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Alpha Data Releases New High-Performance Kintex-7 FPGA Based XMC Card

Alpha Data are proud to announce the launch of the ADM-XRC-7K1, the first in a range of new products based on 28nm Xilinx 7 series FPGA technology. The ADM-XRC-7K1 is a high performance reconfigurable XMC with PCI Express Gen2 interface, external memory and flexible front-panel IO options.The 7K1 is the latest in the highly successful line of PMC and XMC products from Alpha Data, an Alliance Program certified member with over a decade of experience with Xilinx. — Read More

Feabhas now an ARM Approved Training Centre

ARM support a worldwide network of organisations, which provide ARM Training as part of the ARM Approved Training Centre Program. Feabhas is now licensed to deliver ARM software courses to the embedded software community, which includes training for ARM® Cortex™ processors. This partnership between ARM and Feabhas strengthens the successful relationship the two businesses have had for many years. ARM is one of Feabhas’ earliest clients and Feabhas ... — Read More

Easier User Interface Design for Embedded Systems

Overview: There are some common rules in the design of user interfaces (UI) in embedded systems, such as, "use common dialogs and buttons familiar to your users" or "keep it simple by limiting user activity, as much as possible, within the context of the current function". However, the design of these buttons, dialog boxes, help screens and other widgets are not always easy to create in resource-limited embedded systems. — Read More

Mentor Graphics Hires Embedded Software Veteran to Lead RTOS, Middleware and User Interface Product Lines

Mentor Graphics Hires Embedded Software Veteran to Lead RTOS, Middleware and User Interface Product Lines NewswireToday - /newswire/ - Wilsonville, OR, United States, 05/18/2012 - Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced the appointment of Scot Morrison as the Mentor Embedded general manager of Embedded Runtime Solutions (NASDAQ: MENT) . Rank or share this free Newswire Press Release Distribution content. Join the network! — Read More

New development kit for Tabula’s ABAX 3D FPGAs

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The folks at Tabula have just announced the immediate availability of a development kit to accelerate the creation of designs based on their ABAX family of 3PLDs (which I think of as 3D FPGAs). This comprehensive development system will aid FPGA and ASIC designers to implement and test a rich variety of parallel and serial interfaces such as DDR3 and PCI Express Gen2, as well as embedded systems based on the popular V1 ColdFire soft CPU. — Read More

Intilop's Nano TOE performs Full TCP/IP Stack processing in yet another record breaking 76 ns!

Intilop, Inc. a pioneer and a recognized leader in providing complex networking IP building blocks and systems, today announced delivery of their new Ultra Low latency 4th Gen 10G Nano TOE. This extends their leadership of more than 3 years in providing full TOEs. Their mature, network proven series of TOE's have been deployed in hundreds of networks worldwide, including major world stock exchanges and financial institutions enabling trade executions in less than 1 us now! — Read More

Arizona Technology Council Names Roger Vogel as Vice Chairman of the Board, Elects Nine New Directors

Continuing to build on its strong legacy of world-class leadership, the Arizona Technology Council today announced the appointment of  Roger Vogel, chairman, president and CEO at Vante Medical Technologies as the Council's vice chairman of the Board. During the Council's regular meeting of its Board of Directors on April 19, 2012, nine new directors were also appointed.   Chuck Vermillion, CEO, OneNeck IT Services, remains as chairman. — Read More

Taiwan institute signs MOU with Japan firms on embedded software

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Vestel Electronics Launches Advanced Set-Top-Box Using Mentor Graphics Inflexion User Interface Technology

Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ:MENT) today announced that Vestel Electronics, one of Europe’s largest set-top-box (STB) manufacturers, developed its user interface (UI) for its new generation Android-based STB using the Mentor® Embedded Inflexion® UI product. With the Inflexion UI technology, Vestel quickly created a rich user interface that includes 3D perspectives, and mirrored like surfaces. — Read More

AMD Launches “Trinity” Chipset, Challenges Intel

AMD has launched the second generation of its A-Series Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) codenamed “Trinity” today. These processors integrate a GPU alongside the CPU on a single chip, and will power a range of ultrabooks, notebooks, traditional desktops and embedded systems. In common with most new chip developments, these chips are aimed first at the gaming industry, where users will pay anything for better performance. — Read More

Amandeep Sandhu, Director of Audience Engagement & Analytics, UBM Electronics, Named a Top Innovator …

