Category Archives: ASIC Design

Who’s Managing Your IC Power Management?

Today’s complex systems employ a wide variety of semiconductor technologies. From the deepest sub nanometer processors to the Analog I/O, it’s easy to see the need for power management devices for 1.0V, 1.2V, 1.5V, 1.8V, 2.2V, 2.5V, 2.8V, 3.0V, 3.3V and more, all in the same box.
 
Dozens of

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Sankalp Semiconductor Strengthens Management Team

Sankalp Semiconductor, a design service company offering comprehensive digital & mixed signal SoC services and solutions, today announced strengthening of its management team by appointing Ashish Dixit in the key position of Director of Engineering Operations for Sankalp USA.
 
Ashish has over 30 years of experience in microprocessor design,

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ELSYS Design partners with IAR Systems to improve efficiency in SoC and embedded systems design

ELSYS Design, a leading international semiconductor and electronic systems design house, announces that it has formed a partnership with IAR Systems to bring additional benefits for its SoC and embedded system customers.
 
IAR Systems is the future-proof supplier of software tools and services for embedded development.
 
 

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Understanding AXI Protocol – A Quick Introduction

Advanced eXtensible Interface, or AXI, is part of ARM’s AMBA specifications. The AXI is a point to point interconnect that designed for high performance, high speed microcontroller systems. The AXI protocol is based on a point to point interconnect to avoid bus sharing and therefore allow higher bandwidth and lower

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Cyient Acquires Semiconductor Firm AnSem N.V.

Cyient Limited (“Cyient”), a global provider of engineering, manufacturing, geospatial, networks, and operations management services, today announced that its step down subsidiary Cyient Europe Ltd. has acquired AnSem N.V., a leading fabless, custom analog and mixed-signal application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) design company. AnSem specializes in advanced analog, radio frequency, and

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AMBA Bus Overview

The Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture (AMBA) is an on-chip interconnect that uses an open standard. The AMBA bus connects to and controls the management of peripherals and blocks designed for SoC or System-on-a-Chip. The development of the AMBA bus has had far reaching effects, including the creation of multi-processor designs

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