EDA and IP

Mentor is partnering with SamacSys to provide PCB symbols, footprints and 3D models from within PartQuest

The Electronic Design System Design (ESD) Alliance reports increases in industry revenue from Q3 2016 to Q4 2017, and eight consecutive years of growth. Overall industry revenue increased 10.7% to $2218.6m in Q4 2017, from Q4 2016’s $2455m. The highest growth was in the Americas, where revenues increased 19.5% in the period, followed by Asia-Pacific region which saw 7.8% growth to ...

Kyocera is suing German automotive component supplier Preh for infringement of its haptic feedback patents. The lawsuit, in a Dusseldorf court, says that Kyocera has been creating haptic technologies through its own R&D efforts since 2008. Kyocera says that, utilising ergonomics and virtual reality technology that Kyocera has developed over the years as well as its proprietary haptic feedback technology, Kyocera’s ...

Silvaco and Silicon Catalyst are teaming up to provide silicon proven IP.

Featuring a neat, contactless payment device that avoids the problem of card clash by making use of passive NFC technology.

Lauterbach and UltraSoC have added support for the RISC-V open-source processor architecture to their joint chip development and debug environment. “Across the industry there is rising excitement about the emergence of RISC-V as an open source processor,” said UltraSoC CEO Rupert Baines. “This is especially significant in heterogeneous multi-core architectures: engineers want the choice to ‘mix and ‘match’ cores and freely ...

Digi-Key Electronics has put a new library of nearly 1,000 common parts for use by the open source, KiCad schematic capture and printed circuit board tool on beta release on its website. The distributor has selected the most popular parts for users of KiCad and created a library that links the schematic symbols and printed circuit board footprints. It has ...

Arrow Electronics and Cadence Design Systems are aiming to support faster product development with the introduction of the Cadence OrCAD Entrepreneur package for OrCAD Capture Cloud in Arrow’s design centre. These are established PCB layout tools, and the association with Arrow provides wider market availability. Matt Anderson, Arrow chief digital officer, writes: “The aim is to help engineers bring their ...

The open-source RISC-V processor architecture is getting a trace function through an IP (intellectual property) block from Cambridge-based UltraSoC. It supports both 32 and 64-bit RISC-V designs, and is intended to integrate with the firms other RISC-V offerings. “The addition of trace capabilities means that UltraSoC provides the most comprehensive RISC-V commercial debug solution,” claimed the firm. RISC-V processor vendors ...

EDA and IP company, Synopsys, has bought Kilopass Technology. The antifuse one time programmable (OTP) IP provider’s non volatile memory (NVM) IP has been incorporated into the DesignWare IP portfolio of logic libraries, embedded memories, embedded test, analogue IP, wired and wireless interface IP, security IP, embedded processors and subsystems. The OTP NVM IP for SoC designs, rebranded as DesignWare ...