The company introduced the second-generation NeuPro architecture for edge devices. NeuPro-S processors address the need to scale up its NeuPro architecture to work in heterogeneous systems, explained Yair Siegel, director of segment marketing. There are three processors available, targeting the mobile, home and automotive markets, all have safety standards enabled, added Siegel. Launched at this week’s AutoSens in Brussels, Belgium ...
EDA and IP
Sir Hossein Yassaie joins Agile Analog
Sir Hossein Yassaie, founder and CEO of Imagination, has become a non-exec at Agile Analog, the Cambridge analogue EDA startup. Agile Analog is set on automating the design and delivery of analogue IP. Using its AI-driven approach, Agile Analog has automated the traditionally manual design process and is creating analogue IP that aims to be more customisable, more reliable and ...
Aldec enhances verification and validation tool
Aldec improves its HES Proto-AXI software to provide greater support hardware verification and software validation.
Imagination diversifies into design and verification services
Imagination is expanding its business with a tailored consultancy, hosting and deployment service for design and verification, called IMG Edge. IMG Edge is targeted at reducing time to market and total cost of ownership and includes an extensive get-to-market support package to address the complex and expensive challenges involved when bringing compute-focused SoCs to market. Providing access to Imagination’s data ...
More on: MIT’s carbon nanotube RISC-V CPU
Last week MIT announced a CPU made from carbon nano-tube (CNT) mosfets using standard CMOS fab equipment and only the materials and processes found within commercial CMOS fabs. Electronics Weekly has delved inside to see how it works. In essence, the CNT logic is CMOS, as the researchers have found a way to create p-channel CNT mosfets and n-channel mosfets with ...
sureCore launches low power design service
A new Low Power Design Service that offers its concept-to-tape-out low power mixed-signal design expertise to ASIC developers
GloFo sues TSMC
Yesterday GLOBALFOUNDRIES filed five lawsuits in the US and Germany alleging that semiconductor manufacturing technologies used by TSMC infringe 16 GLoFo patents. The lawsuits were filed with the U.S. ITC, the U.S. Federal District Courts in the Districts of Delaware and West Texas, and the Regional Courts of Dusseldorf and Mannheim. GloFo is asking the courts to order that ICs ...
IBM Tops US Patent Haul For 26th Year Running
For the 26th year running, IBM has topped the rankings of the companies which were granted the most US patents. According to the Intellectual Property Owners Association. IBM was granted a total of 9,088 patents for inventions in fields ranging from artificial intelligence and cognitive computing to cloud technologies and cyber security. Second came Samsung with 5,836 – one of ...
Arm makes IP access easier
Today, Arm initiates a new model for customers to access and license its IP. Called Arm Flexible Access, the model allows IC designers to initiate projects before they license IP and pay only for what they use at production, giving designers more freedom to experiment, evaluate and innovate. “By converging unlimited design access with no up-front licensing commitment, we are ...
Q1 EDA revenues up 16.3% y-o-y
Q1 EDA revenue was up 16.3% y-o-y at $2.6 billion, says to the Electronic System Design (ESD) Alliance. “The EDA industry overall reported double digit increased revenue in Q1 compared to Q1 2018, with all categories, except services, reporting double digit increases,” says Wally Rhines (pictured) CEO Emeritus of Mentor and a member of the ESD Alliance Governing Council. “Geographically, ...