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Week In Review: Auto, Security, Pervasive Computing
By Susan Rambo - 16 Oct, 2020 - Comments: 0

Security Intel announced new security features for its code-named Ice Lake CPU, according to a story in SecurityWeek. The 10nm-based Xeon Scalable will have SGX trusted execution environment and several new features for memory encryption, firmware resilience, and cryptographic performance acceleration. The new Total Memory Encryption (TME) feature in the CPU will encrypt access to memory. S... » read more

Week In Review: Design, Low Power
By Jesse Allen - 02 Oct, 2020 - Comments: 0

Arteris IP will acquire the assets of Magillem Design Services, combining Arteris' NoC interconnect IP with Magillem's chip design and assembly environment. Magillem’s software products will continue to be offered separately from the Arteris interconnect IP offerings and the joined company will continue to execute on Magillem’s existing product and technology roadmaps. Substantially all Mag... » read more

Week In Review: Design, Low Power
By Jesse Allen - 14 Aug, 2020 - Comments: 0

Cadence added new machine learning functionality to its Xcelium Logic Simulator to speed verification closure on randomized regressions. Xcelium ML directly interfaces to the simulation kernel and learns iteratively over an entire simulation regression, guiding the Xcelium randomization kernel on subsequent regression runs to achieve matching coverage with reduced simulation cycles. Kioxia adop... » read more

Week In Review: Design, Low Power
By Jesse Allen - 17 Jul, 2020 - Comments: 0

Siemens will acquire Avatar Integrated Systems. The company's place-and-route tools, which will become part of Mentor's Xcelerator portfolio, include a netlist-to-GDS full-function block-level physical implementation tool and a complete top-level prototyping, floor-planning and chip assembly tool. Based in Santa Clara, CA, Avatar was formed in 2017 from the acquired assets of ATopTech. ATopTech... » read more

Week In Review: Design, Low Power
By Jesse Allen - 19 Jun, 2020 - Comments: 0

Tools & IP Rambus debuted 112G XSR/USR PHY IP on TSMC's N7 7nm process. The PHY IP enables die-to-die and die-to-optical engine connectivity for chiplets and co-packaged optics targeting data center, networking, 5G, HPC, and AI/ML applications. It has been demonstrated in silicon to exceed the reach/BER performance of the CEI-112G XSR specification and supports NRZ and PAM-4 signaling at v... » read more

Week In Review: Design, Low Power
By Jesse Allen - 05 Jun, 2020 - Comments: 1

Tools & IP Synopsys introduced its DesignWare USB4 IP solution consisting of controllers, routers, PHYs, and verification IP. It supports USB4, DisplayPort with HDCP 2.3 security, PCI Express, and Thunderbolt 3 connectivity protocols through USB Type-C connectors and cables. The USB4 IP operates at up to 40 Gbps, twice the maximum data rate of USB 3.2, and is backwards compatible with USB 3... » read more

Week In Review: Design, Low Power
By Jesse Allen - 01 May, 2020 - Comments: 0

Nvidia completed its $7 billion acquisition of Mellanox. The acquisition, initially announced over a year ago, brings Mellanox’s high-performance networking and interconnect technology to Nvidia's server efforts and gives the company full end-to-end offerings in the data center space. To date, this is the largest acquisition in Nvidia's history. Tools & IP Synopsys debuted its 3DIC Co... » read more

Week In Review: Design, Low Power
By Jesse Allen - 20 Dec, 2019 - Comments: 0

M&A Intel acquired Habana Labs, a maker of programmable deep learning accelerators for the data center, for approximately $2 billion. Based in Israel, Habana was founded in 2016 but only emerged from stealth in September 2018 with the release of its first inference chip. Intel's VC arm, Intel Capital, previously invested in the startup. Intel has made numerous M&A moves in the AI space... » read more

Week In Review: Design, Low Power
By Jesse Allen - 22 Nov, 2019 - Comments: 1

Accellera formed the Universal Verification Methodology Analog/Mixed-Signal Working Group (UVM-AMS WG), which will work to develop a standard that will provide a unified analog/mixed-signal verification methodology based on UVM to improve the verification of AMS integrated circuits and systems. “Our objective is to standardize a method to drive and monitor analog/mixed-signal nets within UVM,... » read more

Week In Review: Design, Low Power
By Jesse Allen - 15 Nov, 2019 - Comments: 0

M&A eSilicon will be acquired by Inphi Corporation and Synopsys. Inphi is acquiring the majority of the company, including the ASIC business and 56/112G SerDes design and related IP, for $216 million in both cash and the assumption of debt. Inphi expects to combine its DSP, TiA, Driver and SiPho products with eSilicon’s 2.5D packaging and custom silicon design capabilities for electro-optics... » read more

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