tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1789479165803764712024-02-01T20:23:05.453-08:00EE Daily NewsEE Daily Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609630249488100984noreply@blogger.comBlogger300125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-178947916580376471.post-46245488251400230052013-04-04T17:13:00.001-07:002013-04-05T11:38:34.176-07:00Tale of the tape outs: ARM adds the Cortex-A57 to array of FinFET test chip projects<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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While the foundry industry is just beginning to develop chips in a (last of Moore's scaling law) 20nm process, which adds the cost and complexity of Double-Patterning Technology (DPT) in order to achieve the smaller feature size, a race is on to catch up with Intel's more advanced 3D transistors, using FinFET technology. On Tuesday, April 2, ARM announced that they had completed a "tape out" of their highest performance next-generation processor, the Cortex-A57, targeting a 16nm FinFET process which TSMC currently has in early development. The Cortex-A57 supports ARM's new AArch64 64-bit architecture, which designers can utilize as the "big" processor in ARM's big.LITTLE configuration, paired with the more efficient Cortex-A53, or build in multiple quad configurations for standalone high-performance applications. <br />
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ARM's latest announcement follows their <a href="http://arm.com/about/newsroom/arm-and-cadence-tape-out-first-14nm-finfet-test-chip-targeting-samsung-process.php" target="_blank"><b>December 2012</b></a> press release with Samsung, in which they described a tape out for that foundry's 14nm FinFET process, based on the high-efficiency Cortex-A7 processor. ARM collaborated with Cadence Design Systems to develop the EDA tool flow for both projects. In February, <a href="http://www.globalfoundries.com/newsroom/2013/20130205-ARM.aspx" target="_blank"><b>GLOBALFOUNDRIES</b></a> announced a projection of simulated performance, power and area for an experimental tape out for a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor, based on that foundry's 14nm-XM process design kit (PDK). GLOBALFOUNDRIES said that they expect the 14nm implementation to be capable of a 61% higher speed than the same processor in 28nm-SLP technology. Alternatively, at the same clock frequency, simulations showed that the power consumed by the 14nm design could be lowered by 62% compared to 28nm. In <a href="http://arm.com/about/newsroom/arm-and-globalfoundries-collaborate-to-enable-next-generation-devices-on-20nm-and-finfet-process.php" target="_blank"><b>August 2012</b></a>, ARM extended their collaboration with GLOBALFOUNDRIES for the 20nm planar and future FinFET process. GLOBALFOUNDRIES is a member of the <a href="http://www.commonplatform.com/" target="_blank"><b>Common Platform Alliance</b></a> with Samsung and IBM, which has a goal of collaborating on development of common process technology for all three companies.<br />
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Ron Moore, Director of Strategic Accounts Marketing at ARM, says that this first implementation of the Cortex-A57 on 16nm FinFET will help the company to optimize their Processor Optimization Packs (<a href="http://www.arm.com/products/physical-ip/processor-optimization-pack/index.php" target="_blank"><b>POPs</b></a>), which provide licensees with Artisan Physical IP logic libraries and memory instances. Moore says that ARM and TSMC will take the 16nm test chip to fabrication. At this early stage in foundry FinFET development, ARM and Cadence were limited to a "0.1 revision" Process Design Kit (PDK), which designates the first attempt by the ecosystem partners to assemble a usable flow, more as a learning exercise than as a production ready methodology. In the past, a "tape out" indicated that a design was signed off for production. Now, because of the complexity of advanced node process development, the first "tape outs" are only intended as test chips. <br />
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ARM has multiple objectives for this early collaboration, says Moore, starting with getting experience with how the Place and Route tools will work for their cores in a FinFET process. With the numerous new manufacturing steps that will be employed for FinFETS, ARM must evaluate the impact on power, performance, and area, before being ready to hand off their IP to customers.<br />
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The 3-way collaboration of foundry, IP vendor, and EDA providers acts as a virtual Integrated Device Manufacturer (IDM). TSMC gets to test their process with a large functional portion of what will be a typical SoC, eventually getting feedback from the test chip silicon. The EDA vendors gain early access for learning the modifications they must make to have their tools ready along with the process. <br />
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Moore said that the team just aimed for a functional test chip at this stage, since it is too early to evaluate process corners. The 0.1 PDK will not be sufficient to discern performance. It will be at least a year before we begin to see real designs put into a FinFET process. Samsung has said that they are planning to offer risk production in their 14nm FinFET process by the end of 2013.<br />
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EE Daily Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609630249488100984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-178947916580376471.post-40913666608261537902013-02-25T16:31:00.001-08:002013-02-25T16:32:43.576-08:00Broadcom, Maxim, Freescale and TI increase focus on small cells at Mobile World Congress<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Small cells and heterogeneous networks continue to be hot topics at this year's Mobile World Congress (MWC), which kicked off today in Barcelona. We are seeing announcements from several chip vendors who are expanding their offerings in this space, with an increased focus on supporting wireless operator plans to ramp up deployment for LTE metro, enterprise and residential applications. <br>
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Broadcom has announced that they are sampling a new family of dual-mode 3G/LTE SoCs, the BCM617xx series. The BCM617xx consist of three products, the BCM61760 is designed for high capacity metro cells, the BCM61750 for enterprise small cells, and the BCM61730 for residential.<br>
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Greg Fischer, Broadcom’s VP and GM for Broadband Carrier Access, says that the BCM61760 can support 100 to 200 simultaneous LTE users, and 32 to 64 for 3G, depending on the combination of radio access technologies that an operator employs. The BCM61730 can support 8 to 16 users in a residential setting.<br>
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In LTE mode, the BCM617xx enables carrier aggregation, for a maximum total of 40MHz of channel bandwidth. The SoCs support LTE CAT-4, with 150Mbs Down Link (DL) and 50Mbps Up Link (UL) data rates, and 128 active users, or 3G data rates of 42Mbps DL and 11Mbps
UL, with 32 simultaneous users. Both Frequency Division Duplexing (FDD) and Time Division Duplexing (TDD) modes are supported in the BCM61750 and BCM61760.<br>
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For the existing 3G WCDMA residential market, Broadcom is also introducing the BCM6163, which integrates the digital base band processor and RF transceiver into a single SoC. The BCM6163 provides HSPA data rates at up to 21.6 Mbps. Broadcom is planning volume production for the BCM61630 later in the first-half of 2013. <br>
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Eric Hayes, Broadcom VP of Marketing for Processor and Wireless Infrastructure, says that the company has also developed a multi-mode small cell platform that leverages the latest 28nm processors from their former NetLogic group, which will enable customers to build more complex systems for Multiple Radio Access Technology (multi-RAT) networks. . At MWC, Broadcom is demonstrating a combined 3G/4G/"5G" solution, the "5G" being Broadcom's marketing label for IEEE 802.11ac WiFi, which operates in the 5 GHz band. Hayes says that the XLP-208 multicore processor can manage all radios and data traffic, and provides scalablity for delivering edge-of-network revenue-generating services, such as content caching, ad insertion, as well as supporting traffic management for tuning backhaul links. Broadcom says that the development platform includes Broadcom’s complete portfolio of backhaul devices for optimized traffic management, including x-DSL, x-PON and wireless.Broadcom is sampling the platform now, and is planning to support volume production in Q2.<br>
