New AMC-based Evaluation Module from Surf Streamlines Development of High Density Audio and Video Applications for IMS, Media Gateway and Server Solut
Surf announced the SurfRider/AMC-EVM™, a complete application development environment comprised of an AMC resource board carrying two Texas Instruments Incorporated's (TI) digital signal processors (DSP). The SurfRider/AMC-EVM enables developers of telecom applications to design, debug and experiment with different TI DSPs and network interfaces from their desktop, eliminating the need for an ATCA or MicroTCA carrier board chassis.

Spoerle's Embedded Platform Concept Leverages Analog Devices Parts to Make Development "As Easy as Possible"
Choice of Analog Devices for the first boards on Embedded Platform Concept lets design engineers create highly innovative custom applications with minimal effort

Integre Technologies Announces Partnership with Test Spectrum
Integre Technologies, a leading provider of ASIC design and verification services, today announced their partnership with Test Spectrum Inc., an industry expert in semiconductor test solutions. Together Integre and Test Spectrum provide to semiconductor customers services along the entire ASIC development cycle, from requirements to production silicon.

Analog Devices' Blackfin Processor Powers SILICA's 'FireCracker' Embedded Processing Reference Design and Development Platform: SILICA, in C
Analog Devices, Inc., a leading global manufacturer of high-performance integrated circuits used in analog and digital signal processing, today announced that semiconductor distributor SILICA, an Avnet Company, has designed a development platform that will enable its customers to bring embedded computing solutions from concept to production in record time. The 'FireCracker' Development Platform is based on the powerful Blackfin processor and is designed with industry standard interfaces and peripherals. These streamline the customer development process by providing fully verified functional modules that eliminate the need to perform detailed design of common embedded sub-systems.