On Target: Embedded Systems

Embedded Systems Bulletin – May 2011

Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) – Silicon Valley 2011 VDC attended the 2011 Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose on May 3rd through May 5th and held face-to-face meetings at the conference with over 30 exhibitors. The Silicon Valley conference has always been the premier event in the US for embedded software and hardware suppliers and the customers they serve. Conference organizers reported at the show that registration and attendance was up year over year. VDC observed during the course of the conference that there appeared to be more exhibitors than the prior year that the show floor area had expanded.... Read more →

ESC San Jose is Next Week - Still Time to Register and Meet with VDC

The Embedded Systems Conference will be held next week (May 2nd-5th) at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose. VDC will be attending the conference once again this year and will be presenting our 7th annual Embeddy Awards for Best in Show live at the conference. The winners will be announced live ahead of Thursday's morning keynote session. So how can your company win the Embeddy award? To be considered, you must schedule a meeting with VDC to discuss the announcement that you are making at the show. You can arrange a meeting time with VDC by doing one of... Read more →

Embedded World Bulletin – March 2011

VDC attended the 2011 embedded world Exhibition & Conference in Nuremberg, Germany March 1st through 3rd. This bulletin presents a summary of the event. This is the second time VDC Research has attended embedded world and, according to the show closing report, there were over 800 international exhibiting companies and 19,022 trade visitors. Both represent another year of record numbers of exhibitors and visitors participating in the conference. Not surprisingly given the conference’s location in Germany, many trade show exhibitors used the venue to highlight a number of automotive announcements and reference designs. From AUTOSAR to infotainment stacks, it was... Read more →

VDC to Attend Embedded World March 1-3

We will be making the trip across the Atlantic again this year to visit the largest embedded technology tradeshow of the year, embedded world in Nuremberg, Germany. Last year, the conference boasted over 18,000 visitors and over 700 exhibiting companies! While we are at the conference, we welcome the opportunity to meet with attending vendors to learn more about recent announcements, your company and its solutions. You can arrange a meeting time with VDC by doing one of the following: For Software and Tools related meetings Contact Chris Rommel, Senior Analyst, Embedded Software & Tools Practice, VDC Research Group by... Read more →

Virtual Platforms – White Knight or Red Herring?

The rapid evolution of embedded system requirements has continued to drive engineering organizations to consider new tools and technologies in order to speed time-to-market and mitigate the growing complexity of the target systems. Just as engineers gradually embraced graphical development environments over standalone, command-line tools, we have begun to see an increase in the adoption of virtual system prototyping/simulation (VSPS) tools in the embedded market with the use rate in 2010 up 60% over 2007 levels. Earlier in the year, we saw a large amount of activity surrounding virtual platforms with the acquisitions of CoWare (by Synopsys), VaST (also by... Read more →

ESC Boston September 20-23, VDC to Present Embeddy Awards Live

VDC will announce the Embeddy Award winners live on the show floor on Tuesday at 6:45pm! We will be presenting our annual Embeddy awards for Best in Show live on the show floor at ESC Boston 2010 and would like all exhibitors who are announcing or demonstrating significant new software or hardware products to have the chance to submit themselves for consideration. This year, VDC will be announcing a best of show for both software and hardware. To be considered you MUST hold a briefing with VDC in advance of the award ceremony on Tuesday. You can arrange a meeting... Read more →

Complimentary Embedded Software and Tools Research Available

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Further Consolidation in the ESL Market – Synopsys acquires Synfora

What Happened? In its second acquisition announcement of the day, Synopsys disclosed yesterday that it has acquired assets from Synfora, Inc., a supplier of High-Level of Abstraction Synthesis tools (C/C++ to SystemC/RTL). VDC’s View Synfora is just the latest in a flurry acquisitions undertaken by Synopsys (which held over $700 million in cash and cash equivalents at the end of their fiscal year in October) to deepen its Electronic System Level (ESL) tool offerings. Most recently, Synopsys acquired both VaST and CoWare with the same week as it looked to enhance its solutions for virtual system prototyping and simulation (VSPS).... Read more →

Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) – San Jose 2010

VDC attended the 2010 Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose on April 27th through April 29 and held face-to-face meetings at the conference with over 45 exhibitors. Conference organizers were reporting early on that registration and attendance at the show are up over 30% year over year, which is very good news for the supplier community. Similar themes and messaging continue to be delivered by market participants around multicore, virtualization, safety, security and reliability. But many discussions we had at the show focused on industry consolidation and new and emerging strategic alliances between the semiconductor and software communities. The Silicon... Read more →

Synopsys Completes Acquisition of CoWare

What Happened? Yesterday, Synopsys announced that it had completed the acquisition of CoWare that it had originally announced on February 8th. VDC's View The acquisition of CoWare, a leading ESL and virtual platform solution provider, will help further strengthen Synopsys' System-Level Design Division that was already bolstered by the addition of VaST's tool suite last month. Whereas Synopsys' recent acquisitions certainly underscore their commitment to ESL and, more specifically, virtual platform technology, VDC expects that the future success of these acquisitions will rest on Synopsys' ability to manage the inherited client and partner relationships and minimize any uncertainty surrounding the... Read more →