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<a href="http://www.eedailynews.com/2013/02/broadcom-maxim-freescale-and-ti.html#more">Read more »</a>EE Daily Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609630249488100984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-178947916580376471.post-20133364901444803572013-02-21T11:42:00.001-08:002013-02-21T11:45:51.534-08:00Samsung details Exynos Octa at 60th ISSCC<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Samsung discussed details of their Exynos Octa processor design at the<br>
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Samsung raised the bar for CPU core count in mobile application processors at the 2013 IEEE International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, with their announcement of the next-generation Exynos Octa. The Exynos Octa will incorporate ARM's <a href="http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/minisite/Exynos/blog_Benefits_of_the_big_LITTLE_Architecture.html" target="_blank"><b>big.LITTLE</b></a> configuration times four, with one large quartet of high-performance Cortex-A15 cores trading off operation with a smaller quartet of power-saving Cortex A7s. This week, at the 60th International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco, Samsung's lead designer provided some more detail on the new SoC, in a presentation of "<i>28nm High-K Metal Gate heterogeneous quad-core CPUs for high-performance and energy-efficient mobile application processor</i>".<br>
<a href="http://www.eedailynews.com/2013/02/samsung-details-exynos-octa-at-60th.html#more">Read more »</a>EE Daily Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609630249488100984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-178947916580376471.post-68920193844913640672013-02-12T16:48:00.001-08:002013-02-13T08:43:50.514-08:00ARM and Synopsys collaborate for Cortex-A57 virtual prototype<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In late October last year, at ARM's TechCon event in Silicon Valley, ARM announced the first processor cores to be built with their next-generation 64-bit v8 architecture, the <a href="http://www.arm.com/about/newsroom/arm-launches-cortex-a50-series-the-worlds-most-energy-efficient-64-bit-processors.php" target="_blank"><b>Cortex-A57</b></a> and Cortex A-53. Now, in order to enable early development of software in parallel with hardware development, Synopsys has announced the addition of the ARM v8 processors to their Virtualizer Development Kits (<a href="http://www.synopsys.com/Systems/VirtualPrototyping/Virtualizer-Development/Pages/default.aspx" target="_blank"><b>VDKs</b></a>). Tom De Schutter, Senior Product Marketing Manager for System Level Solutions at Synopsys, says that the two companies have extended their collaboration agreement to include ARM's <a href="http://www.arm.com/products/tools/models/fast-models/index.php" target="_blank"><b>Fast Models</b></a> for the v8 architecture.<br />
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Customers can use the VDK to boot-up operating systems, and to develop firmware and device drivers, prior to availability of silicon or FPGA hardware prototypes.The virtual models support analysis of multicore architectures, and provide developers with tools to optimize their code for maximum energy efficiency. Semiconductor companies can develop virtual models to provide to their customers for application development, without giving away any details of the chip design.For a complete SoC, users can combine Synopsys <a href="http://www.synopsys.com/IP/Pages/default.aspx" target="_blank"><b>DesignWare IP</b></a> models with the ARM core VDKs. <br />
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Synopsys and ARM are initially making Cortex-A57 virtual prototypes available, and the company's roadmap is to add the Cortex-A53 and support for the ARMv8 big.LITTLE methodology later. The emphasis at this point is still primarily on mobile device applications, with support for a Linux kernel and the Android operating system on the virtual platform. Schutter says that some of Synopsys' customers are using the virtual models to develop Windows on ARM, but that is not an out-of-the-box solution. The VDK supports use of ARM's debugger, along with tools from Lauterbach and GNU.<br />
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Synopsys made no mention of development of VDKs for ARM server applications, and is initially targeting customers who will be migrating from the ARM v7 32-bit architecture. The company is doing some initial exploration of server-type applications, says Schutter, such as utilizing Ethernet-connected VDKs to develop communications and network interfaces between multiple ARM-based processors.<br />
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<li><a href="http://www.eedailynews.com/2012/03/synopsys-combines-hw-sw-ip-with.html" target="_blank">Synopsys combines H/W & S/W IP with protoyping tools, for a complete SoC audio subsystem</a>.</li>
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EE Daily Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609630249488100984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-178947916580376471.post-11031792882460636832013-02-12T11:39:00.000-08:002013-02-13T08:46:39.716-08:00Tensilica adds Image/Video Processor to DSP IP core offerings<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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At the 2013 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January, semiconductor companies engaged in a daily competition to one-up each other with announcements of their next-generation <b><a href="http://www.eedailynews.com/2013/01/2013-international-consumer-electronics.html" target="_blank">application processors</a></b>. Advances in imaging and video capabilities were central to those announcements, as NVIDIA rolled out Tegra-4 with 72 GPUs, along with a dedicated computational photography engine for High Dynamic Range (HDR) still image and video recording. Qualcomm followed with their announcement that the Snapdragon 800 Series will support UltraHD video. In their CES press conference, Intel demonstrated advances in User Interfaces (UI), including recognition of finger gestures and eye movement.<br />
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It is ironic that Texas Instruments predicted many of these developments three years ago, in a plenary talk ("<a href="http://www.eedailynews.com/2010/02/wireless-technology-in-spotlight-on-day.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-style: italic;">Harnessing Technology to Advance the Next-Generation Mobile User-Experience</span></b></a>") at the International Solid States Circuits Conference (ISSCC), and they now <a href="http://investor.ti.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=721395" target="_blank"><b>exit the mobile device segment</b></a> just as the applications are becoming a reality. <span class="xn-person">Greg Delagi</span>, the TI Senior VP who delivered that talk at ISSCC in February 2010, now says that his company will focus on the embedded market (such as "<a href="http://www.ti.com/ww/en/ces/2013/ces-auto.shtml" target="_blank"><b>smart cars</b></a>"), where embedded vision and graphics applications are also expected to grow rapidly but with less volatility and pricing pressure. <br />
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<b>Tensilica introduces IVP </b><br />
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DSP silicon IP provider Tensilica is gearing up for these emerging opportunities, and will be demonstrating a new Image and Video Processor (IVP) at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) later this month. Chris Rowen, Tensilica’s founder and CTO, calls the IVP a "<i>major new thrust</i>" for his company, which previously focused on audio and baseband DSP cores. Rowen says that the targeted applications for IVP have common requirements for very high pixel rate and high levels of operations per pixel, along with the need for ease of programming to enable designers to change and upgrade image processing algorithms that continually evolve. The new imaging and video applications that the likes of Intel, Qualcomm and NVIDIA are planning to support require performance to improve at a faster rate than Moore's Law. For example, UltraHD video requires 4X the processing of 1080p video, while applications such as feature recognition or image tracking and identification demand 10X the horsepower of today's Image Signal Processors (ISP). According to Rowen, new architectures are required in order to meet the performance needs with fixed power budgets.<br />
