GloFo links with QEOS and Catena

imageGlobalfoundries (GloFo) has announced partnerships with Catena and QEOS.

The QEOS partnership is intended to develop a millimeter-wave CMOS platform to support the higher data rates required in future mobile broadband access networks, while enabling customers to integrate mixers, low noise amplifiers, power amplifiers and inter-frequency amplifiers, all in a single package.

Using GloFo’s 40nm and 45nm processes, the platform will enable gigabit interactivity everywhere – from centimetres to hundreds of metres – at a cost of less than $500 per link, says the company.

The Catena partnership is to develop Wi-Fi and Bluetooth solutions for SoC designers targeting mobile, IoT and RF connectivity markets using GloFo’s 28nm super low power (SLP) combined with Catena’s RF IP to enable chip designers to integrate RF SoC functionality into their products.

The technology is enabled with key RF features, including core and I/O (1.5V/1.8V) transistor RF models along with 5V LDMOS devices, which simplifies RF SoC design, according to GloFo.

Catena’s Connectivity RF IP portfolio includes optimised, very low power Bluetooth Smart radio, Bluetooth Smart Ready radio, Wi-Fi (802.11a/b/g/n/ac 1×1, 2×2 and 4×4 MIMO) radios and combo Bluetooth/Wi-Fi radio.

The radio IPs are available/under development at GloFo’s 28nm-SLP technology, and may be ported to alternatives based on customer requirements. Solutions for GNSS/FM broadcast systems are also found in the offerings of Catena.

david manners

GloFo links with QEOS and Catena

imageGlobalfoundries (GloFo) has announced partnerships with Catena and QEOS.

The QEOS partnership is intended to develop a millimeter-wave CMOS platform to support the higher data rates required in future mobile broadband access networks, while enabling customers to integrate mixers, low noise amplifiers, power amplifiers and inter-frequency amplifiers, all in a single package.

Using GloFo’s 40nm and 45nm processes, the platform will enable gigabit interactivity everywhere – from centimetres to hundreds of metres – at a cost of less than $500 per link, says the company.

The Catena partnership is to develop Wi-Fi and Bluetooth solutions for SoC designers targeting mobile, IoT and RF connectivity markets using GloFo’s 28nm super low power (SLP) combined with Catena’s RF IP to enable chip designers to integrate RF SoC functionality into their products.

The technology is enabled with key RF features, including core and I/O (1.5V/1.8V) transistor RF models along with 5V LDMOS devices, which simplifies RF SoC design, according to GloFo.

Catena’s Connectivity RF IP portfolio includes optimised, very low power Bluetooth Smart radio, Bluetooth Smart Ready radio, Wi-Fi (802.11a/b/g/n/ac 1×1, 2×2 and 4×4 MIMO) radios and combo Bluetooth/Wi-Fi radio.

The radio IPs are available/under development at GloFo’s 28nm-SLP technology, and may be ported to alternatives based on customer requirements. Solutions for GNSS/FM broadcast systems are also found in the offerings of Catena.

david manners

Hypervisor scales from Intel Atom to XEON processors

A new hypervisor has been designed for Intel processors ranging from Atom processors to XEON based systems and including the latest 6th generation Intel Core processors (codename Skylake).

RTS-Hypervisor_R4 3Real-Time Systems of Germany has created this version R4.3 of its RTS Hypervisor to allow guest operating systems to be relocated in memory without virtualization overhead.

According to the company, this makes it possible to deploy 32-bit operating systems in memory “above the addressable limit of 4Gbyte or to load and run multiple kernels linked to the same physical address in parallel without any virtualization overhead, deterministically and in hard real-time.”

Support of the Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) is also a benefit in high-end systems running on multi-socket XEON platforms. In the NUMA architecture, where each physical processor (NUMA Node) may have memory connected to its own local memory controller, the user can now assign memory of specific NUMA Nodes exclusively to an operating system.

This greatly reduces memory access times and jitter, as simultaneous, competing memory access by multiple operating systems is avoided.

The RTS Hypervisor R4.3 supports all current Intel x86 Multi-Core designs. Out of the box, the guest operating systems Microsoft Windows, QNX Neutrino RTOS, Wind River VxWorks, Linux including RedHawk, Windows Embedded Compact, Microware OS-9, On Time RTOS-32 and T-Kernel are supported.

