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UDE 3.2.1 makes introduction into the world of XMC4000 easier for developers (2/1/2012)
UDE 3.2.1 makes introduction into the world of XMC4000 easier for developers
PLS delivers optimized debug tools for the new XMC4000 microcontroller family of Infineon
Synchronized with the market launch of the new XMC4000 microcontroller (MCU) family of Infineon Technologies which is based on ARM® Cortex(TM) -M4 processor, PLS Programmierbare Logik & Systeme presents its Universal Debug Engine (UDE) 3.2.1, optimized test and debug tools for the high performance and also energy efficient SoC devices.
Datalight Releases Support for and ClearNAND, Windows Compact 7 and VxWorks 6.9 (1/27/2012)
Datalight Releases Support for and ClearNAND, Windows Compact 7 and VxWorks 6.9
Bothell, WA, – January 26, 2012 – Today Datalight announced the release of FlashFX Tera 2.1, the latest version of its flash memory manager, which includes extensive updates for a range of hardware and software platforms. The product now supports both standard and enhanced ClearNAND, the newest versions of the Windows Compact 7 and VxWorks operating systems, and Freescale’s i.MX51 processor.
Atollic first tool vendor to announce support for the XMC4000 microcontroller family of Infineon using the ARM® Cortex™-M4 processor (1/23/2012)
 Atollic first tool vendor to announce support for the XMC4000 microcontroller family of Infineon using the ARM® Cortex™-M4 processor
Jonkoping, Sweden, 23th January 2012 – Atollic® today announced its award-winning Atollic TrueSTUDIO® for ARM® C/C++ development tool will be available for the new 32-bit XMC4000 family of Infineon Technologies AG that uses the ARM Cortex™-M4 processor from launch.
Logic Technology Strategically Increases Presence in Central Europe (1/13/2012)
Logic Technology Strategically Increases Presence in Central Europe
Panningen / The Netherlands - Munich / Germany, January, 2012 – Logic Technology, a leading provider of solutions in the field of software code quality measurement, boards, development tools and software components, today announced that it has increased its presence in Central Europe by adding Mr. Holger Jansen to its sales team in the role of Account Manager for Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Yamaichi: Moveable Ground Pin in QFP Test & Burn-In (12/20/2011)
Moveable Ground Pin in QFP Test & Burn-In
Munich, December 2011 – Yamaichi Electronics introduces the moveable ground pin for its popular Open Top socket series IC357 for QFP type IC packages with exposed pad in test & burn-in applications.
Atollic achieves full Energy Micro EFM32 familiy support with addition of Giant Gecko and Leopard Gecko targets in Atollic TrueSTUDIO (12/8/2011)
 Atollic achieves full Energy Micro EFM32 family support with addition of Giant Gecko and Leopard Gecko targets in Atollic TrueSTUDIO
Atollic® today announced its award-winning Atollic TrueSTUDIO® for ARM® C/C++ development tool now supports the Giant Gecko and Leopard Gecko series of ARM-based microcontroller devices from Energy Micro.
XJTAG Releases v2.6 Bounday Scan Software (11/30/2011)
XJTAG Releases v2.6 Bounday Scan Software
XJTAG today launches version 2.6 of its industry-leading boundary scan software.
The XJTAG Development System now comes with a new library that can auto-suggest the correct file based on the Bill of Materials (BOM) and netlist information, enabling even faster set-up times.
Atollic bundles SEGGER J-Link JTAG probe with TrueSTUDIO Embedded Development IDE (11/23/2011)
Atollic bundles SEGGER J-Link JTAG probe with TrueSTUDIO Embedded Development IDE
Jönköping, Sweden, 23rd November 2011: Atollic® today announced the launch of a complete embedded development package comprising its award-winning Atollic TrueSTUDIO® C/C++ development tool, and the J-Link JTAG debug probe from SEGGER Microcontroller.
Lattix 7.0 now available! (11/23/2011)
Lattix 7.0 now available! 
This major release includes many new capabilities to discover, optimize and control your system across a broad range of technologies.
Insyde cooperates with ARM over new technologies (11/18/2011)
Insyde cooperates with ARM over new technologies
Insyde Software has announced it will cooperate with ARM to create a new software R&D technician training program to help transfer its x86 UEFI technology, which has strong advantages over OS booting and shut-off, to ARM-based PCs and communication devices.
