Emulation environment covers more

Hardware/software co-verification company, EVE, is now shipping four new vertical solutions. The addition of PCI-Express 3.0, Multiport Gigabit... Read more...

Powerline communication modem chipset uses MAXQ30 core

Maxim has announced a two-chip solution to powerline communications (PLC) that uses its proprietary 32bit RISC core, the MAXQ30. Read more...

MIPS soft-core is optimised for multicore designs in an FPGA

The MP32 is a MIPS-compatible applications class processor, and said to be the industry’s first FPGA-based soft-processor to be supported by Wind... Read more...

RDM support in ASSP

In the first of what will be an increasing number of ASSPs to be introduced following the merger with NEC, particularly in solid state lighting,... Read more...

Apps processor supports 3D gaming

A new application processor from Samsung uses two of ARM’s Cortex-A9 cores running at 1GHz, to deliver enough processing power to deliver full HD... Read more...

Latest TI DSPs are ‘ultra low power’

Texas Instruments has introduced two additions to its TMS320C55x family which, at 150MHz, offer 25% more performance at 20% lower power. Read more...

New core takes on old competition

Described as a highly energy efficient 1GHz DSP core, CEVA has introduced the CEVA-X1643, stating that it offers a seamless migration path from... Read more...

Free GUI for motor control apps

Toshiba Electronics Europe has announced a free PC software package that speeds and simplifies the development, prototyping and testing of embedded... Read more...

PRQA upgrades QA.C++

Programming Research has released a major upgrade to QA·C++. Version 3.0 is described as a substantial new release and incorporates a sophisticated... Read more...

Component Packs released for PSoC

Cypress Semiconductor has released an extension to Version 2.0 of its PSoC Creator Design Environment for the PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 programmable... Read more...

Open source protocol targets ‘internet of things’

NXP Semiconductors has announced it will make the IEEE 802.15.4 based wireless connectivity network layer software it inherited from the acquisition... Read more...

FTDI to support Android USB API

Following the launch of the the Android Open Accessory initiative, which will enable Android-powered devices to do more through USB, FTDI has... Read more...

SiLabs reveals its first 32bit MCUs

Silicon Labs has introduced the Precision32 microcontroller (MCU) family. Based on the ARM Cortex-M3 processor, the new Precision32 family includes... Read more...

TI releases 'Wolverine'

Codenamed "Wolverine" for its aggressive power-saving technology, TI’s latest ultra-low-power MSP430 microcontroller platform claims to offer at... Read more...

ST launches its first Cortex-M0 family

STMicroelectronics has expanded its STM32 portfolio of more than 300 micros with the STM32 F0 an entirely new family of devices based on the ARM... Read more...

Energy Micro adopts Cortex-M4F

Energy Micro is to extend its EFM32 Gecko range of microcontrollers with the addition of products based on the ARM Cortex-M4F core. Read more...

ARM announces ‘slimline’ Cortex-M0+

Freescale and NXP contribute design expertise and become the first licensees of what ARM claims is the smallest and lowest-power Cortex core to date;... Read more...

Freescale launches SBC initiative

Freescale promises SBC supportFreescale has launched its Embedded Board Solutions initiative to create more single-board computer solutions using... Read more...

AMD expands APU range for fanless systems

AMD has announced immediate availability of two new AMD Embedded G-Series APUs (Accelerated Processing Units). Read more...

Embedded GPU supports OpenCL and six displays

The AMD Radeon E6760 embedded discrete graphics processor is claimed to be the first of its kind. Read more...

Design contest challenges engineers to ‘make it’ creative

Freescale Semiconductor has announced the Make It Challenge design contest, which is set to take place at the Freescale Technology Forum (FTF) June... Read more...

Cortex-A8 eval-board comes with Windows Embedded Compact 7

Arrow Electronics has launched a new hardware and software bundle based on the BeagleBoard-xM that combines Texas Instruments’ ARM Cortex-A8... Read more...

Is multi-threading becoming more important than multicore?

The need for more performance isn’t uncommon in the embedded domain and is driving the trend behind multicore processors. Now, MIPS believes the... Read more...

SMB gateway SoC will use 7 eSi cores

EnSilica has announced that Posedge has licensed its eSi-3250 32-bit processor core for an SMB Gateway solution that performs Wire-Speed Routing at... Read more...

Quad-core packs high-performance into smaller, less expensive form factors

Freescale Semiconductor claims it is making enterprise class features for security networking equipment available to small-medium businesses (SMB)... Read more...

Dual-core processor targets industrial UIs

STMicroelectronics has extended the SPEAr family of embedded processors based on dual ARM Cortex-A9 cores, with the SPEAr1340. Read more...

Latest XLP levelled at control plane processing

NetLogic has announced the XLP316, the latest in its family of XLP-based processors, which features a quad-core, 16 issue, 16 threaded superscalar... Read more...