D&R Headline News (June 2016)

Headlines for Thursday Jun. 30, 2016

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Rambus to Acquire Memory Interconnect Business from Inphi

Rambus today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase the Memory Interconnect Business from Inphi Corporation (NYSE:IPHI) for $90M in cash. The acquisition includes all assets of the Inphi Memory Interconnect Business including product inventory, customer contracts, supply chain agreements and intellectual property.

• ESD Alliance Reports EDA Industry Revenue Increase For Q1 2016
• Coreworks Audio Platform Implemented by NTT Electronics in a Next Generation 4K Video Encoder LSI Chip
• Wi-Fi CERTIFIED ac brings new advances in Wi-Fi performance
• Qualcomm Files Patent Infringement Complaints against Meizu in China
• Titan IC Systems is currently recruiting highly skilled engineers to join its world class team.

Headlines for Wednesday Jun. 29, 2016

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PCIe 4.0 Heads to Fab, 5.0 to Lab

A handful of chips using PCI Express 4.0 are heading to the fab even though the 16G transfers/second specification won’t be final until early next year.

• Imagination and 3Glasses collaborate to promote ray tracing technology for virtual reality devices
• Imagination's multi-threaded MIPS CPUs streamline system development in Valens' new automotive solution
• Palma Ceia SemiDesign Announces Silicon-Proven IEEE 802.11ah HaLow Transceiver for Industry-Standard IoT Applications

Headlines for Tuesday Jun. 28, 2016

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Alma Technologies Releases Encoder IP Core for CCSDS-Developed Lossless and Lossy Image Data Compression

Alma Technologies S.A., a company that designs, markets, sells and supports innovative semiconductor IP since 2001, today introduced at the Toulouse Space Show 2016 a new encoder IP core which implements the CCSDS 122.0-B-1 lossless and lossy image data compression standard.

• PLDA to demonstrate a record PCIe 4.0 system throughput at PCI-SIG DevCon
• Silvaco Expands Automotive IP Porfolio with Release of CAN FD Core
• Microsemi Announces New Development Kit with RTG4 PROTO FPGAs, Providing Space Designers a Comprehensive Evaluation and Design Platform
• Silvaco Group Acquires edXact for SPICE Simulation Speed-up

Headlines for Monday Jun. 27, 2016

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Acacia Research licenses Barco Silex's JPEG 2000 IP cores for use in search and rescue system

Barco Silex, the leading provider of IP cores for video compression, announces that Acacia Research has licensed its acclaimed JPEG 2000 IP cores. Acacia research is an Australian R&D house specialized in advanced surveillance systems for the defense sector. The JPEG 2000 cores will be integrated in a search and rescue system to help deliver high-quality video to mission computers and ground stations.

• Synopsys and Lattice Semiconductor Extend Multi-Year OEM Agreement for FPGA Design Software
• CEVA's 2nd Generation Neural Network Software Framework Extends Support for Artificial Intelligence Including Google's TensorFlow

Headlines for Friday Jun. 24, 2016

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SMIC Acquires LFoundry and Enters into Global Automotive Electronics Market

SMIC jointly announces with LFoundry Europe GmbH ("LFE") and Marsica Innovation S.p.A. ("MI"), the signing of an agreement on June 24, 2016 to purchase a 70% stake of LFoundry for a consideration of 49 million EUR.

• Rambus Cryptography Research Extends License Agreement with NAGRA

Headlines for Thursday Jun. 23, 2016

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Mobiveil successfully completes RapidIO 3.1 IP (GRIO) interoperability testing with IDT's next generation RXS 50Gbps RapidIO switch

Mobiveil today announced that its RapidIO Controller (GRIO) End-Point IP has successfully completed pre-silicon interoperability tests with Integrated Device Technology’s (IDT®) next-generation RapidIO switches.

• BaySand to Acquire FalconX Accelerator, to Enhance Its Application Configurable Platform Offering with Configurable DSP Capabilities
• Omni Design Appoints Three Distinguished Leaders from Industry and Academia to Advisory Board
• Do not miss the Green Thursday offering for ultra Low-Power SoCs at 55 nm
• Truechip adds another new customer for USB 3.1 Verification Solution
• New H.265 hybrid set-top box chipset from ALi Corp. gets a boost with MIPS CPUs

Headlines for Wednesday Jun. 22, 2016

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SMIC Commences Successful Mass Production of Qualcomm Snapdragon 425 Processor in Beijing

SMIC announces that the Snapdragon™ 425 processor and MDM9x07 has passed customer qualification and begun mass production in Beijing, after the successful technology transfer from SMIC's Shanghai 12-inch fab to SMIC's majority owned joint venture fab in Beijing.

