Intellectual Property (IP) plays a pivotal role in the electronics industry, enabling companies to protect innovations in semiconductors, hardware designs, and software. With the rise of licensing models and IP cores, companies can efficiently integrate cutting-edge technology into products while reducing R&D costs. The market for IP solutions continues to expand, driven by the increasing complexity of electronics design, AI applications, and 5G networks. As the demand for customized solutions and high-performance components grows, IP licensing remains a critical enabler for global market expansion and innovation in consumer electronics and telecommunications industries.
Yesterday, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced it is setting up the Patent Fraud Detection and Mitigation Working Group to mitigate threats and protect the integrity of the U.S. patent system. The group will act to limit improper activity in patent applications and reexamination proceedings at the USPTO and reduce patent application pendency. As patent threats continue to ...
Ceva has added Bluetooth High Data Throughput (HDT) to IEEE 802.15.4 for Zigbee, Thread and Matter in radio intellectual property aimed at TSMC’s FFC+ 12nm finfet semiconductor process. “Ceva-Waves Links200 [is] the first turn-key multi-protocol platform IP to support next generation Bluetooth HDT,” claimed Ceva. “High Data Throughput mode more than doubles the speed of traditional Bluetooth, delivering up to ...
BrainChip has created <1mW neural processing core intellectual property for speech, audio and vital signs analysis. Called Akida Pico and described as event-based co-processor, it is intended for “voice wake detection, keyword spotting, speech noise reduction, audio enhancement, presence detection, personal voice assistant, automatic doorbell, wearable AI and appliance voice interfaces”, according to the company. As a co-processor, it would ...
Akeana has announced a little about its RISC-V processor intellectual property. There will be three series: 100 Series – configurable 32bit RISC-V cores for embedded microcontrollers 1000 Series – includes 64bit RISC-V cores and a memory management unit, optional support for multi-threading and extensions including: vector, hypervisor and AI computation. 5000 Series – 64bit RISC-V cores optimised for laptops, data ...
SiFive announced the 4th generation of RISC-V CPU cores for embedded applications at RISC-V Summit Europe 2024 today. There are eight cores, three of which are 32bit while the other five are 64bit. To trade performance against power and area, their pipelines will span two-stage single-issue, to eight-stage dual-issue – see the table below. They are all covered by the ...
Ceva has announced a neural network processing core aimed at SoCs needing to run TinyML models. There are two versions: NPN32 with 32 int8 MACs NPN64 with 64 int8 MACs “Both of which benefit from Ceva-NetSqueeze for direct processing of compressed model weights,” according to the company. “NPN32 is optimised for most TinyML workloads targeting voice, audio, object detection and ...
Ceva has introduced a multi-radio intellectual property package for IoT IC designers that combines Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4 and 802.15.4 modems with a 2.4GHz transceiver aimed at TSMC’s 22nm process. Called Links100 (diagram right), it is the first of a series of IP products (diagram below) that will also include transceivers for Wi-Fi 7 with MLO (multi-link operation), and UWB ...
Arm has announced its most powerful microcontroller-grade neural processor, which will reach 4Top/s in its maximum configuration and is 20% more power efficient that its previous neural processors. Named Ethos-U85 and configurable with between 128 and 2,048 MACs, it is intended to have enough performance to locally run heavy AI algorithms such as ‘transformers’, as well as convolutional neural networks. ...
Barcelona-based Semidynamics is aiming at next-generation AI chips and algorithms such as transformer with intellectual property called ‘All-In-One AI’. Rather than having on the same IC a multi-core CPU, a multi-core GPU for vector processing and a multi-core neural processor for tensor processing, it is advocating multiple instances of a block consisting of one out-of-order 64bit RISC-V CPU, one (GPU-like) ...
Red Semiconductor has announced RISC-V instruction set extensions, and a hardware design, for edge AI and cryptography in asics and FPGAs. The hardware, called ‘VISC’, is an accelerated RISC-V core that “optimises complex mathematical algorithms for parallel execution in its reconfiguration hardware engine”, according to Red, which claims: “The VISC ISA [instruction set] enables developers to describe complex algorithms in ...
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