D&R Headline News (September 2020)

Headlines for Wednesday Sep. 30, 2020

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Synopsys Delivers Industry's First Processor IP Certified for Full ISO 26262 ASIL D Compliance

Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced that the DesignWare® ARC® EM22FS Functional Safety Processor has achieved certification for full ISO 26262 automotive safety integrity level (ASIL) D compliance, meeting both random hardware fault detection and systematic functional safety development flow requirements.

• Arteris IP FlexNoC Interconnect Products Again Licensed by Samsung Foundry for Worldwide Use
• Tetrivis tapes out prototype Transmit and Receive Phased-Array Silicon Chipsets for Low-Cost Terminals for Emerging Low-Earth Orbit Satellite (LEOSAT) Market
• Moortec's In-Chip Sensing Fabric Enables Deeply Embedded Monitoring of Dynamic Conditions for Picocom's Baseband SoC for 5G Small Cells
• Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Vantage adds support for latest Wi-Fi advancements
• Two Acquisitions Make 2020 Second-Highest Year for Semi M&As
• Fraunhofer IPMS develops TSN Switch IP Core
• Nordic Semiconductor to ship its billionth Arm Cortex-M based wireless SoC in October

Headlines for Tuesday Sep. 29, 2020

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New Arm technologies enable safety-capable computing solutions for an autonomous future

The new suite of IP includes the Arm® Cortex®-A78AE CPU, Arm Mali™-G78AE GPU, and Arm Mali-C71AE ISP, engineered to work together in combination with supporting software, tools and system IP to enable silicon providers and OEMs to design for autonomous workloads.

• Megh Computing Selected by 5G Open Innovation Lab to Help Drive Early Adoption and Innovation of 5G Technology

Headlines for Monday Sep. 28, 2020

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GLOBALFOUNDRIES Announces Industry-Leading GF SHIELD Program to Further Safeguard Customer Data and IP

GLOBALFOUNDRIES announced today the deployment of GF SHIELD, a comprehensive, company-wide platform to further safeguard and protect its customers’ intellectual property and products.

• Washington clamps down on SMIC
• Cadence Announces Broad IP Collaboration with GLOBALFOUNDRIES on 12LP/12LP+ Solutions
• NUVIA Raises $240M Series B Funding as it Accelerates Plans to Deliver Industry Leading CPU Performance to the Data Center
• Bluetooth Dual Mode v5.2 Protocol Stack SW, Profiles & LC3 codec licensed to leading Tier 1 Company for ultra-low power TWS Hearable Audio SoC
• Newly Released Versions of DMTF Redfish and SNIA Swordfish Specifications Include NVMe and NVMe-oF Specification Enhancements
• GLOBALFOUNDRIES Collaborates with Cadence on Availability of Mixed-Signal OpenAccess PDK for 22FDX Platform to Enable Advanced Mixed-Signal and mmWave Design
• GLOBALFOUNDRIES and Movano Inc. Partner to Advance Needle-Free Continuous Glucose Monitoring Technology
• GLOBALFOUNDRIES and Mentor Collaborate to Launch New Semiconductor Verification Solution Embedded with Advanced Machine Learning Capabilities
• 28HV Solution Accelerates GLOBALFOUNDRIES Leadership in OLED Display Drivers for Mobile Devices
• GLOBALFOUNDRIES Announces New 22FDX+ Platform, Extending FDX Leadership with Specialty Solutions for IoT and 5G Mobility

Headlines for Friday Sep. 25, 2020

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Efabless Expands support for Cloud-based Design Platform

The new offering, which includes digital design and low cost ASIC development based on configurable design templates, provides a full “semiconductor ecosystem in a box” that brings the power of GF’s 130G solution to a network of previously unserved OEMs, IC designers and IP providers. New capabilities are available on GF’s 130nm platform now.

Headlines for Thursday Sep. 24, 2020

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Synopsys and GLOBALFOUNDRIES Collaborate to Develop Broad Portfolio of DesignWare IP for 12LP+ FinFET Solution

Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced its collaboration with GLOBALFOUNDRIES® (GF®) to develop a broad portfolio of DesignWare® IP for GF's 12LP+ FinFET solution, including USB4/3.2/DPTX/3.0/2.0, PCIe 5.0/4.0/2.1, die-to-die HBI and 112G USR/XSR, 112G Ethernet, DDR5/4, LPDDR5/4/4X, MIPI M-PHY, Analog-to-Digital Converter, and one-time programmable (OTP) non-volatile memory (NVM) IP.

