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.
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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.
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.
ARM snaps up Carbon model IP for prototyping
ARM has moved back into system-level modelling with the decision to buy the tools and models developed by Carbon Design Systems
Mentor targets next-gen Ethernet with emulation
Vendor adds verification support for 25G, 50G and 100G Ethernet through emulator-based virtualization.
Mentor’s Wally Rhines on M&A ‘merger mania’
...and why the semiconductor industry hasn't been singularitied down to one MegaSemis Inc even if that's what M&A data suggests.
Software puts deep learning onto embedded DSP
Ceva has launched a software package intended to streamline the porting of convolutional neural network implementations to the XM4 DSP core.
Samsung taps Mentor tools for higher yielding close-loop DFM
Samsung bases PRISM and FLARE defect analysis and optimization on Mentor Graphics' Calibre and Tessent. Yields rise. Ramps shorten.
Flow exploration key to finFET network processor implementation
Flow exploration helps designers establish best approach to advanced network processor implementation on Samsung finFET process