D&R Headline News (February 2016)

Headlines for Monday Feb. 29, 2016

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Rambus Cryptography Research Signs Licensing Agreement with The Athena Group to Accelerate Adoption of DPA Countermeasures

Rambus today announced that its Cryptography Research division has signed an agreement with long-term ecosystem partner, The Athena Group, Inc. (Athena), to its patents covering DPA Countermeasures for use in Athena cryptographic security IP cores for field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and defense application specific integrated circuits (ASICs). Athena is a leading provider of security, cryptography, and anti-tamper IP cores with DPA countermeasures that address the insidious security threat of side-channel attacks.

• Intilop releases Network Security TOE Module for Altera and Xilinx FPGAs for their 10G & 40G Full TCP & UDP Offload Engines
• Hiroshima University Research Team Accelerates Automotive Algorithm Development with Cadence Protium Rapid Prototyping Platform
• Mentor Graphics Adds Memory Models to Create Industry's First Complete UVM SystemVerilog Verification IP Library
• Try and adopt MIWOK by Dolphin Integration, a benchmark for Voice Activity Detectors
• Licensible IP core accelerates neural networks
• For the 4th quarter of 2015, GPU shipments increased 2.4% from last quarter

Headlines for Friday Feb. 26, 2016

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GUC/Partner Jointly Develop USB3.1 PHY/Controller IP

Global Unichip Corp. (GUC) worked jointly with a major Japanese IDM partner to develop USB3.1 PHY/Controller IP by using GUC’s PHY and partner’s Controller.

• SmartDV Releases Portfolio of Verification Intellectual Properties that Support Platform-independent Simulation Acceleration (SimXL)

Headlines for Thursday Feb. 25, 2016

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Arasan announces the Industry's First MIPI DSI-2 Controller IP Cores

Arasan announces support for MIPI DSI-2 v1.0 with support for MIPI C-PHY v1.0 and MIPI D-PHY v2.0. DSI-2 v1.0 extends Arasan’s 13 years of support of MIPI IP, to the next generation of high-resolution cameras and displays.

• INSIDE Secure announces full year 2015 results along with Company repositioning and restructuring

Headlines for Wednesday Feb. 24, 2016

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Synopsys Accelerates Verification Closure of Multimedia SoCs with Next-Generation Verification IP for HDMI 2.0a and HDCP 2.2

Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq:SNPS), today announced the availability of Verification IP (VIP) for the HDMI version 2.0a standard, supporting High Dynamic Range (HDR) static metadata extensions and built-in support for High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) version 2.2.

• Silicon Labs Significantly Reduces Design Time Using the Cadence Mixed-Signal Low-Power Flow
• Semiconductor Capital Spending Rebound Fails to Materialize in 2015
• Allegro DVT Launches AVS2 Compliance Streams
• Imagination and Mentor Graphics collaborate to speed verification of MIPS-based designs with Veloce and Codelink
• CEVA Powers DSP Group's Next-Generation Ultra-Low-Power Always-On Voice Processor
• eASIC Enables Improved Real-Time Hardware Acceleration Performance for ASOCS' Fully Virtualized RAN (vRAN) Solution
• Credo 100G Retimer Family Delivers Unparalleled Low-Power and Extended Reach
• prpl Foundation reveals secure SoC service for IoT

Headlines for Tuesday Feb. 23, 2016

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Synopsys and Mindtree Collaborate to Deliver Complete Bluetooth Smart IP Solution for IoT SoCs

Synopsys today announced that it has collaborated with Mindtree to deliver a complete Bluetooth Smart IP solution consisting of Synopsys' DesignWare® Bluetooth® Smart PHY IP on TSMC's 55-nanometer (nm) and 180-nm processes and Mindtree's BlueLitE link layer and software stack IP.

