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