 |  | | Safety-critical software and SoCs – for the next generation of medical devices, what’s the straight-and-narrow path? | |
| Manual Documents Best Practices in Design-for-Prototyping |
| With today’s SoCs increasing in complexity, it’s no wonder the software needed to run on these devices is taking longer to create, adapt, and optimize for a given application on a given piece of hardware. No question practices and methodologies behind system design need to change. |
| Platform Architect Enables Early Architecture Definition, Hardware-Software Partitioning and Performance Analysis of Multicore[ ] Systems Months before Software is Available |
| Sourcery G++(tm) product, a software development environment based on the GNU Toolchain, is a leading choice of software engineers, operating system vendors, semiconductor companies, and device manufacturers. Sourcery VSIPL++(tm) product, a portable, parallel signal- and image-processing toolkit, boosts performance and increases productivity for radar, sonar, and imaging applications. |
| Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, and Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation ("SMIC"; NYSE: SMI; SEHK: 981), today announced that they have delivered a comprehensive solution for system-on-chip (SoC) design for SMIC’s advanced 65-nanometer (nm) process. |
| New development toolkit that enables Android[] application developers to rapidly customize product UIs (User Interfaces). |
| Low Power, Compact and Highly Modular DesignWare 96 dB Hi-Fi Audio IP Enables Easy Integration into a Broad Range of SoC Applications |
| Mentor Graphics announced that the Mentor Embedded(tm) Nucleus(r) Real Time Operating System (RTOS) is the handset industry’s most widely adopted RTOS, found in over 2.11 billion devices, according to the VisionMobile’s 100 Million Club research report. |
| Embedded considerations for using USB in a design are split between need to implement functionality as a peripheral device, a host, or both. This was addressed in the On-The-Go (OTG) supplement to the USB 2.0 specification. |
| Mentor Embedded Linux platform currently supports the QorIQ P4080 and P2020 multicore[] processors and PowerQUICC 8572 and 8377 communication processors, with planned support for Freescale’s newly announced low-power QorIQ P3041 processor and the new high-performance 64-bit e5500 platform, including the QorIQ P5020 dual-core and P5010 single core processors. |
| Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) , a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced it has acquired technology, engineering resources and other assets of Synfora, Inc., a provider of C/C++ high-level synthesis tools used to design complex systems-on-chips (SoCs) and FPGAs. |
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