Datalight Releases File Level Secure Delete on e•MMC 4.4x (11/10/2011)
Datalight Releases File Level Secure Delete on e•MMC 4.4x
Today Datalight released a new version of its Reliance Nitro File System, the first product to offer software support for file level secure delete, utilizing features defined by the e•MMC 4.40 and 4.41 specifications. The secure delete feature in Reliance Nitro purges all the file data, including any hidden copies created by the file system to safe-guard reliability, when a file is copied or altered by the file system to ensure a completely secure erase. Assuming the complimentary hardware support, users can be confident that every instance or fragment of a file will be permanently deleted and therefore unrecoverable.
Datalight Improves User Experience with Low-Latency Reliable File System (11/10/2011)
Datalight Improves User Experience with Low-Latency Reliable File System
Today Datalight announced a new version of its flagship Reliance Nitro file system with improved responsiveness, adaptive controls for performance, and enhanced security for e•MMC and other compatible media.
ARM Development Studio 5 (DS-5) (11/8/2011)
The reference software development tool suite for ARM® powered platforms. ARM DS-5™ is the tool-chain of choice for software developers who want to fully realize the benefits of the ARM Architecture. Comprising features such as the best-in-class ARM Compiler, powerful OS-aware debugger, system-wide performance analyzer, and real-time system simulator, DS-5 is an integrated development environment that assists engineers in delivering optimized and robust software for ARM processors.
Keil announces STM32 F2 and STM32 F4 Evaluation Boards (10/26/2011)
Keil™ introduces the MCBSTM32F200 and MCBSTM32F400 evaluation boards for the STMicroelectronics STM32 F2 and  STM32 F4 series of microcontrollers.
Keil MDK-ARM is now fully supported in the Freescale MQX RTOS (10/26/2011)
The Freescale MQX Software Solutions for Kinetis Cortex-M4 microcontrollers include MQX RTOS, TCP/IP, and USB stacks. The software components are provided in source code and have been used in thousands of embedded devices.
Sage Electronic Engineering Announces Support for the new AMD A-Series Fusion APU (10/7/2011)
Sage Electronic Engineering Announces Support for the new AMD A-Series Fusion APU
Sage has extended the capabilities of the SmartProbe™ JTAG In-circuit Emulator to include support for the AMD A-Series Fusion APU processors and associated chipsets including the SB900 Southbridge.
Hardware-Assisted Debugger Supports Intel® Boot Loader Development Kit (9/21/2011)
Intel Developer Forum (San Francisco, CA) September 14, 2011 – Arium (Tustin, CA) today announces support for the  Intel® Boot Loader Development Kit (Intel® BLDK), a software toolkit for creation of customized and optimized initialization firmware solutions for embedded Intel® processor-based platforms. Arium’s flagship debugger, SourcePoint™, now offers built-in features that allow developers to debug in source code used in Intel BLDK development.
Atollic boosts ARM processor-based development productivity with unveiling of Atollic TrueSTUDIO for ARM (9/15/2011)
Atollic boosts ARM processor-based development productivity with unveiling of Atollic
TrueSTUDIO for ARM
Jonkoping, Sweden, 15th September 2011 – Atollic® AB has announced a major extension of its offering for embedded systems development tools with today’s unveiling of Atollic TrueSTUDIO® for ARM. Engineers that are developing embedded systems on ARM processor-based microcontrollers can now benefit from the feature-set and integration advantages of the Atollic TrueSTUDIO development tool.
Optimized development tools for Infineon's new TC1791, TC1793 and TC1798 AUDIO MAX 32-bit microcontrollers (9/5/2011)
Full support for TriCore version 1.6
PLS Programmierbare Logik & Systeme now also supports the latest TC1791, TC1793 and TC1798 32-bit automotive microcontrollers (MCUs), which operate with clock frequencies of up to 300 MHz, of Infineon's AUDO (AUtomotive unifieD processOr) MAX family with its modular component based Universal Debug Engine (UDE) 3.0.10, its Universal Access Device 2 family and its Universal Emulation Configurator (UEC).
