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October 2, 2014

Applied Micro moves away from MIPS, PowerPC in 64bit embedded push

Applied Micro is to use the ARM v8 CPU architecture it developed for data centers to keep hold of embedded-systems customers who have decided to move away from its existing MIPS and PowerPC-based processors.
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October 2, 2014

ARM to extend Big.Little for GPUs and heat management

A multiprocessor test chip has led ARM to improve the energy-control strategy for its Big.Little architecture and to simplify the debug architecture for the company's multicore processor IP.
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October 2, 2014

Software encryption manager aims to tighten up on embedded security

HCC Embedded has developed a modular software manager for encryption, designed to provide embedded systems with the foundation for handling security algorithms.
October 2, 2014

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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October 1, 2014

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.
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September 30, 2014

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.
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September 30, 2014

Real Intent’s Meridian CDC flexes hierarchical muscle, adds flexible debug

Major overhaul of clock domain crossing suite adds configurable debugger, boosts performance by 30% and cuts memory 40% for 'giga-scale' designs.
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September 29, 2014

Verification platform offers unified compile, debug environments

Synopsys is integrating its verification tools to make it easier to move between verification approaches for software centric SoCs
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September 29, 2014

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.
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September 29, 2014

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.
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