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R&S: RTE oscilloscopes with bandwidths
from 200 MHz to 1 GHz
The new R&S RTE from Rohde & Schwarz is
available with bandwidths from 200 MHz to 1
GHz. An acquisition rate of more than one
million waveforms per second helps users find
signal faults quickly. The scope’s highly accurate
digital trigger system with virtually no trigger
jitter delivers highly precise results. The single-
core A/D converter with more than seven ef-
fective bits (ENOB) almost completely elimi-
nates signal distortion. With a sampling rate of
5 Gsample per second and a maximummemory
depth of 50 Msample per channel, the R&S
RTE can accurately record the long signal se-
quences required when analyzing the data con-
tent of serial protocols such as I2C and CAN.
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KW-Software: Raspberry Pi goes PLC
The entry into automation technology does not
necessarily have to be expensive and complex.
In time for this year’s SPS IPC Drives show,
KW-Software presents the IEC 61131 Starter
Kit based on the Raspberry Pi. To use the Starter
Kit, users simply need a Raspberry Pi (Rev. B)
with PiFace and the Linux Debian Wheezy op-
erating system as hardware platform. Only basic
knowledge is required for its commissioning.
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SEGGER makes processor trace
debugging affordable
SEGGER’s J-Link software package, which
comes with all J-Link and J-Trace models,
now includes a trace decoder. Tool-chains for
embedded systems development no longer
need to create their own complex decoder.
They can use the new Simple Trace API (Sim-
ple-TRACE) from SEGGER. Even free GNU-
based offerings will be able to add Trace capa-
bilities to their tool-chain with little effort.
They need to implement the display of the
data only, as the data is already analysed and
neatly packaged by SEGGER.
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LDRA: Compliance Management System
enables ISO 26262 compliance
LDRA releases the LDRA Compliance Man-
agement System (LCMS) to provide companies
with the proper infrastructure enabling ISO
26262 compliance. LCMS for ISO 26262 walks
customers through the fully compliant plans,
document and transition checklists, standards
and other lifecycle documents, and problem
reports to help customers manage software
planning, development, verification, and
regulatory activities of ISO 26262 Part 6,
Product Development: Software Level (ISO
26262-6). LCMS for ISO 26262-6 details a
process that ensures software functional safety
at dramatically reduced project costs.
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SYSGO, Esterel and CoreAVI provide joint
certified solutions for avionics
SYSGO with PikeOS, Esterel Technologies with
SCADE Display, and Core Avionics & Industrial
with OpenGL ES/SC Graphics Drivers collab-
orate to offer integrated and certifiable solu-
tions for the design of critical embedded avion-
ics display systems. These solutions benefit
from the most recent technologies available in
the COTS avionics market, while offering
capabilities for high performance embedded
OpenGL SC and OpenGL ES Human Machine
Interfaces with DO-178C objectives up to level
A in the aerospace industry.
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LDRA partners with Xilinx to bring code
compliance to Zynq-7000 family
To streamline standards compliance for safe-
ty-critical application development, the LDRA
tool suite has been integrated with the Xilinx
Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC and the
Xilinx Zynq-7000 AP SoC Development Kit.
Xilinx is leveraging LDRA structural coverage
and standards compliance tools to enhance
Zynq-7000 boot loader code and device driver
code for key markets that require certification,
compliance, and functional safety. LDRA tools
are enabling Xilinx to provide additional value
for developers of safety- and security-critical
applications.
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Maxim: IO-link ambient light sensor
Using the Santa Cruz ambient light sensor
fromMaxim Integrated Products factories can
quickly configure and monitor multiple red,
green, blue and infrared ambient light sensors
with the high accuracy required in industrial
applications. To stay competitive and maintain
high quality, modern factories must be agile,
maximizing “uptime” while reducing costs.
The Santa Cruz ALS solution enables connected
factories. This reference system provides a
wide, dynamic range of clear, RGB, and IR
light, and temperature data. Santa Cruz is
tuned to the response of the human eye for
accurate system function relative to visible
light. In addition, it is unsurpassed for light
sensitivity and low latency.
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Wind River reinvents the RTOS for the
Internet of Things
Wind River announced that it has reinvented
the real-time operating system to address the
new market opportunities created by the In-
ternet of Things. VxWorks has been re-archi-
tected with a highly modular approach leading
to the separation of the VxWorks core operating
system from packages such as the file system
or networking stack. As a result, individual
applications can now be updated at any time
without requiring a rework or retest of the en-
tire system, increasing scalability and the ability
to quickly adjust to market changes.
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Digia announces major update to Qt
Enterprise Embedded
Digia has released a major update to Qt
Enterprise Embedded, the fully-integrated
solution that enables users to get started im-
mediately with software development for an
embedded device with a tailored user experi-
ence. The Qt Enterprise Embedded update
introduces several new value-add features that
further increase developer efficiency, applica-
tion and device performance and ultimately
shortens software embedded development time
to just hours.
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Cadence expands ARM-based system
verification solution
Cadence Design Systems announced an
expansion of its ARM-based design system
verification solution in order to drive shorter
time-to-market for mobile, networking and
server applications. This expanded solution
from Cadence features several enhancements
and speeds system design and early software
development for ARM Cortex-A processor
series based systems.
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XJTAG: XJDeveloper allows creation of
projects for boards without netlists
XJTAG has unleashed version 3.2 of its boundary
scan development system. This major new release
extends the concept of boundary scan testing to
allow engineers to test boards where they do
not have access to a netlist. The flagship feature
of XJTAG’s version 3.2 release, the ‘no netlist’
feature allows users to create projects within
XJDeveloper for boards without netlists, using
just BDSL files for the JTAG devices. Connections
between these devices are derived from a working
board and automatically added to the project.
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