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Half the price, a 1GHz processor, 2GB of integrated storage and some 'interesting' plug-in capes. All for $45. Let the wild Linux-Making begin.

AMD has stepped back into the market for embedded processors with a quad core design derived from its desktop APUs, which combine a general-purpose x86 subsystem with a GPU.

Accellera Systems Initiative has published version of 1.0 of its Soft IP Tagging standard for adding licensing information to RTL and other design files.

ARM has decided to put together a package deal for some of the components that will let prospective customers implement a multiprocessor subsystem in a single SoC design

Dr Chenming Hu joins Mentor CEO Wally Rhines and Xilinx SVP Victor Peng to keynote free day-long User2User in San Jose on April 25th, capping a full technical program.

Two vendors have announced early adopter software implementations of the new video compression standard that promises an up to 50% bandwidth cut against H.264.

The device modeling specialist has integrated its new NanoSpice simulator with existing capture and analysis tools in a broad design-for-yield package.

Accellera Systems Initiative has created a working group to look at one of the knottiest problems in IC design: to simplify the job of checking designs when the bits come from so many sources and use languages that were not built for interoperability.

With an April release date promised, we should soon have confirmation on the new processor and price tag for the stripped down embedded Linux development board.

Four of the European centers for electronics research and business development have set up a project to try to create a virtual “silicon cluster” that aims ultimately to build a worldwide development network for energy-efficient systems.