Datalight Announces File Level Secure Delete on e•MMC 4.4x (8/10/2011)
Datalight Announces File Level Secure Delete on e•MMC 4.4x
Santa Clara, CA (Flash Memory Summit), – August 9, 2011 – Today Datalight announced its Reliance Nitro File System will be the first product to offer software support for file level secure delete, utilizing features defined by the e•MMC 4.40 and 4.41 specifications. The secure delete feature in Reliance Nitro purges all the file data, including any hidden copies created by the file system to safe-guard reliability, when a file is copied or altered by the file system to ensure a completely secure erase. Assuming the complimentary hardware support, users can be confident that every instance or fragment of a file will be permanently deleted and therefore unrecoverable.
Datalight Demonstrates Software to Reduce Write Amplification on Flash Memory at Flash Memory Summit (8/10/2011)
Datalight Demonstrates Software to Reduce Write Amplification on Flash Memory at Flash Memory Summit
Santa Clara, CA (Flash Memory Summit), – August 9, 2011 – Today Datalight demonstrated the next release of its Reliance Nitro file system that greatly reduces the write amplification factor in flash-based storage media. Long a problem for users of flash memory and SSDs, write amplification slows performance and causes premature wear of the media. It is one of the primary reasons flash-based storage has such limited lifespan, causing it to burn through its finite number of write/erase cycles much faster than it otherwise would.
Datalight Announces Support for Micron’s ClearNAND™ Products (8/10/2011)
Datalight Announces Support for Micron’s ClearNAND™ Products
Santa Clara, CA (Flash Memory Summit), – July 9, 2011 – Datalight announced today that software support for Micron Technology Inc.’s ClearNAND products is now available through its FlashFX® Tera media manager. ClearNAND products improve the reliability and performance of smaller and more advanced memory devices (25-nanometer and below), making them more attractive to manufacturers of enterprise servers, tablet PCs, portable media players, and dozens of other consumer applications. Error-correction is performed within the ClearNAND package itself, allowing wear-leveling, compaction, Bad Block Management and other flash management functions to be done in software. The new products are also optimized for high-capacity and high-performance applications.
Keil Supports the New Holtek HT32F1251x Family (8/1/2011)
Keil supports the new Holtek HT32F1251X Family
Keil™announces immediate support for the Holtek HT32F125x family in the Keil MDK-ARM.
The HT32F125x family, of the ARM® Cortex™-M3-based devices, are supplied in 48-pin LQFP package type with up to 32 GPIO pins. The family consist of 8KB – 32KB of Flash Program Memory, 2KB – 8KB of SRAM Data Memory together with an 8-channel 12-bit 1Msp high speed A/D converter and multiple General Purpose Timer Modules. The devices include multiple power management modes, a power-on-reset (POR), Programmable Low Voltage Detector (LVD), and brownout detection (BOD). Additional functions include fully integrated real time clock, operational amplifiers and comparators, USART interface, SPI interface, I2C interface.
Keil Extends Support of the Fujitsu FM3 Family of Cortex-M-based Devices (8/1/2011)
Keil extends support of the Fujitsu FM3 Family of Cortex-M based devices.
Keil™announces immediate support for the Fujitsu MB9A1xx in the Keil MDK-ARM.
The Fujitsu MB9A1xx family, based on the ARM® Cortex™-M3 core, extends the FM3 family to a total of 96 devices. The family features advanced peripheral functions from the FR family including high speed 12 bit A/D converters, a rich array of timers, and USB 2.0 Host/Function. The high-speed CPU, flash memory, peripherals, and the ability to operate with a wide range of voltage (2.7 to 5.5V), makes the devices ideally suited for a wide range of applications, including, home appliances, digital consumer products, audio products, and office automation applications.
ARM Releases Fast Models v6.1 (7/26/2011)
ARM Releases Fast Models v6.1
ARM has announced the release of the Fast Models v6.1, which adds support for the Cortex™-A15 and Cortex-R5 cores along with updates to the ARMv7-A Architecture Envelope Model (AEMv7), providing access to high performance Programmer's View (PV) models for the latest ARM IP. Fast Models v6.1 adds enhanced features for Exported Virtual Subsystems (EVS) for improved integration with EDA solutions, 64-bit support for Linux and Windows hosts, and support for Windows 7.
