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September 25, 2014

Xmos launches prototyping board, aims first at industrial comms

Xmos has designed a modular prototyping board for its XA devices, which combine the company's own real-time, multithreaded processor core with an ARM Cortex-M3 microcontroller.
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September 24, 2014

ARM unveils superscalar addition to Cortex-M microcontrollers

ARM's latest core, the dual-issue M7 borrows features from the Cortex-R family for safety-critical applications as well as adding the option of cache memory.
September 17, 2014

Web tool simplifies PCB-level clock-tree choices

Silicon Labs has developed a new type of parametric search tool that focuses on the selection of clock generators and jitter attenuators, making it easier to match them and downstream devices to the SoCs being designed into a PCB.
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September 16, 2014

Digia puts Qt into new company

Digia, the company that took on the cross-platform Qt toolkit from Nokia, has formed a subsidiary to focus on the software.
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September 3, 2014

DVCon Europe focuses on systems design and verification

Focus on systemic issues matches DVCon Europe event to European interests
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September 2, 2014

IoT mixed signal design: keep everything in the green

ARM and Cadence have teamed up to show how system-level and implementation-level representations of a mixed-signal design can be linked together and kept in sync as the project progresses.
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August 28, 2014

Mentor joins European power electronics consortium

Will help industry giants develop more reliable power electronics systems for applications including transport and power generation.
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August 19, 2014

Simulations point to better performance for Intel 14nm finFET

Gold Standard Simulations has run simulations to work out how much of an improvement Intel's new rectangular shape represents.
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August 9, 2014

Particle-collider technology to help NI build time-aware systems

Technology from advanced-physics research institute CERN will form part of National Instruments' long-term strategy to improve the ability of distributed systems to support real-time control.
August 7, 2014

Millimeter-wave 5G research instrument hits 1GHz throughput

Nokia Siemens Networks has built an instrument able to handle bandwidths up 1GHz to investigate the use of milllimeter-band radio for 5G communications.
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