EDA and IP

Easy-PC has acquired IPC-2581 export capability along with other improvements with the introduction of version 26, according to Number One Systems, which develops the PCB design tool. IPC-2581 is a standard for PCB manufacturing and assembly data transfer which goes beyond Gerber files and adds information such as stack-up, nets and components. “As IPC-2581 has become a more common and ...

Agile Analog has announced a major recruitment drive to support its process-agnostic, analogue IP. The company aims to recruit engineers to significantly increase its IP portfolio and customer engagements. Hybrid working allows experienced analogue engineers to work from anywhere, but the company also recognises the importance of having collaborative in person spaces to support the successful growth of high performing ...

Imagination Technologies has announced its first real-time embedded RISC-V CPU. Called IMG RTXM-2200, the 32bit core is aimed at SoCs for networking, packet management, storage controllers, sensor management for AI cameras and smart metering, according to the company, which has revealed little more. Up to 128kbyte tightly coupled memory (instruction and data) can be provide for deterministic response, and Level ...

Siemens Digital has introduced Symphony Pro to extend Symphony’s mixed-signal verification capabilities to support new and advanced Accellera standardised verification methodologies with a visual debug cockpit with claimed productivity improvements of up to 10x. Automotive, imaging, IoT, 5G, computing and storage applications are driving strong demand for greater analogue and mixed-signal content in SoCs. Mixed-signal circuits are increasingly ubiquitous — ...

Kudelski IoT has announced a secure enclave intellectual property portfolio for integration into system ICs. When integrated, it is capable of “enabling compliance with most common industry security standards including NIST, FIPS, PSA and SESIP Level 3”, according to the company. Resulting hardware will be able to protect and manage keys, according to the company, providing SoC master secret key, ...

Cambridge-based Agile Analog has announced RC oscillator intellectual property for IC designers. Called ‘agileOSC RC’, it “is based on a traditional architecture which allows the frequency to be trimmed to remove the effects of process variation,” according to the company. It can also be configured as a free running clock where a high accuracy clock is not required. Start-up is typically ...

Agile Analog has added a voltage sensor to its portfolio of intellectual property, for IC designers that need to monitor fluctuations on on-chip power rails. Called ‘agileIR Drop’, despite its name, it does not monitor the voltage difference from end-to-end of a conductor. Instead the IP block provides real time monitoring of voltages at single points on rails to detect ...

RISC-V simulation company Imperas Software has announced a partnership with Breker Verification Systems, a provider of test content synthesis for verification environments, to develop interfaces and standards to unify functional verification design flows. “RISC-V represents an inflection point for semiconductor verification as the design freedoms provided by the open instruction set architecture means an assumption of the responsibility of the ...

Cadence has unveiled intellectual property for two DSP, aimed at asics for radar, lidar and communications processing. Called ConnX 110 and ConnX 120, the blocks share the instruction set of the existing ConnX B10 and B20 DSPs. The 110 version offers 128bit SIMD for math operations based on 8, 16 and 32bit fixed-point and half-, standard- and double-precision floating-point. The ...

New trends in semiconductors bring fresh challenges and innovative solutions. Next-generation SoCs are designed for electronic systems that require higher levels of reliability, safety, performance, and security. The end products have already been subject to product lifecycle management (PLM), pioneered by Siemens, which helps to trace and manage the entire lifecycle of a product from inception through design, realization, deployment, ...