FEATURE ARTICLES

MIPS Mulls Microcontrollers
New 32-bit MCU Line
(October 30, 2007)

GMACs GAP
ESL Spans the Software/Hardware Chasm
(October 23, 2007)

Industrial Revolution
Freescale Helps Consolidate Control
(October 16, 2007)

From Servers to Smartphones
Virtualization Invades Embedded
(October 9, 2007)

Happy Birthday
Embedded Tech Journal Turns Two
(October 2, 2007)

NEWSLETTERS

October 30, 2007 :: volume IX, no. 05

October 23, 2007 :: volume IX, no. 04

October 16, 2007 :: volume IX, no. 03

October 9, 2007 :: volume IX, no. 02

October 2, 2007 :: volume IX, no. 01

October 31, 2007

Savant Announces Innovative Forum on Chip Design: The 5th International System-on-Chip (SoC) Conference, Exhibit, and Workshops

Xilinx at SDR Technical Conference 2007

October 30, 2007

MIPS Technologies Enters 32-bit Microcontroller Market

GiDEL Utilizes Altera's Stratix FPGA Families in Latest Development Systems

RADVISION and SPIRIT Join Texas Instruments in Powering Electronic Consumer Equipment with Embedded High-Quality Voice & Video Conferencing

Wind River Announces Symmetric Multiprocessing Support for its Industry Leading VxWorks Real-Time Operating System

VirtualLogix Announces VLX for Communications Infrastructure Supporting Texas Instruments Multicore Digital Signal Processors

EmberZNet PRO 3.1 – first networking software to support new ZigBee PRO Feature Set

October 29, 2007

Express Logic Partners with GlobalEdge Software to Provide Application Software and Middleware to Developers Using ThreadX

CoWare and Carbon Design Systems Team to Accelerate Availability of Virtual Hardware Platforms for Architecture Design and Software Development

Silicon Canvas Attends Events To Promote Laker™, High-Performance Software for Improving Custom IC Electronic Design Productivity

Altera Ships Arria GX Development Kit for Low-Cost FPGA Transceiver-Based Designs

CoWare and Carbon Design Systems Team to Accelerate Availability of Virtual Hardware Platforms for Architecture Design and Software Development

RadiSys Introduces New Media Processing Blade for Convedia CMS-9000 Media Server

TEKmicro and PrismTech to Provide up to 100x Performance Boost for FPGA-Based Signal Processing Applications

Freescale Challenges Designers Worldwide to ''Go Green''

Express Logic Partners with GlobalEdge Software to Provide Application Software and Middleware to Developers Using ThreadX

Patriot Scientific Welcomes Philips to List of Microprocessor Patent Licensees

D2 Technologies’ Embedded VoIP Software Adds Fixed Mobile Convergence Capabilities for Dual-mode Mobile Phones

ETRI Standardizes on Novas Verdi Debug Solution

Tower Semiconductor Launches New Power Management Platform

Sogeti Group Joins Microsoft Windows Embedded Systems Partner Program

October 25, 2007

Virginia Tech Engineering Students Use NI LabVIEW to Develop a Fully Autonomous Humanoid Robot

Impinj Joins Chip Estimate's Prime IP Partner Program

Silicon Canvas Affirms Commitment to Standards Efforts with OpenAccess Database and EDA Interoperability Demonstration

Wave Systems and Safend Team to Offer Complementary Solutions for Safeguarding Data at Rest and Data in Motion

austriamicrosystems and IDS Microchip Announce Joint Development for Reader IC to Empower Portable UHF RFID Readers

October 24, 2007

EMA and DesignAdvance Introduce Free CircuitSpace ROI Calculator

Elektrobit Corporation Selects Catapult C Synthesis to Design Next-Generation Wireless Hardware

Altera Demonstrates Military Solutions at MILCOM 2007

OGIS Becomes MuleSource Partner to Deliver Most Popular Open Source Integration Software Throughout Japan and Asia

Telit to Revolutionize the M2M Market with Gemalto’s Innovative Embedded SIM Concept

Xilinx at MILCOM 2007

October 23, 2007

TTP Controller IP in Altera’s Low-Cost Cyclone FPGA Families for Aerospace Applications

