Ensuring functional correctness on RTL designs continues to pose one of the greatest challenges for today’s FPGA and ASIC design teams. Very few project managers would disagree with this statement. In ...
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High-assurance design industries such as military/aerospace, automotive and medical, know that failure is not an option. Failure all too often means lives lost; best case, it means a lot of money down ...
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Mentor Graphics has developed Embedded Sourcery CodeBench, a next-generation integrated development environment (IDE) based on the open source GNU toolchain. The technology provides embedded developers ...
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The XJTAG Development System is an established test suite with a range of software and hardware products that enable engineers to debug, test and program electronic circuits quickly and easily. The ...
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Mentor Graphics has introduced the Eldo Premier tool, one of the industry’s fastest SPICE simulation solutions. The tool offers full SPICE accuracy and up to 20x higher performance and 10x better capacity ...
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Renewable energy is more important than ever, with governments around the world offering grants and tax incentives to encourage and support its development. Microsemi is targeting this market by offering ...
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Industrial automation is the use of control systems, in concert with other applications of information technology to control industrial machinery and processes, reducing the need for human intervention. ...
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Android is an open source platform built by Google that includes an operating system, middleware and applications for the development of devices employing wireless communications. This article takes ...
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Mentor Graphics has débuted innovative capabilities in the next generation of its FloTHERM 3D computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software for electronics cooling applications. The patent-pending technology ...
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Actel unveiled SmartFusion, a mixed-signal FPGA integrating a complete microcontroller subsystem built around a hard ARM Cortex-M3 processor and programmable analog blocks on a Flash process. This combination ...
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The AS3607 from austriamicrosystems is a highly integrated power management IC (PMIC) featuring a high level of startup sequence programmability, making it suitable for portable navigation devices, portable ...
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austriamicrosystems has introduced a new linear Hall sensor IC featuring 10-bit digital output resolution. Housed in a tiny 1,46 x 1,1 mm chip scale package, the AS5510 includes an I²C 2-wire serial interface ...
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