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Altium Limited a global leader in Smart System Design Automation, 3D PCB design (Altium Designer) and embedded software development has announced a new release of its TASKING compiler suite for ARM, extending its support for many new ARM® Cortex®-M based microcontrollers, including Cortex-M7 variants. This new compiler suite is available now and all existing customers with a maintenance contract can upgrade to the new release for free on the TASKING website http://www.tasking.com .  “As embedded applications become more advanced than ever, developers need tools that allow them to easily optimize their workflows in the most efficient way possible,” said Harm-André Verhoef, TASKING Product Manager at Altium. “This new release of the TASKING compiler for ARM provides embedded developers all around the world with an efficient and streamlined development environment to create the most intelligent embedded applications possible.” This new toolset targets the development of advanced embedded applications based on the highly popular Cortex-M microcontroller

Racetech Harnessing Ltd, a designer and manufacturer of high quality electrical and electronic systems for the professional motorsport industry, has adopted Zuken’s E³.series (http://www.zuken.com/en/products/electrical-wire-harness-design/e3-series) for its harness design. E³.series is Zuken’s powerful electrical CAD tool for electrical wiring, control systems and fluid engineering design. The company decided to move from a manual to digital design flow to help increase design speed, particularly when working on complex designs. Because they offer harness design for clients ranging from hill climb racing up to major players in Formula One, Racetech need to be flexible in their approach and able to work with customers of all types. John Truman, Director of Racetech, said: “We work on incredibly complex designs for customers in Formula One, and E³.series gives us the confidence that we can meet the professional requirements and future challenges of this industry. E³.series also gives us the design turnaround speeds, quality and ECAD/MCAD integration we need to expand our business

Trimble announced that it will acquire the assets of privately held AGRI-TREND of Red Deer, Alberta, Canada, which operates the largest network of independent agricultural consultants in North America. The acquisition will enable Trimble to provide agronomists and other crop advisors with a stronger set of brand-agnostic tools they can use to advise growers on how to better manage their operations. The combination of AGRI-TREND's experience in agronomy, grain marketing, farm business and data management together with Trimble's experience in precision agriculture will further empower growers to gain efficiencies throughout the entire farming cycle. The acquisition is expected to close in November 2015. Financial terms were not disclosed. AGRI-TREND's network of over 200 specialists spread throughout the U.S. and Canada includes over 110 independent "coaches" specializing in agronomy, precision farming, crop marketing and farm business management. Coaches are supported by a team of science specialists comprised of over 30 Ph.D.'s and

Trimble announced that it will acquire the assets of privately held AGRI-TREND of Red Deer, Alberta, Canada, which operates the largest network of independent agricultural consultants in North America. The acquisition will enable Trimble to provide agronomists and other crop advisors with a stronger set of brand-agnostic tools they can use to advise growers on how to better manage their operations. The combination of AGRI-TREND's experience in agronomy, grain marketing, farm business and data management together with Trimble's experience in precision agriculture will further empower growers to gain efficiencies throughout the entire farming cycle. The acquisition is expected to close in November 2015. Financial terms were not disclosed. AGRI-TREND's network of over 200 specialists spread throughout the U.S. and Canada includes over 110 independent "coaches" specializing in agronomy, precision farming, crop marketing and farm business management. Coaches are supported by a team of science specialists comprised of over 30 Ph.D.'s and

Nor-Tech (Northern Computer Technologies), a provider of high-performance computer solutions, will be focusing on collaborations with strategic simulation software partners, such as ANSYS and Dassault, to showcase its leading-edge supercomputers at SC15. This is an element of Nor-Tech’s ongoing effort to make their clients’ transition from workstations to supercomputers effortless. Nor-Tech maintains close strategic partnerships with all leading HPC for CAE integration software providers with the objective of ensuring that their clients’ supercomputers will be as easy to set up and deploy as a printer. They do this by creating a turnkey solution and working closely with clients before, during, and after each purchase. Clients can even run their software on Nor-Tech’s demo cluster. Nor-Tech President and CEO David Bollig said, “One of the primary reasons that people are reluctant to part with the workstations they have outgrown is uncertainty about their ability to set-up, use, and manage a supercomputer. We eliminate that

