ARM has acquired Israel-based Sansa Security, a provider of hardware security IP and software for advanced system-on-chip components deployed in Internet of Things (IoT) and mobile devices. The company currently enables security in more than 150 million products a year and Sansa Security technology is deployed across a range of
Read MoreThe Semiconductor IP marketplace is a two digit rate growing market which should continue its increase next years according to Gartner Dataquest and according to a new market research report by Form Factor.
Semiconductor IP is expected to reach $5.63 billion in 2020 at a CAGR of 12.6% from
AnySilicon the leading semiconductor marketplace launched today an IP portal linking IP core vendors and companies in search of IP cores. AnySilicon IP marketplace is covering analog, digital, mixed signal and verification IP cores together with more critical IPs provided by leading IP vendors. AnySilicon site allows companies to easily
Read Morehat comes to mind when you hear the term IP Distribution? How do people like ARM and MIPS get their cores into people’s hands? Pricing, contracts and legal issues? Maybe third-party Web sites like Chip Estimate and Design & Reuse? Yes, they are all factors in how independently developed IP
Read MoreLast week’s post was addressed primarily to those of you who are already designing SoCs. We made the point that more and more SoCs have multiple processors, either homogenous or heterogeneous, and that most or all of those processors do or will have caches. This led to the main conclusions of the
Read MoreThis is a guest post by Methodics that delivers state-of-the-art semiconductor data management (DM) for analog, digital and SoC design teams.
The topic of IP quality in the SoC era is difficult to define, and solutions to problems relating to IP quality, verification, and use are hard to find. Debates rage between IP users, suppliers,
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