John Johnson considers the use of FPGAs to tackle the design challenges of smart metering systems Legacy power infrastructure is intrinsically inefficient, aging and the operation of it is often harmful to the environment. ...
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For TSMC 28HPM process technology and the path for POP IP to TSMC's 16nm FinFET ARM has released the POP IP products for its ARMv8 architecture-based Cortex-A57 and Cortex-A53 processors. The products are available for TSMC 28HPM ...
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ARM and Cadence have announced the first Cortex-A57 processor test chip fabricated on TSMC’s 16nm finfet manufacturing process technology. According to the companies, this test chip resulted in several optimisations between ...
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TSMC and Imagination Technologies are working together to develop reference design flows and silicon implementations for Imagination’s PowerVR Series6 GPUs on TSMC’s advanced process technologies, including 16nm FinFET process ...
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A "virtual lab" emulation environment can meet the challenges of complex SoC design verification, writes Richard Pugh of Mentor Graphics If you are verifying an SoC, you generally have three options when logic simulation runs out of steam ...
At the Optical Fiber Communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC 2013) in Anaheim (19-21 March), ClariPhy Communications Inc of Irvine, CA, USA, which develops high-speed mixed-signal digital signal processing (MXSP) ...
ARM has signed 75 licenses for its Mali GPU which are now in 70% of graphics-enabled digital TVs, 50% of Android tablets and 20% of Android smartphones, said ARM at Mobile World Congress this morning. Mali GPU volumes have grown from less ...
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Altera has teamed up with Flexibilis of Finland to make it easy to implement an FPGA-based Ethernet switch. Combining Altera FPGAs with the Flexibilis Redundant Switch (FRS) IP provides ‘an easy and cost-effective way to implement ...
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Altera has introduced an FPGA-based reference design for smart grid substation automation equipment. Developed jointly with wireless networks firm Flexibilis Oy, the IEC 62439-3-compliant reference design includes Flexibilis Redundant ...
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Cross- industry standards body, the Multicore Association has announced the availability of its Multicore Task Management Application Program Interface (MTAPI) that supports the coordination of tasks on embedded parallel systems. "To ...
AMD presented Jaguar at ISSCC, its four core x86-64 processor for SoCs which can throttle down to 0.5W, or up to over 1.85GHz and 25W. The 28nm 11 metal layer processor occupies 26.2mm2, and "is implemented with an emphasis on design ...
Hoping to extend Linux's reach to ARM-based networking equipment, the not-for-profit engineering group Linaro has launched an initiative to develop code to run routers, switches and other networking equipment. "As companies use ARM more ...
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Synopsys is working with Freescale Semiconductor on verification of IP blocks for complex system-on-chip (SoC) devices. An aim of the collaboration, said the companies, is to achieve better schedule predictability and lower overall ...
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Software is the driving force behind the “Internet of everything” says Tyson Tuttle, president and CEO, Silicon Laboratories. The dramatic growth of the Internet over the last 30 years has surpassed the estimates of even ...
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ClariPhy Communications Inc of Irvine,CA,a fabless developer of mixed-signal digital signal processing(MXSP)system-on-chip(SoC)ICs for coherent optical networks,has announced an optimized 40G coherent SoC for metro networks. The ...
Tags: ClariPhy Communications Inc of Irvine, Metro and Regional Networks