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Release Notes Dezyne version 2.8.x

On the 3rd of July 2018 Dezyne Eclipse plugin/GUI 2.8.0 is released. We’ve also released a new version of the Dezyne command line called Dzn.
A recap of the most important fixes and improvements;

Blinkboot® UEFI Boot Loader helps Enable more Secure Intel IoT Devices

New White Paper! Brought to you by Insyde Software and the Intel IoT Solutions Alliance.

Tips & Tricks for Embedded GUI Design

How to create Displays with Seamless Graphics and User-Experience?

For you to win over your users’ hearts with your next embedded GUI display, outstanding graphics and a seamless user-experience is key! So how do you do create it? We give you some tips and tricks that give you a good start.

MDK supports Microchip SAML10/L11 devices

The new SAM L10 and SAM L11 microcontroller families from Microchip are based on the Arm® Cortex®-M23 core, with the SAM L11 featuring Arm TrustZone® technology for microcontrollers, a programmable environment that provides hardware isolation between certified libraries, IP and application code.

MDK v5.26 pre-release fully supports these devices with device family packs that include example applications for SAML10 and SAML11 Xplained Pro Evaluation Kits.

Increasing the power of Verification

Dezyne 2.8.0, "Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose"

As the complexity of software systems under development rapidly increases, Dezyne is being used to tackle ever more challenging verification and validation problems. To keep pace with the demand for more powerful verification, Verum has completed the integration of a completely new, game changing verification engine into Dezyne. Based on mCRL2 technology from the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), the new engine already outperforms its predecessor and provides a platform for verifying larger, more complex problems in the future, including functional verification.

Insyde® Software Powers Up Atos® BullSequana X1000 Supercomputer

Germany’s Fastest Supercomputer Leverages InsydeH2O® UEFI Firmware

Insyde® Software, a leading provider of UEFI BIOS and systems management software, is proud to announce that its flagship UEFI firmware, InsydeH2O®, is shipping on the newly launched Atos® BullSequana X1000 line of supercomputers featuring the Intel® Xeon® and Intel Xeon Scalable family of processors.

The BullSequana X1000, a 12-Petaflop machine (able to execute more than 12 million billion operations per second) will be Germany’s fastest supercomputer and one the most powerful computers in the world. Among other activities, the BullSequana X100 will be used in research for the Human Brain Project, which has as its goal to improve the understanding of the processes in the human brain through simulation.

The ‘Swiss Knife’ for testing PCBA’s

J-Testr+GTI, smart Test Solution follows Prototype to Production

By introducing the J-Testr+GTI, Eiger Design GmbH adds more functionality to its compact J-Testr Functional Test Platform. The prototype Exchangeable Unit allows testing of prototypes without customization, this ensures engineers can validate their design on arrival of a prototype from manufacturing without any delay.

Niko: iOS Design on Embedded Hardware in Three Days

Niko took the chance to test the possibilities of realizing their stunning GUI design on an embedded platform in our live UI workshop by TouchGFX at Embedded World. An offer given by Logic Technology who took the initiative of setting up the live UI workshop and approached Niko for participating. A challenging story of designing, coding and testing in a live setting on Embedded World.

Meet Chris: The Co-driver for Your Car

“As long as something is called a technology, it’s simply not ready for the user”, … once claimed. Although this isn’t necessarily a bad thing, it’s a good thing we have companies like German Autolabs who do their utmost best to pave the road towards more accessible and user-friendly technological advancements.

In the summer of 2018 they’ll launch the world’s first digital assistant for drivers. Patrick Weissert, CPO of German Autolabs, calls it: “a new way of interacting with your car.” Well, we like to refer to the device by its actual name: Chris. Now let’s get acquainted!

Reliance Edge Failsafe File System Availabe for Green Hills Assurance INTEGRITY Operating System

Green Hills Software, the worldwide leader in high assurance operating systems, and Datalight Inc., the leading developer of power failsafe file systems and flash memory drivers for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), are excited to announce the immediate availability of the Datalight Reliance Edge™ file system for Green Hills safe and secure INTEGRITY® real-time operating system (RTOS).

Keil MDK for Avnet IoT Starter Kit

Avnet has selected Keil MDK as the software development solution for the AT&T IoT Starter Kit. This new IoT starter kit enables power-efficient LTE-M cellular connectivity and the user-friendly MDK Microcontroller Development Kit helps to speed-up the overall development process.

