EDA and IP

Risc-V intellectual property creator SiFive has qualified models for its core portfolio from Oxford-based Imperas Software – as well as signing a distribution deal with Valtrix. Imperas’ models for SiFive processor IP are an instruction accurate programmer’s representation with full functionality including user, privileged, system and debug modes, plus configuration options for Risc-V vector extensions and custom instructions. “The models deliver ...

WiSE Studio is STMicroelectronics’ free integrated development environment (IDE) for its BlueNRG range of Bluetooth SoCs. “Featuring a user-friendly and customisable development environment with ready-to-build examples, the new IDE helps both expert and inexperienced users jump-start their projects,” according to the company. “Using WiSE Studio to learn, explore, and build applications and prototypes, developers can take advantage of the Bluetooth ...

Chip foundry X-Fab has announced a reference design kit for its XH018 180nm modular mixed-signal high-voltage CMOS process and Siemens’ Tanner analogue and mixed-signal (AMS) EDA software. “The kit is based on silicon-proven circuitry, providing coverage of the flow to design and simulate analogue and mixed-signal ICs,” according to X-Fab which “provides its customers reference design flows based on its established ...

Segger has created an operating system for industrial and IoT products, building it on its existing tool portfolio. “The emPower OS software package includes all core components: RTOS, GUI and file System, and communication software: TCP/IP, USB device, USB host and Modbus, as well as IoT Toolkit, security and compression modules,” according to the company. Portable between microcontrollers, the code ...

IAR Systems has added support for AndeStar V5 Risc-V Performance Extension to Embedded Workbench for Risc-V. The toolchain supports all 32bit Andes V5 Risc-V cores, including N22, N25F, D25F, A25, A27, N45, D45 and A45. Risc-V Packed SIMD/DSP extension specification (RVP draft) and the corresponding intrinsic functions as well as Andes DSP libraries are supported. “AndeStar V5 offers compatibility to Risc-V technology ...

Claiming to be able to reduce design compile times by a factor of five, Xilinx has launched the Vivado ML Editions tool suite. The latest addition to the company’s Vivado tool suite is believed to be the first FPGA EDA tool suite based on machine learning (ML) optimisation algorithms. In addition to faster compile times, it is claimed to deliver ...

SiFive has announced its highest performance implementation of a Risc-V core yet. Called the Performance P550, the intellectual property is said to deliver a SPECInt 2006 score of 8.65/GHz, “making it the highest performance Risc-V processor available today, and comparable to existing proprietary solutions in the application processor space” according to the company. April 2024 update: SiFive releases a quad ...

The recent component shortage has highlighted the fragility of current supply chains, asserted Siemens, as it announced the acquisition of electronics Design-to-Source platform, Supplyframe. The transaction is expected to close at the end of this financial year. The acquisition is part of Siemens’ digital transformation said AJ Incorvaia, senior vice president, Siemens Digital Industries Software, Electronic Board Systems , putting Supplyframe ...

Xilinx  has acquired German C/C++programming tool provider, Silexica.  The privately held company produces C/C++ programming and analysis tools for automotive, aerospace and defence,  wireless comms, robotic and financial markets. Its SLX FPGA tool suite is used to manage the HLS  (high level synthesis) design flow. In February this year, Silexica and Xilinx co-presented at the International Symposium on FPGA, elaborating ...

Siemens Digital Industries Software has bought the proFPGA desktop prototyping technologies product suite from Pro Design Electronic. proFPGA technology is already part of Siemens’ Xcelerstor portfolio as part of its EDA IC verification products. Bringing the proFPGA technology and team in-house can allow Siemens to more fully integrate and optimize the scalable, high-performance prototyping platform for lab and desktop environments ...