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Susan Rambo is the managing editor of Semiconductor Engineering.

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Week In Review: Auto, Security, Pervasive Computing
By Susan Rambo - 06 Aug, 2021 - Comments: 0

Automotive The New York Auto Show has been canceled due to concerns over the COVID-19 Delta variant. The show, which usually occurs in April, was scheduled for August 20 through 29th. Semiconductor company Qualcomm has offered to acquire Veoneer, an ADAS company, for $37 per share in cash. Automotive Tier 1 Magna International already has a definitive merger agreement to acquire Veoneer, wh... » read more

Week In Review: Auto, Security, Pervasive Computing
By Susan Rambo - 30 Jul, 2021 - Comments: 0

Automotive SGS-TÜV Saar certified that Cadence’s Tensilica Xtensa processors with FlexLock meets the ISO 26262:2018 standard to ASIL-D level. The new FlexLock feature is key to the certification because it supports lockstep, a fault-tolerant method that runs the same operation on two cores at the same time and then compares the output. Any difference in the output can be examined for issues... » read more

Week In Review: Auto, Security, Pervasive Computing
By Susan Rambo - 23 Jul, 2021 - Comments: 0

Security Xilinx is investing an undisclosed amount in fabless semiconductor startup Kameleon Security, which is working on a cyber protection chip for servers, data centers, and cloud computing. The proactive Security Processing Unit (ProSPU) already secures the boot and has a root of trust (RoT). The chip will be demonstrated at the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit, which is planned f... » read more

Week In Review: Auto, Security, Pervasive Computing
By Susan Rambo - 16 Jul, 2021 - Comments: 0

Security A new security annotation standard for hardware IP is now available for download at no cost. The board of directors of the Accellera Systems Initiative, the non-profit EDA- and IP-standards organization, approved the release of the Security Annotation for Electronic Design Integration (SA-EDI) Standard 1.0. The standard, developed by Accellera’s IP Security Assurance (IPSA) Working ... » read more

Week In Review: Auto, Security, Pervasive Computing
By Susan Rambo - 09 Jul, 2021 - Comments: 0

Pervasive computing — IoT, edge, cloud, data center, and back The IoT designer Deed designed a screenless health monitor, worn on the wrist, that uses IoT (Internet of Things) building blocks from Infineon Technologies. The Get bracelet interprets hand gestures for making payments, picking up phone calls, turning up or down audio, while it also takes health data and biometrics. The system us... » read more

Week In Review: Auto, Security, Pervasive Computing
By Susan Rambo - 02 Jul, 2021 - Comments: 0

Security The U.S. government agencies put out a warning that Russian military has been using a Kubernetes cluster to attempt distributed and anonymized brute force access against hundreds of government and private sector targets worldwide. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the National S... » read more

Week In Review: Auto, Security, Pervasive Computing
By Susan Rambo - 25 Jun, 2021 - Comments: 0

Automotive Cadence will be capturing design insights from Presto Engineering, an ASIC designer working on high-performance system-in-package (SiP) development for the automotive and Industrial IoT markets. Presto, which also provides semiconductor services such as test and qualification, will use Cadence’s EDA and analysis tools (Allegro X Package Designer Plus, Clarity 3D Solver, Sigrity Xt... » read more

Week In Review: Auto, Security, Pervasive Computing
By Susan Rambo - 18 Jun, 2021 - Comments: 0

Automotive U.S. electric truck manufacturer Lordstown Motors has an electric truck but after a large buyer fell through, it admitted it does not have any firm orders on its trucks, according to an AP story. The CEO and CFO resigned earlier this week. The electric car company Canoo announced its US manufacturing facility will be in Oklahoma. Cadence revealed its Tensilica FloatingPoint DSP (... » read more

Week In Review: Auto, Security, Pervasive Computing
By Susan Rambo - 11 Jun, 2021 - Comments: 0

Pervasive computing — IoT, edge, cloud, data center, and back Xilinx introduced its Versal AI Edge series of adaptive SoCs, or adaptive compute acceleration platforms (ACAPs), that can be manage AI-ML workloads in edge applications. The chip is designed for flexible, low latency, edge applications where algorithms may need updating. The software programmable chips have an AI Engine-ML featur... » read more

Week In Review: Auto, Security, Pervasive Computing
By Susan Rambo - 04 Jun, 2021 - Comments: 0

Pervasive computing — IoT, edge, cloud, data center, and back To simplify IoT workflows, Arm announced that it is putting parts of its Common Microcontroller Software Interface Standard (CMSIS) into an open project called Open-CMSIS-Pack. The CMSIS is a vendor-independent abstraction layer for MCUs, especially Arm Cortex-M processors, that makes it possible for developers to deal with softwa... » read more

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