Microchip announces the MPLAB ICD 3 - a development tool that supports in-circuit programming and debugging of Microchip’s Flash-based 8-bit PIC microcontrollers, and its entire line of 16- and 32-bit MCUs and 16-bit dsPIC Digital Signal Controllers (DSCs). Flash MCU programming times are 15X or fas...

LDRA offers automated unit testing of source code in a stand-alone TBrun unit test tool release. TBrun automates the test process, freeing developers from hours of intense manual checking to verify and validate each individual module or unit of software. With the stand-alone version of TBrun, LDRA d...

IDT has announced the availability of a new series of PCI Express (PCIe) system interconnect switches that provide higher levels of performance, availability and optimal resource utilisation in demanding applications. The switches supports multicast and multi-root partitioning. Moreover, IDT is furt...

Texas Instruments announced a system-level solution to simplify customer development of digital video products that includes free optimized software codec bundles and production-quantity availability of several digital media processors based on DaVinci technology. With a self-serve software licensin...

Zilog introduced its new Encore! 32 Series Microcontroller for home or industrial control, connectivity and security embedded applications. Based on the ARM9 processor family, the Microcontroller is a high-performance 32-bit Reduced Instruction Set Computing (RISC) SoC solution that uniquely incorpo...

 STMicroelectronics has further extended options for users of its STM32 MCUs, by introducing devices with 16 Kbyte Flash density as well as a complete new 48MHz series of microcontrollers optimized for USB applications. There are now 60 STM32 MCUs available, combining the advanced ARM Cortex-M3...