• Opinion: Nvidia's bad deal is not yet done
• Vidatronic Launches New 22 nm Analog IP For Ultra-Low-Power, System-On-Chip Physical Attack Mitigation In Internet Of Things (IoT) Applications
• Allegro DVT Extends Leadership in 8K Video Decoding IP
• Chipus Annouces new power management IP for hearables and wearables
• Analog Bits Announces Foundation Analog IP Availability on GLOBALFOUNDRIES 12LP FinFET Platform
• Xilinx and Continental Collaborate to Create Auto Industry's First Production-Ready 4D Imaging Radar for Autonomous Driving
• Synopsys and GLOBALFOUNDRIES Collaborate to Expand Fusion Compiler Benefits for Latest Platforms
• BrainChip Confirms Validation of the Akida Neural Processor
• PLDA announce the 2nd topic of their Webinar Series: "Building Smart Scalable Storage SoC With Embedded PCIe Switching"
• NSITEXE selects Imperas RISC-V and Vectors Reference Model

Headlines for Wednesday Sep. 23, 2020

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Silex Insight's Public Key Cryptography Selected for Fungible's Groundbreaking DPU

Silex Insight, a leading provider of embedded security IP cores, has entered into an agreement with Fungible Inc., a leading developer of hardware and software solutions to improve the performance, economics, reliability and security of data centers, to deliver asymmetric key acceleration IP for the industry’s first DPU.

• CEVA and VisiSonics Bring 3D Spatial Audio to True Wireless Earbuds and Headphones for the Ultimate Hearing Experience
• Spectral Design & Test Inc. Announces 3rd Generation 45RFSOI Low Power SRAM Targeted at the 5G Mobile Device SoC Market

Headlines for Tuesday Sep. 22, 2020

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ARC: from 3D Game Chips to Licensable RISC Processor

Today marks the 20th anniversary of a landmark in my career, and probably a handful of others. On 21st September 2000, the 32-bit configurable RISC processor company ARC International, now an integral part of Synopsys, completed a major milestone in its history: an IPO (initial public offering) on the London Stock Exchange, at a first day market valuation of around £1.1 billion.

• CEVA Enhances the User Experience and Extends the Use Cases for TWS Earbuds and Hearables with New MotionEngine Hear Sensor Fusion Software
• Accelerating the next generation cloud-to-edge infrastructure
• Arteris IP FlexNoC & Resilience Package Support SemiDrive ISO 26262-Compliant Chip Production
• SmartDV Delivers First-to-Market MIPI A-PHY v1.0 Verification IP
• Imagination launches Ray Tracing Levels System
• Pure-Play Foundry Market On Pace For Strongest Growth Since 2014
• Rianta Releases 400G/800G Optimized Single Channel PCS/FEC IP Core for Ethernet ASICs and SoCs
• PUFsecurity Opens North American Office to Tap Chip Security Market
• Toshiba Information Systems (Japan) Integrates Verimatrix's Whitebox Cryptographic Key Technology Into Customer's Main Control Function to Safeguard Consumer Printers

Headlines for Monday Sep. 21, 2020

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AccelerComm secures $7.5m Series A funding from IQ Capital, Bloc Ventures and IP Group

AccelerComm - The Southampton University spinout supercharging 5G, satellite and other wireless communications with IP which increases spectrum efficiency and reduces latency - has raised £5.8m in Series A funding in a round led by IQ Capital alongside existing investors Bloc Ventures and the IP Group.

• RISC-V embedded variant RV32E now fully supported by SEGGER's Floating-Point library
• North American Semiconductor Equipment Industry Posts August 2020 Billings
• Gowin Semiconductor Launches GOAI 2.0 For Embedded Machine Learning Inference
• Visit Vidatronic at the Virtual GLOBALFOUNDRIES Technology Conference (GTC) - North America on September 24th
• New Moortec Webinar - Addressing the Challenges of Hyper-scaling within Data Centers with Advanced Node Embedded Sensing Fabrics

Headlines for Friday Sep. 18, 2020

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Analog Bits Provides Enabling IP for Graphcore IPU-Machine M2000

Analog Bits’ low power, wide-range integer/fractional, ultra-low jitter PLL and small footprint, integrated sensor for PVT and power supply monitoring, both in 7nm were key IP for the design to deliver reliable clocking and power management

Headlines for Thursday Sep. 17, 2020

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Nvidia's $40 Billion ARM Purchase Will Test Current M&A "Ceiling"

The acquisition, which is expected to take 18 months to complete (around March 2022), would top Avago’s 2015 deal to buy Broadcom for $37 billion, and SoftBank’s $32 billion purchase of ARM in 2016.

