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Insyde® Software, a leading provider of UEFI BIOS and systems management software, today announced that its flagship firmware, InsydeH2O® , is enabling new 5G wireless base stations featuring the Intel ® Atom® P5900 system-on-chip processor.

One small step to a reliable file system

The Reliance Edge File System Essentials (FSE) is one of two API sets supported by Reliance Edge. It’s a minimalistic but reliable alternative to the POSIX-like option.
What are its benefits and how does it work? This feature summary should answer those questions.

Help! Why are my embedded devices failing?

When devices fail, the problems can be numerous. In conversations with the embedded OEMs we work with, a common issue affects almost every manufacturer – the cost of diagnosing and fixing the causes of field failure. This impacts time-to-market and pulls resources away from development, to be used instead for field diagnostics and post-mortem analysis. This issue is especially relevant for the following reasons:

iMX8M Nano uCOM: Perfect trade-off between cost and performance for multimedia applications

This Embedded Artists application processor module is optimized for industrial control and multimedia applications, and comes with up to 4x A53 and 1x M7 cores.

Y-Lock Pullforce – Reliable Board-to-Cable System with FFC made in Germany for Automotive Applications

Munich, June 2020 – Yamaichi Electronics designs, manufactures and distributes various automotive connectors for applications like e.g. infotainment, camera systems, car computing, antennas, TV, navigation, radar and lidar as well as battery management systems, etc. The automotive connectors are produced in ISO TS16949 certified manufacturing sites. The Y-Lock series is a board-to-cable system and available in 3 different versions. In the last years the renowned system has proven itself. It is successful in diverse automotive applications. The FFC (Flexible Flat Cables) suitable for the connector are produced in Yamaichi Electronics´ own factory in Germany.

Introducing the Arm Cortex-X Custom Program

Arm has just announced their 2020 Arm mobile IP, including the Arm Cortex-A78 CPU as the next step up in sustained performance on smartphones. But they do not stop here. They are mindful that Arm’s ever-expanding ecosystem are demanding more solutions and products based around their own specific needs and demands.

Insyde® Software Supports ASPEED’s AST2600 7 th Generation Server Management Processor

Insyde® Software, a leading provider of UEFI BIOS and systems management software, announced that its family of Supervyse® BMC firmware solutions now support the recently launched ASPEED AST2600 Server Management Processors.

Extension of the Push-Pull Connector Series

Yamaichi Electronics is continuously extending the Y-Circ P product portfolio. The latest versions are sockets with angled contact outputs. Different versions were designed. Sockets with exposed angled contacts and angled sockets with housings for improved signal shielding are available.

Introducing the QS Solder Down Computer On Module series

With only 27mm x 27mm the QS module family has very compact dimensions. They include a complete embedded System on Module with processor, PMIC, RAM and flash memory. Because of the very dense packaging on the top side, there are no components on the bottom side of the module, cut-outs on the base board are not required. The pin compatible family concept provides all important interfaces needed for embedded designs, e.g. USB, Gigabit-Ethernet, display and many serial interfaces.

Hands-on practical boundary scan webinars

Together with XJTAG we offer you a free hands-on online training. We have installed 15 dedicated stations in the XJTAG office and we have put in place a mechanism to give the attendees a remote access to the tools during the online workshop. We have also connected a relay board to our Demo Board in order to give the attendees the possibility to simulate some faults as it’s normally done with the jumpers.

How to automate unit tests execution combining LDRA software and Keil tools

In this video we show you how to prepare testcases in Microsoft Excel and automate unit tests execution with LDRA tool suite® & Keil MDK-ARM tools.

Free Arttest license for prototyping and functional testing of medical equipment

Are you working with MATLAB® Simulink® for fast prototyping and need to add functional test automation for you medical equipment to fight COVID-19? Logic Technology and Mindmotiv provide the functional safety testing tool Arttest at no cost!

Release of XJTAG 3.10

XJTAG®, a leader in JTAG boundary scan test solutions, announces the release of two new features that further enhance the ease-of-use of boundary scan tools. XJTAG 3.10 introduces an automated method for dealing with the situation when design updates occur on the board being tested, and a simple way to override the default settings of global variables used by XJEase Device Files.

Upcoming webinars

There are currently no options for face-to-face workshops and training. We can imagine you still want to stay up to date and brush up on your knowledge. Thanks to the current techniques, you can follow interesting training courses remotely from your home workplace. Check out the upcoming webinars here.

Logic and Arm-Keil supporting the fight against COVID-19

At Logic Technology, we want to support the companies in the Benelux that are working hard on innovations to fight COVID-19. Therefore, together with Arm-Keil, we sponsor a one-year term license of a Professional Integrated Development Environment (to the value of €3.300,-), for companies fighting the pandemic with new devices (e.g. respirators, medical equipment).

So, are you a developer working with C/C++ on any Cortex-M based MCU? Please contact us and briefly describe your product innovation to fight COVID-19.

Release of Arm Keil MDK v5.29

Arm’s Development Solutions Group has announced the release of Arm Keil MDK v5.29. Arm Keil MDK is the most comprehensive software development solution for Arm-based microcontrollers and includes all components that you need to create, build, and debug embedded applications.

Logic is fully Arm-Keil Tools certified

Logic Technology has been Arm-Keil’s Authorized Distributor for the Benelux for many years, and in 2020 we have added a third member to our Arm-Keil Certified team, bringing the total to 3! So rest assured when you need help, our knowledge of tools is up to date and approved by Arm-Keil.

We are ready to answer your questions and support you in your projects. Please don't hesistate to contact us.

