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IAR Systems announces major upgrade to visualSTATE
visualSTATE 6.1, UML-based state machine design tool, incorporates several major enhancements, including: generation of fully human-readable code; build integration with IAR Embedded Workbench; verification improvements; and logging to test sequence files.
Feb 26, 2008 - 4:45:00 PM
ThreadX Supports Renesas SH-2A Microcontrollers
Express Logic's ThreadX® multitasking real-time operating system (RTOS), FileX® file system NetX™ networking stack and USBX™ USB stack now supports Renesas SH-2A 32-bit microcontrollers.
Sep 17, 2007 - 3:33:00 PM
General Software Offers BIOS for AMD Opteron
General Software, Inc. is the first BIOS provider to offer firmware for AMD’s new Opteron™ Quad-Core processor. General Software’s Embedded BIOS® with StrongFrame™ Technology firmware is also the first to leverage AMD’s new AGESA 3 software.
Sep 12, 2007 - 3:54:00 PM
Ellen Hancock Resigns as President of Jazz Semiconductor
Ellen Hancock has resigned as President of Jazz Semiconductor, which was acquired by blank-check firm Aquicor last September.
Hancock's duties will be assumed by Aquicor partner Gil Amelio, chairman and CEO of Jazz Semiconductor.
Hancock has stated that she has resigned in order to spend more time with her other business obligations, which include serving on the boards of Colgate-Palmolive, Electronic Data Systems and Aetna.
Jun 18, 2007 - 12:51:00 PM
In Circuit Debugging Supported with Microchip PICkit 2 Debug Express
Microchip's PICkit 2 Debug Express features a PIC16F917 microcontroller, tutorials, and Microchip's free MPLAB IDE integrated development environment for $49.99. In-circuit debugging features include halt, single step and setting a breakpoint.
Aug 21, 2006 - 1:10:00 PM
New Microchip PIC16F946 Microcontroller drives 168 LCD segments.
With integrated an LCD module capable of driving 168 LCD segments, the PIC16F946 ihas 14 Kbytes Flash program memory, 336 Bytes RAM, and 256 Bytes data EEPROM. It includes an 8 MHz internal oscillator, 2 analog comparators, and 10-bit 8-channel A/D converter It also supports SPI, I2C, and AUSART communication protocols, and offers Brownout Reset, watchdog timer, and programmable low voltage detect, in a 64-pin TQFP package
Nov 8, 2005 - 2:05:00 PM
Microchip First Company to Ship One Billion Flash Microcontrollers
Microchip Technology Inc., today announced the shipment of its One Billionth FLASH microcontroller. Microchip shipped its One Billionth microcontroller (including Flash, RAM, OTP) back in the fall of 1999.
Jun 26, 2005 - 3:07:00 PM
Hitex DProbeHS ICE Now Supports the Atmel AT89C51CC01 8051-based Microcontroller
Hitex's modular DProbeHS in-circuit emulator system now supports the new Atmel AT89C51CC03 8051-based microcontroller. Both the PLCC52 and VQFP64 package types are supported. This new derivative offers additional GPIOs, advanced power management and a SPI interface. Like the existing AT89C51CC01, the ‘CC03 is an extended 80C51 microcontroller with 64 kByte Flash, and supports 2.0A and 2.0B CAN networks. The DProbeHS emulation system is a high-speed tool that supports emulation up to 70 MHz.
Apr 20, 2005 - 12:19:00 PM
Unicoi Systems Announces VoIP Reference Designs for Freescale DSP and PPC
Unicoi Systems Announces Availability of VoIP Reference Designs for the Freescale (Motorola) 56800E DSP, and the MPC870/5 PowerPC.
Apr 13, 2005 - 12:27:00 PM
Hitex Supports the New Infineon XC164 Microcontroller
Hitex announces that their TantinoXC and DProbeXC high end in-circuit emulators now support the Infineon 16-bit XC164 microcontroller. The XC164 has two CAN V2.0B modules, a USB port, and a 10-bit 14-input A/D-converter.
