EDA and IP

Moortec has teamed with Sonics, US-based on-chip network firm to provide advanced power management techniques for ARM-based system-on-chip (SoC) and MCU designs. The partnership, announced at ARM TechCon in California, combines Sonics’ ICE-P3 dynamic voltage and frequency scaling technology with Plymouth, UK-based Moortec’s temperature sensors to provide on-chip temperature-compensated, dynamic voltage and frequency scaling. This allows chip designers to reduce ...

Green Hills Software is to verify conformance of its Integrity-178 operating system with the technical standard for Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) edition 2.1. Certon, the critical systems certification firm, will help carry out the verification Time-Variant Unified Multi Processing (tuMP) operating system for three different multicore architectures, or Units of Conformance (UoC): Intel, ARMv8 and PowerPC/QorIQ. Integrity-178 is also being verified ...

Denso is licensing ARM's Cortex-R52 for automated driving systems and vehicle control reference platforms.

Wales-based analogue IP re-use firm Thalia Design Automation has secured $865k (£640k) funding in its latest round. The firm said it has achieved “significant customer traction within the last 18 months”. Thalia also plans to recruit more analogue IC developers. The company has developed technology for transferring RF, analogue and mixed-signal IP designs to silicon, using its design automation technology. ...

Lauterbach is working with QNX to provide JTAG debugging capabilities for the latest QNX Version 7.0 secure embedded OS for the automotive industry.

SiFive releases an open-source RISC-V architecture 64bit, quad-core application processor aimed at operating systems such as Linux.

ByteSnap Design has become an approved engineering consultant for NXP Semiconductors. The embedded systems design consultant has experience of design projects based on NXP chips including a smart home security system, a bus ticketing system and Apple Homekit temperature control system. Gérard Maniez, director, third-party technical support network at NXP, writes: “ByteSnap Design with their extensive experience in electronic board design ...

An Internet parts library for printed circuit board design has now been adapted so that it can be searched inside the PCB123 design environment of Sunstone Circuits

It pays to invest time to maintain your bill of materials as a design progresses, writes Leigh Gawne.

CEVA licenses its XM4 imaging and vision platform to Nextchip for its Apache4 vision-based pre-processor.