EDA and IP

CEVA has started licensing  ClearVox – voice input processing algorithms aimed at enhancing speech intelligibility and voice clarity for the CEVA-TeakLite-4 and CEVA-X2 audio/voice DSPs. Voice-enabled speakers have to cope with multi-mic beamforming, multi-channel acoustic echo cancellation and noise suppression in their products. The ClearVox algorithms cope with different acoustic scenarios and microphone configurations, including optimized software for speaker direction of ...

Moortec, the Plymouth PVT IP company, has opened a design centre in Gdansk (pictured). It will be headed up by Moortec Design Centre Manager, Szymon Gerka. Moortec provides embedded IP subsystem solutions for Process, Voltage & Temperature (PVT) monitoring, targeting advanced node CMOS technologies from 40nm down to 7nm. “The Design Centre in Gdańsk will allow Moortec to accelerate its ...

The MIPI mobile interface organisation is opening access to its sensor interface specification, called MIPI I3C.

Dutch firm Cruden has developed a simulation tool for automotive R&D that combines hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) set-ups and driver-in-the-loop (DIL) simulators. As an example, Cruden installed a driver simulator merged with a dSPACE HIL set-up at the Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences in Germany, where students can integrate hardware into the driving simulator. HIL set-ups, for testing sensors, controllers and actuators ...

X-FAB has added three new low-noise transistors to its 180nm process node:  a 1.8 V low-noise NMOS, a 3.3 V low-noise NMOS and a 3.3 V low-noise PMOS – all of which offer drastically reduced flicker noise compared to standard CMOS offerings. For transistor specs, see table below These transistors are mainly designed for sensor deployments which require very low-noise signal ...

Green Hills Software is now offering its optimising C and C++ compilers for 32-bit and 64-bit embedded processor architectures, including ARM, Intel and Power Architecture. The Compiler 2017.5 also supports Renesas RH850, MIPS, ColdFire and TriCore embedded processor architectures. Features of the compliers include C/C++ functional safety certification, higher performance and greater compatibility with third-party tools. The C/C++ Compilers 2017.5 are ...

Green Hills Software is supporting secure system development on the Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC from Xilinx with its Integrity real-time operating system (RTOS) and supporting tools. Zynq UltraScale+ integrates 64-bit ARM Cortex-A53 processor cores and an FPGA fabric which is being used in applications for automotive intelligence, industrial vision and defence. The secure RTOS allows software of different levels of criticality to run on the ...

Moortec has teamed with Sonics, US-based on-chip network firm to provide advanced power management techniques for ARM-based system-on-chip (SoC) and MCU designs. The partnership, announced at ARM TechCon in California, combines Sonics’ ICE-P3 dynamic voltage and frequency scaling technology with Plymouth, UK-based Moortec’s temperature sensors to provide on-chip temperature-compensated, dynamic voltage and frequency scaling. This allows chip designers to reduce ...

Green Hills Software is to verify conformance of its Integrity-178 operating system with the technical standard for Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) edition 2.1. Certon, the critical systems certification firm, will help carry out the verification Time-Variant Unified Multi Processing (tuMP) operating system for three different multicore architectures, or Units of Conformance (UoC): Intel, ARMv8 and PowerPC/QorIQ. Integrity-178 is also being verified ...

Denso is licensing ARM's Cortex-R52 for automated driving systems and vehicle control reference platforms.