• Realtek Licenses Cadence Tensilica Fusion DSP to Support Ultra-Low-Power Always-On Functions in the RTS3110/RTS3111 Context Hub Chip
• MegaChips Selects S3 Group Data Converter IP
• ARM Enables Mass Industrial IoT System Deployments with Hewlett Packard Enterprise
• New Ultra-efficient ARM Cortex-A32 Processor Expands Embedded and IoT Portfolio
• CAN FD Bus Controller IP Core Gains Time-Triggered TTCAN Capability
• New Tiny 80251 Beats Other Low-Power, High-Capability Microcontroller Options
• CEVA and Spreadtrum Expand Long-Term Partnership for LTE SoCs Targeting Mid and High End Smartphones
• UltraSoC delivers enhanced system-level performance optimization capabilities for MIPS users
• ARM DS-5 Development Studio Extends Support for Functional Safety with LDRA's MISRA Compliance Tools
• S2C's PCIe Virtex UltraScale Solution Provides Advantages Beyond Traditional FPGA Prototyping
• Synopsys Delivers Unified Analog and Mixed-Signal Debug with Verdi Advanced AMS Debug Solution

Headlines for Monday Feb. 22, 2016

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Silicon Storage Technology Announces Availability of its Smartbit OTP NVM Technology on Altis Semiconductor's 130 nm and 180 nm RF CMOS Platform

Microchip, through its Silicon Storage Technology (SST) subsidiary, announced today that system-on-a-chip (SoC) designers now have access to SST's unique Smartbit™ based antifuse one-time-programmable (OTP) non-volatile memory (NVM) technology on the Altis Semiconductor 130 nm and 180 nm RF CMOS platforms.

• Spreadtrum Licenses Tensilica HiFi Audio/Voice DSP
• Cadence Announces the HiFi Integrator Studio
• Rambus Cryptography Research Extends CryptoManager Platform to Enable Secure In-Field Provisioning Services
• Latest Imagination PowerVR Series8XE GPUs set new standard for performance, power and area in cost-sensitive markets
• The Dolphin Integration's DELTA standard for voltage regulators breaks the habits for 40 nm IoT SoCs
• Creonic to Provide Full DVB-S2X Transmitter and Receiver IP Core Solution
• USB-IF Offers Guidance to Industry for Design Compliance of USB Devices
• Intrinsic-ID Security Solutions on Display at Mobile World Congress, RSA Conference, and CEBIT
• MediaTek Introduces Helio P20 as Newest Addition to its Premium Mobile Processor Family
• Khronos Releases Vulkan 1.0 Specification
• RFEL adds new features to latest version of its award-winning ChannelCore Flex advanced Channeliser IP core
• NXP Unveils World's Smallest and Lowest Power 64-Bit ARM-based Processor
• CSMC Technologies Corporation Adopts Synopsys Proteus OPC Platform

Headlines for Friday Feb. 19, 2016

• Truechip announces first customer shipment of PCIe Gen4 Comprehensive Verification IP (CVIP)

Headlines for Thursday Feb. 18, 2016

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PLDA Announces XpressSWITCH - The Industry's First Compliant PCI Express Multiport Embedded Switch IP

PLDA, the industry leader in PCI Express® controller IP solutions, today announced their new XpressSWITCH™ customizable multiport embedded switch IP for FPGA and ASIC designs. PLDA’s XpressSWITCH has achieved PCI Express (PCIe®) compliance based on interoperability testing during the recent PCI-SIG® Compliance Workshop in December 2015.

• Synopsys and Intrinsic-ID Collaborate to Accelerate Implementation of Security for IoT Edge Devices
• Synopsys and Cypherbridge Accelerate TLS Record Processing for IoT Communication with Optimized Hardware/Software Security Solution
• ITRI Selects CEVA-XC DSP for 4G Small Cell Base Stations
• SMIC Reports 2015 Fourth Quarter Results
• Synopsys Posts Financial Results for First Quarter Fiscal Year 2016
• Qualcomm, CEVA, ARM Race to Next-Gen Modem
• ARM Cortex-R8 Processor Trail-blazes 5G Need for Speed
• ARASTU SYSTEMS launches a Comprehensive Low Power Verification Suite for the LPDDR4 Memory

Headlines for Wednesday Feb. 17, 2016

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Introducing The NEW CEVA-X - The World's Most Efficient Processor Architecture for Baseband Applications

CEVA today introduced The NEW CEVA-X architecture framework, redefining performance and power efficiency for the processing of the control and data planes in baseband applications.

