Semiconductor IP Industry News
March, 2018

Silex Inside releases a high throughput, scalable and performant MACsec engine

30 March, 2018 - In current networking technologies, source authentication, data integrity and confidentiality are becoming more and more important. There exist numerous software implementations for security protocol suites on nearly all OSI layers, but these implementations are ...

SEATTLE, March 29, 2018 - Mobile Semiconductor today announced the introduction of its three new 40nm ULP memory compilers which are available immediately. The 40nm ULP compilers allow the engineer to create memory designs that maximize battery life while occupying the smallest amount of expensive silicon real estate. Mobile ...

Bangalore, India, 28th March 2018 - Mindtree Ltd., has announced the BQB (Bluetooth Qualification Body) qualification of its Bluetooth Mesh v1.0 Software Stack along with its Bluetooth v5.0 Software Stack & Profiles (Declaration ID #D038060). These IPs have already been licensed to major semiconductor companies and will be showcased in ...

RH850/E2x Series is the New-Generation Automotive Control Microcontroller that Extends the Entire Renesas autonomy™ End-to-End Solution Portfolio from Foundation

TOKYO - March 27, 2018 - Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE: 6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced the sample shipment of the industry’s first on-chip flash memory microcontroller (MCU) ...

Seoul, Korea - March 26th, 2018 -Chips&Media, Inc. a leading video IP company headquartered in Seoul, Korea, was reportedly signed a contract with one of major SoC manufacturer in Asia to license Image Signal Processing (ISP) IPs for intended use in surveillance cameras. Chips&Media have confirmed that among IPs to ...

Serial interconnect IP blocks and platforms now available through DesignShare

Acquisition Also Adds a Team of Highly Experienced R&D Engineers to Accelerate High-Speed SerDes IP Development

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 21, 2018 - Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced it has acquired Silicon and Beyond Private Limited, a leading provider of high-speed SerDes technology used in data intensive applications such as ...

Agreement provides access to DPA Countermeasures portfolio to protect against side-channel attacks

SUNNYVALE, California – March 20, 2018 – Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ: RMBS) today announced that it has signed a patent license agreement with Beijing Tongfang Microelectronics Co., Ltd., a fabless chip design company focusing on smart cards and related ...

Seeks Industry Input on Need for a Standards Development Project

Elk Grove, Calif., March 19th, 2018 -- Accellera Systems Initiative (Accellera), the electronics industry organization focused on the creation and adoption of electronic design automation (EDA) and intellectual property (IP) standards, announced today the formation of a Proposed ...

SUWANEE, Ga. - March 15, 2018 - Silicon Creations, a leading supplier of high-performance analog and mixed-signal intellectual property (IP), announced that its multi-protocol serializer/deserializer (SerDes) transceiver Physical Medium Attachment (PMA) intellectual property (IP) was part of Microsemi Corporation’s PolarFire field programmable gate array (FPGA), named 2017 “Product of ...

Santa Clara, Calif., March 14, 2018 - GLOBALFOUNDRIES today revealed new details of its silicon photonics roadmap to enable the next generation of optical interconnects for datacenter and cloud applications. The company has now qualified the industry’s first 90nm manufacturing process using 300mm wafers, while also unveiling its upcoming 45nm ...

SEATTLE, March 13, 2018 - Mobile Semiconductor today announced the introduction of its new 28nm memory compilers available immediately. Mobile Semiconductor's silicon-proven embedded memory technology offers nine 28SLP GLOBALFOUNDRIES foundry sponsored compilers reaching all the way down to a 0.8V nominal power supply. Mobile Semiconductor also works with ...

March 12, 2018 - HSINCHU, Taiwan - Faraday Technology Corporation (TWSE:3035), a leading ASIC design service and IP provider, today announced its FPGA-to-ASIC conversion service has successfully completed several AI related projects including drone vision, medical image analysis, smart appliances, and 3D sensing. It brings remarkable power saving, enhanced performance ...

Grenoble, France - March 9th, 2018 - According to PR Newswire, being fueled by the rising demand for voice enabled devices, the global smart speaker market is likely to grow at a CAGR of 43.68% in terms of unit shipment during 2016-2022.

Early innovators as well as market leaders of ...

Collaboration Provides Lowest-Risk Path to Silicon Success for Designers Developing SoCs in Samsung Processes Targeting Low-Power, High-Performance Applications

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 8, 2018 -

Highlights:

• DesignWare Foundation IP, including logic libraries and embedded memories, will deliver superior performance, power, and area on Samsung 8LPP process technology
• ASIL D Ready DesignWare Foundation IP ...

Hsinchu, Taiwan, 7 March, 2018 - M31 Technology Corporation (Taiwan stock code: 6643), a global Silicon Intellectual Property (IP) boutique, and Macroblock Inc. (Taiwan stock code: 3527), the world's leading LED driver provider, today announced to establish their long-term partnership. Macroblock will continue adopting M31’s unique low-power IP solutions ...

Support for ChaCha20 and Poly1305 Encrypted Authentication Provides More Secure Alternatives for Internet Communications

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 6, 2018 -

Highlights

• DesignWare Security Protocol Accelerators offer a complete range of standards-compliant symmetric and hash cryptographic algorithms to protect SoCs from IoT attacks
• Supports up to 6.8 Gbps Poly1305, 4.5 Gbps ChaCha20, and 4.1 ...

Further strengthens its commitment to becoming a major EDA powerhouse

March 05, 2018 - SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Silvaco today announced that it has acquired NanGate, a leader in Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software, that offers tools and services for creation, optimization, characterization and validation of physical library IP.

NanGate’s Library Creation ...

March 01, 2018 - TEWKSBURY, Mass. - Semiconductor intellectual property (IP) providers Avery Design Systems, Inc. and Trilinear Technologies, Inc. have signed a partnership agreement to provide DisplayPort Interface IP products developed by Trilinear along with DisplayPort verification IP (VIP) products developed by Avery.

"As the DisplayPort standard matures, the verification ...