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...

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...

IAR now supports -A8/9

IAR’s Embedded Workbench now supports code generation and debugging on the ARM Cortex-A8 and ARM Cortex-A9 processor cores. Read more...

OpenCL training targets GPUs

AMD is collaborating with Acceleware to deliver professional training programs to help developers learn how to create applications that comply with... Read more...

Carbon Design to distribute MIPS core models

Carbon Design Systems and MIPS Technologies are collaborating to create and distribute virtual platform models of MIPS cores. Read more...

Energy harvesting reference design targets wireless sensor node applications

Silicon Labs has launched an energy-efficient wireless sensor node solution powered by a solar energy harvesting source. Read more...

First Arduino-compatible 32bit MCU development platform launched

Microchip Technology and Digilent have co-launched the first 32bit microcontroller-based, open-source development platform that is compatible with... Read more...

Mixed-signal MCUs on 90nm process

Targeting designers of industrial and consumer applications who need solutions with low power consumption and increased integration, Freescale has... Read more...

Digital power kits target complexity

Texas Instruments has announced three new development kits that further expand its TMS320C2000 microcontroller (MCU) digital power portfolio of... Read more...

Development kit for low energy sensor applications

Energy Micro has announced the introduction of a starter kit for its ARM Cortex-M3 based EFM32 Tiny Gecko microcontrollers. The company claims the... 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...

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...

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...