EDA and IP

The MIPI mobile interface organisation is opening access to its sensor interface specification, called MIPI I3C.

Dutch firm Cruden has developed a simulation tool for automotive R&D that combines hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) set-ups and driver-in-the-loop (DIL) simulators. As an example, Cruden installed a driver simulator merged with a dSPACE HIL set-up at the Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences in Germany, where students can integrate hardware into the driving simulator. HIL set-ups, for testing sensors, controllers and actuators ...

X-FAB has added three new low-noise transistors to its 180nm process node:  a 1.8 V low-noise NMOS, a 3.3 V low-noise NMOS and a 3.3 V low-noise PMOS – all of which offer drastically reduced flicker noise compared to standard CMOS offerings. For transistor specs, see table below These transistors are mainly designed for sensor deployments which require very low-noise signal ...

Green Hills Software is now offering its optimising C and C++ compilers for 32-bit and 64-bit embedded processor architectures, including ARM, Intel and Power Architecture. The Compiler 2017.5 also supports Renesas RH850, MIPS, ColdFire and TriCore embedded processor architectures. Features of the compliers include C/C++ functional safety certification, higher performance and greater compatibility with third-party tools. The C/C++ Compilers 2017.5 are ...

Green Hills Software is supporting secure system development on the Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC from Xilinx with its Integrity real-time operating system (RTOS) and supporting tools. Zynq UltraScale+ integrates 64-bit ARM Cortex-A53 processor cores and an FPGA fabric which is being used in applications for automotive intelligence, industrial vision and defence. The secure RTOS allows software of different levels of criticality to run on the ...

Moortec has teamed with Sonics, US-based on-chip network firm to provide advanced power management techniques for ARM-based system-on-chip (SoC) and MCU designs. The partnership, announced at ARM TechCon in California, combines Sonics’ ICE-P3 dynamic voltage and frequency scaling technology with Plymouth, UK-based Moortec’s temperature sensors to provide on-chip temperature-compensated, dynamic voltage and frequency scaling. This allows chip designers to reduce ...

Green Hills Software is to verify conformance of its Integrity-178 operating system with the technical standard for Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) edition 2.1. Certon, the critical systems certification firm, will help carry out the verification Time-Variant Unified Multi Processing (tuMP) operating system for three different multicore architectures, or Units of Conformance (UoC): Intel, ARMv8 and PowerPC/QorIQ. Integrity-178 is also being verified ...

Denso is licensing ARM's Cortex-R52 for automated driving systems and vehicle control reference platforms.

Wales-based analogue IP re-use firm Thalia Design Automation has secured $865k (£640k) funding in its latest round. The firm said it has achieved “significant customer traction within the last 18 months”. Thalia also plans to recruit more analogue IC developers. The company has developed technology for transferring RF, analogue and mixed-signal IP designs to silicon, using its design automation technology. ...

Lauterbach is working with QNX to provide JTAG debugging capabilities for the latest QNX Version 7.0 secure embedded OS for the automotive industry.