Flex Logix joins TSMC IP Alliance Programme

Flex Logix, the eFPGA soecialist, has joined the TSMC IP Alliance Program included in TSMC’s Open Innovation Platform. Flex Logix  has its EFLXÒ Embedded FPGA IP and software tools available for TSMC 16FFC/FF+, TSMC 28HPM/HPC and TSMC 40ULP/LP. For each EFLX IP core in each process, Flex Logix has designed, fabricated and validated a validation ...

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Leti offers chip start-ups access to an emulator with Mentor

French microelectronics research organisation, Leti will provide access to the Mentor Veloce emulator for small firms and startups following a partnership with the EDA firm. Emulation is a technique used by major chip firms in the development of complex ICs, which allows them to debug the design at early stages by validating software before committing ...

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Researchers build robot to understand how dinosaurs swam

Researchers at the University of Southampton have created a robot to mimic the swimming style of a prehistoric sea creature. Luke Muscutt, a PhD student in Engineering and the Environment, lead the team which worked with partners at the University of Bristol to analyse the propulsion method of plesiosaurs –marine reptiles that lived at the ...

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Toshiba misses memory sale deadline as Apple-backed bid returns

Toshiba has again missed a self-imposed deadline to pick a winning bid for its memory chip business but has said it is negotiating with three bidding groups. The group was expected to announce the winner today (Thursday 31 August) of the unit, which is expected to fetch as much as $20bn. In a statement this ...

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Toshiba flash drives store 128GB with 120MB/s read speed

In September, Toshiba is to start shipping the first of two new families of TransMemory USB 3.0 Super Speed Flash drives with densities up to 128GB and read speeds up to 120MB/s. With a maximum read speed of 120MB/s, the TransMemory U363 makes good use of its USB 3.0 connection. This 6 grams device, including ...

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u-blox enables narrowband IoT street lighting.

 u‑blox SARA-N2 series of NB‑IoT (LTE Cat NB1) modules are enabling Flashnet’s Narrowband IoT (NB‑IoT) connected smart street lighting control system from in Romania, called inteliLIGHT. A pilot project is already deployed on the OTE (Telekom) network in Patras, Greece. Having identified NB‑IoT as strategically important, InteliLIGHT chose to partner with u‑blox on the development of ...

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Socionext and Advantech to deliver hardware transcoding products for datacentres

Socionext, the hardware HEVC encoding specialist, and Advantech, the video acceleration specialist, are to provide live hardware transcoding products for the datacentres supporting MPEG2, AVC (H.264) and HEVC (H.265). Socionext real time dense transcode solution, also known as the “Media Cloud”, enables advanced HEVC compression technology and real-time transcoding capabilities for OTT applications. Socionext’s partnership with Advantech ...

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Renesas sampling 4k image sensor for security cameras

Renesas is sampling an  8.48 megapixel (MP) CMOS image sensor that supports 4K video cameras for security cameras and plans mass production in December. Renesas says that The sensor achieves clear, high-visibility full-color imaging even in a moonlit environment and captures clear, high-visibility images even when digital zoom is used due to its capture of high-reliability 4K ...

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Pinnacle launches Denali-MCTM image processing IP.

Pinnacle Imaging Systems of Miami has launched its Denali-MCTM camera-ready HDR Image Signal Processor (ISP) IP core. The HDR video capture technology tones map high contrast scenes while minimizing HDR motion artifacts. The Denali-MC HDR ISP is able to render  shadow and highlight data from a high contrast scene, making it suitable for camera designers ...

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