Performance and timeout checks added to on-chip network
Sonics has add static performance analysis to its SonicsStudio tool and timeout detection to its SonicsGN network intended to prevent SoCs locking up.
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Briefing Authors
Paul Dempsey
Paul Dempsey has been a technology journalist for 20 years. His work has also appeared in EETimes, Red Herring and specialist journals published by the Financial Times.
Luke Collins
Luke Collins is a freelance technology journalist with 22 years’ experience. He is a former Editor-in-Chief of Electronics Times in the UK, and co-founded the IP9x series of conferences.
Chris Edwards
Chris Edwards has spent two decades covering electronics and EDA. He is a former Editor-in-Chief of Electronic Engineering Times UK and electronics editor of the IET's Engineering & Technology.
Cadence shifts emulation to the data center
Cadence Design Systems has designed its Palladium Z1 emulator to fit into the corporate data-center, improving virtualization and availability aspects of the system’s design.
DVCon Europe: UVM-SystemC backers ready first draft
But the bridge standard’s European backers still need greater support from the big EDA vendors.
DVCon Europe: Getting TLM to cope with proliferating ECUs and serial protocols
High powered alliance develops TLM standards to address growing automotive and IoT concerns.
UltraSoC adds CoreSight and Ceva debug support
UltraSoC is extending its debug support for a variety of processor cores through compatibility with ARM’s CoreSight debug system as well as support for Ceva’s DSP cores.
ARM ports Trustzone down to Cortex-M
ARM is bringing the Trustzone security architecture to future Cortex-M processor cores, combining that with a version of AHB that will recognise the difference between secure and non-secure transactions.
Wind River aims for cloud revenue in IoT strategy
Wind River aims to change its business model to collect money from cloud services for IoT instead of selling licences for embedded devices.
Synopsys hires former presidential cyber-security advisor
Synopsys builds its presence in software quality and integrity by hiring Thomas A Schmidt, former cyber-security advisor to US Presidents
ARM targets cache-coherent GPU computing with CoreLink addition
ARM has developed a version of its CoreLink on-chip interconnect IP intended to support systems based on its big.Little processors combinations that need a cache-coherent GPU connection with lower latency and higher peak throughput.
Ceva builds DSP chip and board for IoT prototyping
IP supplier CEVA has made a development platform intended to speed up the prototyping of IoT and similar devices based on its TeakLite-4 DSP core.