanded in New Release

Cymbet Launches New Environmentally Friendly Thin-Film Batteries for Embedded Systems

Microchip Technology Unveils Industry’s Fastest 1 Mb SPI Serial EEPROM; Completes SPI Line With 128- and 512-Kbit Devices

Fujitsu and Denali Software Collaborate to Develop DFI Compatible DDR PHY Macro

September 19, 2007

RTI Unleashes the Power of Complex Event Processing to Speed Deployment of Low-Latency, High-Throughput Applications

FTDI’s virtual COM port drivers gain Microsoft Windows Vista certification

C-to-FPGA Tools Enabled for the Intel® Front Side Bus Accelerate Xeon® Processor Applications

Atmel Launches New UHF Industrial ASK/FSK Transceiver Evaluation Kit Wireless BlackBird

Xilinx Teams With Industry Leaders to Accelerate Time-to-Market With Virtex-5 LXT FPGA Solutions for PCI Express

Mentor Graphics Introduces Multimedia Solution for Nucleus OS and Inflexion Platform

Freescale Launches Global Flexis™ Microcontroller Seminar Series for Embedded Developers

WIN Enterprises Announces Twin Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor-Powered SBC

Microchip Technology Announces New PIC18F4XK20/2XK20 8-Bit Microcontroller Family

September 18, 2007

Altium Designer now used in Canadian space research

Microsoft Releases .NET Micro Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1, Announces New Partner Deployments

Altera and XtremeData Show Industry's Highest Performance Front Side Bus Module for Intel Xeon Processor-Based Platforms

Atmel and TimeSys Announce Free Linux Board Support Package for AT91SAM9 Microcontrollers

Eclipse Announces New Tools for PHP Developers

Aonix Announces “Trends in Critical Systems” Seminar Series

Ramtron Extends Versa 8051 Family With 2KB F-RAM MCU

Express Logic Announces ThreadX® RTOS and NetX™ TCP/IP Support for Luminary Micro’s New Stellaris® LM3S1000/LM3S8000 Series Microcontrollers

RadiSys Expands Line of 10-Gigabit ATCA with a DSP Blade Leveraging Texas Instruments Digital Signal Processors

Avnet Technology Solutions and LinksPoint to Deliver GPS Solutions for Mobility Partners

GrammaTech Announces CodeSonar Enterprise with Web-Based Defect-Management System

Aonix PERC Supports Freescale’s i.MX31 Multimedia Applications Processor and MontaVista Mobilinux

Hitachi Unveils Virtage on Xeon®-Based Blade Servers; Embedded Firmware Virtualization Available across Datacenter for First Time

LeCroy Introduces New ExpressModule™ Interposer for PCI Express® Analysis

NI Extends LabVIEW Embedded Platform to Support New Analog Devices Blackfin, Freescale ColdFire Processors

September 17, 2007

Actel Addresses Rapidly Expanding Portable Market With Industry's Lowest Power FPGAs

New Tektronix Serial Analyzers Add to Comprehensive PCI Express 2.0 Test Solution

September 17, 2007 continued

Actel Offers Free, Optimized Arm Cortex-M1 Processor For Industry's Lowest Power FPGA Family

Xilinx Enhances Wireless Infrastructure Solutions With New Virtex-5 FPGA IP for CPRI and OBSAI Standards

Aonix Releases Next-Generation Safety-Critical Platform

VIA Launches Vista-Ready EPIA SN, Fastest Ever EPIA Mainboard

Freescale Offers Advanced Software Tools to Simplify 32-bit Embedded Design

PLX Technology Announces PCI Express Gen 2 Switch Family

Renesas Technology and Express Logic Launch Real-time Control and Signal Processing Platform With File System, Networking, and High-speed USB Support

Freescale Unveils 12 High-Performance ColdFire® Microprocessors for Linux® Applications

New Voyence Solution Helps Assure PCI Compliance

Freescale Unleashes 10 ColdFire® Microcontrollers for Low-End 32-Bit Embedded Systems

Renesas Accelerates Its Market Leadership in Embedded Microcontrollers and Microprocessors with Two New Support Programs

Mellanox Delivers First PCI Express® 2.0 20Gb/s InfiniBand and 10 Gigabit Ethernet Adapters

NXP Semiconductors Expands Microcontroller Portfolio with LPC2900 Family for High Performance Applications

National Instruments Introduces PXI Express RF Vector Signal Generator with 20 MHz Onboard Signal Processing

