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Simplify rackmount cabinet Integration at Amplicon

Amplicon's Industrial Computing group has announced the release of a range of industrial-grade cabinets perfectly suited to house Amplicon's extensive range of industrial rackmount computers, data communication and test equipment.
 
The new range has been carefully designed for the rigors of industrial grade applications, constructed from a rugged, welded steel housing with mesh doors, to provide optimal airflow for the valuable industrial hardware contained within.
 
Available in a wide range of cabinet sizes to suit the hardware required, with heights up to 45U, and depths to 1200mm, potentially allowing up to 45U of rackmount equipment to be consolidated into a compact 600 x 600mm footprint.
 
With simplicity in mind the new range can be supplied as a fully integrated 'turn key' solution; supplied ready for use, or as a versatile starter kit; supplied with everything you need to get you up and running with your own cabinet integrations, including power distribution, cable management and fixings. Complete with 'U' marked uprights to assist with these integrations.

Amplicon's cabinet integration service allows complete rackmount solutions to be professionally built against your own technical drawings and specification, allowing every last detail of the cabinet configuration and fitted hardware to be captured and easily replicated, ideal for projects where multiple installations of cabinets are required to meet the same specification.
 
The service allows your entire cabinet integration to be fully managed by Amplicon, consolidating and simplifying your supply chain to a single order; substantially reducing purchasing costs of more complex integration projects.
 
 Amplicon in profile
Amplicon is a global business with over 35 years experience of manufacturing and distribution. Amplicon provides the marketplace with a wide range of complex, connected computer-based measurement and automation systems that can be customised and bundled for easy integration. With a history firmly based in engineering Amplicon has a technically competent workforce backed by a state of the art EMC test facility.

For further information, view website: www.amplicon.com  or e-mail: sales@amplicon.com  

Synopsys speeds equivalence checking by 2X at Nuvoton

Nuvoton Technology Corp (TSE:4919), affiliate of Winbond Electronics Corp, has chosen Formality(r) equivalence checking as its standard to accelerate verification of its Super I/O chips, displacing its existing solution. Using Formality, Nuvoton designers were able to complete equivalence checking out of the box twice as fast, allowing them to meet their challenging design and schedule goals. This success is now driving broad deployment of Formality at Nuvoton.     

"Time to market is critical to our business," said Chun-Ming Chang assistant vice president at Nuvoton. "Formality delivered a 2X boost to our equivalence checking process and has helped us meet our critical tapeout schedule. It was easy to learn and use in our DC Ultra(tm) synthesis flow. We have standardised on Formality for all of our future designs."

Equivalence checking is performed throughout the design process, with failures often requiring multiple iterations that can take weeks to resolve. To accelerate the verification process, Formality is designed to work seamlessly with DC Ultra RTL synthesis, eliminating the need for the user to manually create complex setup files and bear the risk of erroneous verification. In addition, new technology in Formality is designed to analyse each failing point in a design and recommend step-by-step guidance to help the user quickly pinpoint and resolve issues saving many hours of manual debugging. Formality also includes an intuitive flow-based user interface to guide the user through the verification process, improving designer productivity and accelerating the time to successful verification.

"Our customers are required to develop complex chips while reducing design schedules in order to stay competitive in the marketplace," said Ahsan Bootehsaz, vice president of engineering, design analysis and sign-off at Synopsys. "We are committed to developing groundbreaking technologies in Formality that offer customers like Nuvoton the best turn-around-time for their most complex and highly optimised designs."

Nuvoton in profile
Nuvoton Technology Corp.(TSE:4919), a leading IC company headquartered in Taiwan Hsinchu Science Park, was established in 2008 as a spin-out of Winbond Electronics' Logic business group and IPO in 2010. Nuvoton Technology focuses on the R&D and sales in two main product lines: consumer electronics ICs and computer ICs, and leads in global market shares of speech ICs and computer related application ICs. Nuvoton owns a six-inch wafer fab, featuring in special niche process. Besides in-house IC products, the wafer fab also provides part of its capacity for foundry services. Nuvoton Technology provides high cost performance products for its customers by means of flexible technology innovation capabilities, full product solutions and excellent integration of technology synergy. Nuvoton offers superior services based on existing solid foundation and continues to realise its vision: "Be an indispensable partner to industry leaders." Nuvoton values the long-term relationship with its partners and customers; the company has established subsidiaries in the USA, China and Israel to strengthen regional customer support and global management. Visit Nuvoton online at http://www.nuvoton.com/.

Synopsys in profile
Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq:SNPS) is a world leader in electronic design automation (EDA), supplying the global electronics market with the software, intellectual property (IP) and services used in semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing. Synopsys' comprehensive, integrated portfolio of implementation, verification, IP, manufacturing and field-programmable gate array (FPGA) solutions helps address the key challenges designers and manufacturers face today, such as power and yield management, system-to-silicon verification and time-to-results. These technology-leading solutions help give Synopsys customers a competitive edge in bringing the best products to market quickly while reducing costs and schedule risk. Synopsys is headquartered in Mountain View, California, and has approximately 70 offices located throughout North America, Europe, Japan, Asia and India.

Synopsys, DC Ultra and Formality are registered trademarks or trademarks of Synopsys, Inc. Any other trademarks mentioned in this release are the intellectual property of their respective owners.

