EDA and IP

SiFive releases an open-source RISC-V architecture 64bit, quad-core application processor aimed at operating systems such as Linux.

ByteSnap Design has become an approved engineering consultant for NXP Semiconductors. The embedded systems design consultant has experience of design projects based on NXP chips including a smart home security system, a bus ticketing system and Apple Homekit temperature control system. Gérard Maniez, director, third-party technical support network at NXP, writes: “ByteSnap Design with their extensive experience in electronic board design ...

An Internet parts library for printed circuit board design has now been adapted so that it can be searched inside the PCB123 design environment of Sunstone Circuits

It pays to invest time to maintain your bill of materials as a design progresses, writes Leigh Gawne.

CEVA licenses its XM4 imaging and vision platform to Nextchip for its Apache4 vision-based pre-processor.

Socionext, the Matsushita-Fujitsu SoC jv, joins up with XVTEC to develop IP video streaming products.

French microelectronics research organisation, Leti will provide access to the Mentor Veloce emulator for small firms and startups following a partnership with the EDA firm. Emulation is a technique used by major chip firms in the development of complex ICs, which allows them to debug the design at early stages by validating software before committing to silicon. However, emulators are high ...

Semiconductor design house S3 Semiconductors has announced a new strategy to focus on supplying chips for industrial and communications OEMs as well as designing them.

IC design consultancy Sondrel has announced plans to recruit 100 electronic engineers in its European operations in the next three years.

Imagination Technologies has secured an important design-in for its MIPS processor technology with MediaTek. Crucially this takes MIPS into high-volume smartphone modems. The mobile phone chipset firm has adopted the multi-threaded MIPS I-class CPU for smartphone LTE modems. The mobile device from MediaTek featuring MIPS technology is the latest MT6799 Helio X30 processor which uses MIPS in its Cat-10 LTE ...