 PDF Key takeaways: Solid Edge users are increasingly employing Synchronous technology in their model creation and editing—they report 61% are more satisfied using this approach than purely history-based modeling techniques Solid Edge, Siemens PLM Software’s mainstream CAD solution, celebrated its twentieth birthday Mr. John Miller, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Mainstream Engineering, at Siemens PLM Software opened Solid Edge University 2015, the annual Solid Edge user conference, on October 27, 2015, under the banner “Design without Boundaries.” Speaking from the stage at the Duke Energy Convention Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, Mr. Miller addressed an audience of Solid Edge users, value-added resellers, third-party solution providers, media, and industry analysts. He noted that Solid Edge was celebrating its twentieth birthday and proudly displayed the product’s first shipping box signed by all the original Solid Edge developers and staff. CIMdata was pleased to see the continued growth in attendance and interest in the conference from Solid

Lectra, a world leader in integrated technology solutions dedicated to industries using soft materials—fabrics, leather, technical textiles and composite materials—is pleased to announce that Italian fast-fashion womenswear brand Dixie has selected Lectra Fashion PLM to help connect design and development teams. The solution has been adopted in order to improve efficiency, reduce costs and speed up the process of creating new collections. Founded in 1996, Dixie designs, produces and retails on-trend collections for women on the go who are looking for comfort and versatility in their clothing, as well as the latest styles. The company was recently acquired by fast-fashion leader Imperial, as part of the Italian group’s plans to expand its business. Imperial has been using Lectra Fashion PLM to share data across departments and speed up the development process since 2014 with impressive results. Now, Dixie’s team of 80 employees will be moving to the same platform, so that

Rand Worldwide, a global leader in providing technology solutions to organizations with engineering design and information technology requirements, announced its Rand 3D division will have a significant presence at the Product Innovation Congress. Rand 3D experts will showcase their complete Dassault Systèmes design engineering solutions including software, online and in-classroom training and consulting services. In addition, Rand 3D’s implementation support partner, Razorleaf will highlight their best-of-breed software implementation and technical services offerings. The conference will be held at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel on November 17 and 18, 2015. “Last year when we attended the PI Congress, we heard from delegates that they were facing similar PLM adoption challenges regardless of their software platform,” says Meghan Foster, director of sales for Rand 3D. “This year we’re excited to be able to meet with delegates, dig into these challenges and tailor comprehensive solutions for their specific needs with a combination of software, consulting, in-classroom and online training and

Omnify Software, a leading provider of web-based Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software for discrete manufacturers, announces that it has received the 2015 Green Supply Chain Award for the third consecutive year. The awards honor companies making green or sustainability a core part of their supply chain strategy, and also recognize providers of supply chain solutions and services assisting their customers in achieving measurable sustainability goals. Omnify Software was selected as an enabling technology for their manufacturing customer, MRV Communications. MRV is a global supplier of packet and optical solutions that power the world’s largest networks. Their products combine innovative hardware with intelligent software to make networks smarter, faster and more efficient. The company needed a solution to support efficient processes for REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals) compliance. As a central repository for all of their product information, the company chose to use Omnify Empower PLM as their main

Nuage Networks, the Alcatel-Lucent venture focused on software-defined networking (SDN) solutions, announced today that CenturyLink, Inc. has selected its technology to provide networking functionality for CenturyLink's Programmable Services Backbone (PSB) network architecture. PSB is an open, software-enabled platform for delivering dedicated services based on NFV technology to CenturyLink's enterprise and small and mid-sized business (SMB) customers at any time regardless of their location. It places applications and services close to the network edge so they can be deployed, modified and scaled rapidly as business demands change. CenturyLink was one of the first providers to use NFV to deploy firewalls and content distribution networks. The company recently announced that, in the coming months, it expects to begin deploying a range of virtualized data and voice infrastructure services, including customer premises endpoints. "By moving virtualized network functions from a hardware appliance to a pure software environment coordinated by OpenStack and Nuage Networks, CenturyLink will be