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he MDK-ARM is a complete software development environment for Cortex™-M, Cortex-R4, ARM7™ and ARM9™ processor-based devices. MDK-ARM is specifically designed for microcontroller applications, it is easy to learn and use, yet powerful enough for the most demanding embedded applications.Download MDK-LiteFeatures Complete support for Cortex-M, Cortex-R4, ARM7, and ARM9 devices Industry-leading ARM C/C++ Compilation Toolchain µVision4 IDE, debugger, and simulation environment Keil RTX deterministic, small footprint real-time operating system (with source code) TCP/IP Networking Suite offers multiple protocols and various applications USB Device and USB Host stacks are provided with standard driver classes ULINKpro enables on-the-fly analysis of running applications and records every executed Cortex-M instruction Complete Code Coverage information about your program\’s execution Execution Profiler and Performance Analyzer enable program...

Cadence® Assura® Design Rule Checker (DRC) is part of the design verification suite of tools within the Virtuoso® custom design platform. Assura DRC is a full-featured tool that supports both interactive and batch operation modes and utilizes hierar- chical processing for fast, efficient identification and correction of design rule errors in even the most advanced designs.the virtuoso customdesign platform When design objectives dictate manipulat-ing precise analog quantities—voltages,currents, charges, and continuous ratiosof parameter values such as resistance andcapacitance—companies turn to customdesign. Full-custom design maximizesperformance while minimizing area andpower. However, it requires significanthandcrafting by a select set of engineerswith very high skill levels. In addition,custom analog circuits are more sensitiveto physical effects, which are exacerbatedat new, nanometer process nodes. The Virtuoso custom...

Verification is the most time consuming task in ASIC design today.Certify ASIC RTL prototyping software from the Synopsys® Synplicity®Business Group helps accelerate the verification phase by allowing youto build multi-FPGA based prototypes of your ASIC design in an easy,intuitive fashion, and with no modifications to the original design. ASICprototypes typically deliver speeds between 10 – 80 MHz, far in excessof any other verification technology and at a lower cost than any otherhardware solution. Previous FPGA prototyping techniques have beendifficult, cumbersome, and time consuming. The Certify solutionsimplifies the prototyping process by providing an intuitive, user-friendlytool that works directly from your RTL code combined with theleading Quality of Results (QoR) that the Synplicity Business Group isknown for. Certify Highlights • Combines best-in-class...

Circuit designSelectively automating non-critical aspects of custom IC design allows engineers to focus on precision-crafting their designs. Cadence® circuit design solutions enable fast and accurate entry of design concepts—which includes managing design intent in a way that flows naturally in the schematic—coupled with an advanced design environment that allows designers to visualize and understand the many interdependencies of an analog, RF, or mixed-signal design and their effects on circuit performance. Virtuoso Schematic EditorProvides a complete design and constraint composition environment for front-to-back analog, custom-digital, RF, and mixed-signal designs.Designed to help users create manufacturing-robust designs, Cadence® Virtuoso® Analog Design Environment is the advanced design and simulation environment for the Virtuoso platform. It gives designers access to a new parasitic estimation and...

Encounter Digital Implementation System is an integrated solution that provides the fastest deterministic path to silicon realization. By leveraging and preserving design intent, enabling higher levels of abstraction, and ensuring quick convergence, it optimizes the implementation of giga-gate–scale, low-power, mixed-signal, and advanced node designs. In a single environment, Encounter Digital Implementation System supports RTL synthesis, rapid design exploration, accurate chip feasibility analysis, full-chip virtual prototyping, full-chip digital implementation, and in-design signoff. With an early, precise view of design feasibility, engineers can progress immediately to full-scale implementation and final signoff for large-scale, complex designs—without ever leaving the solution environment. BenefitsPredictability and convergence * Combines the power of RTL synthesis, early design exploration, full-chip prototyping and design implementation, in-design DFM, and final...

Laker custom IC design solutions offer the power of controllable automation and unmatched interoperability to achieve superior layout results with less effort for analog, mixed-signal, and custom digital designs. More than 300 companies, including many of the world’s leading semiconductor companies, have adopted the Laker layout system for designs down to 28 nanometers. For more information about Laker products,SpringSoft, Inc., a global supplier of specialized IC design software, is pleased to announce that its Laker™ Custom Automation Layout System has received the Best Electronic Design 2010 Award from Electronic Design Magazine. The award recognizes the advancements in custom chip digital place-and-route solutions and OpenAccess (OA) interoperability enabled by the latest release of the Laker system.Product:Laker 2010 11 p1 Lanaguage: Platform:Linux...

Ultimate Productivity for FPGA Logic Design The ISE® Design Suite: Logic Edition includes exclusive tools and technologies to help achieve optimal design results. These include Intelligent Clock-Gating for dynamic power reduction, Team Design for multi-site design teams, Design Preservation for timing repeatability, and Partial Reconfiguration for greater system flexibility, size, power and cost reduction.Achieve Greater Designer Productivity From product installation through design verification, ISE Design Suite 13 helps you make maximum use of your time and design resources. The ISE Design Suite – Logic Edition provides a complete design environment for your RTL-based design needs – with exclusive technologies such as ChipScope™ Pro and the ChipScope Pro Serial I/O Toolkit, ISE™ Simulator, and PlanAhead™ – along with Multi-processor support allowing...

What is FloTHERM PCB? FloTHERM PCB is a unique, newsoftware program for streamlining conceptdevelopment of printed-circuit boards(PCBs), whilst ensuring good thermaldesign and accelerating the PCB designprocess. FloTHERM PCB facilitates collaborationbetween product marketing, electronicengineers and mechanical engineerson PCB design, particularly during theconceptual phase of the design process.FloTHERM PCB promotes a conceptualdesign process that is derived from thefunctional block diagram. Changesmade to the functional block diagram areinstantly reflected in the physical layoutand thermal representations. This keepsall team members in sync and enablesthem to contribute to concept developmentin real time. The result is pre-optimizedconcepts in less time and drasticreductions in late-cycle rework as productmarketing, mechanical, thermal andmanufacturing issues are solved beforeconcept commit. Who can use FloTHERM PCB? FloTHERM PCB is designed to be...

Sonnet\’s suites of high-frequency electromagnetic (EM) Software are aimed at today\’s demanding design challenges involving predominantly planar (3D planar) circuits and antennas. Predominantly planar circuits include microstrip, stripline, coplanar waveguide, PCB (single and multiple layers) and combinations with vias, vertical metal sheets (z-directed strips), and any number of layers of metal traces embedded in stratified dielectric material. The Sonnet® Suites™ develop precise RF models (S-, Y-, Z-parameters or extracted SPICE model) for planar circuits and antennas. The software requires a physical description of your circuit (arbitrary layout and material properties for metal and dielectrics), and employs a rigorous Method-of-Moments EM analysis based on Maxwell\’s equations that includes all parasitic, cross-coupling, enclosure and package resonance effects. Sonnet maintains a single, dedicated...

Version 7.0 is the next step in the on-going growth of Pulsonix, responding to customer demand and continuing to provide best-in-class range of functionality. Below is an overview of the major new features in the release.Pulsonix now supports STEP, the industry standard for interfacing to Mechanical CAD systems. This allows you to provide a detailed 3D model of your PCB to your MCAD system such as SolidWorks or Autodesk Inventor, including populating the board with accurate 3D component representations by referencing STEP models. Many of these models are provided by component suppliers free of charge and can be downloaded from the internet, then referenced from your PCB design in just a few quick steps.Scripting Scripts can be written using a...