RISC-V reviews progress.

RISC-V International is holding the RISC-V Summit, both virtually and in-person in San Francisco from Dec. 6-8, 2021. RISC-V membership grew 130% in 2021 to 2,478 members including 18 Premier level members. Engagement in RISC-V work groups and committees has grown 67% in the last year to nearly 12,000 individuals. RISC-V anticipates that in 2021 alone ...

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Imagination offers Risc-V core IP

Imagination Technologies has announced Risc-V CPU intellectual property for SoC companies. Branded Catapult, it is a “product line designed from the ground-up for next-generation heterogeneous compute needs,” according to Imagination. “Leveraging Imagination’s 20 years of experience in delivering complex IP solutions, Catapult CPUs can be configured for performance, efficiency or balanced profiles.” There will be ...

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Intel consortium to drive IPUs

Intel today announced a collaboration with Inspur, Ruijie Networks and Silicom to design and develop new FPGA-based infrastructure processing unit (IPU) chips to deliver customised and programmable products for cloud and networking customers. An IPU is a programmable networking device designed to enable cloud and communication service providers to reduce overhead and free up performance ...

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Mikroe rents development hardware on-line for live remote project work

MikroElektronika, the development hardware company behind Click boards and mikroBUS, has put suites of its high-end development boards on-line to offer them as rentable remote hardware – known as ‘hardware as a service’, and in this case called ‘Planet Debug’. This is not simulated hardware, but real hardware on which user code can be developed and debugged, ...

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Power electronics market to be worth $26bn in 2026

The power electronics market is promising a 6.9% CAGR between 2020 and 2026 to reach $26 billion, forecasts Yole Developpement Automotive, industrial motor drives, and telecom will be the main drivers of the discrete component market segment taking it to more than $16 billion in 2026. EV, industrial motors, and home appliances will drive the ...

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Digi-Key launches its December DigiWish Giveaway

Digi-key Electronics has launched its 13th annual DigiWish Giveaway and is playing the role of Santa… The distributor is helping 24 lucky winners cross the items off their wish list early, it says. Participants can enter the competition to win Digi-Key products of their choice during the month of December, up to Christmas Eve. To ...

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BAE Systems wins further contract for U.S. hardened military GPS modules

BAE Systems has been awarded a further $316 million contract to deliver hardened military GPS modules, by the U.S., following on from an initial agreement earlier this year. Specifically, the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency has executed the contract option, which together with the the $325.5m awarded in May brings the total funding to $641 million. ...

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Tower qualifies Siemens mPower verification software

Siemens Digital Industries Software today announced that its new mPower offering for power integrity analysis of analogue, digital and mixed-signal IC designs is now certified for Tower’s SBC13 and SBC18 process technologies. Siemens’ mPower software claims to be the industry’s first and only IC power integrity verification solution to provide virtually unlimited scalability for analog, ...

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RRAM can be used for energy storage as well as memory says CEA-Leti

CEA-Leti has come up with a way to allow RRAM devices to operate as energy-storage elements as well as memory, depending on the applied bias. In-memory energy is a supplemental feature to in-memory computing which can reduce energy use because RRAM-based batteries are scalable and dynamically allocable, and can be placed next to memory blocks, ...

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