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Tensilica will be offering their IVP as a complete subsystem, including the synthesizable core, memory system, and an instruction set which supports 8, 16, and 32 bit pixel processing. The IVP architecture will be scalable by number of element engines and processors. The company's lead customers have had early access to the IVP since last year, and with the MWC announcement Tensilica is opening it up for licensing to a broader customer base. Tensilica will be competing with UK-based silicon IP provider Imagination Technologies, known for their Power VR GPUs, who demonstrated their PowerVR vision ISP at CES, also targeting embedded vision and UltraHD video processing.<br />
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<b>IVP Architecture and Software</b><br />
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A key component of any image processor is the memory subsystem. Moving massive amounts of data for frame-to-frame analysis can result in bottlenecks and processing latency. In their IVP, Tensilica allocates two 512 bit wide memory ports to the core processor for access to local data RAM, and adds a μDMA controller with an additional 512 bit wide port, for a total of 192 (8 bit) Bytes of data access per cycle. <br />
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The parallelism of the IVP Single-Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) architecture allows for fetching of 16, 24, or 96 bits per cycle, followed by issuing up to 3 commands to the Xtensa control processor, or 4 pixel processing commands per cycle to a set of 32 element engines. Each element engine contains three 16b ALUs, a 16b X 16b multiply-add and a 16b variable shifter, along with dual 16b/8b load/store, and multiple register files. The end result is that each element engine is capable of up to 96 ALU operations, 32 multiples, or 64 element loads per cycle. A memory data rotator takes care of allocating the 512b data slices per cycle to the proper element engine. <br />
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Customers who license the Tensilica IVP package will get the synthesizable RTL and
EDA tool scripts, along with a reference testbench and set of test cases, design tools, and a Software Developer Kit (SDK). Tensilica provides an Instruction Set Simulator (ISS),
Fast Function Simulator (TurboXIM),
System-C based system modeling tools, and the Xenergy energy estimator. The Software Developer Kit (SDK)
provides the Xplorer IDE GUI, and a GNU Software Toolkit. The Xtensa C/C++ (XCC) Compiler includes the capability for auto-vectorization of developer's code. Tensilica includes a set of reference image processing applications and a library of operating system kernel functions.<br />
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Tensilica will demonstrate the IVP at MWC on a FPGA prototyping system, based on Xilinx Virtex-7 devices, which they will make available to customers in the coming months. The FPGA development kit includes an image sensor interface and FPGA Mezzanine Card (FMC) from <a href="http://www.dreamchip.de/" target="_blank"><b>Dream Chip Technologies</b></a>. Tensilica has also lined up a set of image processing software partners for the IVP launch, including <a href="http://www.morphoinc.com/en/products/index.html" target="_blank"><b>Morpho</b></a>, <a href="http://www.iridalabs.gr/" target="_blank"><b>Irida Labs</b></a>, and <a href="http://www.almalence.com/" target="_blank"><b>Almalence</b></a>.<br />
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EE Daily Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609630249488100984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-178947916580376471.post-22500036251938337942013-01-28T16:47:00.000-08:002013-01-28T16:52:52.945-08:00Broadcom brings ARM to the Enterprise with new Ethernet switch SoCs<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In a January announcement with ARM, Broadcom disclosed that they had signed an <a href="http://www.arm.com/about/newsroom/arm-and-broadcom-extend-relationship-with-armv7-and-armv8-architecture-licenses.php" target="_blank"><b>agreement</b></a> to extend their licenses for the 32 bit ARMv7 CPU, with the addition of the latest 64 bit ARMv8 architecture. While the industry continues to watch for developments of ARM-based servers to enter the enterprise and data center space, Broadcom announced today that they have integrated single and dual-core ARM Cortex A9 CPUs into their new StrataXGS
series SoCs, for enterprise Ethernet switching applications. <br>
<a href="http://www.eedailynews.com/2013/01/broadcom-brings-arm-to-enterprise-with.html#more">Read more »</a>EE Daily Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609630249488100984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-178947916580376471.post-29365672030197342242013-01-21T18:41:00.001-08:002013-01-22T08:33:21.454-08:002013 International Consumer Electronics Show marked the transition to a post-PC era<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dr. Stephen Woo, Samsung Electronics President for Device Solutions Business,<br>
shared the stage with ARM CEO Warren East, during his keynote presentation<br>
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When Microsoft announced that they would no longer appear at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) after the 2012 event, some observers misread this as a sign of the show's imminent decline. For many years the show's ceremonial kickoff, the pre-opening Monday night keynote presentation, was delivered by then Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, who was later succeeded in both the CEO and CES roles by Steve Ballmer. Microsoft had also occupied a large space on the Central Hall exhibit floor at the Las Vegas Convention Center, directly opposite Intel, in a vivid testament to the longtime dominance of the Wintel empire. Who would fill the vacancies created by the Redmond giant's departure?<br>
<a href="http://www.eedailynews.com/2013/01/2013-international-consumer-electronics.html#more">Read more »</a>EE Daily Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609630249488100984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-178947916580376471.post-60812681050047588782012-12-27T15:28:00.001-08:002012-12-27T16:29:21.228-08:00Part II: 2013 Predictions for the mobile industry from Silicon Valley VCs<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in;">
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In the <a href="http://www.eedailynews.com/2012/12/opinions-and-predictions-from-vcs-in.html" target="_blank"><b>first installment</b></a> of our review of the mobile industry outlook and predictions from Silicon Valley Venture Capitalists (VCs), we covered the software vs. hardware bias
in the VC community, opportunities in mobile payments and advertising, and opinions on the prospects for competition in device
platforms. We compiled VC opinions presented at the Wireless Communications Alliance's (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.wca.org/archives/2012" target="_blank">WCA</a></b>) annual “<i>What’s Hot (and What’s Not) in Mobility"</i> event, and the Mobile Monday Silicon Valley (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.mobilemonday.us/events/84731972/?eventId=84731972&action=detail" target="_blank">MOMOSV</a></b>) “<i>Year in Review & 2013 Predictions</i>”.<br />
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In this article, we cover the discussions of Enterprise Mobility and "The Internet of Things", which took place at both events, a discussion of various vertical market opportunities, and wrap up with the VC's predictions for 2013.<br />
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The WCA panel included:</div>
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Moderator: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.rajansingh.com/blog/" target="_blank">Raj Singh</a></b>, Founder and CEO, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://signup.tempo.ai/" target="_blank">Tempo AI</a></b></div>
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<li><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/ojavaid" target="_blank">Omar Javaid</a></b>, Managing
