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Atmel has launched its first family of microcontrollers based on ARM's Cortex M0+ with features to ease PCB design and provide programmable serial ports.

The group that developed the IEEE 1801 Unified Power Format standard is looking to bringing power modeling and estimation to the system level for version 3.0, due in 2015.

The EDA industry has a way to capture the embedded software market, analyst Gary Smith said ahead of DAC. But it’s not through tools – it’s through models.

Xilinx and TSMC are forming a single engineering team to accelerate development of a family of finFET-based field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).

Vehicle-maker Volkswagen is putting its weight behind a set of microcontroller benchmarks that focus on energy consumption rather than performance.

Spec-TRACER addresses stringent design reporting demands in safety-critical markets, some of which are moving into the mainstream.

ARM could see shipments of embedded processors based on its architecture begin to outpace its rump market in mobile within four years if growth continues at current levels.

NXP Semiconductors has decided to buy tools supplier Code Red Technologies to help build up software support for its ARM-based microcontrollers.

And then bear in mind that the father of telephony is telling all design engineers a cautionary tale: Documentation. Documentation. Documentation.

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