After nearly two months of negotiations and press reports that a blockbuster deal was in the works, Nvidia this week announced a $40 billion agreement to buy ARM—the leading supplier of processor intellectual property (IP)—from financially struggling SoftBank in Japan. If approved, the deal would be the largest semiconductor acquisition
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The Automotive industry is undergoing a revolution. Electrification of vehicles and autonomous driving are pushing forward an already big demand on embedded electronics for the automotive industry. This technological boom translates into more electronic devices into the cars, replacing a multiplicity of functions by their electronics counterpart.
This tendency
Woodcliff Lake, NJ — September 8, 2020 — Silicon intellectual property provider CAST, Inc. and developer Fraunhofer IPMS today announced a new option for their popular CAN 2.0 and CAN FD Controller IP Core that adds support for the evolving CAN XL standard.
CAN XL is a new data
As expected, most IC suppliers experienced weaker demand and generally poor sales results in the first half of this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic and strained U.S./China trade relations. However, as reported in IC Insights’ August Update to the 2020 McClean Report, some key IC suppliers believe that the second half
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This interview was held with: Murilo Pilon Pessatti, CEO of Chipus Microelectronics.
Tell me a bit about your background? How did you first get started with Chipus?
I am an Electrical Engineer with a MSEE in Analog IC design. I studied in Brazil at São Paulo
An often-overlooked part of chip design is Verification according to Sondrel as designing the front end of a chip is generally perceived as being the more interesting part. However, as Susan Mack, a Senior Engineering Manager at Sondrel, disagrees: “Verification is a very important part of the chip design process
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