USB 3.1 Connectors from Yamaichi Electronics

Yamaichi Electronics is expanding its already extensive portfolio of USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 products with the new USB series 3.1. A standard line of types A and C are offered, both in plug and socket variants. Cable assemblies in various variants and combinations are also available. The 9-pin version A is initially available in the TH variant. It is upwards compatible with older USB versions.

Why your future success depends on your software strategy

More than ever, society is dreaming of an utopian future where “Smart” technologies such as AI, IOT, Big Data and Autonomous Vehicles improve quality of life for the majority of the world’s populace. How to win the race to achieve dominance in "Smart" products and services?

Why Model Driven Software Engineering is the Future of Software Development

A small team of software engineers used model driven software engineering techniques to develop a large complex software system that is both reliable and robust, and in doing so achieved a productivity 2.5 times higher than the industry average for conventional software development. Using Verum’s software specification, design and verification tools, in five years (an average of) four engineers realized the entire control and application software for the Liteq 500, a lithographic, advanced packaging production system for semiconductors from Kulicke & Soffa. Read More..

DEMO: Do More and Consume Less with TouchGFX on STM32L4+

TouchGFX now supports ST’s new generation of STM32L4, giving you a whole new dimension of ‘do more, consume less’ for your GUI development.

The new STM32L4+ device is a new generation of the STM32L4 series that stretches performance to 150DMIPS (233 ULPMark-CP) at 120MHz, and it supports TouchGFX. STM32L4+ is an ideal fit for developing fitness bands, smart watches, small medical equipment, smart meters, and smart industrial sensors, as it allows for sophisticated functions and instant responses with minimal downtime for battery charging. Read more..

eXtremeDB from McObject Ads Lua to its Multi API’s

eXtremeDB version 8.0 adds Lua to its already extensive list of features. Toward that end, stored procedures are implemented in eXtremeDB 8.0 with the Lua language. Lua is increasingly popular in embedded systems due to its compact nature and efficiency, as well as ease-of-learning. Importantly, it combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data description constructs based on associative arrays and extensible semantics. Read more..

Added Security and Connectivity to Data Management on the Edge

eXtremeDB was developed to provide professional developers with the tools they need to meet, or exceed, the demands of the industry and v.8.0 lives up to that goal. One of the many new features eXtremeDB v.8.0 offers our customers to provide an IoT advantage is the way that the system supports “storage containers” on edge devices, improving connectivity with servers. The current generation of IoT networks tend to use IPv6, which is not optimized to manage massive data transmissions when bandwidth is limited (LoRaWAN data rates range from 0.3 kbps to 50 kbps). This can become a problem when an edge device only has intermittent contact with the servers and needs to deliver large packets of data. Read more...

Live ‘Idea to GUI Prototype’ Workshop at Embedded World 2018

Experience the magic it is to see an idea come to life, at our live ‘Idea to Prototype’ workshop at Embedded World in Nürnberg this February. Our Designer, User Experience Expert, and TouchGFX Developer team up with customers at the trade fair to get their hands dirty and take an idea to the prototype stage in an intense workshop session.

LDRA clears manufacturers’ path to IEC 62304 compliance

LDRA has announced LDRA tool suite for Medical Devices, a variant of its leading LDRA tool suite specifically tailored to help companies achieve IEC 62304 compliance and faster development of safety- and security-critical medical device applications. The LDRA tool suite for Medical Devices automates software quality analysis and testing while providing a traceable, auditable workflow from requirements through deployment for Class II and Class III medical devices.

Embedded Artists iMX RT1052 OEM board and Developer's Kit has been released

This board is equipped with NXP's Crossover Processor i.MX RT1052. It is a Cortex-M7 based processor capable at running up to 600 MHz. It is suitable for a wide range of industrial applications. See video..

High Quality Graphics Using Only Internal Memory

TouchGFX allows you to have high quality graphics on your devices without using external SD-RAM.

Users expect smartphone look and feel, not acknowledging the constraints of limited resources on microcontroller setups. The user expectations require 16-bit color depth normally pushing one to use external SD-RAM for two framebuffers. This requirement for external memory increases the complexity and cost of the hardware development and production cost. We experience a hard push from high volume product manufactures towards saving of external RAM, accepting only a minor UI performance limitation.

Popular microcontrollers from ST targeting GUI applications contain enough internal memory to hold one framebuffer + TouchGFX stack + RTOS. Read the full article (click title)..