Director, BBO Global</li>
<li><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.redpoint.com/team#scott_raney" target="_blank">Scott Raney</a></b>, Partner,
Redpoint Ventures</li>
<li><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.stormventures.com/team/investment-team/tae-hea-nahm/" target="_blank">Tae Hea Nahm</a></b>, Founding General Partner, Storm Ventures</li>
<li><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://qualcommventures.com/team-member/quinn-li/" target="_blank">Quinn Li</a></b>,
Managing Director, Qualcomm Ventures</li>
<li><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://relayventures.com/people/kevin-talbot/" target="_blank">Kevin Talbot</a></b>,
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Relay Ventures</li>
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Mario Tapia, Director of MOMOSV moderated
the panel that included:</div>
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<li><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://blumbergcapital.com/people/index.php?id=&entryid=1" target="_blank">David Blumberg</a></b> - Managing Partner Blumberg Capital</li>
<li><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.wsgr.com/WSGR/DBIndex.aspx?SectionName=attorneys/BIOS/5641.htm" target="_blank">Todd Carpenter</a></b> - Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati</li>
<li><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.shastaventures.com/team/rob_coneybeer" target="_blank">Rob Coneybeer</a></b> -
Managing Director Shasta Ventures</li>
<li><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://svangel.com/team/" target="_blank">Topher Conway</a></b> - SV Angel</li>
<li><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.sequoiacap.com/us/timothy-lee/info" target="_blank">Timothy Lee</a></b> -
Partner Sequoia Capital</li>
<li><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://tokbox.com/management-team" target="_blank">Ian Small</a></b> - CEO <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://tokbox.com/" target="_blank">Tokbox<span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></a></b>(acquired by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://allthingsd.com/20121025/telefonica-digital-buys-video-chat-platform-tokbox/" target="_blank">Telefonica</a></b>)</li>
<li><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.accel.com/global/people/specialty/all/Rich_Wong" target="_blank">Rich Wong</a></b>
- Accel Partners</li>
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<b>Enterprise Mobility</b><br />
While rapid consumer adoption of smartphones and other wireless gadgets has been the major driver of growth in the mobile space, VCs at both the WCA and MOMOSV events expressed the view that enterprise mobility remains a relatively under-exploited opportunity. <a href="http://www.stormventures.com/portfolio/all" target="_blank"><b>Storm Ventures</b></a>' Tae Hae Nahm drew an analogy between mobile and the early adoption of Personal Computers (PCs) by enterprise Information Technology (IT) departments. Just as the introduction of PCs in the enterprise led to development of enterprise software, says Nahm, so will trends such as Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) lead to development of more enterprise mobile applications. We are "only in the second inning" for enterprise applications, says Nahm.<br />
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Redpoint's Scott Raney was even more bullish, calling enterprise the "<i>hottest</i>" area for mobile development. The trend toward BYOD and the consumerization of IT, is creating a greater focus on tools for securing data, said Raney. Redpoint has funded startups that are developing mobile applications first for enterprises, and more directed at smartphones than tablets at this point. <br />
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At MOMOSV, Rich Wong selected enterprise IT facing applications as the greatest growth opportunity in mobile, saying that there has been relatively little discussion in this space compared to consumer. He cited the need to address security issues, IT management of applications, and the trend from PCs to mobile devices as areas for investment. Todd Carpenter also selected enterprise as his greatest growth opportunity, saying that there is currently "<i>not much there</i>", but there is a big need.<br />
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<b>Focus on Verticals</b><br />
As a rule, entrepreneurs and VCs are both wise to look for opportunities in vertical market segments that combine high growth with an under-addressed set of needs. Rich Wong warned, however, that there is a tendency to “<i>look</i> (negatively) <i>at shiny pebbles from two years ago</i>”. Wong pointed to <a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2012/12/26/2012-the-year-zynga-crashed-and-burned.aspx" target="_blank"><b>Zynga</b></a> as an example, saying that company's widely publicized post-IPO difficulties spoiled
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working industry segments.<br />
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Shasta Ventures Rob Coneybeer said that he is look for opportunities to reach offline industries that have yet to be impacted by mobile, using examples such as <a href="https://www.taskrabbit.com/" target="_blank"><b>TaskRabbit</b></a> (<i>sort of like a moderated Craigslist list for odd jobs</i>) <a href="http://www.postmates.com/" target="_blank"><b>PostMates</b></a> (<i>local delivery services</i>), and <a href="https://relayrides.com/" target="_blank"><b>RelayRides</b></a> (<i>local, community-based personal car rental</i>) as examples.David Blumberg expressed the opinion that the service industry in general is "<i>ripe for disruption</i>". <br />
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<![endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Topher Conway said that there are "<i>massive opportunities</i>" in education, to use mobile technology in the classroom. Conway used the example of <a href="http://www.classdojo.com/" target="_blank"><b>ClassDojo</b></a>, which is developing software tools for teachers with the intent of </span>improving and monitoring behavior in their classrooms. <br />
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At MOMOSV, Todd Carpenter said that he is "<i>excited</i>" by opportunities in mobile monitoring, in medical and wellness applications, highlighting the example of <a href="http://www.nest.com/" target="_blank"><b>Nest</b></a> - maker of a smart, learning thermostat for home energy efficiency.<br />
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<b>Hardware and the "Internet of Things (IoT)"</b> <br />
Rob Coneybeer, at MOMOSV, chose (what he called) "<i>internet-powered hardware</i>" as a top growth opportunity for 2013. Coneybeer, who has covered this topic on his <a href="http://280.vc/" target="_blank"><b>280.vc</b></a> blog, said that the cost of starting such companies as Nest has declined dramatically. He gave other examples of companies that have been enabled by mobile technology, such as <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CGIQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgopro.com%2F&ei=QtHcUKn9KOj3iwKXhoDwAQ&usg=AFQjCNF_k7eKDmlny5zW9cpg5qELy2wCnw&sig2=oaljMqM3h2_pwMX35rbbgA&bvm=bv.1355534169,d.cGE" target="_blank"><b>GOPro</b></a> and <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&sqi=2&ved=0CGIQFjAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fjawbone.com%2F&ei=ZNHcUL7xM-TAiwLW3oHoCQ&usg=AFQjCNHMzMbI_IdWg2MgpUAKdCGLTWmqhA&sig2=0FPfwnxmZOnBE2Nu3jcg-Q&bvm=bv.1355534169,d.cGE" target="_blank"><b>JawBone</b></a>, which he said are "doing hundreds of millions" in business but still have limited competition. <br />
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Scott Raney, at WCA's event, also mentioned Nest in response to our question regarding the lack of any discussion of opportunities for the IoT. With companies such as <a href="http://www.cisco.com/web/about/ac79/docs/innov/IoT_IBSG_0411FINAL.pdf" target="_blank"><b>Cisco</b></a> predicting that "<i>there will be 25 billion devices connected to the Internet by 2015 and 50 billion by 2020</i>", this would appear to be a glaring oversight.<br />
