Semiconductor IP Industry News
January, 2017

SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 31, 2017 - Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) will display Pro AV solutions with Any-to-Any connectivity at Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) 2017. Xilinx and its Alliance Members' high bandwidth video processing and compression demonstrations increase innovation, differentiation, and time-to-market. Visit Xilinx at Stand 14-B132 at ISE, ...

Sonics Plans Extension of EPU Product Line to Support Control of 22FDX Body-biasing in combination with DVFS

San Jose, Calif. – January 30, 2017 – Sonics, Inc., the world’s foremost supplier of on-chip network (NoC) and power management technologies and services, today announced it will collaborate with GLOBALFOUNDRIES on energy ...

DesignWare ARC HS38 Dual-Core Processor, DDR4 and PCI Express 3.1 IP Enable Higher Performance and Lower Power for Starblaze's MB1000 Enterprise SSD Controller

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Jan. 26, 2017 -

Highlights:

• Starblaze achieved first-pass silicon success for its MB1000 SSD controller with DesignWare ARC HS38 dual-core processor as well as DDR4 and PCI ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Jan. 25, 2017 -Synopsys, Inc. today announced that it received The Linley Group's 2016 Analysts' Choice Award for Best Processor IP. Synopsys' DesignWare® ARC® SEM security processors were selected based on their power and performance efficiency as well as unique security features that address the needs of ...

Experts to present two technical sessions addressing verification and power efficiency and additional technical trainings explore system design challenges for memory and serial links

SUNNYVALE, Calif. - January 24, 2017 - Rambus Inc. - Join Rambus at DesignCon for product demonstrations showcasing its comprehensive suite of Ethernet, PCIe and DDRn IP ...

Grenoble, France - January 23, 2017 - The industry’s focus on battery-powered devices sets new expectations in terms of energy saving for a wide range of applications such as IoT, wearables and wireless MCUs. Meeting the underlying low-power challenge requires a new class of silicon IPs to enable unmatched power ...

WOODCLIFF LAKE, NJ USA - January 18, 2017 - CAST, Inc. recently added two media processing cores to its extensive line of semiconductor intellectual property cores and subsystems.

• The H.264-E-HIS High 10 Intra Profile Encoder Core is a low-power video compressor that rivals the quality produced by larger Motion JPEG2000 compressors ...

PowerVR ‘Series8XE Plus’ GPUs bring compute and gaming performance to cost-sensitive devices.

LONDON, UK - 17th January, 2017 - Imagination Technologies (IMG.L) announces a new family of GPUs that provides the ideal balance of performance and fillrate needed to enable gaming and compute applications on cost-sensitive devices. PowerVR ‘Series8XE Plus’ GPUs ...

Ottawa, Canada - January 16, 2017 - Sidense Corp., a leading developer of Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) One-Time Programmable (OTP) IP cores, today announced that with a first-time successful registration audit it has met ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management System (QMS) Certification. ISO 9001:2015 specifies criteria for a quality management system ...

Demonstrations include machine learning, computer vision and sensor fusion on Zynq SoC and Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC devices

TOKYO, Jan. 11, 2017 - Xilinx, Inc. will demonstrate solutions for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and Automated Driving (AD) at CAR-ELE Japan. Demonstrations will including machine learning, computer vision and sensor fusion on ...

Ethernet PHY technology leader optimizes product portfolio for TSMC Open Innovation Platform® to accelerate SoC innovation

San Jose, California - January 10, 2017 - OmniPHY, Inc., a leading supplier of Ethernet PHY silicon intellectual property (IP) for the consumer, automotive and industrial markets today announced that it has joined the ...

SAN JOSE, Calif., January 9, 2017 - Cadence Design Systems, Inc. today announced the immediate availability of its Cadence® Verification IP (VIP) for Bluetooth® 5, the industry’s first VIP for the latest version of Bluetooth technology. Bluetooth 5 increases data broadcasting capacity by 800 percent, quadruples the range and doubles ...

SAN JOSE, Calif., January 5, 2017 - Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) today announced that Fortemedia, Inc. has licensed the Cadence® Tensilica® Fusion F1 DSP as the engine of their next-generation smart microphone processor to support always-on voice trigger and sensor fusion capabilities for voice wake-up in mobile, internet ...

Cadence Tensilica HiFi DSP for Audio Becomes First IP Core to Support MS12 v2.0 Multistream Decoder

SAN JOSE, Calif., January 4, 2017 - Cadence Design Systems, Inc. today announced its collaboration with Dolby Laboratories to enable the world’s first TVs featuring Dolby® Atmos® technology based on the Dolby MS12 ...

Demonstration showcases ability to minimize DDoS attacks through secure connectivity, monitoring and provisioning of IoT endpoints

LAS VEGAS, Nevada – January 3, 2017 – Rambus (NASDAQ:RMBS) today announced it will showcase its IoT security service and technology designed to deliver secure communication and lifecycle management. This demonstration utilizes the Rambus ...