Semiconductor IP Industry News
February, 2015

Analog Bits joins PLDA's ecosystem of PHY partners, largest in industry

SAN JOSE, Calif. - February 27, 2015 - PLDA, the industry leader in PCI Express IP solutions has added Analog Bits, the semiconductor industry’s leading provider of mixed-signal IP, to its ecosystem of PHY partners. Together, the partners have developed ...

SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 26, 2015 -  Cadence Design Systems, Inc., today announced that Brite Semiconductor Corporation, used Cadence digital implementation and signoff tools to complete four 28nm system-on-chip (SoC) designs and reduced their time to market by three weeks compared to previous design methodologies. By using Cadence tools, ...

Eindhoven, Netherlands – February 26 2015 – At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, taking place March 2nd-5th, NXP Semiconductors (NASDAQ: NXPI) will demonstrate Near Field Magnetic Induction (NFMI) technology in a truly wireless earbud including wireless audio streaming from ear to ear, using its new NxH2280 NFMI based radio transceiver.

Next-generation system-level design platform integrates Forte and Cadence technology

HIGHLIGHTS:

• Industry’s first high-level synthesis platform that can be utilized across an entire system-on-chip (SoC) design
• First silicon-proven high-level synthesis platform to address real world challenges, including ECO, low power, IP reuse, and routing congestion
• Consistent environment from TLM through gates improves design and verification ...

Eindhoven, Netherlands and San Jose, California, February 24, 2015 – NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) today announced two new microcontroller families, LPC18Sxx and LPC43Sxx, to help embedded developers secure application code and data messages in connected applications against threats such as theft and cloning. The new microcontroller families add ...

Eindhoven, Netherlands – February 23 2015 – NXP Semiconductors (NASDAQ: NXPI) has today announced that as a result of a partnership with Sonova – the leading manufacturer of innovative hearing care solutions – they have collaboratively developed Venture, a landmark next-generation hearing instrument platform, which offers users exceptional performance. Using ...

Hannover and Lübeck, Germany, February 20, 2015, - Videantis and gestigon today announced a partnership that teams videantis’s low-power vision processing IP platform with gestigon’s unique skeleton tracking and gesture recognition algorithms. The videantis and gestigon CEOs sealed the partnership last month at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. ...

Eindhoven, Netherlands, February 20, 2015 -- NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ:NXPI), the market leader in contact smart card interface ICs with over one billion ICs sold, today announced the launch of a new contact smart card interface -- TDA8037.

Fully optimized for the next generation of pay-TV applications worldwide, the ...

Elliptic's tRoot Hardware Solution for IoT Applications to be showcased at Mobile World Congress 2015

February 18, 2015 - Ottawa, Canada: Elliptic Technologies, a leading provider of security for the connected world, today announced that SoC solution provider eWBM has selected Elliptic's tRoot technology, a future-proof secure hardware root of trust ...

Eindhoven, Netherlands, February 18, 2015 - NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ:NXPI) today announced the launch of ICODE SLIX 2, a new RFID chip designed specifically for use in libraries. For use in public as well as university libraries the ICODE SLIX 2 offers a new approach to inventory management of books ...

Eindhoven, Netherlands and San Jose, California, February 17, 2015 – NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI), today announced that the Lenovo VIBE X2 Pro smartphone, due to be released in April 2015, will use the NXP LPC54100 series of microcontrollers for always-on sensor processing applications. Lenovo selected the LPC54100 series for ...

SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 12, 2015 - Cadence Design Systems, Inc. today announced that it plans to exhibit its latest Design for Manufacturing (DFM) Physical Signoff and Computational Lithography technologies at this year's SPIE Advanced Lithography Exhibition at booth 227 from February 22 to 26, 2015, in San Jose, CA. 

To ...

Eindhoven, Netherlands – February 12 2015 - NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI), a leader in the secure connected car, is pleased to announce that Stella, the world’s first solar-powered family car project, took home the prestigious “Best Technology Achievement” award at the 8th annual Crunchies Awards, hosted by TechCrunch. ...

Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium - February 10, 2015 - Barco Silex, a leading provider of cryptography IP cores, today announced that it has added support for Apple HomeKit, including Curve25519 and EdDSA in its Public Key IP core. Barco Silex is the first IP provider offering hardware acceleration for these algorithms that ...

Moves to Larger Office Space

SAN JOSE, CALIF. - February 9, 2014 - Kilopass Technology, Inc., a leading provider of semiconductor logic non-volatile memory (NVM) intellectual property (IP), has relocated its corporate headquarters from Santa Clara to San Jose, Calif., to accommodate its planned growth. The new corporate headquarters provides more office ...

NXP at embedded world 2015
Nuremberg, Germany
24 to 26 February
Booth 5-378

For three days at the end of February, Nuremberg will become the center of everything embedded, with embedded world 2015. This is one of the largest events of its kind, and the ...

SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 4, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) and its ecosystem will demonstrate All Programmable and Smarter Vision Solutions at ISE 2015.  Through a series of in-booth demonstrations, Xilinx and its Alliance Members will showcase design platforms, IP, and reference designs that provide the fastest way ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Feb. 3, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNPS), a global leader providing software, IP and services used to accelerate innovation in chips and electronic systems, today announced the availability of verification IP (VIP) for the 25G/50G Ethernet specification developed by the 25 Gigabit Ethernet Consortium. The new ...

Eindhoven, Netherlands, February 3, 2015 - Biopharmaceutical products (vaccines, hormones, blood) play an increasingly important role in the pharmaceutical industry. To be effective and safe, these products have to be kept in the cold chain from production to administration. Cold chain monitoring is mostly done using either chemical temperature loggers ...

Eindhoven, Netherlands, February 2, 2015 - NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ:NXPI), Creditcall and ViewAt Technology Co today announced the launch of a complete hardware and software reference demonstrator for secure near field communication (NFC) enabled mobile point of sale (mPoS) solutions. The demonstrator provides a universal solution for all payment technologies ...