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HDL Design House Selected as ARM Approved Design Partner

Belgrade, Serbia – December 20th, 2016 – HDL Design House, a provider of high-performance digital and analog IP cores and system-on-chip (SoC) design and verification services, has joined the ARM® Approved Design Partner program, through which leading SoC design houses are recognized by ARM as accredited partners in specific technologies

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300mm Silicon Wafers Market Overview

Prior to 2008, the 200mm silicon wafer was used in more cases for manufacturing ICs than any other wafer size. However, since 2008, the majority of IC fabrication has taken place on 300mm silicon wafers.  Rankings of silicon manufacturers by installed capacity for each of the wafer sizes are shown

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Samsung Likely to Spin off Foundry Business Division

According to Business Korea Samsung Electronics is considering a reorganization of the System LSI division in order to systematically grow the system semiconductor business. The company is planning to separate the design and manufacturing sectors in the business unit and divide or spin off it to fabless and foundry business

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ELSYS America Celebrates its 1-Year Anniversary

SANTA CLARA, DECEMBER 15th 2016 – ELSYS America celebrates its 1st anniversary in the Silicon Valley. ELSYS America is built upon its mother company’s, ELSYS Design, 15+ years experience in integrated circuit design, partnering with all the major semiconductors companies based in Europe; it has successfully extended this offer to

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CEVA Appoints Maria Marced, President of TSMC Europe, to Board of Directors

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Dec. 12, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — CEVA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CEVA), the leading licensor of signal processing IP for smarter, connected devices, today announced that Maria Marced, President of TSMC Europe BV., has been appointed to its board of directors, as an independent non-executive director, effective December 8, 2016.

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Dual Port RAM Design – The Bit Design Goals

It can be asked why design a dual port memory bit?  Is this not a case of re-inventing the wheel?  Not necessarily.  Most memories are designed with speed being the main design goal.  You achieve speed by limiting that range of voltages and temperatures that the memory will operate over. 

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Five Suppliers to Hold 41% of Global Semiconductor Marketshare in 2016

Vigorous M&A activity in 2015 and 2016 has reshaped the landscape of the semiconductor industry, with the top companies now controlling a much greater percentage of marketshare.  Not including foundries, IC Insights forecasts to top five semiconductor suppliers—Intel, Samsung, Qualcomm, Broadcom, and SK Hynix— will account for 41% marketshare in

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Managing Semiconductor Test Data in Current Age

We are living in a fast changing environment, from light bulbs to cars, everything is getting advanced and more efficient. The functionalities of electronic devices are increasing and the associated costs to produce them are decreasing, intensifying the competition. In such a scenario, it becomes challenging and difficult to sustain

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Understanding AMBA Bus Architechture and Protocols

The Advanced Micro controller Bus Architecture (AMBA) bus protocols is a set of interconnect specifications from ARM that standardizes on chip communication mechanisms between various functional blocks (or IP) for building high performance SOC designs. These designs typically have one or more micro controllers or microprocessors along with several other

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IoT and Automotive to Drive Semiconductor Market Growth Through 2020

Integrated circuit sales for connections to the Internet of Things are forecast to grow more than three times faster than total IC revenues during the last half of this decade, according to IC Insights’ new 2017 Integrated Circuit Market Drivers report.  ICs used to embed Internet of Things (IoT) functionality into a

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