• New support in Lauterbach TRACE32 tools makes it easy to debug designs combining MIPS and ARM CPUs
• Mentor Graphics Signs Multi-year Agreement with ARM for Early Access to ARM IP to Accelerate SoC Verification, Implementation and Testing
• TSMC Details Earthquake Impact, Updates 1Q'16 Guidance
• UltraSoC and Lauterbach deliver universal SoC debug environment
• Xilinx and Its Expanded Ecosystem Showcase the Latest 16nm Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC Technologies at Embedded World 2016

Headlines for Tuesday Feb. 16, 2016

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SMIC 28nm HKMG Process Ready to Launch Smartphone SoC with Leadcore

SMIC and Leadcore, one of the core members of Datang Telecom Technology and Industry Group, jointly announce that SMIC's 28nm HKMG (High-K Metal Gate) process is ready with customer's NTO (New Tape Out) success

• Cadence Innovus Implementation System Qualified on Samsung 10nm FinFET Process
• Sequans Introduces Monarch, Industry's First LTE Cat M Chip for the Internet of Things
• Embedded World 2016: ReFLEX CES Showcases Extended High-Speed FPGA Boards Portfolio
• Xilinx Strengthens Embedded Vision and Industrial IoT Portfolio with Expanded Ecosystem and Platforms
• LG Electronics Selects CEVA Imaging and Vision DSP for Mobile Devices

Headlines for Monday Feb. 15, 2016

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Red Hat Drives FPGAs, ARM Servers

FPGA vendors and users will meet next month in an effort to define a standard software interface for accelerators. The meeting is being convened by Red Hat’s chief ARM architect, who gave an update (Wednesday) on efforts to establish ARM servers.

• Hyperstone introduces U9, industrial USB 3.1 Flash Memory Controller
• Soft Machines: Promising, Not Proven
• TSMC January 2016 Revenue Report

Headlines for Friday Feb. 12, 2016

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Mentor Graphics Successful Against Synopsys' Appeal Of Patent Office Decision

Mentor Graphics today announced that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has upheld the patentability of claims in U.S. Patent No. 6,240,376 for emulation technology developed by Mentor Graphics®.

Headlines for Thursday Feb. 11, 2016

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Trustonic Licenses whiteCryption's Advanced IoT and Mobile App Security Solutions

whiteCryption, an Intertrust company that provides advanced application security solutions, and Trustonic, a provider of Trusted Execution Environments (TEE) for mobile and IoT devices, today announced that Trustonic has licensed whiteCryption’s Code Protection and Secure Key Box software solutions.

• Synopsys' IC Validator Certified by Samsung Foundry 14-nm Process for Signoff Physical Verification
• RFEL Announces Non-linear Image Contrast Enhancement module
• Percepio raises expansion capital

Headlines for Wednesday Feb. 10, 2016

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ARM Holdings Plc Reports Results For The Fourth Quarter And Full Year 2015

ARM Holdings plc announces its unaudited financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended 31 December 2015.

• Why AMD Should ARM China
• Kalray To Launch High Speed I/O Processors
• Lattice Semiconductor Expands ECP5 FPGA Family
• SilabTech is the winner of IESA 2015 Technology Innovation Award

Headlines for Tuesday Feb. 09, 2016

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Ensilica Launch New eSi IoT Board at IoT Expo

At the forthcoming Internet of Things (IoT) Tech Expo at London’s Olympia on the 10-11th February Ensilica will be demonstrating the new eSi IoT Board, a highly integrated, low-cost hardware platform for developing IoT solutions.

• Data Centers Tap ARM, 100GE
• Mentor Graphics Expands Embedded Software Development Capabilities for Secure Industrial Applications
• eInfochips Announces 'IoT Xcelerator' - A Framework for Solutions Built on IoT Platforms
• HCE Service Licenses INSIDE Secure's Award-Winning MatrixHCE and MatrixSSE Mobile Security Software
• Imagination to showcase leading-edge technologies for mobile, IoT, automotive and connected consumer devices at MWC 2016

Headlines for Monday Feb. 08, 2016

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Noesis Technologies releases a fully configurable FFT/IFFT processor

Noesis Technologies announced today the immediate availability of its fully configurable FFT/IFFT processor (ntFFT). ntFFT core is a fully configurable solution that performs the FFT and IFFT transform. It is on-the-fly programmable in terms of transform size and type.

