Lattice Semiconductor announced the availability of Version 1.3 of its ispLEVER Classic design tool suite. Version 1.3 includes updated support for Lattice CPLDs including the ispMACH 4000 device family. Designers can download, for free, ispLEVER Classic for Windows, as well as optional Synopsys Syn...

Pigeon Point Systems (PPS), an Actel company, announced board management reference (BMR) starter kit updates providing TCA management controller solutions, with support for advanced in-shelf network attachment via the Network Controller Sideband Interface (NC-SI) standard. The NC-SI support is imple...

Renesas Technology Europe announced the development of its SiP Top-Down Design Environment to boost efficiency when developing system in package (SiP) products combining multiple chips, such as system on chip (SoC) devices, MCUs, and memories, in a single package. It uses a top-down (predictive) des...

Orange Tree Technologies, a board-level embedded hardware and software company focused on communications interconnect, announced availability of the latest generation of its Zest Series programmable interconnect modules. In a 75mm x 50mm form factor the ZestET1 provides a dedicated hardware TCP/IP O...

Kemet’s line of capacitor models have been released to the SIMetrix/SIMPLIS simulation software, which allows Signal Integrity, Power Integrity, and board design engineers to model the decoupling scheme of a printed circuit board. The complete range has also been released to the Mentor Graphics simu...

SiliconBlue Technologies announced volume production shipments for its 65nm, SRAM-based FPGAs for handheld applications. These include the iCE65L02, iCE65L04 and iCE65L08 devices with the balance of the family to follow in a few months. The iCE family is a non-volatile FPGA optimized for battery pow...

Synopsys has enhanced the DesignWare Ethernet MAC 10/100/1G IP to include support for the latest IEEE 1588 specification as well as an interface to the ARM AMBA 3 AXI protocol.