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Synopsys’ Complete CCIX IP Solution Enables Cache Coherency for High-Performance Cloud Computing SoCs

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 6, 2017 /PRNewswire/ —

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Cypress Streamlines the Design of Next-Generation USB-C Power Adapters and Chargers with New, Highly-Integrated Controller

TAIPEI, Taiwan, May 31, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — COMPUTEX — Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: CY), the market leader in USB-C, today announced availability of a new USB-C controller with Power Delivery (PD) that streamlines the design of power adapters, mobile chargers, car chargers and power banks. The EZ-PD™ CCG3PA controller supports the PD 3.0 standard with programmable power supply (PPS) and Qualcomm’s Quick Charge (QC) 4.0 protocol, which enable new power source product designs to provide an improved fast charging user experience. As these standards and the USB Type-C standard continue to evolve, compliance and interoperability pose an ongoing challenge, but the programmable CCG3 … Read More → "Cypress Streamlines the Design of Next-Generation USB-C Power Adapters and Chargers with New, Highly-Integrated Controller"

New family of Texas Instruments SoCs drives down cost of multi-protocol industrial Ethernet communication

DALLAS (June 6, 2017) – Cost-optimized industrial Ethernet communication is now attainable with the newly announced family of Sitara™ AMIC SoCs from Texas Instruments (TI) (NASDAQ: TXN). The AMIC110 SoC is a multiprotocol industrial communication processor that provides a ready-to-use solution supporting more than 10 industrial Ethernet and fieldbus communication standards. The device … Read More → "New family of Texas Instruments SoCs drives down cost of multi-protocol industrial Ethernet communication"

G+D Mobile Security, Murata, and STMicroelectronics Bring Flexible and Efficient Security Solutions to a Wide Range of IoT Devices

Munich, Kyoto, Geneva, June 6, 2017 – New long-range and low-power IoT (Internet of Things) technologies like Low-Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN) are enabling new use cases in application areas such as smart cities, smart agriculture, smart manufacturing, and work safety. Alongside robustness and availability, Security is a key to successful adoption of these new applications. G+D Mobile Security, Murata, and STMicroelectronics have teamed up to integrate cost-effective security features into IoT devices. Available now for a wide range of applications and vertical markets, the joint solution aims to ensure integrity and confidentiality of the data exchanged and to allow the … Read More → "G+D Mobile Security, Murata, and STMicroelectronics Bring Flexible and Efficient Security Solutions to a Wide Range of IoT Devices"

Microsemi Expands MMIC Portfolio with New Family of Wideband Plastic Packaged and Bare Die GaAs MMIC Devices Offering High Performance From DC to 27 GHz

ALISO VIEJO, Calif.June 5, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq: MSCC), a leading provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance, today announced a new family of wideband plastic packaged and chip monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) devices. The new products adds to a growing portfolio of high performance wideband MMICs and include four plastic packaged low noise amplifiers (LNAs), Read More → "Microsemi Expands MMIC Portfolio with New Family of Wideband Plastic Packaged and Bare Die GaAs MMIC Devices Offering High Performance From DC to 27 GHz"

EnSilica develops sureCore’s new, Ultra-Low Power IoT reference platform

  • Devices use the new TSMC’s 40nm Ultra-Low Power (40ULP) process
  • IoT platform targets wearable, consumer and medical applications

 

Wokingham, UK – June 5, 2017.  EnSilica, a leading independent provider of semiconductor solutions and IP, and sureCore, the low power SRAM IP leader, have announced that EnSilica has developed sureCore’s new, ultra-low power IoT reference platform targeted principally at the development of the next generation of wearable consumer and medical applications.

With proven expertise in low power SoC design for battery powered applications, EnSilica’ … Read More → "EnSilica develops sureCore’s new, Ultra-Low Power IoT reference platform"

IBM Research Alliance Builds New Transistor for 5nm Technology

ALBANY, NY – 5 June 2017: IBM (NYSE: IBM), its Research Alliance partners GLOBALFOUNDRIES and Samsung, and equipment suppliers have developed an industry-first process to build silicon nanosheet transistors that will enable 5 nanometer (nm) chips. The details of the process will be presented at the 2017 Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits conference in Kyoto, Japan. In less than two years since developing a 7nm test node chip with 20 billion transistors, scientists have paved the way for 30 billion switches on a fingernail-sized chip.

The resulting increase in performance will help accelerate cognitive computing, the Internet of Things (IoT), and other data-intensive … Read More → "IBM Research Alliance Builds New Transistor for 5nm Technology"

Synopsys and Mellanox Demonstrate Complete PCI Express 4.0 Host and Device System Interoperability

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 5, 2017 /PRNewswire/ —

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Synopsys ZeBu Server Emulation System Selected by Konica Minolta

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 30, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced that its ZeBu®Server emulation system has been selected and deployed by Konica Minolta as their standard hardware platform for verification and early software bring-up on their multi-function printer (MFP) system-on-chip (SoC) designs. ZeBu’s industry-leading performance and scalability are leveraged by Konica Minolta hardware teams to verify block, chip … Read More → "Synopsys ZeBu Server Emulation System Selected by Konica Minolta"

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