UBM Electronics, the daily source of essential business and technical information for the electronics industry's decision makers, today announced that Amandeep Sandhu, Director of Audience Engagement & Analytics, has been named a Top Innovator in Business Publishing in the Audience Development category by BtoB's Media Business magazine, the magazine for business publishing executives. The Top Innovators in Business Publishing Awards honor ... — Read More

Supermicro® Debuts New X9 DP and 4-Way MP Platforms

Super Micro Computer, Inc. ( SMCI), a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server technology and green computing, announces it is shipping server solutions optimized for Intel® Xeon® E5-2400 "Sandy Bridge-EN" and E5-4600 "Sandy Bridge-EP"  series processors. (Photo:   http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120514/AQ06162) ... — Read More

Green Hills Software Receives 2011 Boeing Performance Excellence Award Recognized for Quality, Delivery Performance, Customer

Green Hills Software, the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutions, was presented with Boeing's 2011 Performance Excellence Award. The Boeing Company issues the award annually to recognize suppliers who have achieved superior performance. Green Hills Software maintained a Silver composite performance rating for each month of the 12-month performance period, from Oct. 1, 2010 to Sept. 30, 2011. — Read More

Green Hills Software Receives 2011 Boeing Performance

Recognized for Quality, Delivery Performance, Customer Satisfaction and Total Business and Financial Health SANTA BARBARA, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 05/14/12 -- Green Hills Software, the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutions, was presented with Boeing's 2011 Performance Excellence Award. The Boeing Company issues the award annually to recognize suppliers who have achieved superior performance. — Read More

austriamicrosystems Joins the OSPT Alliance

The Open Standard for Public Transport (OSPT™) Alliance today announced that austriamicrosystems, a leading global player in the design, development and manufacturing of high performance analog ICs (integrated circuits), has joined the OSPT Alliance as a full member. austriamicrosystems designs, develops, and manufactures high-performance integrated circuits for a wide range of applications, including RFID readers, consumer mobile phone and communication solutions. — Read More

Supermicro® Launches Widest Range of UP Server Platforms Supporting Intel® Xeon® E3-1200 v2

Super Micro Computer, Inc. ( SMCI), a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server technology and green computing, announces immediate availability of a wide array of single processor (UP) systems and motherboards supporting Intel® Xeon® E3-1200 v2 (Ivy Bridge) processor family. Supermicro's new platforms boost system performance with upgraded PCI-E 3.0 bus speed and DDR3-1600MHz memory bandwidth. — Read More

Redesigned improved version of uC/Probe from Micrium

Micrium has announced redesigned version of its visualization tool uC/Probe featuring drag-and-drop interface to create graphical representations of running embedded systems. "All too often, the most powerful tools for embedded systems development are those that are also the most difficult to use," said Jean Labrosse, founder and CEO of Micrium. "The new version of uC/Probe, however, makes vast quantities of helpful information available through just a few mouse clicks." — Read More

Crowe drops out of CD3 race, will support Aguirre

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Democrat David Crowe is dropping out of the race for Congress in the new District 3, covering southwest Arizona. He announced in February he intended to challenge Raúl Grijalva in the primary, but Federal Election Commission records show fund-raising was slow for Crowe. On Thursday Crowe said he needs to focus on his business. He is president and CEO of Tucson Embedded Systems. Crowe grew up in Yuma and said he will support the Democratic candidate from Yuma, former state Sen. Amanda Aguirre. — Read More

Democrat drops out of AZ congressional race

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A Democratic candidate is dropping his bid for a southern Arizona congressional seat. The Arizona Daily Star reports that David Crowe announced Thursday he is leaving the race for Arizona's 3rd Congressional District. Crowe says he needs to focus on his business. Crowe is CEO and president of Tucson Embedded Systems. He says he plans to endorse Democrat and former state Sen. Amanda Aguirre. Crowe first announced his candidacy against Rep. Raul Grijalva in February. — Read More

Democrat drops out of Ariz. congressional race

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A Democratic candidate is dropping his bid for a southern Arizona congressional seat. The Arizona Daily Star ( http://bit.ly/J4LUlm0) reports that David Crowe announced Thursday he is leaving the race for Arizona's 3rd Congressional District. Crowe says he needs to focus on his business. Crowe is CEO and president of Tucson Embedded Systems. He says he plans to endorse Democrat and former state Sen. Amanda Aguirre. Crowe first announced his candidacy against Rep. Raul Grijalva in February. — Read More

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