Software Design Challenges for Heterogenic SOC’s

Modern embedded systems often have a wide variety in workloads and tasks to perform. These tasks vary from sophisticated HMI’s, visualizing graphics or HR video and processor intensive data-analysis to the real time monitoring of multiple sensors and control of actuators such as servo-engines. How to bring these together on one heterogenic SOC?

TouchGFX UI support for Renesas Synergy S7

TouchGFX UI applications fit perfectly with Renesas’ Synergy ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers. As a result, we are increasing our engagement with Renesas. With Europe as our starting point, Renesas Synergy and TouchGFX is now moving into the global market.

FLYER E-Bikes: FIT with TouchGFX

FLYER is a world leading Swiss e-bike manufacturer. With the groundbreaking range of FLYER e-bikes under its wings, the company is a pioneer within today’s e-bike market. In the development of one of their latest bikes, they used TouchGFX to develop their high-end display, D1. Read the full article (click title)..

Secure IIoT applications need secure application code

IIRA? Or RAMI 4.0? Both Demand High Quality Software

Mark Richardson, working for LDRA, an expert in the development of real-time embedded software, is presenting a paper on Secure IIoT Applications and why they need Secure Application Code at the SC2 conference in Eindhoven, October 2, 2017.

Dediprog introduces a new programming solution at Productronica 2017

At one of the world's leading trade fair for electronics development and production- Productronica, Dediprog will release the latest programming solution for UFS & eMMC on the trade show; also, on our stand, we will demonstrate the universal type automated programming system, DP1000, and the repacking machine, DP900.

Your favorite ARM development tool – now on Linux

Atollic today released TrueSTUDIO 8.0.0, a stable version running on Linux host PCs. Atollic is a well-known company, its product TrueSTUDIO has during its eight years in the market established a position as one of the top 3 most commonly used development tools for ARM Cortex-M development. TrueSTUDIO stands out in the top 3 list by embracing open standards, by using a flexible business model and by now also being available on Linux host OS.

Closing the Gap between Developers and Designers

The familiar and easy-to-use interface of the TouchGFX Designer allows designers to improve ideas and make fast changes. As the code is generated directly for the developer to pick up exactly where the designer left off, this process practically eliminates the gap between designers and developers – a gap which is often filled with hand-over documents, frustrations, and misunderstandings.

TouchGFX 4.8.0 - Adding New Features and TouchGFX Designer

TouchGFX 4.8.0 has been optimized with our new GUI builder, TouchGFX Designer, along with useful enhancements that help you create innovative GUI applications with stunning graphics fast and easy.

Extended MDK editions and ULINKplus

At Embedded World 2017 in Nuremberg, ARM announced new editions of the popular Keil MDK Microcontroller Development Kit and extensions to the ULINK Debug Adapter Series.

Test Your Ideas with a UI Prototype

Prototyping is a great way to test the look and feel of your project. It also provides you with a proof-of-concept that clearly demonstrates the quality of graphics and animations TouchGFX enables.

With a TouchGFX prototype, we help move your concept quickly to the next stage with a TouchGFX based prototype application that impresses your customers and persuade decision makers.

Software Archaeology in Practice; Recovering lost behaviour from legacy code

A presentation at Embedded World 2017 – by Robert C. Howe, CEO Verum Software Tools BV.
Reengineering legacy software is risky, undesirable but nevertheless occasionally unavoidable. The core challenge is to efficiently and effectively uncover the behaviour of a legacy system. At Embedded World 2017, Verum will present a paper entitled “Software Archaeology: Recovering lost behaviour from legacy code”. We will explain how the behaviour of entire legacy (sub) systems can be systematically rediscovered and captured in verifiably complete and correct Dezyne models, which then provide a basis for further reengineering. We will also be demonstrating this technique at our stand. Facing challenges with your legacy code base? Read more about our presentation..

What's new in MDK

ARM® Keil® MDK is the industry-leading standard software development solution for ARM Cortex® microcontrollers. In the latest release, MDK v5.22 several significant features are added that are summarized with useful information in this news article.

Updated Keil Device Family Packs for Atmel, NXP, and ST

For MDK Version 5 additional software components and support for microcontroller devices is provided by Software Packs. DFP (Device Family Pack) indicates that a Software Pack contains support for microcontroller devices. The Software Packs have been updated with latest software and device support.