Mar 31, 2005 - 12:39:00 PM
Accelerated Technology Offers Complete Nucleus Development Environment
Accelerated
Technology®, the Embedded Systems Division of Mentor Graphics Corporation
today announced support for the hard PowerPC core embedded in Xilinx
Virtex-II Pro(tm) field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) with the release of the Nucleus® Real-Time Operating System (RTOS), Microtec® C and C++
compilation tools and the XRAY® Debugger, the Nucleus NET TCP/IP
networking suite, the Nucleus FILE file management system and the Nucleus
WebServ embedded Web server software.
Mar 30, 2004 - 3:35:00 PM
Microchip Technology hits 3 billion in microcontroller sales
Microchip Technology Inc., today announced the shipment of its 3 billionth PICmicro microcontroller. Microchip delivered its 1 billionth microcontroller in fall of 1999, the 2 billionth microcontroller shipped in spring of 2002.
Feb 26, 2004 - 11:28:00 PM
ZiLOG Introduces New RTOS
ZiLOG has introduced the RZK real-time, pre-emptive, multitasking RTOS for its eZ80Acclaim!™ family of microprocessors and microcontrollers. The new RTOS provides cooperative and time-slice scheduling, 12µs context switching, requires less than 18KB of program memory and is fully user-configurable. It is supplied as a C library module with required source and header files.
Jan 28, 2004 - 7:36:00 PM
Unicoi Announces Support for IAR's ARM Toolset
Unicoi Systems, Inc. (formerly DSP OS) today announced immediate availability of Fusion Real Time Operating System (RTOS) Kernel Awareness as a plug-in for IAR Systems' Embedded Workbench for the ARM (EWARM). As a new tool in EWARM, a task window gives the user a view into the OS's performance in the run-time environment.
Oct 28, 2003 - 2:58:00 PM
New TASKING TriCore toolset from Altium uses Code-Efficient Viper compiler technology
Altium Limited has announced the release of a new TASKING embedded software development toolset for the TriCore architecture that has been enhanced with Tasking's Viper compiler technology. Altium benchmarks show faster execution speed and code size decreases of an average of 10% when compared to the previous TASKING TriCore toolset. The new toolset is compatible with all leading third-party TriCore products, such as emulators and RTOSs.
May 14, 2003 - 9:10:00 PM
Cirrus Logic Licenses MIPS Cores
MIPS Technologies, a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures, and Cirrus Logic, a leading semiconductor supplier of solutions for digital entertainment electronics, announced today that Cirrus has licensed MIPS Technologies’ 32-bit processor cores, including the MIPS32™ 4KEc™, 4KEm™, 4KEp™ and M4K™ cores. Cirrus is active in the development of DVD players, receivers and recorders, personal video recorders (PVRs) and audio/video receivers (AVRs).
Mar 31, 2003 - 4:04:00 PM
Cygnal 8051 Development Kit Sales Top 10,000u
Cygnal Integrated Products, Inc., the Austin Texas-based semiconductor company specializing in mixed signal flash 8051 microcontrollers, announced today that they have sold over 10,000 Development Kits since the introduction of its first products in July 2000. Each Cygnal Development Kit enables designers to fully develop and debug Cygnal microcontroller products in the end-application. Development kit prices range from $99 to $459.
Mar 24, 2003 - 11:11:00 AM
IAR Systems VisualSTATE Supports Atmel AVR Microcontrollers
IAR Systems announced today that IAR visualSTATE supports the Atmel AVR family of microcontrollers.
Mar 13, 2003 - 7:19:00 AM
IAR Systems releases v2.6 of their Bluetooth™ interoperability test and debug software, IAR PreQual™.
The new release includes executable test suites for a large number of Bluetooth protocols and profiles, and can be used to perform conformance and interoperability tests of new Bluetooth products.
Feb 14, 2003 - 1:46:00 PM
Raisonance Announces ST-Microelectronics ST5 Toolchain
An ANSI C Compiler, Macro Assembler, Linker, Simulator and CodeCompressor for the ST5 architecture are available from Raisonance. The ST5 architecture has a large register file and a Decision Processor Unit (DPU) has been designed to be C-friendly and to allow easy implementation of control algorithms.