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Relay Ventures' Kevin Talbot expressed concerns for interoperability issues in developing the IoT, saying that there are "<i>a lot of challenges</i>". However, in an earlier discussion on opportunities for greater use of sensors in mobile devices, Talbot had shared his vision of a "<i>world of connectivity</i>", linking the home, automobile, and wearable devices. He repeated those themes in his choice of hottest areas for 2013, choosing the connected car, connected home, and device that facilitate the "<a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/devices/how-i-quantified-myself" target="_blank"><b>quantified self</b></a>".<br />
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<b>Summary of 2013 Predictions from the VCs</b><br />
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<li>Sequoia's Timothy Lee predicted at least one "<i>multibillion</i> (dollar) <i>event</i>", which he said was likely to involve major movements, such as a merger or acquisition, involving Nokia or RIM.</li>
<li>Todd Carpenter predicted a progressively greater "<i>crackdown on privacy</i>", especially for children. </li>
<li>Topher Conway focused on (likely indisputable) increase in mobile commerce.</li>
<li>Rich Wong predicted that the distinction of what is a mobile company will fade, with a greater merger of the internet and mobile. </li>
<li>Ian Small predicted one million Firefox OS-equipped phones will be sold next year, which Telefonica is backing with their <a href="http://www.openwebdevice.com/" target="_blank"><b>Open Web Device</b></a> initiative. Small also predicted that a breakout IoT startup will emerge, but he doesn’t know what it is, and that Facebook will "<i>figure out mobile</i>".</li>
<li>Going politicial... David Blumberg predicted that we will are at the "<i>tipping point for taxation</i>" in California after the November 2012 ballot initiatives, and that more businesses will be moving out of the state.</li>
<li>Rob Coneybeer prognosticated that there will be a "huge breakthrough" in internet-powered hardware.</li>
<li>Scott Raney forecast that 50% of e-commerce will be conducted on mobile devices in 2013. </li>
<li>Qualcomm's Quinn Li said that his top 3 choices for 2013 are the enterprise, mobile health, and mobile video.</li>
<li>Omar Javaid of BBO Global, who otherwise had little to say at the WCA event, made the most out outrageous prediction of the End-of-Year events:</li>
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"<i>Intel will get acquired, maybe not in 2013.. by Apple</i>" - <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/ojavaid" target="_blank">Omar Javaid</a></b>, Managing
Director, BBO Global </blockquote>
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As is the case in many industries, groups representing
the wireless industry in Silicon Valley have a tradition of concluding the year
by taking a measure of the hottest current trends, and gathering predictions on
what lies ahead. In November, the Wireless Communications Alliance (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.wca.org/archives/2012" target="_blank">WCA</a></b>)
held their annual “What’s Hot (and What’s Not) in Mobility event, and on
December 10, the Mobile Monday Silicon Valley (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.mobilemonday.us/events/84731972/?eventId=84731972&action=detail" target="_blank">MOMOSV</a></b>)
group held the “Year in Review and 2013 Predictions” at Microsoft’s offices in
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Both meetings presented a range of opinions,
on a number of different mobile-related topics, from panels made up primarily of
Silicon Valley Venture Capitalists (VC). The WCA panel included a
representative of Qualcomm’s <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ventures
investment division, and the MOMOSV event, which was sponsored by Telefonica,
included a panelist from their recent acquisition of Tokbox.</div>
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In this article, we will cover the topics of software vs. hardware bias in the VC community, Mobile Payments and Mobile Advertising, and Device Platforms. Other topics discussed at the VC panels, such as enterprise mobility and 2013 predictions, will be covered in a subsequent article. </div>
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The WCA panel included:</div>
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Moderator: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.rajansingh.com/blog/" target="_blank">Raj Singh</a></b>, Founder
& CEO, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://signup.tempo.ai/" target="_blank">Tempo AI</a></b></div>
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<li><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/ojavaid" target="_blank">Omar Javaid</a></b>, Managing
Director, BBO Global</li>
<li><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.redpoint.com/team#scott_raney" target="_blank">Scott Raney</a></b>, Partner,
Redpoint Ventures</li>
<li><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.stormventures.com/team/investment-team/tae-hea-nahm/" target="_blank">Tae HeaNahm</a></b>, Founding General Partner, Storm Ventures</li>
<li><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://qualcommventures.com/team-member/quinn-li/" target="_blank">Quinn Li</a></b>,
Managing Director, Qualcomm Ventures</li>
<li><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://relayventures.com/people/kevin-talbot/" target="_blank">Kevin Talbot</a></b>,
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Relay Ventures</li>
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Mario Tapia, Director of MOMOSV moderated
a panel that included:</div>
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<li><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://blumbergcapital.com/people/index.php?id=&entryid=1" target="_blank">David Blumberg</a></b> - Managing Partner Blumberg Capital</li>
<li><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.wsgr.com/WSGR/DBIndex.aspx?SectionName=attorneys/BIOS/5641.htm" target="_blank">Todd Carpenter</a></b> - Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati</li>
<li><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.shastaventures.com/team/rob_coneybeer" target="_blank">Rob Coneybeer</a></b> -
Managing Director Shasta Ventures</li>
<li><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://svangel.com/team/" target="_blank">Topher Conway</a></b> - SV Angel</li>
<li><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.sequoiacap.com/us/timothy-lee/info" target="_blank">Timothy Lee</a></b> -
Partner Sequoia Capital</li>
<li><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://tokbox.com/management-team" target="_blank">Ian Small</a></b> - CEO <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://tokbox.com/" target="_blank">Tokbox<span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></a></b>(acquired by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://allthingsd.com/20121025/telefonica-digital-buys-video-chat-platform-tokbox/" target="_blank">Telefonica</a></b>)</li>
<li><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.accel.com/global/people/specialty/all/Rich_Wong" target="_blank">Rich Wong</a></b>
- Accel Partners</li>
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vs. Hardware</b></div>
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MOMOSV is primarily focused on the
application developer community, and hence stretches the definition of Silicon
Valley to accommodate the numerous software startups in San Francisco. WCA
typically addresses more hardware-related topics in their meetings throughout
the year, through their Special Interest Groups (SIGs) on Mobile,
Location-Based Services and Smart Grid. For the VC community, however, the
focus is very heavily on software and applications. At both the MOMOSV and WCA
events, hardware barely entered the conversations save for questions posed by attendees
in the concluding Q & A sessions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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The VC bias towards software is the
result of a relative advantage in capital efficiency, compared to hardware
startups, which promises a more attractive return for investors. The MOMOSV
event kicked off with a discussion of Facebook’s acquisition of Instagram for $1
billion, raising the question of whether price inflation (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">which some may call a bubble</i>) is currently taking place in the
sector. Fierce competition for app developers has resulted in a new form of
exit for software startups, the “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">acqui-hire</i>”.