• Xylon Announces Rebranding in Celebration of Its 25-Year Anniversary
• Imagination and Packetcraft announce partnership for low energy audio
• NSITEXE Successfully Develops Multiple Custom Processors for Automotive Applications in Half the Time with Synopsys ASIP Designer Tool
• Lattice Extends Industry-leading Security and System Control to Automotive Applications
• Cobham Gaisler Awarded ESA Contract for Development and Validation of New LEON3FT Microcontroller for Space Applications
• SiFive Appoints Patrick Little as President and Chief Executive Officer
• videantis appoints Stephan Janouch as marketing director
• SOT-MRAM Pioneer Antaios Secures 11 Million Dollars in Funding

Headlines for Wednesday Sep. 16, 2020

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CEVA Partners with Fluent.ai to Offer Multilingual Speech Understanding Solutions for Intelligent Edge Devices

Fluent.ai’s suite of technologies for neural network-based speech-to-intent applications optimized for CEVA’s latest generation of low power audio and sensor hub DSPs targeting wearables, consumer devices and IoT

• The Industry's First SoC FPGA Development Kit Based on the RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture is Now Available
• proteanTecs Granted US Patent for High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) Signal Quality and Reliability Monitoring
• Xilinx Ships Multi-Function Telco Accelerator Card for Growing 5G O-RAN Virtual Baseband Unit Markets
• Gyrfalcon Showcases New Tech at 2020 Embedded Vision Summit
• MIPI Alliance Releases A-PHY SerDes Interface for Automotive

Headlines for Tuesday Sep. 15, 2020

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Mixel Announces Availability of the World's First MIPI C-PHY/D-PHY Combo IP Supporting 30 Gbps

Mixel®, a leading provider of mixed-signal intellectual property (IP), announced today that its MIPI® C-PHYSM/D-PHYSM IP compliant with the MIPI C-PHY v2.0 and MIPI D-PHY v2.5 specifications is now available.

• Arteris IP FlexNoC Interconnect Licensed by VITEC for High Resolution Video Encoder and Decoder Chips
• Nvidia Begins Campaign to Close Arm Acquisition
• HDMI 2.1 Rx PHY (TSMC 12FFC) & Controller Semiconductor IP licensed to a Tier1 Chinese Semiconductor company for integration into a TV SOC by T2MIP

Headlines for Monday Sep. 14, 2020

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NVIDIA to Acquire Arm for $40 Billion, Creating World's Premier Computing Company for the Age of AI

NVIDIA and SoftBank Group Corp. (SBG) today announced a definitive agreement under which NVIDIA will acquire Arm Limited from SBG and the SoftBank Vision Fund (together, “SoftBank”) in a transaction valued at $40 billion.

• New IP for wearables and hearables at IP SoC Shanghai 2020
• SiFive To Introduce New RISC-V Processor Architecture and RISC-V PC at Linley Fall Virtual Processor Conference
• Imagination appoints Sir Peter Bonfield to board as non-executive director
• Total Microprocessor Sales to Edge Slightly Higher in 2020
• Technology Analyzer transforms analog IP reuse
• Qeexo AutoML Enables Machine Learning on Arm Cortex-M0 and Cortex-M0+

Headlines for Thursday Sep. 10, 2020

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Silex Insight and Faraday Extend Strategic Partnership to Deliver Secure IoT and AI Solutions

Silex Insight, a leading provider for flexible security IP cores, and Faraday Technology Corporation (TWSE: 3035), a leading ASIC design service and IP provider, announce their collaboration for delivering secure IoT solutions for a wide range of ASIC applications.

