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Embedded Systems News
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Cambridge Consultants gives developers head start in Bluetooth product design with DEVA (Feb. 03, 2010)
Cambridge Consultants has today launched DEVA™, the most comprehensive development platform for the rapid development of highly differentiated Bluetooth™ products and mobile accessories.
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Giesecke & Devrient and ARM Protect Mobile Applications From Data Theft (Feb. 03, 2010)
Through the combination of ARM®TrustZone® technology, which creates a protected area in advanced systems-on-chip, and the highly-secure Mobicore operating system developed by G&D, sensitive applications such as electronic payment and online banking via mobile phone will be efficiently protected from security threats. As a first step the two companies will develop a joint prototype.
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Macraigor Systems Extends On-Chip Debug Support to Intel’s Atom Processor (Feb. 02, 2010)
Macraigor Systems has expanded their proprietary On-Chip Debug Technology (OCDemon) to support the newest x86 processor, the Intel Atom. OCDemon offers an optimized interface to these on-chip resources via a choice of communication channels.
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RF Engines Ltd (RFEL) launches highly configurable, multichannel RF signal generator (Feb. 02, 2010)
RFEL has developed a highly sophisticated, 32 channel RF signal generator that is designed to enable challenging RF environments to be recreated in labs to test RF equipment. RFEL's world class expertise in RF and signal processing has enabled them to create a complete solution on a Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA chip than is run within a PC on a PCI-express card
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Cypress and Keil Team Up to Deliver High-Performance Compiler Options for Cypress's New PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 Architectures (Feb. 01, 2010)
Designers Can Choose Free Compiler Included in Cypress’s PSoC Creator™ IDE As well as Optimized Compiler Support in the Keil µVision®4 IDE
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Lauterbach, Discretix Announce Alliance To Provide Secure Chip Debug Capability (Jan. 25, 2010)
Discretix and Lauterbach today announced a technology alliance that leverages the power of Lauterbach’s TRACE32® PowerTools and the security of Discretix’ Secure JTAG (SJTAG) Debug Module.
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Open Kernel Labs Enhances ARM Solution Center for Android With OK:Android (Jan. 14, 2010)
OK Labs today announced its participation in the ARM Solution Center for Android, a collaborative resource for designers and developers of ARM technology-based products running on Android, the open-source platform from the Open Handset Alliance™.
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MapuSoft Extends Support to Android, Enabling Legacy Code Reuse on the Mobile Platform (Jan. 11, 2010)
MapuSoft Technologies today announced that its products, the OS Changer Porting Kit and the OS Abstractor Development Kit now support Android™.
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Tuxera NTFS for Windows CE Announced (Jan. 11, 2010)
Microsoft Windows CE has not supported the default Windows file system NTFS so far. The solution is here. Tuxera is the first company to develop an NTFS file system for Windows CE. The new product is offered to consumer electronics and car manufacturers who run Windows CE and need to communicate with Windows PCs or external hard disk drives.
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Discretix Announces Embedded Security Solutions for Media Phones (Jan. 08, 2010)
Essential for open source platforms, Discretix’ CryptoCell enables software updates, data storage and debugging to be performed securely, ensuring that the media phone is trusted to deliver advanced services to homes and businesses.
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MIPS Technologies Leverages Yahoo! TV Widgets for MIPS-Based DTV Platforms (Jan. 07, 2010)
MIPS will develop an optimized reference platform running the Yahoo! Widget Engine for digital TV and set-top box applications. Leveraging this reference implementation, MIPS® licensees will be able to quickly develop devices incorporating Yahoo! TV Widgets.
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MIPS Technologies Brings Android "Home" with Demos of World's First Android Set-top Boxes; New Partners and Key Technology Milestones (Jan. 05, 2010)
MIPS today announced a compelling lineup of demonstrations, partnerships and technologies aimed at making Android a viable platform for digital home devices such as set-top boxes, Blu-ray Disc players, DTVs and VoIP solutions.
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MIPS Technologies Collaborates with Adobe to Optimize Flash Player 10.1 for MIPS Architecture (Jan. 05, 2010)
MIPS today announced it is participating in the Open Screen Project, an industry-wide initiative led by Adobe to enable the delivery of rich Internet experiences across mobile phones, televisions, set-top boxes, and other consumer electronics and devices through the Adobe® Flash® Platform.
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MIPS Technologies and Partners Accelerate SoC Design for Android-Based Devices (Jan. 05, 2010)
MIPS Technologies today announced it is working with leading providers of key IP for the connected digital home to help SoC developers get to market quickly with fully-integrated hardware/software solutions. MIPS is working closely with Chips & Media, Discretix, Tensilica, Vivante Corp. and other leading providers of semiconductor IP to help customers meet cost/performance targets with solutions that optimize performance for devices based in particular on the Android™ platform.
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ASMedia and MCCI Partner for Reliable SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Products (Jan. 04, 2010)
ASMedia and MCCI jointly announce their collaboration on SuperSpeed USB 3.0 products. ASMedia is delivering its ASM1051 USB 3.0 device to MCCI for supporting MCCI's USB 3.0 software development efforts, which can be made available to customers as a fully-tested, integrated solution.
