Reading, UK 7 December 2021. Sondrel has revealed that its recently launched family of Architecting the future™ IP platforms are very easy to modify to precisely match customers’ ASIC requirements. This is because of its innovative Scalable Architecture Framework™ (SAF) that they are all based on. This uses re-usable, modular
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Reading, UK – 3 Nov 2021. A critical stage in creating a custom ASIC is verifying that it does what it is supposed to do and in the best way possible. Typically, this is done by synthesising RTL and running it to see how well it performs against the performance
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Sapiens Steering Brain Stimulation (Eindhoven, NL) is founded in 2011 as a spin-out of Philips Research and got integrated into Medtronic in 2014. Their mission: to revolutionise personalised brain stimulation and treat neurological disorders such as Parkinson’s disease. Sapiens selected ICsense (www.icsense.com) for the development of the core component in
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The world we are living today is full of complex digital systems that we need to rely on. They are becoming more sophisticated and infinite complex. Safety and security of these systems are of critical importance and repercussions of malfunctions can be catastrophic. Even with rigorous testing, there can be
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Figure 1 – Example of Integrated Circuit
What is an Integrated Circuit?
An integrated circuit is defined as a set of electronic circuits on one small flat piece of semiconductor material, most frequently silicon. It is also referred to as an IC, a chip, or an
The ASIC acronym stands for Application Specific Integrated Circuits, which refers to an integrated circuit (IC or chip) tailored or customized for a specific purpose. A good example would be an ASIC designed to control the brake system in a car – this chip is designed only for this specific
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