Since the mobile startups primarily consist of teams of engineers, with no
sales or marketing, they make a prime target for larger companies such as Yahoo
and Google who may have little interest in the product, but a great desire to
add the talents which the teams possess. </div>
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Payments</b></div>
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This popular topic was covered at
both the WCA and MOMOSV events. Rich Wong and Scott Raney both pointed out that
the concept actually includes many categories, and is not just synonymous with a Near-Field
Communications (NFC) equipped mobile wallet replacement for credit cards. There
was general agreement among the VCs that the big banks and credit card companies
will not be the innovators in mobile payments, that will come from application
developers, but they will house the technology and their participation is
critical to form a complete ecosystem. Raney said that app developers would be
competing against big players for the mobile wallet, but there are better
opportunities to create ancillary applications that can add value to
transactions, such as with loyalty cards.</div>
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Wong pointed to his firm’s investment
in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://www.braintreepayments.com/">Braintree</a></b>, for their mobile
payment gateway technology, and also <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://stripe.com/">Stripe</a></b>, who are developing a system to
enable developers to accept credit card payments online. Sequoia is invested in
Stripe, and also in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://squareup.com/">Square</a></b>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Redpoint’s Raney stated that Square is not a
mobile payment system, since they are really a Point-of-Sale (POS) system for
accepting credit cards with a mobile device. Kevin Talbot of Relay Ventures
used Square as an example of a startup that identified a “whitespace”
opportunity with merchants, but cautioned that there aren’t that many to go
after. </div>
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Talbot also made the most provocative statement on the topic, at the WCA
event, when he declared that <br />
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“<i>NFC is DOA</i>”</blockquote>
In his opinion, NFC is a<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> technology looking for a problem, and other
technologies have passed it by. </span></div>
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David Blumberg is looking past
payments to financial services, highlighting his investment in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://credorax.com/">CredoRax</a></b>,
another developer of an online payment processing system. Blumberg also pointed
to opportunities in the 150 countries that lack credit bureaus, a whitespace
that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://www.lenddo.com/">Lenddo</a></b>
is going after with a system that uses a measure of trust from your Facebook friends
as a proxy for credit scores. </div>
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<b>Mobile Advertising</b><br />
Since advertising is so tightly linked to monetization, it is surprising that the topic of mobile advertising did not come up at all at the MOMOSV event. At WCA, Storm Ventures' Tae Hea Nahm said that “<i>everyone knows it will be huge</i>”, but that nobody has quite figured out how to monetize yet. Qualcomm's Li said that the challenge is targeting, which raises privacy concerns. <br />
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Scott Raney pointed to the issues of limited screen real estate on smartphones, saying that mobile ads are still at an early stage, with an insufficient number of advertisers to monetize. Raney is on the board of <a href="http://www.jumptap.com/" target="_blank"><b>JumpTap</b></a>, a platform for targeting mobile ads, but he sees the segment as equivalent to the state of online advertising in 2001. Raney finds the convergence of online and offline to be interesting, such as the rewards program developed by <a href="http://www.shopkick.com/" target="_blank"><b>Shopkick</b></a>, which enables users to earn rewards for visiting and purchasing from brick and mortar merchants. <br />
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Kevin Talbot also highlighted online-offline convergence with his firm's investment in <a href="http://www.kiip.me/" target="_blank"><b>KIIP</b></a>, a startup that is building real-world rewards into mobile game play.<br />
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<b>Device platforms and HTML5</b><br />
The panel at MOMOSV took on this topic, with almost all of the VCs agreeing that mobile has come down to a 2-horse race between Google's Android platform, and Apple's iOS. Rob Coneybeer from Shasta Ventures described the situation as a stable duopoly. "<i>Apple is happy with 20% market in places with money</i>", he said, while they continue to acquire 80% of mobile revenue. Coneybeer sees the platform war as stable for the next 4-5 years, forecasting that we will continue to see new experiences on iOS first, and Android second. While that may be true for the most widely adopted "experiences", there are a number of examples, such as NFC-related applications, in which Android has been first to market. <br />
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Blumberg said that Microsoft's Windows on mobile will definitely be 3rd, but that the world is moving too fast for them to catch up. Rich Wong agreed with Coneybeer, saying that, realistically, mobile is a duopoly, but he hopes that Microsoft can battle to keep it from being that way. Todd Carpenter was somewhat more optimistic for Microsoft, offering his opinion that we will have a 3rd mobile OS, and that Microsoft will become more important in this space. <br />
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Ian Small, now an employee of <a href="http://www.openwebdevice.com/" target="_blank"><b>Telefonica</b></a>, apparently has adopted that company's belief in supporting the HTML5-based Firefox OS. Small contends that the smaller emerging markets are different, and that a more "open" platform will win out.<br />
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HTML5 drew an otherwise bearish response from the VCs, when asked if they were investing in that technology. Rich Wong explained that he doesn’t believe in HTML5 at all for the long term, and that it is for a small segment of the market. He correctly pointed out that the trend toward Android is accelerating, and that <br />
it is swamping feature phones at the low end.<br />
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Coneybeer agreed, saying that there are better opportunities elsewhere. In his opinion, "<i>native stuff</i>" works well, and there are plenty of iOS developers. VCs focus on opportunities to build businesses with products that customers love, not on the language of implementation. EE Daily Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609630249488100984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-178947916580376471.post-20511024368280937192012-12-04T07:15:00.000-08:002012-12-04T08:55:25.209-08:00Broadcom dual-core HSPA+ processor extends Android Jelly Bean to low-end smartphones<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Broadcom has announced the addition of a dual-core HSPA+ processor to their "affordable" smartphone chip set family, along with the development of a portfolio of turnkey 3G designs which primarily target handset manufacturers in the Chinese market. The turnkey platforms offer a selection of configurations, including the new BCM21664T, as well as the single and dual-core ARM Cortex A9 processors which Broadcom <a href="http://www.eedailynews.com/2012/02/mobile-world-congress-broadcom-enables.html" target="_blank"><b>announced at the Mobile World Congress</b></a> (MWC) in February this year. Broadcom has been the supplier of HSPA baseband processors to Samsung, for that company's entry-level <a href="http://www.samsung.com/hk_en/consumer/mobile/mobile-phones/smartphone/GT-S5360MAATGY" target="_blank"><b>Galaxy-Y</b></a> smartphones for the youth market.<br />
