ARM puts IoT operating system on roadmap in software drive
ARM is making a free operating system a cornerstone of its push into selling both more cores and server software to help manage them.
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Liberty changes bring together nanometer OCV techniques
The Liberty library format has been extended to cope with the most common forms of on-chip variation analysis in use today on nanometer processes.
The changes demanded by IoT design
Does the internet of things (IoT) require a change in design techniques? A number of people involved in the EDA industry reckon it does.
Altera moves to 55nm for non-volatile programmable logic
Altera has moved to a 55nm embedded flash process to continue its Max series of non-volatile FPGAs.
TSMC adds sub-micron low-leakage processes
TSMC has launched three processes the foundry is aiming at internet-of-things (IoT) and wearable-device designs, providing lower-leakage versions of its 55nm, 40nm and 28nm processes.
Heat becomes design assist for power supply layout
To make a high-efficiency power supply XP Power used heat as an additional design variable with an architecture that turns conventional wisdom over one aspect of component reliability on its head.
Xmos launches prototyping board, aims first at industrial comms
Xmos has designed a modular prototyping board for its XA devices, which combine the company's own real-time, multithreaded processor core with an ARM Cortex-M3 microcontroller.
ARM unveils superscalar addition to Cortex-M microcontrollers
ARM's latest core, the dual-issue M7 borrows features from the Cortex-R family for safety-critical applications as well as adding the option of cache memory.
Cisco to absorb smart-memory IP
Cisco has decided to buy memory-controller specialist Memoir Systems and absorb the technology into its Insieme business unit, which specializes in data-center switch technologies, a move that underlines the issues facing small IP suppliers and their customers.
New flows needed for the ‘insects of the SoC world’
Chris Rowen, CTO of the IP group at Cadence Design Systems, expects the internet of things (IoT) to cause a split in approaches to SoC design, one of a set of predictions about the nascent market.