ASSET® Expands Next-Generation Embedded Instrumentation

Dell and Citrix Partner to Simplify Virtualization Technology

Bitstream® Announces QTopia® Font Plug-In for Embedded Linux Devices

BiTMICRO Stirs Up the SSD Industry with 416GB 2.5-inch SATA Flash Disk Drive

October 22, 2007

Altium adds LatticeSC/M FPGA support to Altium Designer

JMR BlueStor™ 3U Rack Leverages LSI MegaRAID® Products to Maximize PCI Express Bandwidth

Technology Demonstration Illustrates Innovative Solution for Defense and Avionics Data Systems

Virage Logic Expands Silicon Aware Intellectual Property (IP) Offering with New 65-Nanometer Memory and Logic Products

Agilent Technologies Showcases Powerful Fixed, Mobile WiMAX™ Test Solutions at 2007 Taipei WiMAX Forum® PlugFest

ELPIDA and UMC Announce Joint Development Program: Copper LOW-K DRAM and PRAM Technologies

Virage Logic Broadens Its Silicon Aware Intellectual Property (IP) Offering with New Release of the STAR™ Memory System

Key ASIC Completes Optimized ARM926EJ-S Processor for Consumer Applications

October 18, 2007

HyperTransport Consortium Announces Generic BIOS and Firmware Support For the HTX Connector

IAR Systems announces IAR PowerPac TCP/IP for ARM

October 17, 2007

RASILIENT Systems Debuts New RASTOR 3500/7500/8500 Enterprise RAID Arrays at SNW 2007

MOST Cooperation Enhances Robustness and Ease-of-use Coupled With Cost Down Strategy

Access to faster power supply simulation for Altium Designer users

SynaptiCAD Acquires Bi-Directional Verilog to VHDL Translation Software; Offers HDL Translation Service

Genesys Testware Adds Automated Batch-Mode Diagnosis and Characterization of Embedded Memories

RIT, Freescale Foster Innovation with New Embedded Systems Lab

October 16, 2007

MOST150 Enables Efficient Transport of Video Streams and IP-Based Packet Data

JMR Electronics Announces General Availability of its New BlueStor PCIe Based Storage Server

Chip Estimate Launches IP ConciergeTM Service

Atmel and AST Announce Collaboration for Systems-on-Chip Based on Atmel's AT91CAP Customizable Microcontroller

ARM Works With Intel to Deliver Increased System Protection for Flash Memory Devices

Eclipse Releases First Ajax Platform Based on OSGi

Intel Extends Power-Saving Chipset to Embedded Systems

eRide Introduces Its Ultra High Sensitivity Opus III eZ™ GPS / A-GPS Chip

October 14, 2007 continued

GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms Announces COM Express Entry

Freescale RF Technology Breaks the 1 kW Barrier with 50V RF Power LDMOS

Avnet Awarded ISO 14001:2004 Environmental Management Certification

October 15, 2007

JMR Electronics Expands BlueStor™ Family of Products with New PeSAN™ Technology

Sidense OTP Memory Used in Silicon Library Inc. HDMI Products

PLX Switch to Provide PCI Express Slots in HP ProLiant Servers

Renesas Expands SuperH® Family, Adding SH7730 Group With a 200/266MHz SH-4A CPU Core for Industrial Applications and a Wide Range of Others

Cypress Introduces 4-Mbit nvSRAM Built on 0.13-Micron SONOS Process

IBRIX and Mellanox Offer the First InfiniBand-Attached Scalable NAS Solution

DDC-I Announces Eclipse-Based Mixed Language Development Suite for Real-Time Embedded Development

NI Introduces Industry’s First PXI Express System Timing Controller

October 11, 2007

Allen Telescope Array Begins Scientific Observations

GE Fanuc Embedded Systems Announces New VMEbus Single Board Computers

Aldec Releases Riviera-PRO Targeting ASIC/FPGA Verification Market

Diodes, Inc. Announces Two Ultra-Low Dropout Regulators for Low Power Portable Applications

Mentor Graphics and Altera announce Catapult C Synthesis Accelerated Libraries for High-Performance DSP Hardware in FPGA

October 10, 2007

Atmel's Latest LIN System Basis Chip Family Members Continue Industry's Best EMC Performance

ARM SecurCore Foundry Program Provides Access to 32-bit Smart Card IP

Altera and TRS-STAR Announce Automotive Industry's First Scalable Infotainment Platform

Gemalto Achieves Major Breakthrough in Security Technology with Java Card Highest Level of Certification

