Mentor Graphics has introduced a hardware emulation platform for ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processor-based system-on-chip (SoC) device designs. Working with the firm's Veloce2 emulator, the system, called isolve, will test embedded ...
Microprocessor sales are expected to grow 12% to $65.3bn after only 5% growth in 2012 because of weakness in standard PCs, says IC Insights. However, the microprocessor market will gain strength between 2013 and 2016 with modest growth ...
Tags: microprocessor, PCs, tablet computer
Imec has worked with Cadence Design Systems to validate an automated 3D design-for-test tool for logic-memory interconnects in DRAM-on-logic stacks. The tool, which is based on Cadence Encounter test software, was verified on an ...
Tags: Imec, Cadence Design Systems, logic-memory interconnects
Grid-Eye is an 8x8 MEMS thermopile array from Panasonic. "Unlike conventional single thermopile or pyroelectric sensors that only measure temperature at a certain point-of-contact, Grid-EYE enables contactless temperature detection ...
Tags: Grid-Eye, Panasonic, thermopile array
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 ...
Tags: Synopsys, Freescale Semiconductor, IP blocks
The recent spat between Samsung and Qualcomm with Samsung announcing an eight core IC for mobile phones and Qualcomm's CEO dismissing it as a publicity stunt, is put in context by ST-Ericsson Fellow Marco Cornero and Andreas Anyuru. ...
Tags: Samsung, Qualcomm, mobile phones
Many companies who manufacture electronics require contingency plans for their products. If a memory device is discontinued, we switch to a competing device. If our circuit board supplier goes bankrupt, we have an alternate vendor on speed ...
In recent months I have attended seminars where the same theme has come up time and again - namely, the exponential growth of data transmission in telecoms networks, and in particular, its effect on mobile networks. The recent launch by EE ...
Tags: 4G spectrum, 4G service, 4G network, UK
University of East Anglia scientists have undertaken an £800,000 research project to artificially replicate photosynthesis - the process by which plants transform sunlight into energy to help them grow. The energy created will be ...
Tags: photosynthesis, power vehicles, solar energy
The US Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) and DARPA will spend $194m in the next five years under the STARnet initiative to fund six university microelectronics research projects. C-FAR at University of Michigan: Research future ...
TDK-Lambda has opened a European Advanced Technology Centre (ATC) for development of power supply technologies in Bristol. Located at the Bristol and Bath Science Park, the centre has a team of 6 engineers led by TDK-Lambda’s ...
A US-based sustainable manufacturing consortium, the International Electronics Manufacturing Initiative (iNEMI), is partnering with its member, Purdue University, and Tuskegee University on an international effort to replace conventional ...
ARM has had a boost from Facebook by being added to Facebook's Open Compute Project.This means that Facebook and other server customers will buy servers from companies which use both x86 processors and ARM processors. The Open Compute ...
Tags: ARM, Facebook, Open Compute Project
The top 25 IC design companies in China grew an average of 30%, reports DigiTimes, with State Microelectronics leading the way on 170% growth. Galaxycore and Spreadtrum came next with growth in the 60s of per cent, followed by China's ...
Tags: IC design, State Microelectronics, China
TSMC had Q4 revenues of $4.5bn for a profit of $1.4bn. Revenue was 25% up on Qa2011 and profit was up 32% on Q4 2011. Compared to Q32012, Q4 was a 7.1% decrease in revenue and a 15.7% decrease in profit. Gross margin for the quarter was ...
Tags: TSMC, revenues, profit decrease