• Adeas, ALSE, Auviz Systems, CAST, Concurrent EDA, Crucial IP, Enyx and Image Matters join the QuickAlliance Ecosystem
• PLDA GROUP launches QuickStore, a unique online Marketplace for developers and users of FPGA accelerators

Headlines for Tuesday Jun. 21, 2016

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PLDA Announces Gen4SWITCH - The Industry's First PCI Express 4.0 Platform Development Kit (PDK)

PLDA today announced the industry’s first full PCIe 4.0 platform with the launch of the PLDA Gen4SWITCH. PLDA’s Gen4SWITCH is a complete development platform based on PLDA’s PCIe compliant XpressSWITCH IP and PLDA’s XpressRICH4™ controller IP for PCIe 4.0 technology running on a Xilinx® Virtex® UltraScale™ FPGA.

• Synopsys Optimizes DesignWare IP for PCI Express 4.0 Architecture to Reduce Latency by up to 20 Percent
• Achronix Introduces the Highest FPGA Memory Bandwidth, PCIe Acceleration Board for Data Center Applications

Headlines for Monday Jun. 20, 2016

• China Tops U.S. in Supercomputers
• EEMBC Benchmark Targets Heterogeneous Processor Architectures for Automotive Vision, Compute, and Mobile Imaging
• North American Semiconductor Equipment Industry Posts May 2016 Book-to-Bill Ratio of 1.09
• Dolphin Integration pushes SoC optimization to the next level with all risks managed

Headlines for Friday Jun. 17, 2016

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Bluetooth 5 quadruples range, doubles speed, increases data broadcasting capacity by 800%

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) announced that its next release, coming late 2016 to early 2017, will be called Bluetooth 5 and will include significantly increased range, speed, and broadcast messaging capacity.

• CEVA Welcomes the Introduction of Bluetooth 5, the Next-Generation Bluetooth Standard
• Imagination's PowerVR GPU provides advanced graphics in Sunplus' new automotive SoC

Headlines for Thursday Jun. 16, 2016

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Alma Technologies Adds Three New Ultra High Throughput H.264 Encoders to its UHT IP Product Line

Alma Technologies today announced the addition of three new Ultra High Throughput H.264 encoders to its UHT Image & Video Compression IP product line.

• CAN FD Controller IP Core Excels Through Third Plug Fest Testing
• Cavium to Acquire QLogic
• Brite Semiconductor and Power Line Communication Leader, Semitech Semiconductor, Collaborate on Industrial M2M SoC
• IP Business Should Learn from EDA's Playbook

Headlines for Wednesday Jun. 15, 2016

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SoC Solutions selected as ARM Approved Design Partner

SoC Solutions has been selected to join the ARM® Approved Design Partner pprogram. This program creates a network of leading design houses that have been through a robust audit process to ensure they meet the highest quality standards.

• Imagination and Intrinsic-ID collaborate on solutions for scalable, flexible and affordable IoT hardware security
• Xilinx Broadens the Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC Family with Streamlined Dual-Core Devices

Headlines for Tuesday Jun. 14, 2016

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SILKAN Selected by DANAM Systems as ARINC664-Part 7 and Ethernet IP supplier For military and civil helicopters

SILKAN today announced that DANAM Systems has selected CETRAC DO-254 technology to deliver both Ethernet and ARINC664-Part 7 switch Equipment for South-Korean military and civil helicopters : LAH (Light Armed Helicopter) and LCH (Light Civil Helicopter).

• Andes Technology Corporation Announces a Design Win in ITE Tech. Inc. IT835X Series Sensor Hub Chips Targeting the High Growth Wearable & IOT Market

Headlines for Monday Jun. 13, 2016

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Open-Silicon Selected for ARM Approved Design Partner Program

Open-Silicon, a system-optimized ASIC solution provider, today announced it has been selected to join the ARM® Approved Design Partner program. Partners in this new initiative are leading design and ASIC houses that will assist customers with designing an SoC for the first time, and help in-house teams who need additional design and silicon manufacturing support.

