design security

Imagination Technologies plans to introduce support for virtualization across all its processor cores, including signal processors such as the Ensigma family, as part of a plan to improve SoC security.

Startup Tortuga Logic has developed a toolkit for checking the security aspects of SoC hardware designs.

ARM CTO Mike Muller called for IP to be used throughout the IoT as part of a strategy for secure systems at a recent NMI seminar at Bletchley Park, England.

Designers will need to take crime into account as part of their design signoff process, Wally Rhines argued in his keynote at Mentor Graphics' U2U San Jose 2015 conference.

Unsettled by attacks on embedded devices such as the point-of-sale terminals used by retailers such as Target and the potential for hackers to target critical infrastructure, the industry focused squarely on security at this year’s Embedded World in Nürnberg, Germany.

New markets such as hardware cyber security, automotive and embedded software key to EDA industry growth

Cadence Design Systems has reached an agreement with Jasper Design Automation to buy the formal-verification specialist for $170m in cash.

Jasper Design Automation has developed a tool that analyzes RTL and gate-level HDL for hidden paths that may expose on-chip secure elements to hackers.

Xilinx aims to be first of the FPGA makers to produce 20nm devices, expecting to move to production samples for some products by the end of the year.

Design security is a major target for Microsemi’s update to its Igloo series of flash memory-based FPGAs, which add an ARM-oriented memory subsystem.