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MIPS Technologies and Tensilica Team to Accelerate SOC Design Activity on Android(TM) Platform; Plan Joint Demos at CES (Dec. 17, 2009)
MIPS Technologies and Tensilica today announced they are working together to accelerate SOC (system-on-chip) design activity on the popular Android platform. Together, MIPS and Tensilica will help companies speed the design of new home entertainment and mobile consumer products based on Android.
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Aptina and eASIC Announce High Definition H.264 Reference Design (Dec. 16, 2009)
Aptina and eASIC today announced the immediate availability of a H.264 High Definition (HD) reference design that is capable of supporting up to 720p/30fps rates. The HD H.264 reference design is built using Aptina’s MT9D131 HD image sensor with eASIC’s eDV9200 low cost HD H.264 CODEC.
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Macraigor Systems Provides On-Chip Debug Solutions with Eclipse Ganymede/Galileo Platform and Full GNU Toolset Support for ARM Cortex-A8 Processors (Dec. 16, 2009)
Macraigor Systems has ported their proprietary On-Chip Debug Technology (OCDemon), GNU Tools Suite and Eclipse Ganymede/Galileo platform to the ARM Cortex-A8 processor.
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New Algorithmic Acceleration System Features a Baker's Dozen of the Next Generation Spartan 6 FPGAs (Dec. 15, 2009)
The DINI Group Introduces the DNBFC_S12_PCIe featuring 13 of the largest low-cost Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGAs. This board provides unmatched price/performance ratios for FPGA-based hardware-in-the-loop acceleration. The board is hosted in a standard 4-lane GEN1/GEN2 PCIe slot and can provide data transfer rates to 1Gbyte/sec.
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Wind River Launches Commercial Android Platform (Dec. 07, 2009)
Wind River today announced the immediate availability of its commercial version of open source Android optimized on the OMAP™ 3 platform from Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI). The Wind River Platform for Android is a validated, fully compliant software platform based on the latest versions of the Android software development kit (SDK), available with pre-integrated software from initial partners Adobe, PacketVideo and Red Bend Software; and global support by Wind River.
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K-micro and Anritsu collaborate to develop first test tool and methodology to analyze 10G EPON chips (Dec. 07, 2009)
Successful test of K-micro’s CTXL1 10G EPON SerDes chip using Anritsu's Signal Quality Analyzer, MP1800A, paves the way for 10G EPON systems to be shipped
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Tensilica Announces Enhanced Tools for Dataplane Processor Design and Software Development (Dec. 07, 2009)
Tensilica Inc. today announced its eighth generation tools that further automate customized Xtensa dataplane processor (DPU) design and speed software development. Improvements cover improved compiler technology, better multi-core system simulation and profiling, an upgraded integrated development environment (IDE), and pin-level co-simulation with RTL.
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Ittiam Unveils 60ms Ultra Low-Latency Streaming Systems for High Definition Video (Dec. 03, 2009)
Ittiam Systems announced its suite of ultra low-latency streaming systems that can deliver an end-to-end latency as low as 60 ms for high definition video. Designed to cater to a wide range of real-time communication and fast response interactive video applications, these systems deliver full frame rate, high quality video at very low latencies.
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Viosoft Announces Android Adoption Kit for MIPS-Based™ Digital Multimedia Designs (Dec. 03, 2009)
Viosoft Corporation today announced availability of the Android Adoption Kit for MIPS-Based digital multimedia designs, continuing the push of Android on MIPS® solutions into the digital home and beyond.
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MindTree's Real-Time Video Stitching Algorithm Enhances Field of View (Dec. 02, 2009)
MindTree today unveiled its real-time video stitching algorithm, which is part of its intelligent video surveillance solution. The patent-pending algorithm can stitch videos from up to four co-located cameras placed either horizontally or vertically in real time.
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SH-Mobile Application Engine 4 breaks into GHz realm to open up an entirely new user experience and set the pace for true multimedia convergence (Nov. 30, 2009)
Renesas Technology Corp. today announced that it is sampling the SH-Mobile Application Engine 4 (SH73720), an ARM® Cortex™-A8 *1 based application engine running at maximum 1GHz, targeted for next generation mobile phone and mobile device implementations.
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Virage Logic Announces the Availability of Sonic Focus Adaptive Volume(TM) for Personal Computers, Digital Televisions, Game Consoles and Telephony Products (Nov. 30, 2009)
Virage Logic today announced the availability of its new Sonic Focus Adaptive Volume audio volume normalizing software. Adaptive Volume normalizes audio levels of movies and music to reduce the need for frequent volume adjustments by the consumer and thereby enhances audio performance in consumer electronics.
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Mentor Graphics Delivers Optimized Android Development System for the OMAP35x Processors from Texas Instruments (Nov. 18, 2009)
Mentor Graphics today announced its delivery of the Android Development System for the Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) OMAP35x processors based on ARM® Cortex™-A8 technology.
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MIPS Technologies Announces Availability of Arriba for Android Porting Kit (Nov. 18, 2009)
MIPS Technologies today announced availability of the Arriba for Android Porting Kit (APK) for its industry-standard MIPS® architecture.
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ARM Launches Solution Center to Foster Innovation and Speed Development of Android-Powered Devices (Nov. 17, 2009)
As part of its continued work to foster innovation and openness in connected devices, ARM today announced the Solution Center for Android™, a resource for designers and developers of ARM® technology-based products running on Android, the open source platform from the Open Handset Alliance™.

