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Microchip Technology Offers PICDEM Lab Development Kit

Saturday, March 21st, 2009

Microchip Technology, a provider of microcontroller and analog semiconductors, announced the PICDEM Lab Development Kit, a comprehensive, entry-level development platform for all of Microchip’s 8-bit Flash PIC microcontrollers (MCUs) with 20 or fewer pins.

Geared toward educators, students and those who are new to microcontrollers, the PICDEM Lab Development Kit comes complete with a development board containing five 8-bit PIC MCUs; a bag of discrete components; a PICkit 2 Debugger/Programmer; and a CD containing a User’s Guide, labs and application examples.

Microchip said the kit provides everything needed to develop applications using Microchip’s 8-bit PIC MCUs.

A solderless prototyping area on the PICDEM Lab development board allows users to explore a number of application examples described in the “hands-on” labs from the PICDEM Lab User’s Guide that comes with the kit. The easy-to-follow labs provide an intuitive introduction to common peripherals and then move into a variety of application examples to reinforce core concepts. Even users with little or no knowledge of how to integrate microcontrollers into analog circuits can do so with ease, according to the company. Additionally, expansion headers provide complete access/connectivity to all MCU pins and mounted components on the PICDEM Lab development board, enabling designers to evaluate the various 8-bit MCUs and choose the right one for their application.

“The PICDEM Lab Development Kit is a great addition to Microchip’s 8-bit tool suite, offering an off-the-shelf evaluation kit for many of Microchip’s low pin count 8-bit MCUs,” said Derek Carlson, vice president of Microchip’s Development Tools group. “The kit provides an affordable solution for new customers who wish to learn how our advanced peripherals can help simplify their designs, as well as an excellent resource for educators who design microcontroller-based engineering courses.”

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Altera Releases Embedded Systems Development Kit

Saturday, March 21st, 2009

Altera Corp. announced availability of its Embedded Systems Development Kit, Cyclone III FPGA Edition, a platform that accelerates the prototyping and development of FPGA-based embedded systems.

The multi-board development kit features a Cyclone III EP3C120 device, a low-cost FPGA currently shipping that combines a set of on-board memories, I/O interfaces, peripherals and pre-built reference designs. With the recent release of Wind River Linux support for Altera’s Nios II soft processor, designers can use this hardware platform as a basis for developing embedded Linux designs.

Altera’s Embedded Systems Development Kit, Cyclone III FPGA Edition contains a selection of pre-built processor systems, intellectual property (IP), operating systems and software applications. Users create their FPGA-based embedded system by selecting from a multitude of on-board example processor systems, demonstration designs and reference designs.

The Embedded Systems Development Kit, Cyclone III Edition is a three-board solution that includes a Cyclone III FPGA development board, featuring two high-speed mezzanine connectors (HSMCs), an LCD multimedia HSMC board and a multipurpose HSMC card. The Cyclone III FPGA development board features an EP3C120F780 FPGA, 256 Mbytes of dual-channel DDR2 SDRAM with ECC, 8 Mbytes of pseudo SRAM, 64 Mbytes of flash and a 10/100/1000 Ethernet communication port. The development kit includes Altera’s complete design suite DVD featuring the Quartus II Web Edition design software, ModelSim-Altera Starter Edition, the Nios II embedded design suite and Altera’s MegaCore IP library the company noted in a release.

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Single board computer designer GE Fanuc offers software development tool for embedded development

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

Single board computer specialist GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms in Charlottesville, Va., is introducing the AXISLib-CL signal and vector processing library for software development in military and aerospace applications such as defense radar, sonar system development, and signals intelligence (SIGINT).

The AXISLib-CL military software library is an embedded development tool not only for developers of SIGINT and other military embedded applications, but also for commercial embedded systems like medical imaging where rapid development of sophisticated digital signal processing and image processing applications is a requirement.

AXIS is GE Fanuc’s advanced multiprocessor integrated software development environment, designed to speed and simplify the creation and debugging of sophisticated digital signal processing (DSP) applications.

AXISLib-CL extends its capabilities by providing platform-independent DSP and mathematical functions. This allows developers to begin work on application software ahead of the identification, testing and procurement of the target hardware platform, substantially reducing time to deployment.

“The requirement to field advanced embedded systems in the shortest possible time is intensifying rapidly,” said Peter Cavill, general manager of military & aerospace at GE Fanuc. “AXISLib-CL responds to this requirement, saving time and money, as well as widening the choices available to the system architect by removing hardware selection from the critical path of early application development and testing.”

AXISLib-CL is a linkable software library that enables software developers to build DSP and vector math algorithms from a suite of library functions, and runs on a range of processors including those from Freescale and Intel.

For more information contact GE Fanuc online at www.gefanuc.com.

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