• FraunhoferIPMS has developed a new IP Core that supports both the ISO CAN FD as well as the non-ISO CAN FD
• GUC Monthly Sales Report - January 2016
• Palma Ceia SemiDesign Tapes Out 802.11ah Transceiver for IoT Applications
• CEVA Accelerates Machine-to-Machine System Design with Communication Reference Platform
• Imagination Technologies: Chief Executive change, trading update and restructuring initiatives
• Cadence to Showcase Tensilica DSPs and Design IP at Mobile World Congress 2016
• World's No.1 Computing Ecosystem Running on ARM at Mobile World Congress

Headlines for Friday Feb. 05, 2016

• UMC Reports Sales for January 2016

Headlines for Thursday Feb. 04, 2016

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ARM Extends 28nm IP Leadership With Latest UMC 28HPC POPs

ARM has announced the immediate availability of the ARM® Artisan® physical IP platform and ARM POP™ IP for United Microelectronics Corporation's UMC 28HPCU, an enhanced 28nm process technology.

• Samsung Describes 10nm SRAM
• SK hynix, Inc., Amkor Technology, Inc., eSilicon, Northwest Logic and Avery Design Systems Announce "Start your HBM/2.5D Design Today" Seminar
• Barco Silex launches OEM board for pro AV market, enabling 4K/UHD HDMI transport over IP
• Cadence Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2015 Financial Results
• TSMC's 300mm Chinese Wafer Fab Wins Approval
• Cortus and Aspen Logic Offer Educational Webinar on Creating ASICs to Enable IoT & M2M Products to Stand Out

Headlines for Wednesday Feb. 03, 2016

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Synopsys' 10 Gbps USB 3.1 IP First to Pass USB-IF Certification

Synopsys today announced that it is the first to achieve SuperSpeed USB 10 Gbps (USB 3.1 Gen 2) IP certification from the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF).

• FinFETs Flow at Samsung, TSMC
• Imec and Vrije Universiteit Brussel Present Small, Low-Cost and Low-Power Chip for multi-gigabit 60GHz Communication
• Intopix Announces Availability Of TICO IP-Cores Supporting UHDTV1 And 4K Up To 60 Fps In 4:4:4 Color Space With A Low Cost FPGA Footprint
• Xilinx Announces Data Center Ecosystem Investment Program to Broaden Cloud Computing and NFV Acceleration Solutions
• e2v strengthens semiconductors business with acquisition of Signal Processing Devices
• CEVA, Inc. Announces Fourth Quarter and 2015 Financial Results
• Argon Design licenses Argon Streams VP9 to Renesas Electronics
• New Cadence Modus Test Solution Delivers Up to 3X Reduction in SoC Test Time
• Self-Calibrated 10 Mbit/s Phase Modulator with Low Power fractional PLL Architecture Exceeding State-of-the-Art Performance

Headlines for Tuesday Feb. 02, 2016

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Chips&Media has licensed its VP9 and HEVC multi decoder IP to Nexell and other 5 chip manufacturers

Chips&Media Inc. announced that six worldwide major SoC makers have licensed WAVE412 Multi-format Decoder IP. WAVE412 is world’s first VP9 and HEVC combo decoder IP in a single core with super compact size.

• Xilinx Transceiver Breakthrough Brings Greater Cost Efficiency to Data Center Interconnects
• Arteris announces 9 new IP licensees in 2015
• Moore's Law Goes Post-CMOS

Headlines for Monday Feb. 01, 2016

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16 Insights on ICs

It’s a sad sign of the times when the most bullish market researcher predicts 4% growth. Even worse when the veteran analyst further explains he has a 70% confidence growth will be in the 2-6% range, and notes a few wild cards like the gyrating China stock market and plummeting price of oil.

• Cadence Announces Complete Digital and Signoff Reference Flow for Imagination Technologies' PowerVR Series7 GPUs
• Global Semiconductor Sales Top $335 Billion in 2015
• Synopsys Delivers Industry's First SAS 24G Verification IP for Enterprise Storage Systems
• Cobham Announces QML V Qualification of their MRAM's with IP from Everspin Technologies, Inc.
• Sankalp Semiconductor Completes Acquisition of Interra Systems Design Service Business Unit
• New Book Explores History of ARM and Its Processors On the Way to Dominance in Mobile Devices
• Smartphone Apps Processors Revenue Declined -9 Percent in Q3 2015
• Easy and secure solution to manage SoC power mode transitions from Dolphin Integration