Semiconductor IP Industry News
June, 2015

Grenoble, France - June 29, 2015 - Dolphin Integration is proud to roll out sCODa-MT1-LR.01, a stereo audio CODEC supporting both analog and digital microphones. With its architecture, this audio Virtual Component of Silicon IP is the perfect candidate for SoCs targeting wireless audio devices, such as Bluetooth speakers or ...

SonicsGN 3.0 Expands Patented IMT to Exploit Transaction Parallelism and Increases User Control of Hierarchical RTL Partitioning to Guide Physical Design

MILPITAS, Calif., June 23, 2015 - Sonics, Inc., the world's foremost supplier of on-chip network (NoC) technologies and services, today released SonicsGN 3.0, the latest version of the ...

Supports Latest 16G PCIe 4.0 Specification and Adds Features for Reliability, Availability and Serviceability

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 22, 2015 -

Highlights:

• DesignWare IP for PCI Express delivers critical reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) features to increase data protection, system availability and issue diagnosis for high-performance, data-intensive cloud applications
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Collaboration Follows Silicon Success of Synopsys DesignWare Logic Libraries and Tools in First UMC 14-nm FinFET Process Qualification Vehicle

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. and HSINCHU, Taiwan, June 21, 2015 -

Highlights:

• UMC and Synopsys develop second UMC 14-nm process qualification vehicle (PQV), demonstrating both companies' ongoing investment in accelerating DesignWare IP ...

SAN JOSE, Calif., June 18, 2015 - Cadence Design Systems, Inc. today announced its participation at PCI-SIG Developers Conference 2015, to be held from June 23-24, 2015 in Santa Clara, California. Cadence plans to showcase its PCI Express 2.0 multi-protocol PHY, PCI Express 4.0 SerDes, PCI Express 4.0 controller ...

SAN JOSE, CA - June 15, 2015 - PLDA, the industry leader in PCI Express® (PCIe) controller intellectual property (IP) solutions, today announced that Greenliant Systems has selected PLDA’s IP for its next-generation PCIe SSD controller. Greenliant, a leader in energy-efficient, highly secure and reliable solid state storage, controller and ...

Connectivity RF provider joins CEVAnet partner program; Catena Wi-Fi and Bluetooth RF technologies available on GLOBALFOUNDRIES and TSMC processes

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 11, 2015 - CEVA, Inc., the leading licensor of DSP and IP platforms for cellular, multimedia and connectivity, announced today that it has partnered with Catena, a ...

The European Patent Office (EPO) recognized two of NXP’s engineers for delivering next generation wireless experiences

Eindhoven, Netherlands, June 11, 2015 – NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) today announced that two of its engineers have won the much acclaimed and respected EPO European Inventor Award. At the ceremony in Paris, Franz ...

FlashRunner™ In-System Programmer (ISP) line from SMH Technologies supports 8051s from CAST; Live 8051 programming demo running in CAST’s DAC booth

Woodcliff Lake, NJ, USA and Villotta di Chions, Italy — June 9, 2015 — Semiconductor intellectual property company CAST Inc. and silicon device programming leader SMH Technologies today have partnered ...

Speeding time to market and simplifying design process for mutual customers

LONDON, UK – 8 June, 2015– Imagination Technologies (IMG.L) and TSMC announce a collaboration to develop a series of advanced IP subsystems for the Internet of Things (IoT) to accelerate time to market and simplify the design process for mutual ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 7, 2015 -  Synopsys, Inc. has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Atrenta Inc., a privately held provider of SoC realization solutions for the semiconductor and consumer electronics industries. By integrating Atrenta's complementary static verification and implementation technology with Synopsys' Verification Continuum™ and Galaxy™ Design platforms, ...

Hsinchu, Taiwan - June 5, 2015 - eMemory Technology announced today its newly developed ultra-low power Multiple-Time Programmable (MTP) silicon IP offers superior features including 3μW low power consumption, 0.7V low operation voltage, over 100,000 times endurance, compact size, and excellent cost advantages. It can replace external EEPROM commonly used ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 4, 2015 - Synopsys, Inc. will host the Silicon to Software Theater and a number of special events at DAC 2015 that will feature industry experts from innovative companies sharing trends, insights and best practices on key topics in the age of "Smart Everything" including ...

Massively parallel architecture of Genus Synthesis Solution enables up to 5X turnaround time improvement

SAN JOSE, Calif., June 3, 2015 - Cadence Design Systems, Inc. today announced that it is collaborating with Imagination Technologies (IMG.L) to enhance RTL designer productivity and enable faster design convergence on Imagination graphics cores and ...

June 2, 2015 - eSilicon, a leading semiconductor design and manufacturing solutions provider, will participate in several venues at the 2015 Design Automation Conference (DAC) at Moscone Center in San Francisco, Calif., June 8-10, 2015.

What: ARM Connected Community Pavilion: Designing and manufacturing for complex ARM-based designs
Who: Mike Gianfagna, eSilicon VP ...

Grenoble, France - June 1st, 2015 - Dolphin Integration is proud to announce that their memory offering at 90 nm eFlash process have fully passed the various stages of TSMC 9000 qualification. This guarantees innovative solutions with minimal risks and maximum reliability.

Dolphin Integration’s SpRAM RHEA, 1PRFile AURA, 2PRFile/DpRAM ERIS and ...