Embedded Systems

Future Electronics has taken the concept of a distributor supplying an evaluation board a stage further by offering a multi-board development system supporting devices from a number of suppliers. According to the company, evaluation boards designed for specific chips can be problematic when the user needs to link a number of boards together to prototype a system design. It has proposed ...

Microchip Technology has formed a medical products group in an effort to create partnerships with medical device makers. The company said that many device makers have already recognized the benefits of using its semiconductors for medical applications because of their small package sizes, low power consumption through “nanoWatt Technology” and the ability to easily add connectivity through on-chip communications peripherals. Those ...

Oxfordshire-based Celoxica has released its FPGA-based accelerator boards for AMD Opteron servers.

The next generation of fabless SMEs starting up across the UK can reduce design cycles and cost with the combination of FPGA-based hardware with design tools which integrate hardware, software and PCB design, according to Altium.

Xilinx has collaborated with IDT to develop products aimed at the automotive MOST (media oriented system transport) bus.

Makers of equipment for the broadcast market are at a cusp in the technology curve, with system-on-chip (SoC) designers looking to displace the FPGA makers in one of their strongest markets.

Standards, skills shortages, spectrum, and health worries are a few of the issues holding up the worldwide rollout of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, according to a DTI Global Watch Mission-sponsored report. The mission visited the US to learn about the progress made in RFID, particularly since supermarket giant Wal-Mart and the Department of Defence mandated use of the technology. ...

Celoxica has reported that its Toshiba MeP (Media Embedded Processor) development kit has been selected to be used as the design platform and environment for a nationwide system-on-chip (SoC) design challenge in Japan. Selected by the VLSI Design and Education Centre (VDEC), the central hub of Japanese university expertise for embedded systems design, the kit will be used by teams ...

Celoxica is expecting to double its revenues in the second half of the year when customers start to take delivery of its accelerated computing products. “We’ve invested £400,000 in inventory, in boards for shipments to customers in the second half,” CFO Bernard Morgan told EW. The cards will be shipped for about $20,000 each, and the firm expects to ship ...

Aspex Semiconductor claims to have the first multi-format high definition video compression accelerator to support all three HD video compression standards currently used for encoding IPTV and HD-DVD/Blu-ray systems. The aim is to reduce the cost of HD video compression in desktop systems. It will accelerate PC-based software AVC SD and HD video encoding for IPTV, HD-DVD/Blu-Ray, video-on-demand and broadcast ...