Keil MCB54110 Evaluation Board for NXP LCP54000 series

ARM today announced the availability of the Keil MCB54110 Evaluation Board for the NXP LPC54000 microcontroller series that is based on the high-performance ARM® Cortex®-M4 core, with optional Cortex-M0+ co-processor for efficient software partitioning.

The Dezyne Developer Challenge

We invite you to take part on Verum's Dezyne Challenge 2016. Everyone who completes the Challenge will receive a Raspberry PI 3B as thanks for participating. Two lucky winners will each receive a 3D Printer for their efforts. The Dezyne Challenge runs from the 1st of December 2016 – 31st January 2017. It requires participants to develop a small, illustrative example of the use of Dezyne and to provide Verum with ideas on how Dezyne could be made easier and more fun to use. The submitter of the best example will win a 3D Printer. The participant who provides us with the most ideas on how to make Dezyne better will also be rewarded with a 3D Printer.

Logic Technology awarded for “Most Forward Thinking Distributor 2016” by ARM

Panningen - October 12, 2016 - Logic Technology receives the 2016 ARM innovation award for “Most Forward Thinking Distributor” by reaching beyond traditional markets.

New UFS/eMMC Solutions: Fully Support UFS chips from Toshiba, Samsung, and Hynix

Other than eMMC, which has been widely used in the storage application, the demand of UFS (Universal Flash Storage) is increasing gradually, and UFS has been adopted in various applications. Therefore, DediProg has developed programmers for UFS and eMMC. We are offering three kinds of UFS/eMMC programming solutions, which can fully support the UFS chips from Toshiba, Samsung, and Hynix.

Increase Performance, Power Efficiency, and Reliability

Seize the opportunity for system and embedded applications. The new Intel® System Studio 2017 has all you need to quickly build, debug, and optimize your embedded solutions so you can get them to market faster.

J-Testr now supports popular FEASA LED Analysers

The universal J-Testr platform now supports the versatile FEASA LED Analysers via a simple & easy to use 4 wire UART connection (5V, GND, TX and RX).

ARM DS-5 v5.25 available now

DS-5 v5.25 includes overlay support for ARM Cortex-R processors and enhanced support for CoreSight ELA-500 with DS-5 use-case scripts. DS-5 v5.25 also adds additional FVPs, core support and the Mali Graphics Debugger.

Getting Your Python Code to Run Faster Using Intel® VTune™ Amplifier

In the latest version of Intel® VTune™ Amplifier XE 2017 (currently available free in the Intel® Parallel Studio XE Beta program), we now have the ability to analyze Python* scripts and find exactly where time is being spent in an application. In this article, we show how to use this new Intel VTune Amplifier Python functionality.

Intel System Studio 2016 Update 3 is now available

Intel® System Studio 2016 helps system and embedded developers to deliver great products on Intel® architecture-based platforms. This comprehensive suite includes advanced tools and technologies to help speed delivery of energy-efficient, high-performance, smart, connected devices across wide-ranging system and embedded platforms. Intel System Studio 2016 Update 3 packages are now ready for download.

Important Changes for Keil MDK-ARM Users !

In May 2016, ARM Ltd. will release MDK v.5.20. With this release, the ARM MDK-Standard edition will be replaced by its successor: MDK-Plus edition. MDK-Plus extends the features of MDK-Standard by including the following middleware components of the Professional edition; IPv4 Networking, US Device, Flash File System and GUI Library. To ease the transition and let you profit from these extra middleware components, we are giving you the opportunity to upgrade to MDK-Plus at no extra cost until May 2nd, 2016.

Video introduction LDRA Tool Suit - V10.0 and LDRAlite for ARM DS-5 software

LDRA introduces it’s latest release of the LDRA Tool Suite – V10.0 and LDRAlite™ for ARM® DS-5 software.

Making design-for-test a push-button process

March 02, 2016 // By Philip Ling
Implementing a Design for Test approach when designing PCBs at the schematic capture stage can now be significantly assisted using an innovative and free software extension that adds design verification to Altium Designer.

3 Intel® Software Updates available

Your Development tools just got better with 3 software updates.