• IPhone Deal Would Boost Intel
• Alma Technologies Discontinues Partnership with Cast
• Small footprint open source hypervisor makes highly efficient use of hardware virtualization technology in Imagination's MIPS CPUs
• NVM Express over Fabrics Specification Released

Headlines for Thursday Jun. 09, 2016

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Xylon Announces Latest Release of the logiADAK Kit for Vision-Based ADAS

Xylon, today introduced a new version of its Xilinx Zynq®-7000 All Programmable SoC based logiADAK 3.2 development kit for vision-based Advanced Driver Assistance (ADAS) applications, featuring a broad set of new and enhanced capabilities which enables OEM automakers and Tier-1 automotive electronics suppliers to jump-start next-generation ADAS system development.

• Allegro DVT Reconfirms Industry Leadership in Compliance Streams, Extends Its HEVC Test Suites
• VESA Develops Early Certification Program for USB Type-C Devices Using DisplayPort Alt Mode
• TSMC May 2016 Revenue Report
• SMIC and Synopsys Deliver 28-nm HKMG Low-Power Reference Flow

Headlines for Wednesday Jun. 08, 2016

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Synopsys' New Suite of DDR4 IP Features Increases Capacity and Reliability of High-Performance Cloud Computing Systems

Synopsys today announced a suite of new features for its 3200 Mbps DesignWare® DDR4 IP to expand memory capacity for high-performance cloud computing systems while improving reliability, accessibility and serviceability (RAS).

• Leading Russian semiconductor foundry Angstrem-T has developed a design using a Cortus APS core
• Xilinx Extends SDSoC Development Environment, Enabling Software Defined Programming of the 16nm Zynq Ultrascale+ MPSoC
• Global Semiconductor Sales Decrease in April; Annual Sales Projected to Dip Slightly in 2016, Rebound in 2017, 2018
• UMC Reports Sales for May 2016
• Cadence and SMIC Collaborate on Delivery of Low-Power 28nm Digital Design Reference Flow
• ARM Announces POP IP for ARM Cortex-A73 on TSMC 16FFC Process
• Andes Technology Corporation Announces Quick-Start Design Package That Significantly Reduces Time to Market of SoC Designs

Headlines for Tuesday Jun. 07, 2016

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PLDA and M31 Announce a Compliant PCI Express 3.0 Solution Including PLDA's XpressRICH3 Controller and M31's PHY IP for the TSMC 28HPC+ Process Node at 8 GT/s

PLDA and M31 today announced that their combined PCI Express® (PCIe®) 3.0 solution passed all PCIe 3.0 compliance tests performed by PCI-SIG® at the compliance workshop in April 2016.

• Artosyn selects Chips&Media HEVC/H.265 Codec IP for Drone, Robots, AR, VR etc.
• Avery Design Systems Announces SimXACT 3.0 for Improved X-Verification
• Truechip adds a new customer for PCIe Verification Solution
• Icron Technologies Announces New Maverick Extension Platform Featuring ExtremeUSB 2.0 and 3.0 with intoPIX TICO UHD Video over Single Cable at InfoComm 2016
• Cadence Expands Collaboration with ARM to Accelerate Custom SoC and IoT System Designs with Industry's First End-to-End Hosted Design Solution
• Menta Delivers Industry's Highest Performing Embedded Programmable Logic IP for SoCs
• SILICONGATE Presents the IoT Flexible Power Management Solution at the 53th DAC
• CAST Licenses GZIP Core to Tier 1 Wireless Chipset Vendor
• Arastu Systems' DFI 3.1 compatible and validated DDR4 Controller Core for increased system performance and reliability
• Intento Enters EDA Market with Software that Accelerates Analog and Mixed-Signal Design, Enables IP Re-Use Through Technology Migration
• Intel Custom Foundry Certifies Mentor Graphics Physical Verification and Circuit Simulation Tools for 10nm Tri-Gate Process

Headlines for Monday Jun. 06, 2016

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Rambus to Acquire Snowbush IP Assets

Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ:RMBS) today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the assets of Semtech’s Snowbush IP for $32.5 million as well as additional payments based upon specific new product sales through the end of 2022.