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Mike Civiello, Senior Director of Marketing at Broadcom, says that he expects China Unicom to be an early adopter of BCM21664T-equipped phones, when the second-largest Chinese cellular operator cranks up its HSPA+ network in Q1 of 2013. There is currently a preponderance of 2G cell phone service in China, mostly provided by the world's largest wireless network operator - China Mobile. Civiello says that customers are drawn to dual-SIM handsets, which allow the backup of broader 2G voice coverage and roaming with China Mobile, while facilitating an upgrade to faster 3G data plans with China Unicom. Number portability between carriers has not been implemented in China, so consumers are able to keep their old phone number and contact list intact with the dual-SIM approach. <br />
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The BCM21664T employs a dual ARM Cortex A9 architecture, which Broadcom claims is a first for HSPA+ entry-level smartphones. The modem meets 3GPP Release-8, Category-14 specifications for 21.1 Mbps downstream connectivity and 5.8 Mbps upstream connectivity. Broadcom has also incorporated their <a href="http://www.broadcom.com/products/technology/mobmm_videocore.php" target="_blank"><b>VideoCore</b></a> multimedia processor into the entry-level device, to provide 720p HD recording with 1080p playback rated at over 20GFLOPS of graphics processing capacity. The BCM21664T modem and GPU specifications essentially match the top of the line BCM28155 which Broadcom announced at MWC. <br />
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A BCM21664T turnkey design kit will include Broadcom's RF, Power Management Unit (PMU), and wireless connectivity suite, which includes Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS and NFC. In November, Broadcom contributed their <a href="http://www.broadcom.com/press/release.php?id=s721237" target="_blank"><b>NFC software stack</b></a> to the Android Open Source Community, so that it will be incorporated with Google's standard release for Android 4.2 Jelly Bean and beyond. The platform also optionally supports the WiFi Alliance's <a href="http://www.wi-fi.org/media/press-releases/easy-use-multi-vendor-wireless-display-has-arrived-wi-fi-alliance%C2%AE-launches-wi" target="_blank"><b>Miracast</b></a> standard, which enables wireless HD playback between compatible devices. Broadcom is currently providing samples of the BCM21664T to lead customers, and is planning full production in the second quarter of 2013.<br />
Along with the BCM21664T, Broadcom has also developed turnkey 3G designs based on the 1GHz, 40 nm single-core ARM Cortex A9 BCM21654G HSPA processor, and the 1.2GHz "<i>Double-Dual</i>" HSPA+ BCM28145 and 155. The BCM21654G is a 7.2/5.8 Mbps HSPA modem, with low-power VGA video support and a 7GFLOP GPU, supporting 720p Video. The BCM28145 and BCM28155 have dual ARM A9 cores, and support HSPA+ along with 1080p video. Broadcom pre-certifies their turnkey reference designs with multiple carriers, which they say enables handset manufacturers to develop new phones in three months or less.<br />
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Civiello describes the "<i>Double-Dual</i>" BCM28145/155 as quad-core designs, since they incorporate dual video processors along with the dual ARM cores. Broadcom is currently sampling all three turnkey platforms to their early access partners, and is targeting full production later this month.<br />
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Broadcom has also been Samsung's chip supplier for entry-level phones running the company's proprietary <a href="http://www.bada.com/" target="_blank"><b>Bada</b></a> operating system. While rumors persist that Samsung may hedge their Android bets by developing their own alternative to Google's OS, Civiello says the volumes they see for Bada are much lower, and Samsung is clearly pushing Android further into the low end. The turnkey solutions further the momentum that Android has in the rapidly growing low-priced segment, where Broadcom's includes ZTE and Huawei as customers. <br />
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EE Daily Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609630249488100984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-178947916580376471.post-68265855663868945202012-11-13T07:30:00.000-08:002012-11-13T07:44:56.222-08:00TI combines ARM cores with DSP to accelerate applications in the cloud<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Texas Instruments' new Keystone processors provide a combination of ARM Cortex-A15 cores and C66x DSP cores, along with a Secure Acceleration Pac for cryptography, a Packet Accelerator and a 1G/10G Ethernet switch, for accelerating cloud applications.</td></tr>
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At this year's Mobile World Congress in February, Texas Instruments announced the semiconductor industry's first quad implementation of 28nm ARM <a href="http://www.arm.com/products/processors/cortex-a/cortex-a15.php" target="_blank"><b>Cortex-A15</b></a> cores in a small cell wireless base station on a chip, the <span class="st"><a href="http://www.eedailynews.com/2012/02/ti-introduces-1st-quad-arm-a15-core.html" target="_blank"><b>TCI6636 SoC.</b></a> For wireless applications, the </span><span class="st">Keystone II architecture combines </span>TI's C66x DSP cores with ARM's most powerful application processor in their 32b v7 instruction set architecture (ISA) family, along with hardware accelerators for 3G/4G baseband applications. Today, at Electronica in Munich, TI will announce that they have leveraged their ARM-DSP hybrid architecture for a new family of processors, targeting cloud-based (or client-server) applications and purpose-built servers.<br />
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Tom Flanagan, Director of Technical Strategy for Multicore Processors at TI, says that his company's goal is not to replace the x86 processors which dominate the server world, but to supplement those servers for compute-intensive applications that can benefit from TI's floating point DSPs. Some of the targeted applications are weather modeling, high-performance financial analysis, and embedded vision. The new SoCs integrate control and application processing with Ethernet switching and packet processing functions, which can provide a lower cost, lower power solution for industrial and enterprise servers. The WCDMA and LTE processing accelerators of TI's base station SoCs are removed for these markets. <br />
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TI is also targeting network processors, such as the typically MIPS and Power-PC based devices from companies such as <a href="http://www.eedailynews.com/2011/06/cavium-mips64-based-multicore.html" target="_blank"><b>Cavium</b></a>. Echoing some of ARM's recent comments regarding their push into the server market, Flanagan says that customers are looking for less proprietary solutions in their next generation systems, which can leverage the breadth of the ARM ecosystem. The new SoCs will provide a variety of ARM-DSP configurations, with the top of the line 66AK2H12 and 66AK2H06 having quad (or dual) Cortex A15s with eight (or four) C66x DSP cores, for high-performance cloud computing. Enterprise and industrial processors get one DSP core, along with a single (66AK2E02) or quad Cortex A15 (66AK2E05). For power networking applications, TI removes the DSP while still adding their security and packet accelerators and Ethernet switching to two (AM5K2E02) or four (AM5K2E04) ARM A15 cores.<br />
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As in the TCI6636 base station on a chip, all devices in TI's new family of Keystone processors integrate 4MB of shared memory for the ARM cores, with 1MB of dedicated L2 cache per C66x DSP core. TI's multicore shared memory controller provides an additional 6MB of memory in the high-performance computing devices, and 2MB in the enterprise/industrial and networking processors. <br />
