Software

In collaboration with SnapEDA, Recom has launched digital models for its entire product catalog to assist engineers with electronic component discovery and design-in. Over 20,000 symbols & footprints, the digital models necessary for circuit board design, are now available for free download via the manufacturer’s website. Recom says this will save engineers weeks of development time as opposed to making ...

Xilinx has announced its AI inference development platform, Vitis AI, is available for immediate download free of charge. Combined with the Vitis unified software platform, Vitis AI offers deep learning acceleration, enabling developers to incorporate it as part of their software code. Vitis AI integrates a domain-specific architecture (DSA) and configures Xilinx hardware to be programmed using frameworks including TensorFlow ...

A company that claims to be the fastest growing provider of Bluetooth wireless connectivity, Searan, has signed a global distribution deal with Mouser Electronics to supply its royalty-free software development kits (SDKs) for developers of consumer, medical and industrial applications. The SDKs support devices from semiconductor manufacturers, including STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments, Microchip Technology, Marvell Semiconductor and Renesas Electronics. The company’s ...

Following trials at sites across Switzerland and China, ABB has launched Neogear, a low-voltage switchgear. The device deploys ABB’s laminated bus plate technology, which replaces traditional horizontal and vertical busbar systems. Neogear provides safety for operators by eliminating any exposure to live parts. It features a compact physical footprint along with efficient cooling and condition monitoring, ABB claims. The hardware ...

An Israeli company, Optima Design Automation has introduced two tools for automotive design. The Optima Safety platform consists of Optima-HE and Optima-SE, both based on the company’s Fault Injection Engine (FIE) and designed for fault analysis, targeting safety analysis fault injection for SoC design. The FIE uses parallel simulation and formal verification, rather than fault simulation, and introduces fault list ...

Lattice Semiconductor Corporation has announced the availability of performance enhancements and application reference designs for its Sensai (stylised sensAI) stack. Sensai is designed to help OEMs develop AI and ML experiences for smart devices with power consumption measured in mW. Performance enhancements include support for more compact neural network models and deeper quantization support to accommodate larger models for processing ...

Keysight Technologies has announced the Pathwave test 2020 software suite. Developed on the Pathwave software platform, the test 2020 software suite is designed to streamline test data processing and analysis for 5G, IoT and automotive engineers and managers. The software provides data sharing and management between platform software tools including test automation, measurement, signal creation and generation, as well as ...

At a press event on 8 October in Limerick, Ireland, Analog Devices announced the release of MeasureWare, which the company describes as “a plug and play suite of hardware measurement kits and software studio tools.” Lorna Keane, director of MeasureWare at ADI, said the product is designed for an “evolving world”, where electronic engineering skills are declining while the requirement ...

The working practices of today’s young engineers are very much on Victor Peng’s mind. The president and CEO of Xilinx explained why the company’s Vitis, the software platform announced at the Xilinx Developers’ Forum in San Jose, California. He conceded that the company has not normally been associated with open source products. Now it is offering Vitis. “The new generation ...

Xilinx embraces open source community and introduces the Vitis software platform for hardware and software development. At this year’s Xilinx Developers Forum, the company introduced the Vitis software platform, which tailors the hardware architecture to the software of algorithm code without intervention. President and CEO, Victor Peng, explained that the unified platform was developed to “empower software developers, with the ...