CEA-Leti adds partners to FD-SOI low-power design centre
Silicon Impulse program adds partners to ease industrialisation of ultra-low power IC designs based on FD-SOI processes
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Altera boosts density and pipelining in finFET FPGA shift
Altera is using a combination of Intel's 14nm process technology and multidie packaging to boost the logic-cell count for its FPGAs, together with a superpipelining strategy to help balance area and clock speed.
Synopsys speeds automotive SoC qualification with IP launch
Synopsys develops portfolio of ASIL B ready IP, and invests in AEC-Q100 testing and TS 16949 quality management, to ease automotive SoC qualification.
S3 aims at MIMO WiFi with smaller ADC core
S3 Group has launched the second in a family of low-power successive-approximation ADCs, with a design that supports sample rates up to 320MS/s.
IBM plans to disrupt EDA market with cloud offering
IBM to offer end-to-end IC design flow on its own infrastructure in PAYG EDA model.
Docea adds API to model power software interactions
Docea Power has added a programming interface to the latest version of its Aceplorer power-modeling software to show how chipset designs would fare under a variety of software-based power-management algorithms.
SRAM IP “halves dynamic power” on 28nm FDSOI
Embedded SRAM IP said to reduce dynamic, static power on FDSOI at cost of extra 10% area
COMPUTEX 2015: Qualcomm edges Intel out of UK smartwatch start-up
Blocks' promo video says its work was 'Funded by Intel' but Qualcomm has announced that the modular watch company will be using its Snapdragon 400.
COMPUTEX 2015: Wrap 1 – Is ‘The Internet of Things’ that helpful an idea?
Everybody knows the words. Everybody has a different definition. Did calling the next big thing 'The Internet of Things' actually create a hindrance not a help?
COMPUTEX 2015: Taiwan and mainland China face off in IoT platforms
It wasn't just ARM and TSMC that launched a 55nm IoT platform this week. Across the Taiwan Strait, Brite and SMIC have unveiled a similar offering. The competition could tell us a lot about the IoT market's future.