Infineon , Xilinx and Xylon have developed the Xylon IP core called logiHSSL to enable high-speed communication between Infineon’s AURIX TC2xx and TC3xx MCUsand Xilinx’ SoC, MPSoC and FPGA devices via the Infineon High Speed Serial Link (HSSL). This serial link supports baudrates of up to 320 Mbaud at a net payload data-rate of up to 84%. ...

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GreenWaves Technologies of Grenoble, a fabless semiconductor start-up designing ultra-low-power AI embedded processors for battery-operated edge devices, has raised €7 million in its Series A. The round was co-led by Huami, with the participation of Soitec, its seed round lead investor, and other investors. “This support from a distinguished group of corporate investors demonstrates the GAP ...

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Huawei is increasing its employee headcount in Canada and intends to have a plan to address UK security concerns about its switchgear by the end of Q2. Ryan Ding, head of Huawei’s carrier business group, says a “global and comprehensive” plan will be approved internally by the end of March. “In Q2 we will talk ...

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Progress in the IC industry hinges on the ability of IC manufacturers to continue offering more performance and functionality for the money. As mainstream CMOS processes reach their theoretical, practical, and economic limits, lowering the cost of ICs (on a per-function or per-performance basis) is more critical and challenging than ever. The 500-page, 2019 edition ...

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Q4 NAND revenues fell 16.8% QoQ, reports DRAMeXchange,  2018 NAND revenues were 10.9% up on 2017 at $63.2 billion. A gloomy Q1 forecast sees declining bit shipments, price and demand The reasons are: economic uncertainty which has led to cancelled orders and delayed re-stocking, lower iPhone sales and the x86 CPU shortage. Samsung’s bit shipments for ...

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UltraSoC, the Cambridge embedded IP analytics specialist, will  support Western Digital’s RISC-V SweRV Core and associated OmniXtend cache-coherent interconnect. The two companies have worked together to create a debug and on-chip analytics ecosystem that will support the requirements of both Western Digital’s internal development teams, and third parties choosing to adopt the SweRV Core for their ...

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Gemalto says it’s produced the first 5G SIM. Compliant with the latest ETSI 3GPP specifications and SIMalliance recommendations, the Gemalto 5G SIM Claims to deliver improved data privacy,  seamless 5G global roaming and enhanced protection against hacking. The Gemalto 5G SIM will be available in all SIM form factors (removable SIM, M2M SIM, eSIM), during the ...

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Synopsys and GLOBALFOUNDRIES are to develop a portfolio of automotive Grade 1 temperature (-40C to +150C junction) DesignWare Foundation, Analog, and Interface IP for the GF 22-nm FD-SOI(22FDX) process. By providing IP that is designed for high temperature operation on 22FDX, Synopsys enables designers to reduce their design effort and accelerate AEC-Q100 qualification of system-on-chips ...

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