EDA and IP

EnSilica, the Wokingham IP specialist, licenses its eSi-RISC processor IP to fabless touch and display chip vendor Solomon Systech.

The Multicore Association, the processor standards body with a focus on multicore processor implementations, has announced the availability of an enhanced implementation of its Multicore Task Management API (MTAPI) integrated into an open source framework called Embedded Multicore Building Blocks (EMB2). The MTAPI takes care of task scheduling and execution on embedded parallel systems. While the EMB2 provides generic building ...

Mentor has teamed up with online components library SnapEDA, which now supports its PADS and DX Designer PCB design tools. Users can access to SnapEDA’s component library containing millions of symbols, footprints, and 3D models. All parts are auto-verified with SnapEDA’s proprietary verification technology. “We’re seeing a shift in the industry where it’s no longer just large enterprises designing electronic ...

Renesas Electronics says the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts has ruled in its favour in a patent infringement lawsuit brought against it in 2013 by a Massachusetts-based firm named Zond. In July 2013, Zond brought suit against a number of semiconductor companies, including Renesas, alleging that the companies infringed eight of its US patents covering production-related technologies such ...

Featuring a 'smart rope' that senses its position in space and can allow remote monitoring, for example by a rescue team.

A wearable device that extracts information from the shelf-edge label in a supermerket and uses this to obtain the current price for that item from the store's central server.

Crocus licenses magnetic TMR technology to NXP to help enable automotive applications like power steering and electronic throttle control.

Growth of over 80% this year at Wokingham ASIC and IP specialist EnSilica has sparked a recruitment drive to fuel its expansion.

Imperas Software has become a member of the RISC-V Foundation, at the same time as it made virtual platform and model support available for the RISC-V architecture. RISC-V Foundation drives the adoption of the RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA) – a RISC architecture originally developed at the University of California, Berkeley, now touted as an open-source competitor to the ARM ...

Princeton University found problems with the memory consistency model (MCM) in more complex implementations of the open source RISC-V. The University works with the RISC-V Foundation, so there was no conflict, and the Foundation is already on the case. However, the Foundation desires to set the record straight in detail, and its chairman Krste Asanović has written the following (reproduced in full below) to help the ...