IP

ARM has picked up TÜV Süd certification for a version of its C compiler and produced an ISO 26262 documentation pack for the Cortex-R5 processor

Cadence Design Systems has launched the 11th generation of Tensilica Xtensa customizable processors, with changes for VLIW, power-saving caches and memory accesses.

Cadence has released a tool intended to ease the creation of scenario-driven tests to better exercise complex IP and SoC designs.

USB 3.1 IP, verification IP, virtual development kit build on Synopsys' USB 3.0 DesignWare and supporting ecosystem

Synopsys updates ARC core to improve support for embedded Linux and other advanced operating systems such as Android

Minimal IP cores are meant to serve broader market than IoT, using revised instruction set to increase code density, save on chip memory and enable security

Carbon Design Systems has introduced a web portal to streamline the process of finding the most appropriate executable models for a system-level virtual prototype.

ARM has launched a pair of tools designed to improve the density and performance of finFET designs that use the company's physical libraries.

Cisco has decided to buy memory-controller specialist Memoir Systems and absorb the technology into its Insieme business unit, which specializes in data-center switch technologies, a move that underlines the issues facing small IP suppliers and their customers.

Chris Rowen, CTO of the IP group at Cadence Design Systems, expects the internet of things (IoT) to cause a split in approaches to SoC design, one of a set of predictions about the nascent market.