Arm Custom Instructions, a new feature for the Armv8-M architecture, was announced at Arm TechCon in San Jose today. Arm Custom Instructions will initially be implemented in Arm Cortex-M33 CPUs starting in the first half of 2020 at no additional cost to new and existing licensees, enabling SoC designers to add their own instructions for ...
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Arm announced a new governance partnership for its MBed OS for IoT at TechCon in San Jose today with participation by Analog Devices, Cypress, Nuvoton, NXP, Renesas, Realtek, Samsung, and u-blox An innovation for the governance partnership is the establishment of monthly Product Working Group meetings where Arm and its partners together will prioritize and vote ...
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UltraSoC has announced hardware-based cybersecurity intellectual property products for SoCs at Arm TechCon in San Jose. According to Cambridge-based UltraSoC, they can be used to detect, block and record cyber-attacks, as well as preventing their propagation, in vehicles, factory robots and consumer devices, amongst other applications. “The first product in the range, the UltraSoC Bus Sentinel, ...
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Rohm has adopted a four-pin TO-247 package for silicon carbide mosfets aimed at servers. Used for the SCT3xxx xR mosfet series, the TO-247-4L package is said to reduce switching loss by up to 35% over the conventional three pin TO-247N. The extra connection is to the mosfet source, allowing the gate driver to get at both ...
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Renesas has launched a family of Arm Cortex-M23 and Cortex-M4 microcontrollers with comprehensive security features, aiming them at IoT applications – particularly end-point and edge devices in industry, building automation, metering, healthcare and home appliances. Called the RA family, they are PSA Certified Level 1 and come in four series: RA2 Series – Cortex-M23 up ...
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Bosch is starting production of SiC auto ICs at its plant in Reutlingen, near its Stuttgart HQ, Bosch is in the process of building a $1.1 billion fab in Dresden. First silicon is planned for late 2021. It will employ 700 staff. Bosch is building a comprehensive portfolio of the full range of ICs for electric, ...
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US and Swiss researchers have come up with a technique, called ptychographic X-ray laminography, which can be used to reverse engineer chips, or to verify fabbed chip designs or discover kill switches and hardware trojans. Teams from the University of Southern California and Switzerland’s Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) developed the technique. “It’s the only approach ...
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ST’s ALED1262ZT 12-channel LED driver targets advanced automotive rear combination lamps and interior lighting, bringing features to support complex and innovative visual effects. Independent 7-bit PWM dimming on all channels allows flexible control of tail, stop, and indicator lights, with dynamic effects. Each channel delivers constant output current at 19V for controlling multi-LED series strings. ...
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