MDK v4.21 available (7/6/2011)
Keil™ announces the immediate release of MDK-ARM v4.21.
Keil MDK-ARM features the industry-standard compiler from ARM®, the Keil µVision®4 IDE/debugger, and analysis tools as well as target debugging with advanced trace capabilities for all Cortex™-M series processor-based devices.
Insyde® Software Brings UEFI BIOS to TI’s OMAP™ Platform Supporting Microsoft’s Next Version of Windows (7/6/2011)
Insyde® Software Brings UEFI BIOS to TI’s OMAP™ Platform Supporting Microsoft’s Next Version of Windows
InsydeH2O™ Support Ensures a Fast Booting, Mature UEFI BIOS for OMAP 4 Platform-based Tablets and Mobile Computing Devices
TAIPEI, TAIWAN, JUNE 29, 2011 - Insyde Software, a leading provider of Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware, today announced the delivery of UEFI BIOS and engineering services to customers designing ultra-thin laptops, tablets, and mobile internet devices based on the ARM-based OMAP™ 4 platform from Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI).
Atollic White Paper: Test Automation (7/4/2011)
Abstract
It is an unfortunate fact that many embedded systems are released to market without sufficient testing. Most embedded developers do not use testing tools of any kind to support this crucial activity. Further compounding the problem is that very few tools for in-target testing of embedded systems software are available on the market. This white paper outlines how modern tools can support embedded developers in the important areas of automated in-target testing which reduces the amount of engineering hours needed while at the same time increasing both completeness of the test coverage and the software quality.
Atollic White Paper: Measure test quality (7/4/2011)
Abstract
There has been increased focus on software quality and better software testing methodology, as many high profile examples of product defects due to software errors have come to light in recent years. Embedded systems of today contain a lot more lines of code compared to only a few years ago. As the number of bugs is at least proportional to the number of lines of code (or most likely even worse), the problem of software errors and improved testing needed to eradicate bugs becomes more important than ever. Measuring whether or not the testing is good enough to assure software quality is a challenge in itself. In most cases, testing is done informally and there is little or no quantitative evidence collected by testers to determine the level of the test coverage. It is of little value to have 100% test success if the tests only cover a small fraction of the code, as the majority of the code then remains completely untested. This white paper outlines how modern tools and methodologies can provide exact information about test quality, even for testing performed when the application is running in the embedded target board.
Datalight Announces Initiative to Support Latest JEDEC eMMC Standard (6/21/2011)
Datalight Announces Initiative to Support Latest JEDEC e•MMC Standard
Bothell, WA, – June 16, 2011 – Today Datalight announced an initiative to provide software support for JESD84-B45, Embedded Multi-media Card (e•MMC), Electrical Standard (4.5 Device), just published by JEDEC, enabling device manufacturers and their customers to make full use of the performance characteristics inherent in flash memory. Although most mobile device manufacturers have replaced hard drives with flash memory for data storage, many are still using a hard drive-style software interface, seriously limiting performance, reliability and security. The new JEDEC e•MMC (4.5) standard defines an interface designed to leverage the broader capabilities of flash memory and by fully embracing this new interface Datalight products will give OEMs access to the latest hardware innovations.
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AltenPTS will organize together with Logic Technology, a 3-day introductory Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3 Workshop. The goal of this workshop is to introduce Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3 to Software Developers/System Engineers. After attending this workshop you will understand the Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3 architecture, you will know how to create and debug an OS Design, how to develop applications for Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3 and how to deploy and test your solution on target hardware. Logic Technology’s ARM based Karo Development Kit is used as target during this workshop.
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Where: Eindhoven
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When : Tuesday, February 07, 2012 |
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 The embedded world Exhibition&Conference is the world's biggest exhibition of its kind and the meeting-place of the international embedded community. Embedded technologies are in action everywhere - whether in the car, data and telecommunication systems, industrial and consumer electronics, military systems or aerospace. 803 Exhibitors showed more than 19,000 qualified visitors the full range of products for embedded technologies in 2011: hardware, software, tools, services and much more.
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Where: NürnbergMesse, Nürnberg, Germany
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When : Tuesday, February 28, 2012 |
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