STM32 development kits 25 July 2012, Electrocomp Express Premier Farnell has extended its relationship with ARM through the launch of the latest series of ARM Cortex-M3 and Cortex–M4 processor-based STM32F2xx and STM32F4xx development kits.
The deal will see ...
Power supply design tool 25 July 2012 Texas Instruments has expanded its award-winning WEBENCH suite of tools by introducing System Power Architect, an online tool to speed design of multi-output, high-performance DC-DC power supply systems. ...
PIC32 development board 11 July 2012, Electrocomp Express The Cerebot MX4cK is a microcontroller development board based on the Microchip PIC32MX460F512L, a member of the 32-bit PIC32 microcontroller family.
The board is compatible with Digilent’s line of ...
Ice Cream Sandwich SDK 11 July 2012, EBV Electrolink Texas Instruments announced the availability of a new software development kit (SDK) that brings Android 4.0 – known as ‘Ice Cream Sandwich’ – to TI’s Sitara AM335x and AM37x ARM Cortex-A8 processors. ...
Altium extends RTC, MCU coverage 11 July 2012, EDA Technologies Altium recently released STMicroelectronics’ STM32 F0 board-level components to the Altium Vault and the AltiumLive Content Store – adding to the collection of previously released STM32 F4, F2 and F1 ...
LabVIEW connects with AWR design environment 11 July 2012 National Instruments announced new connectivity between LabVIEW system design software and the AWR Visual System Simulator (VSS) software for RF and microwave system design. As the first major joint development ...
Small cell base station reference design 11 July 2012, Altron Arrow Freescale Semiconductor has released a new reference design for small office/home office (SOHO) base station applications that is partially powered by two advanced gallium arsenide (GaAs) monolithic microwave ...
SystemVue gets new release 27 June 2012, RF Design Agilent Technologies announced a new release of SystemVue, the company’s premier platform for designing communications systems. SystemVue 2012.06 provides deeper design-flow integration of baseband signal ...
Development kit for 32-bit MCUs 27 June 2012 To coincide with the commencement of volume production of its 32-bit STM32 F0 microcontroller series, STMicroelectronics has released a dedicated Discovery Kit.
Developers can purchase the STM32F0 Discovery ...
Motor control evaluation kit 27 June 2012, Altron Arrow Recently premiered by Texas Instruments is a complete motor control evaluation kit for spinning brushless DC (BLDC) and permanent magnet synchronous (PMSM) motors.
The DRV8312-C2-KIT spins motors out ...
Lighting control evaluation boards 13 June 2012, Altron Arrow NXP Semiconductors introduced new development platforms for DALI and DMX512 wired lighting control systems based on the low-cost, low-power 32-bit ARM Cortex-M0 processor.
The new evaluation systems ...
Rapid prototyping platform 13 June 2012, MANTECH Digilent’s chipKIT Max32 is based on the popular Arduino open-source hardware prototyping platform with the added performance of the Microchip PIC32 microcontroller.
The Max32 is the same form factor ...
Isolated interface development environment 13 June 2012 Analog Devices introduced the ezLINX iCoupler isolated interface development environment. The plug-and-play system reduces development time by enabling the evaluation of eight physical layer, digitally-isolated ...
Software optimises bandpass filter design 13 June 2012, DS Communications Like all RF and microwave components, a differential filter design will remain only a simulation exercise if it is not created with its manufacturing process in mind. That is, the tight dimensional tolerances ...
Micrium supports Atollic IDE 13 June 2012 Atollic’s TrueSTUDIO has been adopted by Micrium as an officially supported C/C++ development IDE. Micrium’s support of TrueSTUDIO paves the way for users of IDEs to develop projects around a family ...
Altium simplifies rocket science 13 June 2012, EDA Technologies Space has long been a field reserved for big spenders such as governments and large companies. However, with rapid advances in electronics and information technology, Space Exploration Technologies, ...
LED control demo kit 30 May 2012, Hi-Q Electronics Renesas Electronics has designed a new DC-DC LED control demonstration kit based on the RL78/I1A microcontroller (MCU). The kit enables system designers to experience the benefits of MCU-based solutions ...
Arduino-Digilent interface platform 30 May 2012, MANTECH Digilent has announced expanded capabilities for the chipKIT development platform for the Arduino community. The company has released another shield, the chipKIT Pmod Shield-Uno, which provides circuitry ...
Op-amp design app for Android 30 May 2012 A new Android app from STMicroelectronics provides a modern, fast and spontaneous way for customers to design circuits using their smartphones or tablets.
The new app, called ‘ST op-amps’, is available ...