GloFo launches ASIC design offering
GloFo has used its IBM acquisition to develop an ASIC product offering on its 14nm Finfet 14LPP process at Fab 8 in New York. It claims to balance bandwidth, power, and cost for cloud networking, wireless base station, compute, and storage applications. The FX-14 ASIC offering includes an IP portfolio, featuring leading-edge ARM cores and ARM Artisan ...
Sondrel, the Reading SoC design specialist, has joined Imec’s IC-link partnership programme in which a number of companies make their particular skill-sets available to realise an IC design project. “Building and creating relationships within the industry is more critical than ever,” says Sondrel CEO Graham Curren, “as we seek to provide the best solutions for ...
ARM takes 64-bit to power-constrained embedded applications
ARM has extended its 64-bit architecture into power-constrained embedded applications such as single-board computers and automotive with the Cortex-A35. ARM says thst the A35 is “the most efficient Cortex-A class CPU ever designed by ARM.” It delivers an average of 20% greater performance and efficiency across a range of 32-bit mobile workloads relative to Cortex-A7 ...
Imagination has added three new MIPS cores to its Warrior line – the embedded 32-bit M-class M6200 and M6250 CPUs and high-end P-class P6600 64-bit CPU. The MIPS P6600 is the next evolution of the MIPS P-class family, building on the 32-bit P5600 CPU. The P6600 is the most balanced mainstream high-performance CPU choice, enabling ...
Plessey and 8point3 design lighting range
Plessey is collaborating with solid-state lighting specialist 8Point3 to develop and produce an architectural lighting product range using Plessey’s MaGIC GaN-on-Silicon LEDs. The Sabre linear lighting products combine the benefits of remote phosphor with an LED light engine to provide a uniform and diffuse luminance and appearance, ensuring no reflections or pixilation, even when dimming the ...
CEVA is to make the UltraSoc debugger available for its DSP cores. UltraSoC’s debugger solution enables SoC developers to build an on-chip monitoring, control and communications architecture that ‘looks inside’ the chip while the device is operating. This helps identify and eliminate bugs, speeding up time to market. It can also be used after deployment for in-field performance monitoring ...
ARM accelerates mbed IoT deployment
ARM hopes to accelerate secure IoT technology deployments at scale with a raft of products: mbed device connector – a free service that businesses can use to connect and securely manage IoT devices; an enhanced mbed OS called Technology Preview and new mbed reference designs. They will, says ARM, shorten hardware design time. “ARM mbed partners now have access ...
GloFo adopts ATopTech FD-SOI physical design tools
ATopTech, the physical design specialist, have had their Aprisa and Apogee Place & Route tools now enabled for the current version of the GLoFo’s 22FDX FD-SOI platform reference flow. GloFo has qualified these tools for the 22FDX reference flow to provide customers with the design flexibility of using body bias to manage power, performance and leakage. ...
GloFo achieves first pass 14nm silicon
Globalfoundries says it has achieved first-pass silicon on its 14nm finfet process. AMD has taped out multiple products using GloFo’s 14nm Low Power Plus (14LPP) process technology and is currently conducting validation work on 14LPP production samples. GloFo reckons high-volume production on 14nm LPP will start in 2016. “We expect to leverage the advanced 14LPP process ...
UltraSoC , the SoC on-chip monitoring and analytics specialist, has enhanced its product to allow users to integrate legacy signal-based systems with the company’s message-based architecture. This is particularly useful for designers working with ARM cores and its associated debug system, CoreSight. “UltraSoC is a 21st-century solution to the growing crisis in chip design,” says ...
