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March 10, 2015

Douglas Adams 1: Apple Watch 0 (game in progress)

'Bling' for fashionistas and the B Ark lot. Apple Watch limps as the S1 SIP fails to offer convincing battery life. Silicon shortfall still dogs wearables.
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February 26, 2015

EEMBC launches expanded benchmark suite

The Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC) has released a benchmark suite aimed at applications processors and higher-performance microcontrollers with floating-point units.
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February 25, 2015

Real Intent updates linter for aviation, Mathworks and SystemVerilog

Ascent Lint adds checks for DO-254, tighter integration with HDL Coder, more SystemVerilog support and new VHDL and Verilog rules in March update.
February 24, 2015

All aboard the IoT starter kit bandwagon

A variety of organizations used Embedded World to introduce kits to attract a broader base of developers looking at Internet of Things (IoT) applications.
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February 24, 2015

Visual tool probes processor, memory and network use on embedded devices

Express Logic has developed a tool to monitor the real-time resource requirements of multithreaded embedded systems that lets designers tune task priorities, stack usage and other factors for improved efficiency and memory usage.
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February 24, 2015

HCC adds web, mail, time services to ‘reliable’ network stack and extends flash support

HCC Embedded has extended the TCP/IP stack the company wrote using MISRA rules and formalized V-model processes to include web server, mail, time, and network management protocols.
February 16, 2015

CDNLive Silicon Valley: last chance for early bird discount

The $99 discount registration price for Cadence's main US user conference will no longer be available after Friday (February 20)
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February 11, 2015

Accellera sets up group for one-stop verification stimulus

Accellera has set up a working group to develop a language-independent way of capturing and managing test stimuli that can be used across a wide range of verification environments.
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February 9, 2015

Mentor extends industrial embedded offering

New portfolio integrates and extends existing industrial embedded tools to meet the demands of Industry 4.0
February 3, 2015

Speeding up simulation using native System Verilog transactors

Partitioning a verification test bench using native System Verilog transactors can make it easier to move between simulation and emulation.
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