Semiconductor IP Industry News
April, 2021

.Highlights:

• Latest collaboration builds upon previous successes where leading server customers reached silicon on 7nm using the previous-generation Arm Neoverse N1 platform and Cadence tools
• Cadence optimized its RTL-to-GDS digital full flow and delivered corresponding 5nm and 7nm RAKs for Arm Neoverse V1 and Neoverse N2 platforms, enabling designers to get to ...

Vision Q8 and Vision P1 DSPs Broaden Support for Automotive, Mobile and Consumer Markets

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 22, 2021 - Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNS) today expanded its popular Tensilica® Vision DSP product family with the debut of two new DSP IP cores for embedded vision and AI. Packing ...

Meylan, FRANCE – April 19, 2021 - IC’Alps, fast-growing French expert in the design and supply of application-specific integrated circuits (ASIC), has announced a strategic collaboration with KAL for the commercialization of their ASIC services on the Israeli marketplace. Besides, IC’Alps head office is actively recruiting.

To sustain its growth objective, ...

DSO.ai Autonomously Identifies Best PPA Solutions in Automotive Chip Designs

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 15, 2021 -

Highlights:

• Synopsys collaborates with Renesas to introduce DSO.ai design system to advanced automotive chip design
• Innovative reinforcement learning technology massively scales the exploration of options in chip design workflows
• DSO.ai proven to autonomously converge to PPA targets, leading ...

23rd April 2021. – T2M-IP, The global independent semiconductor IP Cores & Technology experts, is pleased to announce the immediate availability of its’ partners advanced PCIe Gen5 – PCIe Gen1 PHY and Controller IP Cores for Graphics, Memory and Storage Applications. All Phys and Controllers are backward compatible with previous ...

AUSTIN, TX – 22 APRIL 2021 -- Vidatronic, Inc., a leading provider of analog intellectual property (IP) licenses, including integrated power management unit (PMU) and LED driver technology for system on a chip (SoC) integration, is delighted to announce that ARM-veteran, Mike Holland, has joined our Executive team as Vice ...

SiFive to License Industry-Leading RISC-V Core IP Portfolio to Renesas

TOKYO & SAN MATEO, Calif. - April 21, 2021 - Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, and SiFive, Inc., the industry leader in RISC-V processors and silicon solutions, today announced a strategic partnership to jointly develop ...

Production-ready embedded boards and low-cost developer kit accelerate design cycles for rapid deployment; initial products target vision AI applications in smart cities and factories

SAN JOSE, Calif. - April 20, 2021 - Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today introduced the Kria™ portfolio of adaptive system-on-modules (SOMs), production-ready small form factor embedded boards ...

Physical verification flow optimized for mobile and hyperscale advanced-node design development

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 19, 2021 - Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNS) today announced that the Cadence® Pegasus Verification System has achieved certification for Samsung Foundry’s 5nm and 7nm process technologies. Through the collaboration with Samsung Foundry, the Cadence ...

Broadens expansion into multiphysics domain with market-leading computational fluid dynamics mesh generation and pre-processing technology

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 15, 2021 - Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNS) announced today that it has acquired Pointwise, Inc., a leader in mesh generation for computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The addition of Pointwise’s technologies ...

Highlights:

• Agreement makes Rambus Root of Trust, Secure Protocol Engines, along with Memory and SerDes PHYs and Controllers available to DARPA researchers
• Streamlined access to cutting-edge silicon IP accelerates forward-looking innovation
• DARPA researchers will be able to leverage industry-leading capabilities and expertise from Rambus

SAN JOSE, Calif. – April 14, 2021 – Rambus ...

OpenFive Tapes Out SoC for Advanced HPC/AI Solutions on TSMC 5nm Technology

OpenFive HBM3and Die-2-Die (D2D) interfaces combined with SiFive E76 RISC-V CPU core enable high performance chiplets and 2.5D based system-on-a-chip (SoC) designs.

SAN MATEO, Calif. – April 13, 2021 – OpenFive, a leading provider of customizable, silicon-focused solutions with differentiated ...

Highlights:

• Cadence 20.1 digital full flow tuned for Samsung Foundry advanced-process nodes, enabling optimal PPA and first-pass silicon success
• HPC reference flows based on iSpatial technology enable rapid design implementation
• Digital flow’s ML and concurrent macro, standard cell and placement capabilities deliver improved productivity and design optimization

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 8, 2021 - ...

Acquisition Will Enable Synopsys to Deliver a Complete Ethernet IP Solution, Consisting of MAC, PCS and 112G PHY for 200G/400G and 800G High-Performance Computing SoCs

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 12, 2021 - Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire MorethanIP, a provider of Ethernet ...

Draft of Accellera Security Annotation for Electronic Design Integration (SA-EDI) Standard 1.0 Now Available for Public Review from the IP Security Assurance Working Group

Elk Grove, Calif., April 6, 2021 -- Accellera Systems Initiative (Accellera), the electronics industry organization focused on the creation and adoption of electronic design automation (EDA) and ...

BANGALORE, India and MUNICH, March 24, 2021 - Valtrix Systems, the provider of design verification products for building functionally correct CPU and system-on-chip implementations, and Codasip, the leading supplier of customizable RISC-V® embedded processor IP, announced today that they are cooperating on the verification of RISC-V-based systems.

The cooperation is based ...

Highlights:

• Complete Cadence RTL-to-GDS digital full flow finely tuned for automotive safety, quality and reliability requirements, enabling accurate, first-time silicon
• Flow demonstrated on Cadence Tensilica ConnX B10 DSP, which is ideal for automotive radar, lidar and V2X applications

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 8, 2021 - Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNS) today ...

World-wide outreach in conjunction with leading academic institutions

Silicon Valley, California, April 7, 2021 - Silicon Catalyst, the world’s only incubator focused exclusively on semiconductor solutions, is pleased to announce the company’s University Program. Many of the successful startups in the Silicon Catalyst Incubator were launched based on fundamental research originating ...

IC Validator Delivers 30 Percent Compute Savings with Dynamic Elastic CPU on Cloud

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 6, 2021 -

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• Collaboration enables on-demand IC Validator physical signoff on Samsung SAFE Cloud Design Platform
• Synopsys IC Validator cloud optimized technology enables massive scaling and efficient resource usage for fast design closure
• Rescale and Microsoft Azure ...

Highlights:

• New dynamic duo delivers 2X capacity and 1.5X higher performance compared to previous-generation Palladium Z1 and Protium X1 systems
• Palladium Z2 emulation based on a new custom emulation processor offers fastest, most predictable compiles and most comprehensive pre-silicon hardware debug capabilities
• Protium X2 prototyping based on latest Xilinx UltraScale+ VU19P FPGAs offers ...

Monheim am Rhein, Germany – 30th March 2021 - Embedded developers can now use SEGGER Embedded Studio IDE with the Renesas RE Family of microcontrollers (MCUs).

Embedded Studio is SEGGER’s cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE) for embedded systems development. The editor is quick to start up and the build process is ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif. - April 1, 2021 - Join Intel’s Navin Shenoy, executive vice president in the Data Platforms Group, and Lisa Spelman, corporate vice president in the Xeon and Memory Group, on April 6 for the launch of the latest 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors (code-named “Ice Lake”) ...