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• FPGAs for ASIC Prototyping Bridge Global Development

  ASIC Prototyping with FPGAs faces global development challenges in the hardware-software IoT and automotive markets.

• Next generation retail & digital signage solutions MSC C6B-8S based on Intel 4th generation Core processors

  Innovative retail technologies improve the supply chain coordination, react to market demands, and improve interaction with customers. System integrators provide hardware and software compatibility, multi-channel sources and interactive user interfaces. This is where MSC Technologies’ powerful digital signage and vending system solutions including innovative displays and powerful computer-on-modules come in.

• GE AXIS Middleware for Mixed Architecture Signal Processing

  Our AXIS software provides libraries for signal processing and inter-processor communications along with graphical tools to facilitate system visualization and rapid prototyping.

• Expert-Integrated COM Design-in Services , Advantech(EN)

  Advantech Expert-Integrated COM Design-in Services

• MSC C6B-8S Type 6 COM Express Module

  The MSC C6B-8S module is based on Intel's 4th generation of Core™ processors which bring a significant gain in computing and graphics performance compared to their predecessors. Various Core-i3, i5, i7 and Celeron processors are supported by this design. Next to an extensive set of interfaces and features, the MSC C6B-8S offers turbo boost capabilities for CPU and graphics controller, accelerated video encoding/decoding and hardware-based security compliant to the requirements of TCG (Trusted Computing Group). The Type 6 pin-out allows direct access to the latest digital display interfaces like DisplayPort, HDMI and DVI. USB 3.0 interfaces support the fasted peripheral devices currently available.

• Rip Van Winkle Bluetooth Low Energy Wakes Up, Then Sleeps Again

  Bluetooth Low Energy (LE, or BLE, or Smart) is all about sending and receiving data just like any other Bluetooth device, but doing so using much less power. It's ideally suited for M2M applications where a device wakes up, transmits or receives data, then goes back to sleep. The Bluetooth SIG specifies myriad application profiles from healthcare ("Blood Pressure Profile") to Sports and Fitness. At the recent DESIGN West 2013 conference, editor-in-chief Chris A. Ciufo got the lowdown on Laird's new BL600 Bluetooth LE Smart modules.

• Extension Media Interview with Microchip's Joe Drzewiecki

  Editor Chris Ciufo spent time with Microchip software manager Joe Drzewiecki at the Spring DESIGN West show (formerly known as ESC). Microchip launched their new MPLAB X compiler strategy that now goes across all Microchip MCUs. It also adds a new license strategy, optimizations that compile 35 percent faster on 32-bit devices (or save 35 percent on code size). There's also a "totally free" version of the MPLAB X compiler. Check out the 3 minute video.