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Silicon Creations, a leading supplier of high-performance analog and mixed-signal intellectual property (IP), announced that its multi-protocol serializer/deserializer (SerDes) transceiver Physical Medium Attachment (PMA) intellectual property (IP) was part of Microsemi Corporation’s PolarFire field programmable gate array (FPGA), named 2017 “Product of the Year” by Electronics Products magazine, as well as
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Today, IC design flow is a very solid and mature process. The overall IC design flow and the various steps within the IC design flow have proven to be both practical and robust in multi-millions IC designs until now.
Each and every step of the IC design flow has a
Mobile Semiconductor today announced the introduction of its new 28nm memory compilers available immediately. Mobile Semiconductor’s silicon-proven embedded memory technology offers nine 28SLP GLOBALFOUNDRIES foundry sponsored compilers reaching all the way down to a 0.8V nominal power supply. Mobile Semiconductor also works with other top tier foundries delivering industry leading
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The biggest adjustments to the original MR18 IC market forecasts were to the memory market; specifically the DRAM and NAND flash segments. The DRAM and NAND flash memory market growth forecasts for 2018 have been adjusted upward to 37% for DRAM (13% shown in MR18) and 17% for NAND flash (10% shown in MR18).
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esting CMOS image sensors on a wafer-size scale is not easy because of the challenges of creating uniform illumination over a large area. Presto Engineering has developed a custom, computer-controlled solution that illuminates sections of the wafer in turn. Integrating the results enables the whole wafer to be tested automatically
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Faraday Technology Corporation (TWSE: 3035), a leading ASIC design service and IP provider, today announced its FPGA-to-ASIC conversion service has successfully completed several AI related projects including drone vision, medical image analysis, smart appliances, and 3D sensing. It brings remarkable power saving, enhanced performance and lower system cost to meet
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According to PR Newswire, being fueled by the rising demand for voice enabled devices, the global smart speaker market is likely to grow at a CAGR of 43.68% in terms of unit shipment during 2016–2022.
Early innovators as well as market leaders of these newly marketed products are demanding
This CEO talk was held with Eli Geva, CEO of Advanced Semiconductor Technology Ltd. (AST)
Tell me a bit about your background? How did you first get started with AST?
I’ve started to work at AST as a young ASIC engineer back in 1991 and my first project was
Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) is a type of a chip with a specific usage which can have a combination of analogue & digital functions, CPU, controllers, and diverse types of memory. The following are the benefits of using an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) in your project:
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Malaysian-based wafer foundry SilTerra Malaysia Sdn Bhd (Silterra) and Brazilian based Chipus Microeletrônica S.A. (Chipus) have jointly announced a partnership to provide analog IP solutions focusing on the Internet-of-Things (IoT) market for their mutual customers. This announcement marks a significant milestone of the multi-year collaboration between SilTerra and Chipus.
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