ARM DS-5 version 5.24 Development Studio supports Functional Safety with LDRA’s MISRA Compliance Tools

ARM has integrated the industry-leading MISRA (Motor Industry Software Reliability Association) conformance tools into the ARM® DS-5 Development Studio tool suite. The addition of a MISRA-checking capability to its TÜV-certified ARM Compiler and safety qualification kit makes DS-5 the ideal software development platform for ARM-based products in use in safety-critical markets such as automotive, healthcare and industrial automation.

ARM DS-5 v.5.23.1; New Cortex-A35, ARMv8-M Models and Video and more..

To start off 2016, ARM has added Juno r2 support in DS-5 debugger and new Cortex®-A35 and ARMv8-M models. In this update we also look forward to the latest ARMv8-M architecture and get ready to take advantage of improved performance and security.

New ProgMaster Programmer Series Integrated with LCD and Keypad

Dediprog releases new ProgMaster Series with integrated LCD and keypad. The LCD and keypad function was previously detached from the programmer as optional item. Now, we have integrated LCD Keypad with the programmer, which helps user to realize "ease of use", improve production efficiency and save space. This configuration enables a fully and truly standalone function without connecting to a computer.

New 2016 features for the J-Testr Functional Test System

The J-Testr is a configurable, easy-to-setup & use test system, either for R&D hardware verification or manufacturing test of circuit boards. It replaces large and costly ATE and PXI-based systems, by reducing costs, (compact) size and the ability to easy re-use the system for different target boards.

Myth Busting video: Caches are unreliable

Perhaps the most widely held belief about write caching is that it makes a system unreliable. Something along the lines of "Data written to a cache instead of to the media will be lost on an unexpected power interruption, leaving the system in a damaged state and rendering data useless." There are a variety of options busting this myth.

ARM DS-5 v5.23 has arrived

DS-5 v5.23 brings to you support for the new ARMv8-M architecture in ARM Compiler 6.3, pre-configured Streamline templates and performance improvements across the board.

Datalight Reliance Edge Now Available for Micrium’s µC/OS-II, µC/OS-III

BOTHELL, Wash., – November 24, 2015 – Datalight Inc., leading developer of file systems and flash memory drivers for the Industrial Internet of Things, today announced that its Reliance EdgeTM power failsafe file system is now available pre-ported to Micrium µC/OS-II® and µC/OS-III® real time operating system (RTOS) kernels.

How to use emtrion's hardware as PLC?

The question to ask is, are there any reason why you are not using emtrion's hardware as PLC. Not really. On the one hand it's dependent on the use case and its requirements such as real-time, certification etc. and the other hand on the effort needed to transform it to a PLC. It is possible to transform an emtrion hardware into a PLC in less than one work day.

Myth Busting: SSDs are Faster than SDs – or Are They?

At the request of a customer in the banking machines segment, Datalight recently completed an investigation of some performance differences they were seeing between SD and SSD on their embedded target. The findings left us scratching our head a bit. On the surface, SSDs and SDs have some things in common (beyond having S and D in their names) but many differences as well.

How to choose File Systems, go Big or rely on Small?

The embedded systems market is extraordinarily diverse. Virtually any electronic device that is not a desktop computer or an enterprise data center behemoth is under the “embedded system” umbrella. With such variation in form factor, use case, price point and processing need it should come as no surprise that data storage needs differ as well.

Topic Products has released Dyplo1.2, the new version of their Dynamic Process Loader

With this release, Topic Products improved the way logic can be moved between CPU and FPGA by adding C/C++ support. The 1.2 release of Dyplo introduces an automatic task infrastructure for C/C++. This allows C/C++ files to be directly imported and automatically converted to VHDL. Direct of your C/C++ code for the FPGA allows you to have one common code base for both CPU and FPGA.

J-Testr Video; Ethernet Quick Introduction to Advanced JTAG Debugging

Quick video introduction to the Ethernet version of the J-Testr.

A Comparative Study of Flash Storage Technologies for Embedded Devices

By Ken Whitaker, Vice President Engineering, Datalight
How do you choose between different storage technologies for your embedded project? And what impact do other system components (operating system, device driver, and even applications) have on the end user experience?

Datalight Reliance Edge version 1.0 has been officially released

This means first release of the commercial kit and MISRA C:2012 Design Assurance Package. The commercial kit includes many new tools and tests which were not previously available.

Attach to running target using SEGGER J-Link

Atollic technical support team are often asked how to make Atollic TrueSTUDIO connect to a running target in order to troubleshoot a crashed CPU. This article shows, step-by-step, how to connect to a running target without resetting it.