Achronix moves into embedded FPGA
Achronix has decided to offer the FPGA technology it has developed for its own standalone parts as a set of embeddable cores in the belief that changes in the market make the concept of inserting FPGA...
View ArticleARM brings security to Cortex-M family
ARM has launched the first of a series of Cortex-M series microcontrollers based on the V8M architecture that incorporate the Trustzone security mechanism. “The principle of Trustzone is to isolate...
View ArticleMTAPI library adds patterns for heterogeneous multicore
Siemens has published version 1.0 of its task-management library Embedded Multicore Building Blocks (EMB2) to Github. The latest major release of the open-source library introduces C++ wrappers,...
View ArticleGroup to build CCIX accelerator test chip
ARM, Xilinx, Cadence Design Systems, and TSMC have agreed to produce a test chip for the Cache Coherent Interconnect for Accelerators (CCIX) project. The test chip is designed to demonstrate how...
View ArticleCloud makes hardware acceleration more accessible
At this year’s Design Automation Conference (DAC), Cadence Design Systems and Mentor, a Siemens business, publicly announced they had put hardware emulators in the cloud to make it easier for customers...
View ArticleNetronome launches chiplet initiative for network-accelerator SIPs
Data-center networking specialist Netronome has recruited a number of silicon makers and IP suppliers to a standard for chiplet designs that can be used in SIPs for edge computers and servers....
View ArticlePCI may provide key to OCP chiplet standard
A group set up by Netronome and a small group of IP and silicon vendors to create standards for chiplets to be used in server accelerators is looking to base the core inter-die communications interface...
View ArticleXilinx aims for software flow with Vitis
Xilinx has released the first version of its Vitis development environment as the company aims to capture a user base that is more used to software than hardware tools. With customers adopting AI as...
View ArticleDAC prepares for winter show
The program for the Design Automation Conference, which returns to a physical format in December, is online and is running its I Love DAC promotion for free access until the end of this month (October...
View ArticleOpen-source EDA grapples with the incentives issue
This summer, the project and funding that led to the creation of the OpenRoad open-source RTL-to-GDS toolchain draws to a close. In 2018, US defense research agency DARPA backed the development of the...
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