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Synopsys Digital and Custom Design Platforms Certified for TSMC’s Latest 3nm Process Technology

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ —

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Menlo Micro Launches Industry’s First 40 Gbps DPDT Differential Switch for High-speed Switching Applications

Register now for Menlo Micro’s Switch Summit, June 16 & 17

IRVINE, Calif., May 26, 2021 — Menlo Microsystems, Inc. (Menlo Micro), known for reinventing the electronic switch with its Ideal Switch™ technology, has announced a new double-pole/double-throw (DPDT) switch providing the industry’s highest performance and data rates for high-speed differential switching applications. Based on Menlo Micro’s market-proven Ideal Switch technology, the new < … Read More → "Menlo Micro Launches Industry’s First 40 Gbps DPDT Differential Switch for High-speed Switching Applications"

Avery Design Launches PCI Express 6.0 Verification IP to Enable Early Development, Compliance Checking for New Version of Standard

Tewksbury, MA – May 25, 2021 – Avery Design Systems Inc., an innovator in functional verification productivity solutions, today announced availability of major updates to the company’s flagship PCI Express® (PCIe®) 6.0 and PIPE 6.0 VIP solution. Avery unveiled the solution at the PCI-Sig DevCon event this week.

The solution supports the latest features and capabilities in the high-speed interconnect protocol, including a doubling of data rates … Read More → "Avery Design Launches PCI Express 6.0 Verification IP to Enable Early Development, Compliance Checking for New Version of Standard"

ANNOUNCING: UK Festival of Robotics 2021 – New 7-day public celebration of all things robotic from 19–25 June

London, United Kingdom, May 25 2021—The EPSRC UK Robotics & Autonomous Systems (UK-RAS Network) today announces the inaugural programme for the UK Festival of Robotics – a brand new 7-day celebration set to boost public engagement in robotics and intelligent systems. This exciting week-long programme will run from 19th – 25th June 2021, offering online events, special competitions, and interactive activities for robot enthusiasts of all ages. Full details of all the events and activities on offer throughout the week are available here: Read More → "ANNOUNCING: UK Festival of Robotics 2021 – New 7-day public celebration of all things robotic from 19–25 June"

CEA-Leti Unveils World’s First Autonomous Imager For Smartphones, Smart-Home Appliances and Automobiles

GRENOBLE, France – May 25, 2021 – CEA-Leti today announced the world’s first autonomous imager technology that activates smartphones and small appliances through face recognition or other specific patterns.

Called µWAI (micro-WAY) and sized as small as a 1€ coin, the autonomous imager features a novel readout and processing architecture co-designed with an optimized algorithmic pipeline, in which the recognition results from a sequence of elementary algorithms, to provide ultralow-power wake-up modes and compact silicon implementation to keep costs down.

It is the first smart image sensor jointly featuring auto-exposure for all lighting … Read More → "CEA-Leti Unveils World’s First Autonomous Imager For Smartphones, Smart-Home Appliances and Automobiles"

Eventornado is Changing the World One Hackathon at a Time

TALLINN, Estonia – May 25, 2021 – Eventornado, an all-in-one hackathon platform, has become the catalyst for social change worldwide.

The platform brings people with big ideas together to create new solutions using the power of technology that impacts social change, increasing sustainability, fighting global warming, and combating racism one hack at a time.

Eventornado was created by the need to organize the first COVID-19-crisis-related hackathon called Hack The Crisis Estonia. The hackathon was a huge success, and suddenly other countries took notice. Hackathons quickly became a trend, with over 40 countries running the same events locally with the … Read More → "Eventornado is Changing the World One Hackathon at a Time"

THine Introduces Complete 13MP PDAF UVC Camera Reference Design Kit

Santa Clara, CA, May 25, 2021] THine Solutions, Inc., a THine company, today introduced their new THEIA-CAM family of camera Reference Design Kits. The first Kit in the family is the THSCU101, a 13-megapixel Phase-Detection Auto-Focus (PDAF) USB Video Class (UVC) camera Reference Design Kit.

The THSCU101 Kit is based on THine’s THP7312 image signal processor (ISP), Sony’s IMX258 13MP CMOS PDAF image sensor, and Cypress’ EZ-USB® CX3 USB 3.0 camera controller. It provides users with optimized ISP and USB control firmware, reference circuit schematics, and scalability for high image quality in production. In … Read More → "THine Introduces Complete 13MP PDAF UVC Camera Reference Design Kit"

Synopsys Enables First-Pass Silicon Success for Early Adopters of Next-Generation Armv9 Architecture-based SoCs

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ —

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Cadence Collaboration with Arm Enables Customers to Successfully Tape out Next-Generation Arm Mobile Designs

Highlights:
• Early adopters of Arm’s new mobile solution on the Armv9 architecture have successfully taped out SoCs for mobile devices using the Cadence digital and verification full flows
• Cadence optimizes its RTL-to-GDS digital flow and delivers corresponding 5nm and 7nm RAKs for Arm Cortex-X2, Cortex-A710 and Cortex-A510 CPUs and Mali-G710 GPU
• Cadence enhances its System VIP and broader verification flow so customers can verify Arm premium mobile SoCs faster

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 25, 2021—Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNS) today announced that through a collaboration with Arm, customers have successfully taped out mobile … Read More → "Cadence Collaboration with Arm Enables Customers to Successfully Tape out Next-Generation Arm Mobile Designs"

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