Asics

Fraunhofer Institute for Microelectronic Circuits and Systems IMS has had a version of its 32bit AIRisc RISC-V microcontroller intellectual property certified by by TÜV SGS to the ISO 26262 ASIL-D automotive safety standard. Called AIRisc-Safety, it can now be licensed from the organisation, which also offers customised versions for asic and FPGA integration. “Certification means that industrial customers directly receive a ...

The cost and complexity of asic development can disadvantage smaller companies and start-ups, but help is available, says Andrea Vinci of Tektronix. All readers will agree that today’s unsung heroes of innovation around the world, especially when it relates to electronic devices and communication technologies, are the engineers who develop the test equipment used to validate those new technologies in ...

Since its acquisition in 2017, EDA software company, Mentor, has styled itself ‘Mentor, a Siemens company’. From January, 2021, it will change its name to Siemens EDA. Announcing the name change, Joe Sawicki, executive vice president of IC-EDA, Siemens EDA (pictured), said that the name brings EDA software, simulation, mechanical design, manufacturing, cloud, IoT and low code technology under a ...

Renesas has chosen the AndesCore IP 32-bit RISC-V CPU cores to embed into ASSPs that will begin customer sampling in the second half of 2021. “Renesas and Andes share the same vision to welcome the era of RISC-V being the mainstream CPU instruction set architecture (ISA for SoCs,” says  Frankwell Lin, President of Andes, “it marks the arrival of the open-source RISC-V ...

Claimed to be the industry’s first AEC-Q100 grade 1 solution for automotive systems, the DS28C40 Deepcover automotive secure authenticator from Maxim Integrated Products is designed to ensure only genuine components are used for electronic systems like advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and EV batteries. Safety and cybersecurity are growing concerns in the automotive market. Manufacturers can use authentication to ensure ...

Coolisys Technologies has announced a line of crypto-mining units, called ‘SuperMiner’. The first of the line, built around a 10nm mining chipset jointly developed by Samsung and Innosilicon, is called ‘AntEater’ and can operate at 17.2T hash/s. “We wanted to push the envelope by developing the AntEater based on a 10nm chip because it was the newest technology available,” said Coolisys ...

The 55th Design Automation Conference (DAC) will cover many topics for chip and system designers

ARM introduces image processing intellectual property for automotive vision systems.

Imagination Technologies is aiming to bring sophisticated gaming to mid-range mobiles with a series of PowerVR graphics processors.

Globalfoundries says it has demonstrated 56Gbit/s SerDes performance in silicon on the semiconductor foundry’s 14nm FinFET process. This makes it able to fabricate Asics which will meet the emerging 50Gbit/s industry standards such as OIF CEI-56G-LR and IEEE 802.3cd. The SerDes core, designated FX-14, supports both PAM4 and NRZ signaling, with the capability to equalise over 35dB of insertion loss. “The explosive growth ...