FEATURE ARTICLES

Altium Goes 3D
Board Design Can Be Fun
(November 27, 2007)

Modeling for High Quality GUIs: Cracking the GUI Host-to-Target Challenge by Marty Bakal, Telelogic
and Ariel Bautista, Tilcon Software Ltd.
(November 27, 2007)

Embedded in Birmingham
by Dick Selwood
(November 20, 2007)

New Kid in Class
Nios II Joins the Processor IP Race
(November 13, 2007)

Open Handset Alliance
Gorilla in Sheep’s Clothing?
(November 6, 2007)

NEWSLETTERS

November 27, 2007 :: volume IX, no. 09

November 20, 2007 :: volume IX, no. 08

November 13, 2007 :: volume IX, no. 07

November 6, 2007 :: volume IX, no. 06

December 3, 2007

Lattice Partners With Oregano Systems To Introduce IEEE 1588 Industrial Ethernet IP Core

AMCC and Virtutech Announce Expanded Partnership on Fast Simulation Solutions for Power Architecture-Based Systems

Three Universities Using Ambric Massively Parallel Processor Array Technology in New, Advanced Research Projects

Express Logic Introduces ThreadX® RTOS Support for Tensilica’s New Diamond Standard 106Micro

DAC Student Design Contest Seeks Industry Support

November 30, 2007

Atmel Introduces Its AVR 32-bit Platform for FlexRay In-Vehicle Networking

Robot Contest Winner Gets Surprise Bonus from Evolution Robotics

Mentor Graphics Questa Functional Verification Platform Adopted by Siemens IT Solutions and Services PSE

November 29, 2007

IAR Systems announces new KickStart Kit for AVR UC3 development projects

Axcelis Introduces Optima XE Single Wafer High Energy Ion Implanter

IR’s SupIRBuck™ Family of Integrated DC-DC Regulators Shrinks Silicon Footprint by 70 Percent, Simplifies Embedded Power Designs

November 28, 2007

Freescale Expands 8-Bit Microcontroller Portfolio for Growing Consumer, Industrial and Automotive Markets

Freescale Touch Sensing Technology Obsoletes Mechanical Buttons and Switches

GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms AdvancedTCA IP Packet Processor Blade Delivers Superior Price/Performance<

NI LabWindows™/CVI 8.5 Provides Flexible Multicore Programming for ANSI C Development

November 27, 2007

MIPS Technologies Joins the Multicore Association to Drive Standards for Next-Generation Embedded Designs

GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms Announces World’s First COTS VXS Serial RapidIO Managed Switch

NI Releases New CompactRIO Systems for High-Volume Machines and Devices

OneSpin to Present Verification Keynote, Host Verification Productivity Panel at IP07 Conference in Grenoble

Microchip Technology Adds More Flash Memory to the World’s Smallest Low Cost Digital Signal Controllers

GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms Announces ‘Highest Performance’ VXS Multiprocessor

November 26, 2007

Altium makes it ‘real’ for all designers: industry-first real-time 3D PCB visualization and navigation

New PSoC® Evaluation Kit From Cypress Shows Engineers the Ease of Design and Flexibility of PSoC Devices and PSoC Express™ Software

OKI Selects Verigy V93000 Port Scale RF for Performance, Low Cost-of-Test, Fast Time-to-Volume

November 21, 2007

eASIC and Tensilica Partnership Delivers Free Diamond Processors on Free Mask Charge ASICs

Synplicity Joins Xilinx ESL Design Ecosystem

Displaytech FLCOS Microdisplays Enable Pico Projectors for Integration into Cell Phones, Digital Cameras and Personal Media Players

Xilinx and Brilliant Telecommunications Announce Industry's First Carrier-Class FPGA-Based Network Timing Solution for Next Generation Wired & Wireless Networks

Altera's New Nios II Embedded Evaluation Kit Showcases Unique FPGA Design Capabilities for Embedded Systems

GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms Announces GHz Digital Receiver PMC/XMC Module

November 20, 2007

National Instruments Joins Freescale, IBM and Xilinx in Power.org Collaboration

GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms Announces Telum™ NPA 58x4 4-port Gigabit Ethernet IP Packet Processor AdvancedMC™

New partner for OpenCores.org

CoWare and Tensilica Integrate Diamond Standard 106Micro with CoWare ESL 2.0 Technology

November 19, 2007

picoChip delivers industry’s first single-chip WiMAX Wave 2 and IO-MIMO femtocell reference design

Delta Electronics (Thailand) Wins 2008 CES Innovation Award for World’s Smallest Adapter

Integration Releases New Silicon EZDAATM With Serial Codec

Freescale Delivers Comprehensive, Cost-Effective Analog Pre-Driver for Automotive Motor Control

November 15, 2007

Virtutech Accelerates and Streamlines Development of Applications for Next-Generation of IBM PowerPC® Processor Cores

Mentor Graphics Announces an Optimized FPGA Design Flow Between Precision Synthesis and MathWorks Simulink HDL Coder

Echelon Announces Winners of Green Technology Design Contest

Ambric Now Delivering the Am2045B, a New, Higher Performance, Lower Power Version of its Industry-leading TeraOPS-class MPPA Device

GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms Announces First NEBS-compliant PCI-X Packet Processors

November 14, 2007

Virtutech Accelerates and Streamlines Development of Applications for Next-Generation of IBM PowerPC® Processor Cores