• ARM Extends Solutions for Custom SoC development in Embedded and IoT Markets
• ARM-Based Server Processors Finally Hitting Stride
• KnuEdge Accelerates Neural Computing With Introduction of KNUPATH LambdaFabric Processor Technology
• NXP Selects Synopsys As Primary SoC Verification Solution
• PLDA to Showcase its Extensive PCIe Ecosystem During DAC 2016, Providing the Broadest Node Solutions for Optimized Power, Area and Signal Integrity
• Imec, Holst Centre and Methods2Business Develop Complete Low-Power Wi-Fi HaLow Radio Solution for Internet of Things (IoT) Applications
• Fraunhofer IIS/EAS and SilabTech Announces Best in Class 2.5D Based Chip-to-Chip Interconnect Solution
• Codasip and CAST Collaboration Ships First Products to Customers
• Former NASA Chief Dan Goldin's Neural Computing Company, KnuEdge, Emerges From Stealth to Transform Real-World Human-Machine Interaction
• GUC Monthly Sales Report - May 2016
• EnSilica and Micrium partner to port µC/OS-III RTOS to eSi-RISC processor cores
• Arasan Announces DPHY IP Core @2.5Gbps per lane with TSMC 28nm HPC Process
• CERTON to Provide RTCA/DO-254 COTS IP Functional Safety Certification Packages for Commercial and Military Aerospace Applications
• Open-Silicon to Present and Demonstrate at DAC 2016

Headlines for Friday Jun. 03, 2016

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sureCore Delivers 40nmULP Memory Compiler

sureCore Ltd., the low power SRAM IP leader, today announced the immediate availability of its TSMC 40nmULP process technology memory compiler. The new compiler facilitates utilisation of sureCore's recently announced 40nm Ultra Low Voltage SRAM IP that effectively operates at a record-setting 0.6V across process voltage and temperature.

• Silvaco Enters IP Market With Acquisition of IPextreme
• Newracom Successfully Communicates with Wi-Fi HaLow, IEEE 802.11ah at a Distance Greater than 1 km

Headlines for Thursday Jun. 02, 2016

• ARM Expands Cycle Model Portfolio with Support for SystemC
• Synopsys' SpyGlass Solution Delivers Critical Technology to Enable Compliance with DO-254 Aviation Safety Standard
• Comcores Announce Availability of a 10G TSN Ethernet MAC solution
• Hitachi Adopts Cadence AMS Model-Based Methodology and Tools for Mixed-Signal Design Verification
• Spontey Rebrands as RealSilicon
• Blue Pearl Software Visual Verification Suite 2016.2 Simplifies ASIC, FPGA and IP RTL Verification

Headlines for Wednesday Jun. 01, 2016

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Synopsys' Next-Generation Embedded Vision Processors Boost Performance up to 100X

Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq:SNPS), today announced the DesignWare® EV6x family, its newest generation of processor cores optimized for embedded vision applications requiring high definition resolutions. The fully programmable and configurable EV61, EV62 and EV64 embedded vision processors integrate one, two or four vision CPU cores and a programmable convolution neural network (CNN) engine.

• Long-term Strategy Pays Off As TI Maintains Analog Leadership
• Allegro DVT to Highlight Latest Multi-Format Video Codec Hardware IPs at Upcoming DAC 2016.
• Innovium secures more than $50M in funding
• NetSpeed and Magillem partner to enable seamless IP integration of cache coherent NoC IP
• True Circuits Attends Design Automation Conference Showcases State-of-the-art Ultra PLL, Low Power IoT PLL and Revolutionary DDR 4/3 PHY
• ARM's Bifrost Steps Up Graphics, Bridges to Machine Learning
• Boost Valley Announces V-by-One HS Verification IP
• sureCore 40nm Ultra-Low Voltage SRAM Proves World Beating Low Voltage Operation in Silicon
• Avnet ASIC Israel Ltd. (AAI) Standardizes on Synopsys' Design Compiler Graphical to Accelerate SoC Design Cycle
• Cadence Next-Generation Virtuoso Platform Deployed by STMicroelectronics for SmartPower Technologies
• Andes Technology Corporation Announces Most Advanced Embedded Security Based on Physical Unclonable Functions From Intrinsic-ID Inc. for Its Secure CPU/MCU Cores
• Innovium and Broadcom Settle Legal Dispute