Category Archives: ASIC Design

Dolphin Integration offers a webinar on optimizing SoC power consumption in sleep mode

Allowing battery-powered devices to run, without battery recharge, for years rather than months, partakes in enhancing significantly end-user satisfaction and is a key point to enabling the emergence of IoT applications. Numerous applications, such as M2M, BLE, Zigbee…, have an activity rate (duty cycle) such that the power consumption in

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Sondrel Agrees to Acquire IMG Works Division of Imagination Technologies

Sondrel announced today that it has signed an agreement to acquire the IMGworks division of Imagination Technologies. The IMGworks engineering team will join with Sondrel’s existing engineering consultancy to create a combined IC design capability comprising more than 250 highly skilled employees. IMGworks provides SoC design and software integration services,

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Sankalp Semiconductor Strengthens Management Team

Sunnyvale, CA – May 4, 2017 – Sankalp Semiconductor a comprehensive solutions and services provider in the semiconductor space, today announced strengthening of its management team by appointing Prakash Easwaran in the key position of Vice President of Engineering for Analog & Mixed Signal group. He will be managing the

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asicNorth enhances IoT Design EcoSystem with IoT Endpoint ASIC Platform

Williston, VT April 24, 2017:  Building on the momentum of their IoT Design EcoSystem, asicNorth announced today the debut of an IoT Endpoint ASIC Platform to further accelerate the deployment of custom IoT endpoint devices for their customers.  The IoT Endpoint ASIC Platform is structured to be highly configurable enabling

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Solido Launches Machine Learning Characterization Suite

San Jose, CA – April 6, 2017 – Solido Design Automation, a leading provider of variation-aware design and characterization software, today announced the immediate release of its Machine Learning (ML) Characterization Suite. This new product uses machine learning to significantly reduce standard cell, memory, and I/O characterization time, helping semiconductor

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Use Analog ASICs to Eliminate the Threat Posed by Counterfeit Chips

Global information company IHS was recently quoted as confirming that one out of every four counterfeit parts reported last year were for Analog ICs. While the media focus of the counterfeiting problem has been primarily military/aerospace as it relates to national defense and homeland security, the fact is that the

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