Taiwanese SoC design house Faraday Technology is collaborating with Arm and Intel on a 64-core system-on-chip, intended to be made with Arm Neoverse data-centre-grade cores using Intel’s 18A (nominally 1.8nm) foundry process – the latter due to become available at the end of this year. It will use Arm Neoverse Compute Subsystems (CSS, pictured), where “Arm delivers validated, performance-optimised compute ...
The Design and Verification Conference & Exhibition Europe (DVCon Europe) is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. The event will be held in Munich (14 and 15 November, followed by a SystemC Evolution day on 16 November). This year, the event will include a research track and authors from universities and research institutes are invited to contribute research papers for consideration. ...
UK Asic design consultancy Sondrel has recruited industry veteran Gareth Jones, with over 25 years of asic and foundry experience, to head up its asic services. Jones (pictured) joins from TSMC where he was EMEA director of marketing. “Gareth has the perfect set of skills to drive the expansion of our turn-key asic services,” said Sondrel CEO Graham Curren. “He ...
The Design and Verification Conference and Exhibition (DVCon Europe) takes place on Tuesday and Wednesday 26-27 October and SystemC Evolution Day will be Thursday 28 October. The event, sponsored by Accellera Systems Initiative, the EDA standard organisation, will be a 3D VR environment. Avatars will mingle in a virtual conference centre, with tantalising glimpses of Munich to be seen through ...
Xilinx has acquired German C/C++programming tool provider, Silexica. The privately held company produces C/C++ programming and analysis tools for automotive, aerospace and defence, wireless comms, robotic and financial markets. Its SLX FPGA tool suite is used to manage the HLS (high level synthesis) design flow. In February this year, Silexica and Xilinx co-presented at the International Symposium on FPGA, elaborating ...
EDA company, Synopsys has acquired New York-based Code Dx, which developed an application security software tool, Code Dx Enterprise. The application security orchestration and correlation tool Code Dx automates many of the most labour-intensive processes in software security, namely test orchestration, correlation of security findings from a variety of application security (AppSec) testing techniques, triage of false positives, prioritisation of what ...
Since its acquisition in 2017, EDA software company, Mentor, has styled itself ‘Mentor, a Siemens company’. From January, 2021, it will change its name to Siemens EDA. Announcing the name change, Joe Sawicki, executive vice president of IC-EDA, Siemens EDA (pictured), said that the name brings EDA software, simulation, mechanical design, manufacturing, cloud, IoT and low code technology under a ...
Berkshire-based Sondrel has tape-out of its largest chip design for a customer – with a 500mm2 footprint, over 30 billion transistors, 40 million flip-flops, and 23 thousand pads for I/O, power and ground. Up to 200 engineers were working on it simultaneously at times, according to the company. “This initially started out as a design for 28nm technology,” said Sondrel director ...
SiFive has launched a self-contained and autonomous business unit to build silicon with Arm, RISC-V and other instruction set architectures (ISAs) for heterogeneous mixed-ISA designs. It is to be called OpenFive and is described as “ISA-neutral and Risc-V agnostic,” by SiFive: “Put simply, SiFive will deepen its focus on Risc-V IP, while OpenFive expands the opportunity for domain-specific silicon.” OpenFive will be ...
EDA companies, Cadence, Mentor, a Siemens Business, Synopsys and semiconductor equipment industry association, SEMI, have joined forces to jointly develop the SEMI Server Certification protocol, to combat EDA software piracy. The protocol will define how servers can be identified to ensure that it is authentic and not a cloned version that is using software licenses without permission. Software pirates use ...
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