Telelogic Announces First UML and SysML-Based Model Driven Development Environment for Automotive Systems Engineering and Software Development

PDSi and AMD to Develop Advanced Mezzanine Card

October 9, 2007

Open Kernel Labs Demos OKL4 Virtualization Technology Integrated with MontaVistaR LinuxR on OpenMoko Phone at Vision 2007 Embedded Linux Developers Conference

Virtutech Simics Enables montavista To Reinvent Pre-Sales Process With ‘Montavista® Testdrive’ Virtual product evaluation service

Atmel's CryptoMemory Prevents Cloning and Counterfeiting

IAR Systems introduces complete integrated development suite for ColdFire® microcontrollers

ActiveX control enables asymmetric cryptography on FTDI USB ICs

DiVitas Networks Enables Complete Mobility Convergence for New College Durham’s Unified Communications Implementation

Xirrus Announces Industry’s First Distributed Around-the-Clock Spectrum Analysis Solution for Wi-Fi Networks

Micrium Adds Simulator to Award-Winning uC/Probe Real Time Embedded Systems Monitoring Tool

October 8, 2007

Altium opens up unified design to DxDesigner users

CG2 Command and Control in 3D (C3D) Software Technology Demonstrator and Quantum3D Thermite Tactical Visual Computers Provide FBCB2 VMF Compatible Deployed Realtime 3D Visualization of On-the-Move C4ISR Data at AAEF 2007

Actel's Low Power IGLOO(TM) Family Selected by China's Portable Design Engineers

Avnet Technology Solutions Broadens Its IP Telephony Portfolio with Veramark

VirtualLogix™ to Demonstrate Real-Time Virtualization Platform for Linux Environments at MontaVista Vision 2007

MontaVista Software Joins SCOPE Alliance to Help Enable Open, Interoperable Carrier Grade Software

Thomson: New Triple-Play, on-Chip Solution for VDSL2 Broadband Access Gateway

October 5, 2007

OKI Network LSI Achieves Multiple First-Pass Verification Successes Using Synopsys VMM Methodology

Line 6 and Freescale Empower Third-Party Audio Designers with New ToneCore® DSP Developer Kit

October 4, 2007

Microchip Technology Adds 12-Bit ADC to High-Performance USB, LCD and General-Purpose 8-Bit PIC® Microcontroller Families

Security Can’t Wait; Open Kernel Labs Announces Secure Virtualization Product Roadmap

eSOL To Support NEC Electronics’ New NaviEngine® Car Navigation Platform

October 3, 2007

Helion Vision Selects The LatticeXP2 FPGA For Its Next Generation Camera Modules

ARM Unveils Cortex-A9 Processors for Scalable Performance and Low-Power Designs

The MathWorks Introduces New Version of Bioinformatics Toolbox for MATLAB

eSOL Extends Support to ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore Processor

October 2, 2007

ARM Announces RealView Profiler for Embedded Software Analysis

Ramtron Expands High-Density F-RAM Family With 2-Megabit Device

Tensilica to Present at Portable Design Conference 2007

PCI-SIG Adds Three More PLX Chips to PCI Express Integrators List

Oxford Semiconductor Universal PCI / UART Bridge Chips Make Highest Speed Add-in Cards

First Embedded Implementations of MPEG Surround Available from Fraunhofer IIS

WIN Enterprises Announces High Performance 2U Rack-Mount Dual Intel® Xeon® Network Appliance

GE Fanuc Embedded Systems Announces New 3U CompactPCI Single Board Computers

ThingMagic M5e-Compact® RFID Embedded Reader Module Provides RFID Engine for Printers, Handheld Readers and Other Portable RFID Applications

October 1, 2007

Lattice ispLEVER 7.0 Service Pack 1 FPGA Design Tool Suite Now Available

Mentor Graphics Announces TestKompress Xpress Technology to Address Manufacturing Test Requirements for 65 and 45 Nanometer Integrated Circuits

The MathWorks Announces Automatic Generation of Embeddable C Code from MATLAB

Avnet Technology Solutions Adds 10 New Offerings to Think Solutions Initiative

Carbon Design Systems Unveils Carbon Model Studio

AMCC Introduces New Suite of 3ware SAS RAID Controllers

BroadLight Partners With OpenCon Systems to Deliver Field-Proven and Interoperable GPON Systems With OMCI Capabilities