EDA and IP

Xmos has announced a software development kit (SDK) for the artificial intelligence on its ‘xcore.ai’ processors, incorporating TensorFlowLite for Microcontroller development tools “The kit equips developers with standardised tools and resources that they need to create devices that absorb contextual data from their environment, infer meaning from that data, and translate the results into action,” according to the company. It includes: Scripts, tools and libraries to convert TensorFlowLite for Microcontroller models into a ...

The US Department of Defense has awarded Intel the second phase of its State-of-the-Art Heterogeneous Integration Prototype (SHIP) programme. The SHIP program enables the U.S. government to access Intel’s semiconductor packaging capabilities in Arizona and Oregon. The project is executed by the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division, and administered by the National Security Technology Accelerator. SHIP is sponsored by ...

Arm is aiming at autonomous decision-making in automotive and industrial applications with three increased-safety cores: Cortex-A78AE CPU, Mali-G78AE GPU and Mali-C71AE image signal processor. They are “engineered to work together in combination with supporting software, tools and system IP to enable silicon providers and OEMs to design for autonomous workloads,” according to Arm. “These products will be deployed in a range of applications, ...

Microchip has a GUI development toolkit for 32bit SAMA5 and SAM9 series of Arm Cortex-A5 and ARM926EJ-S MPUs running Linux Called Ensemble Graphics Toolkit, it is a no-cost and royalty-fre open-source C++ suite based on the permissive Apache 2.0 open-source license. It works with the company’s chips, system-in-package and system-on-module products. “By taking advantage of underlying hardware acceleration, including graphics controllers ...

Sondrel has launched a service that estimates the cost of turning a conceptual integrated circuit into silicon, dubbed the Architectural Study Service. “As one of the world’s largest chip design consultancies, we have the ability to look at the idea for a new chip and respond with an report of how to make it, and how much it will cost, ...

Segger has added support for the RV32E embedded processor core to its Risc-V floating-point library, which already supports RV32I. “This new release is much smaller than anything available to us for comparison and, at the same time, is incredibly fast,” claimed Segger founder Rolf Segger. “In the world of embedded systems, every byte counts. The Segger floating-point library uses the architectural ...

Microchip has introduced a Risc-V FPGA development kit, claiming it to be industry’s first. “Icicle Development Kit for PolarFire system-on-chip FPGAs brings together numerous Mi-V partners to accelerate customer design,” according to the company, “Designers who want to deploy a programmable Risc-V-based SoC/FPGA are now able to evaluate Risc-V ecosystem products such as real-time operating systems, debuggers, compilers, and security ...

Design and Verification Conference & Exhibition Europe (DVCon Europe),  is to be a virtual event in 2020. Keynote speakers at the design and verification of electronics systems and ICs will include Vicki Mitchell, vice president of systems engineering at Arm and Dr Matthias Traub, head of architecture and technologies at Volkswagen. Mitchell will present The Benefits of Hardware DevOps and ...

Arm has announced its first 64bit, Linux-capable Cortex-R processor, designed for computational storage solutions. Called the Cortex-R82, it is a successor to the 32bit Cortex-R5 and Cortex-R8 processors used in solid-state drives. “These systems have historically required less then 4Gbyte of DRAM and addressable space, and have not had a need to run Linux,” according to the company. “With continually increasing ...

Radio frequency (RF) integrated circuits (ICs) are at the heart of a wide variety of today’s applications and services, including wireless local area networks (LANs), cellular communications, global positioning systems (GPS), automotive electronics, and Internet of Things (IoT), writes Neel Natekar of Mentor, a Siemens Business. Introduction With recent advancements in process technology, such as the development of high resistivity ...