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Agilent Technologies introduced the latest verion of their Advanced Design System and Electromagnetic Professional software. ADS 2011.10 RF design software and EMPro 2011.11 3-D modeling and simulation platform include enhancements to speed and improve RF design and verification. AADS 2011.10 will ship later this month. EMPro 2011.11 will be available for download in late October. Pricing for the ADS and EMPro environments start at $8,000 and $7,000, respectively. ADS 2011.10 EnhancementsAgilent ADS 2011.10 RF design software A design documentation notebook that makes it easy to create and share all or selected views of schematics, layout and data displays, and generate PDF and PostScript outputs files. The ability to more easily create native air bridges in ADS layout and the substrate...

PLECS Standalone PLECS® Standalone is an autonomous software package for time-domain simulation of power electronic systems. If you want to be independent from other simulation platforms, PLECS Standalone gives you the all-in-one solution for modeling complex electrical circuits and sophisticated controls in a single environment. Thanks to its optimized engine, PLECS Standalone runs much faster than the PLECS Blockset. With the comprehensive block library, PLECS Standalone offers a cost-effective yet powerful solution for dynamic system simulation in general.Dedicated solvers PLECS Standalone comes with an own engine for solving the circuit equations. The user can choose between variable-step and fixed-step solvers. Variable time-step solvers are generally preferred for accurate and efficient simulations, because they adopt the step size during the simulation...

IAR Embedded Workbench Efficient and reliable code is a must in an embeddedapplication. IAR Embedded Workbench is theworld-leading C/C++ compiler and debuggertool suite for applications based on 8-, 16-, and32-bit MCUs.IAR Embedded Workbench� for AVR is an integrated development environment for building and debugging embedded applications. It provides extensive support for Atmel AVR devices and generates very compact and efficient code. Built-in plug-ins to various Atmel emulators and RTOSs are included in standard edition.� Fully integrated development environment for building and debug ging embedded applications� Automatic checking of MISRA C rules for security-critical applica tions� Most compact and efficient code� Extensive hardware and RTOS-aware debugging support in C-SPY Debugger� Flying start with ready-made device configuration files and example projects� Same...

Major CADSTAR Enhancements… Constraint Browser CADSTAR now supports a new Constraint Browser tool which allows constraints to be set during schematic development. Alongside this is an enhanced constraint management system that makes the Constraint Browser and Constraint Manager the master when handling constraints, allowing for more advanced constraint management. Enhanced Topology Support Please note that this functionality will not be available in the initial web release of CADSTAR 13.0. It will be delivered in the media release. In the meantime, it will be necessary to continue to define topologies based on pin_branch and pin_order attributes, which can be set in Constraint Browser or Constraint Manager. When using the new constraint management system a wider range of net topologies are available...

Type ….. : FPGA Date ….. : 11/2011 Size ….. : 76x50MB OS ……. : Linux Quartus II software version 11, the industry\’s number one software in performance and productivity for CPLD, FPGA, and HardCopy ASIC designs is available for download. Quartus II software version 11 delivers the production release of Altera\’s new system-level integration tool known as Qsys. The Qsys system integration tool saves time and effort in the FPGA design process by enabling faster system development and design reuse. ModelSim-Altera Edition is recommended for simulating all FPGA designs (Cyclone, Arria, and Stratix series FPGA designs) DSP Builder technology allows you to go from system definition and simulation using the industry-standard MathWorks Simulink tools to system implementation in a...

Quartus II software version 11, the industry\’s number one software in performance and productivity for CPLD, FPGA, and HardCopy ASIC designs is available for download. Quartus II software version 11 delivers the production release of Altera\’s new system-level integration tool known as Qsys. The Qsys system integration tool saves time and effort in the FPGA design process by enabling faster system development and design reuse. ModelSim-Altera Edition is recommended for simulating all FPGA designs (Cyclone, Arria, and Stratix series FPGA designs) DSP Builder technology allows you to go from system definition and simulation using the industry-standard MathWorks Simulink tools to system implementation in a matter of minutes. The DSP Builder Signal Compiler block reads Simulink Model Files (.mdl) that are...

The ISE Design Suite: System Edition provides a comprehensive suite of integrated development environment, software tools, configuration wizards, and IP that facilitates your design and utilizes all of the flexibility offered by a programmable platform. Xilinx CORE Generator?System, included in all Editions of the ISE Design Suite, accelerates design time by providing access to highly parameterized Intellectual Properties (IP) for Xilinx FPGAs and is included in the ISE Design Suite. The available user-customizable IP functions range in complexity from commonly used functions, such as memories and FIFOs, to system-level building blocks, such as filters and transforms. Using these IP blocks can save days to months of design time. The highly optimized IP allows FPGA designers to focus efforts on building...

eparting from seasonally-themed release naming and instead utilizing a streamlined, no-fuss numbering format, the latest release of Altium Designer – Altium Designer 10, or AD10 – continues the process of keeping you plugged into a continuous stream of new features and technologies, designed to make it easier for you to create your next generation electronics designs. Altium\’s unified design architecture is renowned for bringing together hardware, software and programmable hardware into a single application, giving you the freedom to explore new design ideas across not only a project, but across an entire team – everyone has a single view of the design across the entire design process. Once in a while during the development of a software solution, an evolutionary...

Want a powerful, yet easy to use simulation environment? SynaptiCAD\’s simulation and debugging tools provide a standard interface for controlling all of your simulation tools. SynaptiCAD\’s timing diagram editors have the most extensive and accurate timing analysis features available in any timing diagram editor on the market including delay correlation, reconvergent fan-out, and clocks that model jitter and buffer delays. Three different levels of editing let you pick the best price and feature set for your application. Free yourself from the time-consuming process of manually writing Verilog, VHDL, and SystemC testbenches. Generate them graphically from timing diagrams.SynaptiCAD provides 3 levels of test bench generation to meet all your design needs. SynaptiCAD offers support for the latest test equipment and emulation...

Cadence Silicon Realization Technology, EDI System 9.1, Recognized as Best EDA – Design, Verification and Implementation Product by Electronic Design SAN JOSE, Calif., 15 Dec 2010 Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS), a global leader in electronic design innovation, is pleased to announce that it has won Electronic Design’s Best Electronic Design award for 2010 for the Cadence® Encounter® Digital Implementation (EDI) System 9.1 in the EDA – Design, Verification and Implementation Environment category. This product is highlighted in Electronic Design’s Dec. 9, 2010 issue. \”I am pleased to recognize Cadence’s Encounter Digital Implementation (EDI) System 9.1 as one of the best EDA technology offerings in 2010,\” said David Maliniak, EDA technology editor, Electronic Design. “The tools represent a realization...