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The Week In Review: Design
By Ed Sperling - 02 May, 2014 - Comments: 0

Tools CEVA integrated Bluetooth processing into its DSP cores. In addition to audio and video and always-on capabilities, the company is pitching the combination as an all-in-one, ultra-low-power solution for the wearable electronics market. So how big is this market opportunity? IDC predicts the wearable computing market will grow from 19.2 million units this year to 112 million units in 2... » read more

Object Security And The IoT
By Ernest Worthman - 01 May, 2014 - Comments: 0

Objects of the IoT will be anything and everything. It is conceivable that, eventually, almost every animate and inanimate object will have a cybernetic umbilical cord to it. IoT “things” take on virtual representations. They have intelligence. They are able to interact with each other as well as mine and store data about what and how objects are being used, what their status is, who and... » read more

Double Trouble
By NXP - 01 May, 2014 - Comments: 0

By Joon Knapen I read a story recently about a BBC journalist in Africa who was the victim of an imposter that had taken to posing as him on local radio stations. The unsuspecting radio hosts accommodated him because they were unaware of what the real Mohaman Babalala looked like and claimed his accent sounded similar. While the journalist took this incident in good humor it reminds us abou... » read more

The New Face Of MCUs
By Ann Mutschler - 10 Apr, 2014 - Comments: 0

For years, the humble microcontroller was known as the workhorse of white goods and other embedded applications that required some amount of processing, but not as much as a microprocessor would provide. Much has changed since then. Today’s MCUs are the star components in fast-growing and increasingly sophisticated application areas such as automotive, smartphones and the Internet of Thing... » read more

The Week In Review: Manufacturing
By Mark LaPedus - 04 Apr, 2014 - Comments: 1

GlobalFoundries has emerged as the leading candidate to buy IBM's semiconductor unit, according to Reuters, which cited the Wall Street Journal as it source. IBM, which recently put its semiconductor unit on the block, has held discussions with GlobalFoundries, Intel and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. GlobalFoundries did not respond to the reports by press time. GlobalFoundries ... » read more

Expert Interview: NXP On Security
By Ed Sperling - 03 Feb, 2014 - Comments: 4

Semiconductor Engineering sat down with Mathias Wagner, NXP fellow and chief security technologist, to discuss the challenges in securing SoCs. SE: Can we ever get a really firm handle on security issues in SoCs? Wagner: No. There are too many papers on attacks and countermeasures that come out every year. In the embedded security field alone there are about 100 papers every year, so if y... » read more

The Week In Review: System-Level Design
By Ed Sperling - 24 Jan, 2014 - Comments: 0

India's reliance on technology has created a huge demand for software in the country. IDC expects the market for enterprise software in India to grow 19%, and the market for collaborative applications to grow 13.5%. Growth is continuing across all business markets, turning India into a huge consumer of software rather than just a creator. The enterprise software market in India is dominated by ... » read more

Mixing Custom And Standard Parts
By Ed Sperling - 08 Aug, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling The amount of third-party and re-used IP content in an SoC is on the rise, but once a decision to buy vs. make has been made it doesn’t always stay that way. In fact, chipmakers are swinging the pendulum back and forth across a variety of chips, building IP themselves, standardizing on another vendor’s IP, then sometimes rolling it back the other way. The reasons are usua... » read more

How Secure Is Your SoC?
By Ed Sperling - 07 Aug, 2013 - Comments: 0

The Russian Federal Guard Service’s decision to revert to typewriters—machines that leave unique mechanical fingerprints—is a good indicator of just how serious security has become in a world dominated by electronics and pervasive connectivity. What’s less apparent is the growing threat at the SoC level—inside complex chips, between the chip and the board, and between chips on the ... » read more

Trading Off Power And Performance
By Ann Mutschler - 11 Jul, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler There is no shortage of opinions when it comes to the topic of performance and power tradeoffs. From abstracting the task from engineers to process considerations, engineering teams have a number of tools and approaches at their disposal to make the optimal design choices for their application. Take the MCU application space for instance. Ken Dwyer, director of app... » read more

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