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ARC-V portfolio plus mature software IP targets three tiers

ARC-V portfolio plus mature software IP targets three tiers
by Don Dingee on 05-13-2024 at 10:00 am

ARC-V portfolio from Synopsys

Synopsys is bridging its long-running ARC® processor IP strategy into a RISC-V architecture – Bernard Murphy introduced the news here on SemiWiki last November. We’re getting new insight from Synopsys on its ARC-V portfolio and how they see RISC-V IP plus their mature software development toolchain IP fitting customer needs… Read More


Webinar: Fine-grained Memory Protection to Prevent RISC-V Cyber Attacks

Webinar: Fine-grained Memory Protection to Prevent RISC-V Cyber Attacks
by Daniel Nenni on 05-10-2024 at 8:00 am

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Most organizations are aware of cybercrime attempts such as phishing, installing malware from dodgy websites or ransomware attacks and undertake countermeasures. However, relatively little attention has been given to memory safety vulnerabilities such as buffer overflows or over-reads. For decades, the industry has created… Read More


An Enduring Growth Challenge for Formal Verification

An Enduring Growth Challenge for Formal Verification
by Bernard Murphy on 05-08-2024 at 6:00 am

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A high-quality verification campaign including methods able to absolutely prove the correctness of critical design behaviors as a complement to mainstream dynamic verification? At first glance this should be a no-brainer. Formal verification offers that option and formal adoption has been growing steadily, now used in around… Read More


The latest ideas on time-sensitive networking for aerospace

The latest ideas on time-sensitive networking for aerospace
by Don Dingee on 05-06-2024 at 10:00 am

Aircraft domain requirements for time sensitive networking in aerospace

Time-sensitive networking for aerospace and defense applications is receiving new attention as a new crop of standards and profiles approaches formal release, anticipated before the end of 2024. CAST, partnering with Fraunhofer IPMS, has developed a suite of configurable IP for time-sensitive networking (TSN) applications,… Read More


Analog Bits Continues to Dominate Mixed Signal IP at the TSMC Technology Symposium

Analog Bits Continues to Dominate Mixed Signal IP at the TSMC Technology Symposium
by Mike Gianfagna on 05-06-2024 at 6:00 am

Analog Bits Continues to Dominate Mixed Signal IP at the TSMC Technology Symposium

The recent TSMC Technology Symposium in the Bay Area showcased the company’s leadership in areas such as solution platforms, advanced and specialty technologies, 3D enablement and manufacturing excellence. As always, the TSMC ecosystem was an important part of the story as well and that topic is the subject of this post. Analog… Read More


Ceva Accelerates IoT and Smart Edge AI with a New Wireless Platform IP Family

Ceva Accelerates IoT and Smart Edge AI with a New Wireless Platform IP Family
by Mike Gianfagna on 04-29-2024 at 10:00 am

Ceva Accelerates IoT and Smart Edge AI with a New Wireless Platform IP Family

Ceva is a very focused company. In its words, the leader in innovative silicon and software IP solutions that enable smart edge products to connect, sense, and infer data more reliably and efficiently. You can see some of its accomplishments here. The company has been licensing IP for more than twenty years with more than 17 billion… Read More


Alphawave Semi Bridges from Theory to Reality in Chiplet-Based AI

Alphawave Semi Bridges from Theory to Reality in Chiplet-Based AI
by Bernard Murphy on 04-25-2024 at 10:00 am

Alphawave Semi min

GenAI, the most talked-about manifestation of AI these days, imposes two tough constraints on a hardware platform. First, it demands massive memory to serve large language model with billions of parameters. Feasible in principle for a processor plus big DRAM off-chip and perhaps for some inference applications but too slow … Read More


Semi Market Decreased by 8% in 2023… When Design IP Sales Grew by 6%!

Semi Market Decreased by 8% in 2023… When Design IP Sales Grew by 6%!
by Eric Esteve on 04-19-2024 at 6:00 am

Top10 Table 2023

Design IP revenues had achieved $7.04B in 2023, with disparity between license, growing by 14% and royalty decreasing by 6%, and main categories. Processor (CPU, DSP, GPU & ISP) slightly growing by 3.4% when Physical (SRAM Memory Compiler, Flash Memory Compiler, Library and I/O, AMS, Wireless Interface) slightly decreasing… Read More


Semidynamics Shakes Up Embedded World 2024 with All-In-One AI IP to Power Nextgen AI Chips

Semidynamics Shakes Up Embedded World 2024 with All-In-One AI IP to Power Nextgen AI Chips
by Mike Gianfagna on 04-15-2024 at 10:00 am

Semidynamics Shakes Up Embedded World 2024 with All In One AI IP to Power Nextgen AI Chips

Semidynamics takes a non-traditional approach to design enablement. Not long ago, the company’s Founder and CEO, Roger Espasa unveiled extreme customization at the RISC-V Summit. That announcement focused on a RISC-V Tensor Unit designed for ultra-fast AI solutions. Recently, at Embedded World 2024 the company took this … Read More


EP217: The Impact and Unique Business Model of Silicon Creations with Randy Caplan

EP217: The Impact and Unique Business Model of Silicon Creations with Randy Caplan
by Daniel Nenni on 04-12-2024 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Randy Caplan, co-founder and CEO of Silicon Creations, and a lifelong technology enthusiast. For almost two decades, he has helped grow Silicon Creations into a leading mixed-signal semiconductor IP company with nearly 500 customers spanning almost every major market segment.

Randy provides some background… Read More