Echelon and Altera Collaborate to Enable More Powerful, Multi-Purpose Controllers for Control Automation Market

ONFi Breaks Speed Barrier for NAND Flash

Freescale Takes S08 Microcontroller Architecture to New Heights of Flexibility and Performance

Microchip Technology Launches QVGA Graphics Solution for Cost-Sensitive Embedded Display Applications

November 13, 2007

Altera and Synopsys Collaborate to Make Nios II Processor Core Available for ASIC Designs

Actel Delivers Industry's First 4x4 mm Package for Programmable Logic Devices

Atmel Introduces High-Performance Secure Microcontroller for Mobile Payment and Mobile TV

ARM Introduces SecurCore SC300 Processor for Smart Card Applications

Toshiba Delivers DFI-Compatible DDR PHY to Speed Custom SoC Memory System Designs

Symmetricom and Sagem Communications Collaborate to Drive End-to-End Monitoring for IPTV Quality of Experience

NI and Collaborators Deliver New IP to Simplify FPGA Development

3DLABS Introduces Linux 2.6.21 Developer Kit for Its DMS-02 Media-Rich Applications Processor

New ZigBee Module to Combine Record-Breaking Range with Ultra-Low Power

Avnet Electronics Marketing Releases New Virtex-5 Development Kit

db4objects Releases 7.0 Version of Leading Open Source Object Database

Tower Semiconductor Releases a New Offering of Advanced Image Sensor Pixel

November 12, 2007

Working With Saab, RTI Integrates Support for Ada with DDS-Compliant Real-Time Messaging Middleware

Ciprico RAIDCore Exceeds 2.2 Gigabytes per Second RAID Performance on Storage Server at SC07

Mellanox InfiniScale™ IV Switch Architecture Provides Massively Scaleable 40Gb/s Server and Storage Connectivity

Renesas’ New H8S/Tiny Series Microcontrollers Enhance Performance and Integration
for Cost-sensitive White Goods and Industrial Control Application

The MathWorks Delivers Key Capabilities for Parallel Applications, Multithreaded Computations, and 64-Bit Platforms

National Instruments and QNX Software Systems Deliver Measurement-Quality Analog I/O to OEM

November 9, 2007

Samsung, NXP and T3G Showcase World’s First TD-SCDMA HSDPA/GSM Multi-Mode Mobile Phone

Temento Launches an Innovative Business Model for Its 'Dialite' Debug Platform

November 8, 2007

SGI Builds World's Largest FPGA Supercomputer, Boosts Nucleotide Query Performance By More Than 900 Times Over 68-Node Cluster

Virginia Tech Team Uses NI LabVIEW and CompactRIO to Win Third Place in DARPA Urban Challenge

GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms Announces High Performance Rugged 3U CompactPCI Solution

November 7, 2007

Technolabs Selects The LatticeECP2M FPGA Family For Its CIPHOP 900 IP Digital Radio System

Microchip Technology Selects Micrium¹s Embedded Software Components to Support New 32-bit PIC32 Microcontroller Family

EMA Bridges Mechanical and Electrical Design for a Complete Product Development System

DRC Shows Impulse C Front-end for the DRC Module and Cray XT5™ Hybrid Computing Platform

Scalable Servers Corporation Announces the flexBLADE™ Technical Workgroup Computing Platform

NI Extends the Power of Multicore to PXI and PXI Express Systems

November 6, 2007

Kilopass and Certicom Partner to Deliver Comprehensive Security for High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection

CoWare Introduces First ESL 2.0 Technology Release for the Design of Processor- and Software-Intensive Electronic Platforms

Sigma Designs Selects MIPS(R) Cores for Next Generation Home Entertainment SoCs

NXP Innovation Brings SDR Technology to Address Mobile Communication Standards

NallatechTM Launches Xilinx® VirtexTM-5 PCI Express® FPGA Computing Platform

VMETRO adds RAID and SBOD storage

NI LabVIEW 8.5 Student Edition Extends Multicore Processing and Hybrid Programming to Academia

IDT Introduces High Performance, Lowest Power Serial RapidIO® Switches for the Embedded Market

GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms and PrismTech Demonstrate Compact COTS Software Defined Radio

Renesas’ New Generation of R8C/Tiny Series MCUs Adds 1.8V Support and Co-processing With Background Operation to Enable Low-cost Innovative Design

November 5, 2007

Synplicity and Lattice Expand Partnership to Include DSP Synthesis

True Circuits’ Analog PLL & DLL Hard Macros Featured at the First Common Platform Technology Forum

Phoenix Technologies Launches Hyperspace, foundation for PC 3.0™ with Embedded simplicity™

Microchip Technology Extends PIC® Microcontroller Line to 32 Bits with New PIC32 Family

AMCC Introduces its New Dual 10GBE PHYs QT2225 and QT2235

Microchip Technology Sets New Industry Standard for Integration and Migration with Compatible MPLAB® Toolchain for New PIC32 MCUs

Eclipse Hibachi Project Unites Ada Suppliers in Common Environment

Microchip Technology Chooses Industry-Leading MIPS32(R) Architecture for Entrance into 32-bit Microcontroller Market

Oracle Announces Oracle OpenWorld(R) San Francisco 2007 Keynote Lineup

November 1, 2007

GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms Announces High Port Density Fiber Gigabit Ethernet AdvancedMCs