Avnet Memec has announced a series of hands-on workshops focusing on the SmartFusion2 SoC FPGAs (pictured). The one-day events will feature educational presentations combined with hands on design labs suitable for engineers who are both ...
Sigma Designs, a provider of System-on-Chip (SoC) solutions for home entertainment, connectivity and converging multimedia delivery, today announced its Z-Wave Next Gen portfolio featuring a new family of 500-Series chips. Building on the ...
Paris-based FPGA partitioning software firm Flexras Technologies has released version 3.2 of its Wasga compiler design suite for FPGA-based prototyping. This new release supports the Xilinx Virtex-7 FPGA and includes new features that ...
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. ...
Tags: FPGAs, Smart Grid, Consumer Electronics
Apple is said to have closed the door on Samsung as its chip designer, according to a series of reports. Reports last week stated that the new iPad 5 would see LG Display and Sharp provide the display, the ITO film will be provided by ...
Tags: Apple, Samsung, Chip Designer
Renesas Electronics has announced the availability of a new member of the R-Car Series of automotive system-on-chip (SoC) multimedia processors. The multicore SoC is one of the first commercial chips to implement ARM's big.LITTLE ...
MiiPC, a new Kickstarter project, has been launched today by Young Song, the founder of eMachines. Young is looking to upset the traditional PC market again by launching the first family computer on Android, starting from $89 on a ...
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) ...
The vast majority of 3G and 4G USB modems handed out by mobile operators to their customers are manufactured by a handful of companies and run insecure software, according to two security researchers from Russia. Researchers Nikita ...
Tags: Usb Modems, Computer Products
Cadence Design Systems has agreed to acquire configurable processor IP company Tensilica for around $380m in cash. The acquisition will add processor IP used in mobile, infrastructure, in-car entertainment and consumer applications, ...
Tags: Cadence Design Systems, configurable processor IP, company news
Hewlett-Packard's effort to build ARM servers will get a boost from Texas Instruments, which will provide chips based on the latest ARM processor design. The TI chips will be offered as part of Project Moonshot, which is HP's effort to ...
Tags: chip, ARM, AMD, Computer Products
When designing a ZigBee wireless sensor networking device is it often necessary to make a system partitioning choice. What makes the most sense – a ZigBee system-on-chip (SoC) that combines a 2.4GHz wireless transceiver and a ...
Tags: ZigBee, wireless sensor networking device, processing core
Nordic Semiconductor has indicated the growing interest in Bluetooth low energy in the Japanese consumer and mobile markets. The Bluetooth chipset firm demonstrated what it called "blank" Bluetooth low energy modules from Japanese ...
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 ...
Tags: Altera, FPGA-based Ethernet switch, Cyclone