• DSP Group Selects Synopsys' ARC EM Processor IP for Adaptive Processing Smart Codecs
• TSMC August 2020 Revenue Report
• Rambus Advances HBM2E Performance to 4.0 Gbps for AI/ML Training Applications
• Kushagra Vaid Joins Flex Logix's Board of Directors
• BrainChip Demonstrates Company's Event-Based AI Neural Processor at Embedded Vision Summit
• Lattice Shrinks Design Footprint and Cost, Boosts Reliability in Embedded Systems with Single Wire Aggregation IP Solution
• SkyWater Begins Domestic Fab Expansion Tool Installation to Support DOD Investment of up to $170M

Headlines for Wednesday Sep. 09, 2020

• UMC Reports Sales for August 2020
• Silvaco Acquires the Assets of Coupling Wave Solutions S.A.
• Synopsys Introduces the Industry's First Unified Electronic and Photonic Design Platform

Headlines for Tuesday Sep. 08, 2020

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CAST and Fraunhofer IPMS Introduce CAN XL Bus Controller IP Core

Silicon intellectual property provider CAST, Inc. and developer Fraunhofer IPMS today announced a new option for their popular CAN 2.0 and CAN FD Controller IP Core that adds support for the evolving CAN XL standard.

• Second Quarter 2020 Global Semiconductor Equipment Billings Up 26% Year-Over-Year, SEMI Reports
• Socionext starts providing high-speed, high-quality H.264 video encoder available on Amazon Web Services
• Chips&Media to Exhibit at the 2020 Embedded Vision Summit
• Fraunhofer IIS presents 8k video over IP transmission with JPEG XS at the virtual IBC 2020
• IAR Systems supports ultra-low-power Renesas RE MCU Family in industry-leading Arm tools
• Credo Introduces Seagull 50 PAM4 DSP to Drive Front- and Mid-Haul 5G Wireless Networks

Headlines for Monday Sep. 07, 2020

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Arasan Announces MIPI I3C IP Cores compliant to the MIPI I3C Specifications v1.1

Arasan Chip Systems announces the immediate availability of its MIPI I3C HCI Host IP and I3C Device IP compliant with the latest I3C Specification v1.1 for Mobile, IoT and Automotive SoC Designs.

• Global Semiconductor Sales Increase 4.9 Percent Year-to-Year in July
• 2H20 Growth Expectations Vary Among Leading IC Suppliers
• GUC Monthly Sales Report - Aug 2020
• Thalia and Dolphin Design announce partnership to transform analog IP re-use economics and to accelerate time to market
• Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation Responses to Media on the U.S. Government's Consideration to Add the Company to a Trade Blacklist
• S2C Announces 300 Million Gate Prototyping System with Intel Stratix 10 GX 10M FPGAs

Headlines for Thursday Sep. 03, 2020

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Arm announces Cortex-R82: powering the future of computational storage

Today, we’re announcing Arm Cortex-R82, our first 64-bit, Linux-capable Cortex-R processor designed to accelerate the development and deployment of next-generation enterprise and computational storage solutions.

• Mentor achieves certifications for TSMC's leading-edge 3nm process technology
• SiFive and Barcelona Supercomputing Center Advance Industry Adoption of RISC-V Vector Extension
• Rambus and Micron Extend Patent License Agreement
• Synopsys and Nestwave Collaborate to Develop a Low-Power Geolocation IP Solution for IoT Modems
• Blockchain Hardware Accelerator from Silex Insight is now available on AWS Marketplace
• Chips&Media Announces Making the First License Deal of Upscaling HW IP, c.WAVE120
• Kneron Boosts On-Device Edge AI Computing Performance with Cadence Tensilica IP
• BrainChip and VORAGO Technologies Agree to Collaborate through the Akida Early Access Program
• Lattice Expands CrossLink-NX FPGA Family of Best-in-Class Low Power FPGAs for Smart and Embedded Vision Systems

Headlines for Wednesday Sep. 02, 2020

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Aspinity Raises $5.3 Million Series A Funding to Stop Battery Drain in Always-on Smart Sensing Products

Aspinity, a pioneer in ultra-low-power analog machine learning processors, today announced that it has raised $5.3 million in Series A funding led by Anzu Partners, a venture capital and private equity firm focused on breakthrough industrial technologies.

• SensiML Joins Arm AI Partner Program
• Synopsys Appoints Jeannine Sargent to Board of Directors
• Secure-IC and NSITEXE form a global partnership to jointly provide cutting-edge security solutions for Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)
• Imagination announces the first RISC-V computer architecture course

Headlines for Tuesday Sep. 01, 2020

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PUFsecurity Unveils PUFiot, PUF-based Secure Crypto Coprocessor

PUFsecurity, a leading provider of semiconductor intellectual property (IP) for PUF-based security solutions, has launched PUFiot, a new high-security PUF-based crypto coprocessor to help chip designers easily adopt robust embedded hardware security functions.

• Synopsys and Elektrobit Announce Availability of EB tresos Classic AUTOSAR Software for ARC Functional Safety Processor IP