Semiconductor IP Industry News
July, 2015

Acquisition will offer hardware and software-based security features, boosting protection for sensitive data and content on any connected device

ARM, Cambridge, U.K, July 30, 2015 - ARM has acquired Israel-based Sansa Security, a provider of hardware security IP and software for advanced system-on-chip components deployed in Internet of Things (IoT) and ...

Certified and Compliant DesignWare USB, PCI Express, HDMI, MIPI and SATA IP Ensure Functional Correctness and Minimize Integration Risk

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., July 29, 2015 -

Highlights:

• USB femtoPHY IP cuts area by 50 percent and incorporates power down and low-power features for extended battery life
• PCI Express 3.1 IP solution with chip-to-chip, ...

DesignWare USB-C IP Supports Reversible USB Type-C Connectors and USB 3.1, 3.0 and 2.0 Specifications

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., July 28, 2015 -

Highlights:

• USB Type-C standard enables reversible connectors and 10 Gbps data transfer speeds with support for new bi-directional USB power delivery
• DesignWare USB-C IP supports USB 3.1, 3.0 and 2.0 specifications for ...

Reinforces portfolio with major release of new flash microcontrollers series; products embedding new non-volatile memory also planned.

TOKYO - July 27, 2015 - Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has enhanced its current "TX Family" of ARM core-based microcontrollers and started to develop ...

Leading international researchers contribute to new collection of research spanning bioinformatics to imaging, sensor and medical informatics for public health

London, UK, 24th July 2015 – A major collection of papers exploring the very latest research and key developments in Big Data for health informatics has been published by the IEEE’s ...

Dr. Hsu Brings Unique Expertise to Kilopass Team for Next Stage of Development

SAN JOSE, CALIF. - July 23, 2015 - Kilopass Technology, Inc., the leading provider of semiconductor embedded non-volatile memory (NVM) intellectual property (IP), announces Dr. Jen-Tai Hsu has been named Vice President of Engineering. He will report directly ...

London, UK - 22 July, 2015 - Imagination Technologies (IMG.L) is joining the 5G Innovation Centre (5GIC) at the University of Surrey to collaborate with leading companies both in the UK and globally in exploring, developing and defining underlying technologies that will power the next-generation 5G mobile communications network.

Joining as ...

Enables development today with production silicon performance and complete tools and IP support

SAN JOSE, Calif., July 21, 2015 -Xilinx, Inc. today announced Vivado Design Suite early access support for the 16nm UltraScale+ portfolio, including Zynq UltraScale+ and Kintex UltraScale+ devices. The Vivado early access release has been co-optimized with the ...

Grenoble, France - July 20, 2015 - As they operate only 1% of their battery life in active mode, the major challenge of IoT applications turns to lowering the power consumption during the deep-sleep mode. In this latter operating mode, circuit architects face the challenge of achieving a power consumption ...

Asset Acquisition Expands Leading DesignWare IP Portfolio with Low-Power Wireless Interface IP for IoT Applications

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., July 16, 2015 -

Highlights:

• Silicon-proven Bluetooth® Smart radio IP implements the Bluetooth 4.0, 4.1 and 4.2 low energy standards and supports down to one-volt operation for extended battery life
• Low-power Bluetooth Smart IP targets ...

Wearables for Good design challenge attracts over 600 registrations so far

#WearablesForGood

London/New York, July 14, 2015 - The Wearables for Good design challenge is rapidly turning into one of the most inclusive global technology races ever, attracting more than 600 registrations so far from Africa, Asia Pacific, Europe and North and ...

SAN JOSE, Calif., July 13, 2015 - Cadence Design Systems, Inc. today announced that the Itseez OpenCV library of computer vision acceleration algorithms is now available on the Cadence® Tensilica® image/video digital signal processors (DSPs). The OpenCV software suite was ported by vision industry experts at Itseez and optimized by ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. - July 8, 2015 - eSilicon Corporation, a leading independent semiconductor design and manufacturing solutions provider, today announced the promotion of Colby Gartin to vice president and general counsel. Gartin is responsible for eSilicon’s commercial agreements, strategic transactions, IP portfolio, litigation and corporate governance matters. Colby reports ...

Korean Design Service Company to Use SonicsGN NoC for IP Integration and the ICE-Grain Power Architecture for SoC Power Management

MILPITAS, Calif., July 7, 2015 - Sonics, Inc., the world's foremost supplier of on-chip network (NoC) technologies and services, today announced that it is collaborating with AlphaChips, a Korean ...

Grenoble, France - July 6th, 2015 - A safe and flexible solution to build the most efficient power islands proves to be essential but challenging for all SoC designs to enable optimized Low-Power management.

To guarantee the safe construction of power islands for the lowest power consumption, Dolphin Integration proposes ...

- Ultra-low power consumption flash memory embedded in logic process for power-critical applications and single-poly non-volatile memory (NVM)[1] embedded process for low-cost applications -

TOKYO - July ...

Transaction adds differentiating technologies, world-class technologists, and intellectual property

July 1, 2015 - SANTA CLARA, Calif. - GLOBALFOUNDRIES today announced that it has completed its acquisition of IBM's Microelectronics business.

With the acquisition, GLOBALFOUNDRIES gains differentiated technologies ...