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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC) is seeing a slowdown amid a lull in the IC market.
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Today, Texas Instruments is launching two free software development tools to enable ARM®, Linux™ and system developers to easily leverage the real-time, intensive signal processing power of the TMS320C6000™ digital signal processor (DSP) in TI's integrated floating- and fixed-point DSP + ARM processors.
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MIPS Technologies today introduced a new processor that offers industry-leading speed for fully-synthesizable multicore IP. With the MIPS32® 1074K Coherent Processing System (CPS), companies can now get the high performance of a custom implementation with an off-the-shelf CPU core.
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Annual revenue for core silicon, the largest segment in the semiconductor industry, is set for unprecedented growth in 2010, wiping out the decline of the last year, according to market research firm iSuppli Corp.
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The business climate for the semiconductor industry is deteriorating, and leading indicators point to an imminent correction in the semiconductor market according to an analyst.
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Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced the Mentor(R) Embedded ReadyStart(TM) Platform, a "ready-to-use" solution comprising integrated software IP, tools, and services targeting popular hardware boards and system-on-chips (SoCs).
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Aeroflex Gaisler AB, a leader in System on Chip (SoC) design, today announces the availability of a SpaceWire router IP-core. The SpaceWire router IP-core implements a SpaceWire router as defined in the ECSS-E-ST-50-12C standard. It supports from 2 to 31 ports with an additional configuration port, which can be individually configured to be external SpaceWire links, FIFO ports or AMBA ports.
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Intilop’s team awarded a Patent in developing an advanced hardware search technology which speeds up searching of non stationary large data sets by 10 to 20 times as compared to conventional hardware search engines.
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Freescale Semiconductor is expanding its ColdFire licensing program by offering its 32-bit V4 ColdFire core to the embedded community through IPextreme, a semiconductor technology licensing specialist. Working in collaboration with Freescale, IPextreme will now market, sell and support Freescale’s V1, V2 and V4 ColdFire cores to system-on-chip (SoC) designers seeking to integrate the cores and other functions onto single-chip ICs.
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Since Renesas Electronics Corporation was formed on April 1, 2010 through a merger between NEC Electronics Corporation and Renesas Technology Corp., the company has studied ways to draw out maximum synergies for its MCU business, both in the business direction and in its product portfolio.
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Sonics introduced MemMax AMP™, the first standalone memory scheduler that optimizes memory bandwidth/DRAM scheduling on-chip in a single IP block. MemMax AMP is the only on-chip memory IP solution that allows SoC designers and system architects to significantly boost memory bandwidth utilization from the average ~45-50 percent level up to 85 percent in some designs, without re-architecting the system design or changing the memory subsystem.
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Renesas Electronics Corporation today announced that its latest Universal Serial Bus 3.0 (USB 3.0) xHCI (eXtensible Host Controller Interface) host controller (part number µPD720200A) and USB 3.0 intellectual property (IP) core (IP: NBU3DEVG1) have passed USB 3.0 compliance and certification testing by the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF)
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Trident Microsystems and ARM announced today that they have brought together all the key Web 2.0 and broadcast elements on a powerful set-top box (STB) platform that can enable consumers to seamlessly view TV programming, run rich internet applications, browse websites and share content anytime and anywhere in the home.
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ARM today introduced the Cortex(TM)-A15 MPCore processor that delivers a 5x performance improvement over today's advanced smartphone processors, within a comparable energy footprint. In advanced infrastructure applications the Cortex-A15 processor running at up to 2.5GHz will enable highly scalable solutions within constantly shrinking energy, thermal and cost budgets. The Cortex-A15 processor is available for licensing today and is targeted at manufacture in 32nm, 28nm and future geometries.
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CEVA today introduced the CEVA-X1643, a highly-energy efficient,1 GHz DSP core designed to boost overall chip performance for a broad range of applications including wireline and wireless communications, surveillance, portable multimedia and more.
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RivieraWaves announced today that it has successfully passed the Bluetooth Qualification with its Bluetooth low energy baseband Intellectual Property (IP).
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At today’s inaugural Global Technology Conference, GLOBALFOUNDRIES revealed the latest details of its progress in technology development for the 28nm technology generation and beyond. The company announced the addition of a new technology offering based on its 28nm High-K Metal Gate (HKMG) technology and revealed for the first time its manufacturing timeline for the 22/20nm node.
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True Circuits announced today the immediate availability of a new line of silicon-proven General Purpose Phase-Locked Loop (PLL) hard macros that are well suited for system clock, DDR and general purpose timing applications. The General Purpose PLL is available in a variety of TSMC and GlobalFoundries processes.
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