The Week In Review: Design


IP Rambus unveiled High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) Gen2 PHY developed for GlobalFoundries' FX-14 ASIC platform. The PHY, targeted at networking and data center applications, is fully compliant with the JEDEC HBM2 standard and supports data rates up to 2000 Mbps per data pin, for a total bandwidth of 256 GB/s. Omnitek launched a number of new FPGA-based video IPs, including HDMI2.0 Tx and Rx, ... » read more

The Week In Review: Design/IoT


Deals Sonics won a deal with Korea's Nexell, which will use Sonics' on-chip network technology for customer-specific application processor designs for the consumer and communications markets. Nexell will use the NoC technology with Samsung's 28nm LP high-k/metal gate process. GlobalFoundries and Cadence rolled out an SoC enablement solution using ARM's Cortex-A17 processor in a 28nm super l... » read more