Tensilica Joins Chip Estimate's Prime IP Partner Program

CoWare Collaborates with STMicroelectronics to Create an Advanced ESL Design Automation Environment for ST's Next Generation Custom Processors

September 13, 2007

University of Dayton Boosts OpenFPGA Effort

Luminary Micro Stellaris® Microcontroller Products Now Available at Digi-Key

VirtualLogix to Demonstrate Breakthrough Reliability and QoS for VoIP Applications with Real-Time Virtualization™ at Intel Developer Forum

Industry-wide Collaboration Supports Next-Generation Removable Flash Memory Card and Embedded Memory Solution at JEDEC

New Keithley System Switch Platform Offers High Throughput Signal Switching, LXI Class B, and Optional High-Performance Integrated DMM

Mistral enables India’s first next generation VPX-based Solution

September 12, 2007

MontaVista to Provide Real-Time Linux on Future AMCC Power Architecture Processors

GE Fanuc Embedded Systems Announces Pre-Validated Modular MicroTCA Platforms

September 11, 2007

Avnet Technology Solutions Drives Partner Success with NetApp® Storage Solutions

Chip Estimate Announces Collaboration with IBM and Chartered to Deliver IP Search and Chip Planning to Customers

X-FAB Brings Choice and Cost Efficiencies to 0.35 Micrometer Chip Design for Analog/Mixed-Signal and Smart-Power Applications

International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD) Previews Technical Program Focused on Acute Challenges and Advanced Technologies

GE Fanuc Embedded Systems Announces ADEPT5000 Image Processing Subsystem

SkyWave IsatM2M Service Strengthens Application Responsiveness

FSA Releases Hard Intellectual Property Quality Risk Assessment Tool Version 3.0

September 10, 2007

Atmel's UHF ASK/FSK Receiver ICs for TPMS and RKE Applications Provide Best Trade-off between High Integration, High Performance and Worldwide Frequency Coverage

Mindray Selects Actel Low-Power Flash FPGAs for Demanding Medical Equipment Applications

Lattice Delivers Industry's Lowest Power, Smallest Footprint Programmable Bridge Solution

Avnet and SiliconSystems to Deliver Solid-State Storage Solutions to the Embedded Market

Conexant Delivers Industry’s Lowest Power, Single-Chip 802.11n Product Family

Cypress’s Powerful PSoC® FirstTouch™ Kit Comes in USB Thumbdrive Format; Enables Customers to Design Multiple Sensing Applications for Only US$29.95

Freescale 8-bit, 8-pin Device for Entry-Level Automotive Applications Delivers Small Footprint, High Integration

FS2 and Tektronix Introduce FPGAView™ Software for Tektronix MSO4000 Mixed Signal Oscilloscopes

September 7, 2007

Xilinx and intoPIX Team to Deliver Latest IP Solutions to Broadcast Industry

Xilinx Announces High Definition Real-Time MPEG4 AVC/H.264 Encoder Solution

4i2i Communications Licenses Coding Technologies’ MPEG-4 aacPlus Audio Codec

First Microsoft VC-1 Encoder Tools Now Available From Leading Solution Providers

Xilinx FPGAs and Design Tools Enable Echolab's Latest Multi-Definition Video Switcher

September 6, 2007

Lattice Semiconductor Joins the HyperTransport Consortium

Mistral’s OMAP2430 Starter Kit (OSK) Hits the Market

Lattice to Showcase Industry's First true 90NM Non-Volatile FPGA At The Embedded Systems Conference Boston

Ramtron Extends Capability of Its Nonvolatile State Saver Family With New 4-Bit Products

September 5, 2007

Mentor Graphics Offers PCI Express Controller and AMBA Bridge Intellectual Property Solutions

Impulse C™ is the Latest Software-to-FPGA Tool to Support the Intel® Front Side Bus.

ARM Selects XJTAG for RealView Development Tools Debug and Test

Wind River Achieves Support Center Practices Certification for Second Consecutive Year

XenSource Announces Market’s First Embedded Hypervisor

September 4, 2007

National Instruments Hosts Technical Conferences in 26 U.S. Cities

IDT Introduces Industry’s Lowest Power, Smallest Package PCI Express Switches for PC, Embedded and Consumer Applications

National Instruments Announces NI Vision Development Module 8.5

China's First Digital TV Broadcast Standard Launched on Altera's Stratix II FPGA

Atmel's Unique System IC for Automotive DC Motors Boosts Integration Level

Axon Pioneers Next Generation of Triple-Rate SDI Video Processing Systems With Stratix II GX FPGAs