tag: IP

EDA Tools, IP Sales Up
By Ed Sperling - 15 Jul, 2014 - Comments: 0

EDA sales grew 4.6% in the first quarter, down slightly year-over-year as sales in Japan dragged down the rest of the market. Sales in Japan dropped 19% year over year as the country’s electronics industry struggles for footing against rivals in China and South Korea. North America and Europe grew 7% and 7.5% respectively, according to statistics provided by the EDA Consortium. Within thos... » read more

The Week In Review: Design
By Ed Sperling - 11 Jul, 2014 - Comments: 0

M&A CEVA bought RivieraWaves, which makes IP for WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity. CEVA said the deal will boost its market to 35 billion connected devices within six years. The two companies have been collaborating in the WiFi market for the past couple of years. Total cost of the deal is $19 million. Mentor Graphics acquired XS Embedded GmbH, a German-based developer of automotive-read... » read more

IP And FinFETs At Advanced Nodes
By Ed Sperling - 10 Jul, 2014 - Comments: 2

Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss IP and finFETs at advanced nodes with Bernard Murphy, CTO of Atrenta; Warren Savage, president and CEO of IPextreme; Aveek Sarkar, vice president of engineering and product support at Ansys-Apache; Randy Smith, vice president of marketing at Sonics. What follows are excerpts of that conversation. SE: As we push into the next nodes, we’ve got a ... » read more

Ultra Low-Power 9D Sensor Fusion Implementation
By Synopsys - 09 Jul, 2014 - Comments: 0

This paper presents a case study on computing the 3D orientation of a device by means of a 9D fusion algorithm. The focus is on optimizing the fusion algorithm for execution on the DesignWare Sensor IP Subsystem. Performance measurements show the benefits of using ARC Processor EXtension (APEX) accelerators, which improve both cycle count and energy consumption in comparison to other commercial... » read more

R-FPGA Security Risks
By Ernest Worthman - 07 Jul, 2014 - Comments: 0

Configurable chips have been around for a long time. Modern FPGAs, E/EEPROMS and other types of programmable memory have allowed us some flexibility in changing chip functionality in the field. But really, this is static reprogramming and requires a process and procedure. Moreover, it needs to done by knowledgeable programmers, either on site or remotely. But the fact remains that field re-prog... » read more

Next Bonanza: Security Holes
By Ed Sperling - 07 Jul, 2014 - Comments: 0

Security threats—both real and potential—are beginning to reshape the semiconductor business. These threats are drawing venture capitalists back into the industry as they race for the next big opportunity. They are blurring the lines between software and hardware, as threats grow in complexity at every level of a device and its myriad and sometimes perpetual connections to the outside wo... » read more

Programmable Risk Factors
By Ernest Worthman - 07 Jul, 2014 - Comments: 0

The semiconductor industry is starting to come around to the realization that security begins at the block level. Intellectual property (IP) is being seen with IP blocks that can be woven into the general-purpose system-on-chip (SoC) hardware layers to secure I/O, data, keys, and various other sensitive or critical information. But modifying hardware designs in response to the demands placed... » read more

Thoughts On DAC While Watching The World Cup
By Anne Cirkel - 03 Jul, 2014 - Comments: 0

Are you following the World Cup? I am. For those of you who don’t know me, I’m German, so soccer (rather, Fussball) is much more up my alley than football or baseball will ever be. When it comes to DAC planning, we are still at the fun, early stage of casting about widely for ideas and feedback. Mostly now we’re looking to prompt a bit of creative discussion, a challenge since the majo... » read more

3 Challenges Of Delivering Configurable Semiconductor IP
By Kurt Shuler - 26 Jun, 2014 - Comments: 0

Over time, commercial IP products have morphed from single function blocks to 100% configurable IPs where no two instances are the same. In this article I point out the challenges of creating configurable IP, and the best-known practices to address them. IP Configurability Spectrum Throughout the history of chip design, there has been a spectrum of configurability that has been built into i... » read more

More Simplicity Next Year
By Anne Cirkel - 20 Jun, 2014 - Comments: 0

I briefly mentioned last week that I want to give you a glimpse behind the curtain of the DAC operation during the year. One goal of this blog is to give you some insight into the work the fabulous volunteers for DAC are doing. And that’s not only the 20 volunteers on the DAC Executive Committee. From the technical program committees all the way to the marketing committee, the event is entire... » read more

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