Arduino development boards 22 February 2012, MANTECH Digilent is supplying two new chipKIT development boards for 32-bit Microchip microcontroller-based platforms that are compatible with many existing Arduino code examples, reference materials and other ...
Online IBC power simulation tool 22 February 2012 Vicor unveiled its new IBC Power Simulation tool, an online simulation capability that enables power system designers to interactively model the electrical and thermal performance of intermediate bus ...
Altium expands STMicro, Altera support 22 February 2012, EDA Technologies Altium has added a new range of board-level components from STMicroelectronics’ power management catalogue to its online content delivery ecosystem, AltiumLive.
The new content update includes STMicro ...
Power supply design software 22 February 2012, MB Silicon Systems Power Integrations has released version 8.5 of its PI Expert software to further streamline and simplify the power supply design process. This latest release adds support for the company’s new HiperLCS ...
EDA software suite 22 February 2012, Dizzy Enterprises The Proteus Design Suite from Labcenter Electronics is an EDA tool featuring two main capabilities: PCB design and circuit simulation. The PCB design side of the package includes a shape-based autorouter, ...
Bluetooth Smart demo app 22 February 2012, RF Design Nordic Semiconductor has produced an online ‘how-to’ video of its recently launched iOS demo app.
The app is based on a proven API (application programming interface) from expert smartphone fitness ...
Development tool for Microchip controllers 8 February 2012, Tempe Technologies Microchip has released a low-cost development tool supporting 3,3 V 16-bit and 32-bit PIC microcontrollers (MCUs), as well as 16-bit dsPIC digital signal controllers (DSCs) in 28-pin SPDIP packages.
The ...
Sub-GHz development kit 8 February 2012, Altron Arrow Texas Instruments announced a new sub-GHz radio frequency (RF) value line plug-in board for the MSP430 microcontroller LaunchPad development kit.
The new 430BOOST-CC110L RF BoosterPack includes ETSI-compliant ...
IR expands online POL design tool 8 February 2012 International Rectifier has expanded its online design tool for the SupIRBuck family of integrated point-of-load (POL) voltage regulators to include new devices utilising hysteretic constant on-time (COT) ...
Software development from a bird's eye view 8 February 2012, EDA Technologies A modular software application can help designers focus on the essential part of their task, namely the actual application, rather than the time-consuming, repetitive implementation of drivers and services ...
PCB design software integrates with prototyping service 8 February 2012, Electrocomp Farnell has announced that the upcoming version 6.0 of its CadSoft EAGLE PCB design software will integrate functionality that provides a direct connection between board layout and the Eurocircuits PCB ...
Development tool supports new Infineon MCUs 8 February 2012 Atollic announced that its Atollic TrueSTUDIO for ARM C/C++ development tool will be available for the new 32-bit XMC4000 family from Infineon Technologies, which uses the ARM Cortex-M4 processor.
Announced ...
Cypress releases PSoC Creator v2.0 8 February 2012, Altron Arrow Version 2.0 of Cypress Semiconductor’s PSoC Creator Design Environment for the PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 programmable system-on-chip families is available for free download for all users at www.cypress.com/go/psoccreator...
RS upgrades DesignSpark PCB 8 February 2012, RS South Africa RS Components unveiled version 3 of DesignSpark PCB, the company’s free PCB design software for professional designers, hobbyists and students. The latest version is available for download via www.rsonline.co.za...
Software resources for TI MSP430 MCUs 8 February 2012, EBV Electrolink Providing a comprehensive software ecosystem for simplified microcontroller development, Texas Instruments announced the new MSP430Ware software and resource package.
MSP430Ware offers a sleek and intuitive ...
Motor control development kit 25 January 2012, EBV Electrolink Adding to its growing portfolio of motor control solutions, Texas Instruments announced a new motor control kit for spinning three-phase brushless motors with a Stellaris Cortex-M3 microcontroller. The ...
RF design tools 25 January 2012, Altron Arrow Analog Devices announced new releases of two popular RF design tools. The ADIsimRF tool is the software accompaniment to the company’s portfolio of RF-to-digital functional blocks, allowing engineers ...
TI enhances IDE 12 December 2011, Altron Arrow Further simplifying embedded software development, Texas Instruments has introduced significant upgrades to its Code Composer Studio integrated development environment (IDE) based on the Eclipse open ...
Smart meter reference platform 12 December 2011, CST Electronics Integrating the latest in metrology, security and power line communications (G3-PLC) technology, Maxim’s Newport smart meter reference platform gives utilities a versatile way to evaluate smart grid technology, ...
Motor control development kit 23 November 2011, Tempe Technologies New from Microchip is a development kit for embedded motor control designs based on the Microchip dsPIC33 digital signal controller (DSC). The Digilent Cerebot MC7 development kit addresses the growing ...