For further information, view website: http://www.synopsys.com 
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Atego launch Artisan Studio 7.2, a major new version
of its flagship model-driven development tool suite

Atego, the leading independent supplier of industrial-grade, collaborative development tools for engineering complex, mission- and safety-critical architectures, systems, software and hardware, recently  launched Artisan Studio 7.2, a major new version of its flagship model-driven development tool suite. 

Artisan Studio 7.2 delivers a variety of significant new modeling capabilities and functions. Artisan Studio has been re-architected to provide role-based Editions which have been specifically designed to make the working environment more relevant and efficient for the specialist needs of Enterprise Architects, Systems Engineers and Software Engineers. Artisan Studio also adds DoDAF capabilities to complete its support for the OMG's UPDM 1.0 standard for defense architectural frameworks. Artisan Studio 7.2 also extends Artisan Studio Reviewer with metric reporting and simplifies the user interface to Artisan Publisher as well as continuing to improve core technologies with a new model comparison tool, the Artisan Model Differencer, and adds more functionality for the Automatic Code Synchronizer and Activity Modeling.

"The launch of Version 7.2 continues to extend the market-leading position of Artisan Studio with the introduction of significant new concepts, features and functions to improve the development of mission and safety-critical embedded systems and software development," said Hedley Apperly, Vice-President of Product Marketing at Atego. "The introduction of role-based Editions is particularly innovative, aligning Artisan Studio with the specific roles and needs of Enterprise Architects, Systems Engineers and Software Engineers, while allowing them all to continue to Work-as-One." 

Artisan Studio Architect Enterprise Edition focuses on the capabilities required by an Enterprise Architect. It provides comprehensive support for UPDM including both DoDAF and MODAF, which addresses the visual modeling needs of the global defense community by providing support for all seven UPDM viewpoints and a standardized means to describe both DoDAF and MODAF architectures which delivers enormous benefits for developers of military systems in terms of design consistency, quality and efficiency, improved tool interoperability and cost savings.

Artisan Studio Designer Enterprise Edition will be the tool of choice for Systems Engineers. They can take advantage of Artisan Studio's SysML profile to build systems and systems of systems using the industry standard SysML concepts and modeling language. Artisan Studio allows users to focus on systems engineering by providing the capability to document requirements, analysis diagrams, traceability and manage change all within one tool using Artisan Studio's integration with leading 3rd party tools like DOORS and Mathworks Simulink. 

Artisan Studio Developer Enterprise Edition is for Software Engineers. It enables the generation of code from the design and is fully equipped with Artisan Studio's Automatic Code Synchronizer and Transformation Development Kit to allow them to automatically generate code from a design that matches the company's best practices and coding standards. This Edition is available for the C/C++, C#, VB, Java and Ada programming languages.

The highly successful Artisan Studio Reviewer now has a whole new model metrics facility with 80 new metric reports, 13 user-defined reviews and new customer-requested reviews. The metrics provide powerful statistics for managers on the maturity of the models, complementing the correctness, completeness and consistency checks that were already available.

With the launch of Artisan Studio 7.2, Artisan Publisher now has facilities to copy elements directly from an open Artisan Studio model and clearly view the content of the document. Additionally, many new templates have been introduced, specifically for the quick creation of repeatable and configurable output in UPDM, SysML and UML designs.

Finally, Artisan Studio Version 7.2 includes code generators for POSIX compliant operating systems and many other lower level improvements to its modeling environment.

"The launch of Artisan Studio 7.2 continues to deliver on our Work-as-One strategy," said James B. Gambrell, Executive Chairman of Atego. "Not only does Artisan Studio provide a single, purpose-built tool suite that joins up embedded engineering disciplines, teams and organizations but, by introducing the concept of role-based Editions and metrics reporting, it also now specifically caters for the requirements of the diverse and disparate specialists needs in the design chain - Enterprise Architects, Systems, Software Engineers and Managers - in ways that match their explicit job functions and needs."

Atego in profile
Atego™ is the leading independent supplier of industrial-grade, collaborative development tools and runtime environments for engineering complex, mission- and safety-critical architectures, systems, software and hardware. Atego delivers a stable, robust working environment to thousands of users across an extensive range of complex applications in demanding engineering sectors such as aerospace, defense, automotive, transportation, telecommunications, electronics, and medical. Atego's Aonix PERC® is the leading, highly reliable, real-time embedded virtual machine solution for running Java™ programs deployed today. Atego supports native, real-time and certifiable Ada applications including those at the highest level of criticality with Aonix ObjectAda®. Atego's standards-based modeling tool suite, Artisan Studio®, provides comprehensive support for the leading industry standards, including OMG SysML, UML and Architectural Frameworks. Atego Workbench™ provides a fully integrated, collaborative engineering framework for the trouble-free deployment and maintenance of best-in-class tools for mission and safety-critical systems and software development. Atego's tools deliver on the promise of an integrated collaborative development environment - allowing architecture, systems, software and hardware engineering teams to Work-as-OneSM - from concept through to delivery, maintenance and support. Founded in 2010 in a merger between Artisan Software Tools™ and Aonix®, Atego is headquartered in San Diego, CA, USA and Cheltenham, UK with offices in France, Germany and Italy, and is supported by a global distributor network.

For further information, view website: www.Atego.com

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