EDA and IP

ARM has expanded its ARM DesignStart initiative to offer simplified and expedited access to EDA tooling and design environments from Cadence and Mentor Graphics. The new partnership builds on the benefits of free access to ARM Cortex-M0 processor IP offered through the DesignStart portal. The new ARM Approved Design Partner program also provides DesignStart users with a global list of ...

SureCore, the Sheffield low power SRAM IP specialist, says its ultra-low voltage SRAM IP operates at 0.6V on on TSMC’s 40nm ULP CMOS process, delivering from 20MHz at 0.6V to 300MHz at 1.21V. “Standard SRAM is not reliable below 0.9V, but SureCore’s single supply rail, Ultra-Low Voltage SRAM allows operating voltage to scale in tandem with the logic,” says SureCore ...

UltraSoC has announced the latest version of its semiconductor IP and software tools for SoC development, debug, optimisation and hardware security. The latest release in UltraSoC’s continuous development program includes extended support for data analytics and visualization, improved performance monitoring and system optimization capabilities, enhanced integration with third-party tool-chains, improved support for functional safety applications, and General Availability (GA) of ...

EnSilica, the Wokingham semiconductor IP specialist, has launched the eSi-ECDSA cryptographic IP designed to help meet the high security communication and latency requirements of automotive Car2Car and Car2Infrastructure (Car2x) applications that form part of today’s emerging Intelligent Transport Systems. EnSilica’s eSi-ECDSA cryptographic IP is fully compliant with the IEEE 1609.2 and ETSI TS 103 97 standards. These standards define the ...

Cadence Design Systems has used its European CDNLive event in Munich to announce its highest performance neural processing device, the Tensilica Vision P6 digital signal processor (DSP). Vision processing and deep learning are the fastest growing applications areas for neural network processing. According to Chris Rowen, CTO for the IP Group at Cadence, speaking in Munich this week, advanced vision ...

Qualcomm is now making deep learning software development, for face recognition and text translation, possible on devices based on its Snapdragon 820 processors. The software development kit uses a neural processing methodology which is optimized to use the processor’s heterogeneous compute capabilities to support neural network processing functions. Qualcomm said it will now be possible to run neural network models ...

Segger has introduced J-Link firmware for the embedded ST-LINK on STM32 Nucleo, STM32 Discovery and other microcontroller unit (MCU) evaluation boards from STMicroelectronics. 
 According to the supplier, the upgrade turns a board’s ST-LINK interface into a fully functional J-Link, which can then be employed to debug the board’s application processor. The J-Link firmware allows developers will subsequently be able ...

Russian Asic firm Elvees NeoTek has taped out a mobile computing and video analytics system on chip device which is based on a PowerVR and MIPS processors from Imagination. According to King-Smith, executive vice-president, marketing, Imagination, Elvees has technological strength in “what we see as a key and growing market, and where we feel the companies’ collaboration can make a ...

VersaSense’s MicroPnP IoT platform, based on Linear Tech’s SmartMesh IP embedded networking, delivers low-cost, zero-configuration wireless sensing and actuation. MicroPnP is an IoT hardware and software platform that reduces the total cost of ownership for sensing and control systems. Its creators say it delivers: Plug-and-play identification of sensors and actuators at 10 million times lower power than USB. Reliable (>99.999% ...

Green Hills Software is targeting the design of secure autonomous vehicles with its  Integrity real-time operating system (RTOS) and  Multivisor virtualisation software which now supports the Renesas’ R-Car H3 system-on-chip (SoC). The 64-bit secure virtualisation platform was partially developed with the specific capabilities of the R-Car H3 in mind. The platform meets the functional safety requirements defined in ISO 26262 ...