Deals: Mentor-Solido, Marvell-Cavium

By Ed Sperling - 20 Nov, 2017 - Comments: 0

Marvell today signed a definitive agreement to buy Cavium for roughly $6 billion, ending weeks of speculation about whether the deal would go through. And Mentor, a Siemens business, paid an undisclosed price to buy Solido Design Automation, which tracks variation in complex designs. Both deals are part of a new flurry of M&A activity across the semiconductor industry as the industry ret... » read more

The Week in Review: IoT

By Jeff Dorsch - 10 Nov, 2017 - Comments: 0

Security Mocana said it is working with Avnet, Infineon Technologies, Microsoft, and Xilinx to provide Industrial Internet of Things systems that meet cybersecurity standards. The systems utilize the Avnet UltraZed-EG system-on-module, Mocana’s security software running on the Xilinx Zynq Ultrascale+ MPSoc, and Infineon’s OPTIGA Trusted Platform Module 2.0 security chip. The Microsoft Azur... » read more

Blog Review: Nov. 8

By Jesse Allen - 08 Nov, 2017 - Comments: 0

Synopsys' Eric Huang digs in to what's new with USB 3.2 and what's achieved by preserving the existing PHY signaling speeds. In a video, Mentor's Colin Walls provides tips on how to write debuggable and maintainable embedded code. Cadence's Paul McLellan listens in on a talk by Andrew Kahng of UC San Diego on the problem of scaling and why machine learning can improve EDA tools. Rambus... » read more

Ethernet In Cars

By Tim Lau - 02 Nov, 2017 - Comments: 0

The automobile is encountering possibly the biggest changes in its technological progression since the invention of the internal combustion engine nearly 150 years ago. Increasing levels of autonomy will reshape how we think about cars and car travel. It won’t be just a matter of getting from point A to point B while doing very little else — we will be able to keep on doing what we want whi... » read more

Faster Commoditization In Cars

By Ann Mutschler - 02 Nov, 2017 - Comments: 0

Sensors are at the heart of assisted and autonomous driving, but even before these devices hit the road the average selling prices of these components will have to fall far enough to be affordable to a mass audience. Achieving economies of scale is what has made the semiconductor industry successful over the past half century. It has enabled semiconductors to proliferate and for electronics ... » read more

Security For Embedded Electronics

By Jeff Dorsch - 02 Nov, 2017 - Comments: 0

The embedded systems market is expected to enjoy steady growth in the near future—provided those systems can be adequately secured. One of the biggest challenges for embedded devices and systems, especially those employed in the [getkc id="76" comment="Internet of Things"], is adequately protecting them from increasingly sophisticated hacking. This is a new tool for criminal enterprises, a... » read more

Blog Review: Nov. 1

By Jesse Allen - 01 Nov, 2017 - Comments: 0

Mentor's Nitin Bhagwath continues digging into DDR timing with a look at the clock-to-DQS requirement at the DRAM and how "write-leveling" is used to solve layout issues caused by the requirement. Synopsys' Dipesh Handa checks out what's new in the MIPI CSI-2 v2.0 specification that opens it up to new imaging and vision applications, including IoT and automotive. Cadence's Ken Willis delv... » read more

Blog Review: Oct. 25

By Jesse Allen - 25 Oct, 2017 - Comments: 0

Mentor's Joe Hupcey III explains the benefits of prioritizing faults with formal analysis before launching detailed fault verification. Cadence's Paul McLellan listens in as AMD's Mark Papermaster discusses what's needed to keep driving Moore's Law. Synopsys' Jesse Victors takes a look at ROCA, the latest flaw affecting RSA cryptography, and argues it may be time for a new encryption sche... » read more

Blog Review: Oct. 18

By Jesse Allen - 18 Oct, 2017 - Comments: 0

Mentor's Nitin Bhagwath suggests some ways to deal with undesirable signal integrity effects in DDR designs. Cadence's Ken Willis argues that for multi-gigabit serial link interfaces, signal integrity analysis should start upstream of the traditional post-layout verification step. Synopsys' Ravindra Aneja contends that understanding formal core data can reduce the overall effort and short... » read more

The Chiplet Option

By Ed Sperling - 09 Oct, 2017 - Comments: 0

All of the leading chipmakers, foundries and OSATs are now working with some sort of advanced packaging. The next step is to add some consistency to those efforts to be able to assemble chips much more quickly and inexpensively. DARPA has been promoting chiplets as the best way to solve this problem, and for the military, this is a pretty logical choice. With a push toward heterogeneity in c... » read more

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