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The Week In Review: Design/IoT
By Jesse Allen - 08 May, 2015 - Comments: 0

Embedded Mentor Graphics released a new version of their Nucleus RTOS with a focus on high-performance IoT and wearable applications. Updates include support for Dynamic Linking and Loading (DLL) capabilities in Cortex-M based cores; the ability for developers to reconfigure, update, and provision connected embedded devices that utilize cloud-based remote software services; and TI WiLink 8 m... » read more

Security Progress In Some Places, Not Others
By Ed Sperling - 07 May, 2015 - Comments: 0

Security is big business, and it's increasingly part of business done between big businesses in the semiconductor market. The deal that was announced this week between NXP and Qualcomm, adding a secure NFC module to the Snapdragon chip, is certainly good business. But what's really interesting about this arrangement is that it was done between two very prominent companies, which saw a potent... » read more

Challenges For The IIoT
By Ed Sperling - 07 May, 2015 - Comments: 0

Unlike the [getkc id="76" comment="Internet of Things"], which is largely still a collection of connected devices that don't always play well together, the Industrial Internet of Things ([getkc id="78" kc_name="IIoT"]) already is in heavy use and growing across a number of markets well outside of the usual markets associated with semiconductors. A Morgan Stanley "blue paper" report issued la... » read more

Get Ready For More Biometrics
By Ernest Worthman - 07 May, 2015 - Comments: 0

Security involving scans of fingerprints, palms, faces, or some other variant has been common in movies for years, and many phones and computers now offer fingerprint scans instead of a password login. But as security risks rise with the rollout of the [getkc id="76" comment="Internet of Things"]/Internet of Everything, that technology will need to become much more pervasive and sophisticated. ... » read more

What NFC Means For Smart Factories, Intelligent Supply Chains And Industry 4.0
By NXP - 07 May, 2015 - Comments: 0

There is a growing trend, in today's factories, to use innovations like smart objects, autonomous production, and access to the cloud to support customization on a large scale and manufacture products in close to real time. This trend, which is seen to be part of the fourth industrial revolution, or Industry 4.0, is accelerated by the use of wireless technologies, including Near Field Communica... » read more

Blog Review: May 6
By Jesse Allen - 06 May, 2015 - Comments: 0

How do you choose between bulk planar transistors, FinFETs, and FD-SOI? Cadence's Richard Goering got some answers during a session at the Electronic Design Process Symposium. Check out the Q&A in the second part, too. Synopsys' Michael Posner tackles a question about the differences between a prototyping bridge and hybrid prototypes and the limitations each has to solve various kinds of... » read more

The Week In Review: Design/IoT
By Jesse Allen - 01 May, 2015 - Comments: 0

Tools Cadence released the new debug platform Indago, with the aim of reducing the time to identify bugs in a design by up to 50 percent compared to traditional signal- or transaction-level debug methods. Included are three debugging apps that provide an integrated debug solution for testbench, verification IP, and hardware/software debug for SoC designs. Mentor Graphics announced three n... » read more

Blog Review: April 29
By Jesse Allen - 29 Apr, 2015 - Comments: 0

Start your engines. At the Western US Freescale Cup, ARM's Sadanand Gulwadi had a front-row seat to the ingenuity displayed in autonomous model car racing. From turning an abandoned factory into the world's largest indoor farm to the millions invested in mining passing asteroids, Ansys' Bill Vandermark celebrates a week of Earth Day with his top five picks to read. "There is no Department... » read more

Problems Ahead For EDA
By Brian Bailey - 27 Apr, 2015 - Comments: 0

You may have discovered that the Semiconductor Engineering Knowledge Center (KC) provides various ways in which data can be viewed. One way is to see what events happened in a given year. During the 1990s, company activity in terms of new startups and acquisitions reached a peak, and in 1997 there were at least 29 startups that the KC contains and 25 companies acquired (let us know if there wer... » read more

The Week In Review: Manufacturing
By Mark LaPedus - 24 Apr, 2015 - Comments: 0

For years, Altera’s sole foundry was TSMC. Then, not long ago, Altera selected Intel as its foundry partner for 14nm. TSMC still handles 20nm and above work for Altera. This quarter, Altera was supposed to select a foundry partner for 10nm. This week, Altera posted lackluster results in the quarter. Altera did not elaborate on its 10nm plans, nor did it discuss the Intel rumors. "Altera did n... » read more

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