Jan 13, 2003 - 2:00:00 PM
IAR Systems VisualSTATE Supports Infineon 16-bit Microcontrollers
IAR Systems announced today that IAR visualSTATE supports the Infineon 80C166/167 family of microcontrollers.
Dec 20, 2002 - 4:54:00 PM
Motorola To Aquire Embedded Linux Company Embedix
Metrowerks, a Motorola company, today announced it's intention to aquire Embedix, a provider of Linux OS-based development tools for creating PDAs, smart handheld devices, residential gateways and digital TVs.
Dec 19, 2002 - 5:57:00 PM
IAR Introduces Enhanced AVR Toolkit
IAR Systems has improved support for Atmel’s AVR© family of microcontrollers. In addition to the presently supported AVR derivatives, IAR Embedded Workbench for AVR includes support for the new ATmega8535, ATmega32, ATmega162 and ATmega169 derivatives and for the Atmel JTAG ICE. The new system also adds a graphical system design tool, a system design test tool and an automatic design documentation tool.
Dec 6, 2002 - 1:23:00 PM
Microchip Releases MPLAB v6.1 for PIC16 and PIC18
CHANDLER, Ariz., Dec. 4, 2002 — Microchip Technology Inc. today introduced its new, free, MPLAB® Integrated Development Environment (IDE) v6.10 software. The MPLAB IDE is a 32-bit desktop development environment that can decrease design time by offering the flexibility to edit, compile, debug and emulate PIC16 and PIC18 embedded designs without ever leaving the MPLAB environment.
Dec 4, 2002 - 3:01:00 PM
Fujitsu Offers New 16LX Series Microcontrollers
At just 7 x 7mm the microcontrollers are designed for use in user interface control systems. Housed in 48pin LQFP's, the devices operate at 16MHz max (62.5ns instruction cycle). 24K to 64K Flash and 2K RAM is available.
In addition the Compact-ICE MB2147-05 for emulation of the 16-bit microcontrollers will be available early next year.
Nov 25, 2002 - 8:33:00 PM
IAR Systems Releases Embedded Bluetooth Protocol Stack version 1.30A
IAR Systems released v1.30A of its Embedded Bluetooth Protocol Stack today. The new release targets the needs of the automotive industry, and is optimized to fit in small, very cost-sensitive embedded applications. The stack uses as little as 1.8KB of RAM in some configurations, and can thus work in low-end embedded systems with only 2KB of on-chip RAM available, reducing manufacturing cost. The IAR Embedded Bluetooth protocol stack works with all major Bluetooth chip-sets, including National Semiconductor, ALPS, CSR, Ericsson, Taiyo Yuden, Toshiba, Xemics, and Zeevo.
Nov 19, 2002 - 11:01:00 AM
KADAK Announces TCP/IP Stack for Blackfin™ DSP
Kadak Products Ltd. announces the immediate availability of the KwikNet TCP/IP Stack for the Analog Devices Blackfin ADSP-21535 processor and their VDK kernel (RTOS).
Nov 18, 2002 - 2:11:00 PM
DSP OS, Inc. Annouces New Fusion Quickstart Platform for BlackFin
The Fusion QuickStart Platform for the Analog Devices BlackFin DSP is now available from DSP OS, Inc. The Fusion QuickStart Platform incorporates the Fusion RTOS, TCP/IP, FAT 12/16 Flash File System with Toshiba flash memory driver, and driver for the Intel 82559 PCI 10/100 Ethernet controller. (Fusion QuickStart Platforms are currently available targeting the Analog Devices BlackFin family and Motorola 56800, 56800E, and StarCore families.)
Nov 18, 2002 - 2:19:00 AM
Bluetooth Development Kit Available from Xemics and IAR Systems
A complete Bluetooth starter kit is now shipping from XEMICS, with an easily programmable demo headset profile example from IAR Systems. XEMICS’ XE1401 IC features fully integrated Bluetooth IP up to the Host Controller Interface (HCI). IAR is providing the upper protocol layer Bluetooth software. This starter kit enables customers to develop complete Bluetooth applications, supported by both XEMICS and IAR Systems, with shorter time to market. IAR Systems offers complete development support up to and including the Bluetooth test and qualification.
Nov 12, 2002 - 11:19:00 AM
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