Support when working from home

The COVID-19 pandemic is gripping the world. Companies are developing new ways of working, and for many people this means working from home. An improvised workplace, partner and children around and remote contact with colleagues and others; working from home requires concentration. We are here to support you! Logic Technology is fully operating and ready to help you with your embedded development challenges.

SFP28 High-Speed Connector for Data Networking Optical Transceiver Applications

Yamaichi Electronics offers the SFP28 host connector for a data transmission rate of 56 Gbps PAM-4 modulation per one channel.

Enhance your GUI design with Storyboard Lite

With the introduction of Crank Storyboard Lite hardware compatibility ranges from cortex-M up to cortex-A. We are happy to inform you about this new software.

The Crank UI design and development software Storyboard was created to be platform-agnostic so that development teams can create UIs optimized for hardware performance and tailored for user experiences. With the introduction of Crank Storyboard Lite, you can reduce resource requirements, maximize reusability and save on platform costs by excluding external memory controllers.

XJTAG Million Euro Product Giveaway

XJAnalyser is an intuitive standalone software program that gives engineers access to a set of powerful debugging tools. It provides a graphical view of JTAG chains, giving you complete control, on a pin-by-pin basis, of both pin state (either driven as an output or tristated as an input) and pin value (either high or low when driven), and it has the facility to run SVF and STAPL / JAM files.

Save many hours during R&D prototype bring-up and in production on the factory floor.

Optimal, cost-efficient handling of coding rule violations

LDRA, leader in standards compliance, automated software verification, software code analysis and test tools, maintains its commitment to the simplification and automation of the software development lifecycle with the introduction of TBexclude. Designed to complement TBvision’s user friendly reporting of coding rule violations, TBexclude offers a multi-tier coding violation exclusion capability enabling the suppression of rule violation reports at the project, team or individual user levels – perhaps in support of a MISRA deviation process.

Webinar: The practicalities of MISRA compliance

On March 19 our supplier LDRA offers a webinar which will discuss several key points raised by the MISRA compliance document.

There are many static analysis tools available to assess code compliance with MISRA guidelines. But the identification and rectification of violations flagged by a tool represents only one part of the compliance process. Step back from the analysis of violations and the need to address bigger questions about the process as a whole becomes obvious.

Mindmotiv GmbH and Logic Technology are proud to announce their partnership.

Thanks to Arttest, Functional Safety on the Model Level Has Never Been Faster, Easier, or More Powerful.

With Arttest, Mindmotiv provides a best-in-class solution for efficient model-based embedded software development, testing and quality assurance that fits perfectly in Logic Technology’s range of embedded software solutions. With Arttest, Logic is another step closer in its mission to empower the swift optimization of embedded product development. Logic Technology is going to establish Arttest as the quality standard embedded testing platform in the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg and Germany.

Keil changes license restart policy

Important information for Keil MDK users.

Effective from April 1st, 2020, it will not be possible to restart, or re-instate, an expired Support and Maintenance contract for licensed MDK software.
Previously Keil's policy has been that customers had the option to have a break in between Support and Maintenance periods at a certain cost factor.

Matrox® Keeps a Close Eye on the Factory Floor with Help from Intel® and Insyde®

Matrox Imaging leveraged Insyde's UEFI firmware solutions and expertise along with Intel's powerful and efficient Intel Core processors to deliver their latest machine vision controller to market. Learn how Matrox was able to take advantage of InsydeH2O to create a secure, full featured-platform while reducing their overall development time. Read the full case study.

Ways to meet the relentless pressure to market faster

If you’re building a one-off product, code reuse doesn’t matter. That being said, you almost never use good code only once. Initial releases invariably get updated with new features and bug fixes, one product can lead to a family of products, and reliable code from older projects is often implemented into new incarnations. So if you’re writing code with a plan to throw it away, you’re doing it wrong.

Ways to meet the relentless pressure to release products faster

Designers often use one set of tools (such as Adobe Photoshop) to craft the look and feel of a UI and another set for prototyping (like Adobe Experience Design). Developers then use a third toolset (often C/C++) to implement the final product. All of these changes in tools, process, and workflow suck up time and introduce errors. Thankfully, there are tools on the market that can help create a streamlined design development process.

New NXP iMX8M COM Board for ARM Quad-Core

This new Embedded Artists' iMX8M COM Board provides a quick and easy solution for implementing a high-performance ARM quad/dual-core Cortex-A53 / Cortex-M4F based design. The Cortex-A53 / Cortex-M4F heterogeneous architecture enables the system to run an OS like Linux on the quad/dual-core Cortex-A53 and a Real-Time OS (RTOS) on the Cortex-M4F.

New Wi-Fi / Bluetooth M.2 Modules

Our M.2 modules, co-developed by Embedded Artists and Murata, have been released

If you are looking for a flexible and reliable Wi-Fi / Bluetooth solution for your product our M.2 modules could be a perfect alternative. We have a family of M.2 modules; all based on Murata connectivity modules, which in turn are based on different Cypress chipsets.

Use STM32CubeMX with Arm Keil MDK

This video shows how to get started quickly with Arm Keil MDK and the STM32L4 Nucleo board. It explains how to use STM32CubeMX to setup pins and clocks and how the integration with MDK helps to get to a working application fast.

LDRA - ISO 9001 / SGS TÜV-SAAR / TÜV SUD Certifications

The TÜV and ISO certificates each say something a little different about LDRA and its products. ISO 9001 certification demonstrates LDRA’s ability to consistently meet and exceed customer expectations. And TÜV approval of software test tools suggests something more specific about the capabilities of the products, and their capacity to meet the exacting demands of the world’s predominant functional safety standards.
You can read more about, and download, the certifications on this webpage.

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.

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).

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..

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.

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.

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.