 

Richard Wilson

Hypervisor scales from Intel Atom to XEON processors

A new hypervisor has been designed for Intel processors ranging from Atom processors to XEON based systems and including the latest 6th generation Intel Core processors (codename Skylake).

RTS-Hypervisor_R4 3Real-Time Systems of Germany has created this version R4.3 of its RTS Hypervisor to allow guest operating systems to be relocated in memory without virtualization overhead.

According to the company, this makes it possible to deploy 32-bit operating systems in memory “above the addressable limit of 4Gbyte or to load and run multiple kernels linked to the same physical address in parallel without any virtualization overhead, deterministically and in hard real-time.”

Support of the Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) is also a benefit in high-end systems running on multi-socket XEON platforms. In the NUMA architecture, where each physical processor (NUMA Node) may have memory connected to its own local memory controller, the user can now assign memory of specific NUMA Nodes exclusively to an operating system.

This greatly reduces memory access times and jitter, as simultaneous, competing memory access by multiple operating systems is avoided.

The RTS Hypervisor R4.3 supports all current Intel x86 Multi-Core designs. Out of the box, the guest operating systems Microsoft Windows, QNX Neutrino RTOS, Wind River VxWorks, Linux including RedHawk, Windows Embedded Compact, Microware OS-9, On Time RTOS-32 and T-Kernel are supported.

 

Richard Wilson

Hypervisor scales from Intel Atom to XEON processors

A new hypervisor has been designed for Intel processors ranging from Atom processors to XEON based systems and including the latest 6th generation Intel Core processors (codename Skylake).

RTS-Hypervisor_R4 3Real-Time Systems of Germany has created this version R4.3 of its RTS Hypervisor to allow guest operating systems to be relocated in memory without virtualization overhead.

According to the company, this makes it possible to deploy 32-bit operating systems in memory “above the addressable limit of 4Gbyte or to load and run multiple kernels linked to the same physical address in parallel without any virtualization overhead, deterministically and in hard real-time.”

Support of the Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) is also a benefit in high-end systems running on multi-socket XEON platforms. In the NUMA architecture, where each physical processor (NUMA Node) may have memory connected to its own local memory controller, the user can now assign memory of specific NUMA Nodes exclusively to an operating system.

This greatly reduces memory access times and jitter, as simultaneous, competing memory access by multiple operating systems is avoided.

The RTS Hypervisor R4.3 supports all current Intel x86 Multi-Core designs. Out of the box, the guest operating systems Microsoft Windows, QNX Neutrino RTOS, Wind River VxWorks, Linux including RedHawk, Windows Embedded Compact, Microware OS-9, On Time RTOS-32 and T-Kernel are supported.

 

Richard Wilson

High voltage regulator is capable of low voltage output

A synchronous step-down switching regulator has been designed by Linear Technology to deliver 1A on a 100V input with efficiency up to 90%.

lineartechBurst mode operation is used to keep quiescent current under 7µA in no-load standby conditions.

Designed for 48V automotive systems and high voltage industrial applications, the regulator is capable of  delivering up to 1A of continuous output current to voltages as low as 0.8V, said the supplier.

Switching frequency of  100kHz to 1MHz is set by resistor.

The LT8631 utilises internal top and bottom high efficiency power switches with the necessary boost diode, oscillator, control and logic circuitry integrated into a single die.

The regulator is offered in a thermally enhanced TSSOP-20 package. An industrial temperature version, the LT8631IFE, is tested and guaranteed to operate from a -40°C to 125°C operating junction temperature.

 

 

Richard Wilson

High voltage regulator is capable of low voltage output

A synchronous step-down switching regulator has been designed by Linear Technology to deliver 1A on a 100V input with efficiency up to 90%.

lineartechBurst mode operation is used to keep quiescent current under 7µA in no-load standby conditions.

Designed for 48V automotive systems and high voltage industrial applications, the regulator is capable of  delivering up to 1A of continuous output current to voltages as low as 0.8V, said the supplier.

Switching frequency of  100kHz to 1MHz is set by resistor.

The LT8631 utilises internal top and bottom high efficiency power switches with the necessary boost diode, oscillator, control and logic circuitry integrated into a single die.

The regulator is offered in a thermally enhanced TSSOP-20 package. An industrial temperature version, the LT8631IFE, is tested and guaranteed to operate from a -40°C to 125°C operating junction temperature.

 

 

Richard Wilson