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Texas Instruments was one of the founding members of the <a href="http://www.eedailynews.com/2011/06/texas-instruments-among-founding.html" target="_blank"><b>Embedded Vision Alliance</b></a> (EVA), and Flanagan emphasized video and image processing as prime applications for the new devices in client-server networks. He sees a resurgence in demand for virtual desktop applications, with the popularity of thin clients such as tablets, which can benefit from performing advanced video processing on a remote server. Video conferencing and machine vision for industrial automation are target applications for the mid-performance tier of processors, with more compute-intensive functions executed in the floating point DSP core. Networking applications don't need the DSP, and control plane functions can be executed directly by the dual or quad ARM cores. Flanagan says that applications for the lowest performance tier SoCs are in Small to Medium Business (SMB) routers and switches, and private cloud infrastructure, such as industrial sensor networks.<br />
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TI doesn't utilize an ARM architecture license to customize the processor in their Keystone SoCs. The modifications which they make are around the processors in their proprietary interconnect, which is a 256 bit fabric that doubles the data bandwidth of ARM's standard AMBA bus. TI also has developed their own low latency memory controller. The Ethernet switch in the new processors can can support 1G or 10G networking. For multicore software development, TI supports C/C++ programming and the Open MP and Open CL standards for heterogeneous processors. <br />
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The first devices in the family to be available will be the 66AK2H12/66AK2H06, with sample quantities in December. TI is planning to offer evaluation modules (EVMs) for approximately $900 in the second quarter of 2013. Flanagan says that customers can begin developing their applications on the most powerful processors, and migrate to the AM5K2Ex and 66AK2Ex when samples and EVMs become available later, in the second half of 2013.<br />
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<b>Analysis</b><br />
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While offering the new hybrid ARM-DSP devices in several different configurations, weighed more heavily on the DSP side for compute-intensive applications, or solely on the the ARM side for lower power applications, TI will be competing with companies such as Analog Devices that have announced more specialized devices for some of the same applications. In their <span class="body" itemprop="articleBody"><span class="body"><a href="http://www.analog.com/en/processors-dsp/blackfin/adsp-bf608/products/product.html" target="_blank"><b>ADSP-BF608</b></a> and ADSP-BF609 Blackfin DSPs, ADI is offering a device with specialized hardware accelerators for video analytics. In the financial market, <a href="http://tech.opensystemsmedia.com/fpga/2012/08/fpgas-speed-trading-on-wall-street/" target="_blank"><b>High-frequency trading</b></a> is such a lucrative business, where brokers pay to shave milliseconds off their trading time, that several companies have developed specialized FPGA-based High Performance Computers specifically for the purpose.</span></span><br />
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<span class="body" itemprop="articleBody"><span class="body">For gaming in the cloud, requiring accelerated graphics processing, </span></span>NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang announced his <a href="http://nvidianews.nvidia.com/Releases/Cloud-Gaming-Moves-at-the-Blink-of-an-Eye-With-NVIDIA-GeForce-GRID-7e1.aspx" target="_blank"><b>GeForce GRID</b></a><b> </b>initiative at the company's GPU Tech Conference (<a href="http://www.gputechconf.com/page/home.html" target="_blank"><b>GTC</b></a>) on May 15th. Huang proposes to virtualize GPUs the way that CPUs are virtualized today. At GTC, he also demonstrated virtual desktop applications, with a virtualized GPU enhancing <a href="http://www.citrix.com/English/ps2/products/product.asp?contentID=163057&ntref=mainxdvanityurl" target="_blank"><b>Citrix XenDesktop</b></a>. TI's Flanagan acknowledged that cloud gaming would still require a dedicated hardware GPU for graphics rendering. In his GTC keynote, Huang cautioned that GeForce GRID would fit for a "<i>certain class of games</i>", and not for enthusiasts. He was accompanied onstage for a demonstration with GAIKAI CEO David Perry. In August, GAIKAI was acquired by Sony. This was the same month that competitor <a href="http://siliconangle.com/blog/2012/08/20/what-happened-to-onlive-cloud-gaming-outfit-closes-up-shop-and-evaporates/" target="_blank"><b>OnLive shut its doors</b></a>. Given the challenges of bandwidth, latency, and capped data plans from broadband providers, it remains to be seen if Jen-Hsung Huang's vision to "<i>do for games what cable-TV did for videos</i>" can come to reality.<br />
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At a press conference in San Francisco today, AMD announced that it will add ARM's 64-bit A-15 core architecture to their Opteron processors for data center servers and cloud computing, while continuing to design x86-based CPUs. The move fills in some of the missing pieces in AMD's "<i>ambidextrous</i>" strategy, which the company announced at its annual Financial Analyst Day in February. In the earlier <a href="http://ir.amd.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=74093&p=irol-newsArticle&id=1656083" target="_blank"><b>announcement</b></a>, AMD said that their strategy was to bring "<i>Agile Delivery of Industry-Leading IP to the Market</i>", by adopting an SoC-centric roadmap. <br />
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By aligning with ARM, AMD said they will be a "<i>disruptive force</i>" in the server market that is currently dominated by Intel. The company is targeting 2014 for first production availability of Opteron processors based on the ARM core architecture. During their press conference, AMD repeatedly pointed to the <a href="http://www.seamicro.com/node/223" target="_blank"><b>SeaMicro Freedom</b></a> fabric technology as their key differentiator. <a href="http://sites.amd.com/us/promo/stave/Pages/seamicro.aspx" target="_blank"><b>AMD acquired SeaMicro</b></a> on February 29, citing the opportunity to take advantage of "<i>an inflection point in the industry driving opportunities in low power, client mobility, emerging markets and the cloud/megadata centers.</i>"<br />
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In her presentation during the ARM announcement, AMD's Senior Vice President and General Manager Dr. Lisa Su (<a href="http://www.eedailynews.com/2011/06/48dac-reports-freescale-on-megatrends_15.html" target="_blank"><b><i>formerly of Freescale</i></b></a>), pointed out that ARM CPUs have many advantages but
also some tradeoffs, saying that "<i>ARM CPUs cannot fill network links as well
as large CPUs do</i>". AMD claims that the SeaMicro fabric solves this problem, by allowing clusters of CPUs to be connected together while providing a more efficient network interface. <a href="http://www.seamicro.com/node/223" target="_blank"><b>SeaMicro</b></a> has previously implemented their fabric as a standalone ASIC, with multiple Freedom ASICs combined to provide a 1.28 terabits per-second interface linking low-power motherboards. AMD will embed the fabric in their SoCs with both x86 and ARM cores. The Freedom fabric is core Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) agnostic, and supports Ethernet as well as storage traffic.<br />
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interconnect for up to 16 ARM Cortex A15 processor cores. </td></tr>
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ARM has also been working with partners LSI and Calxeda, to develop a cache coherent, terabit bandwidth, "<i>System IP</i>" interconnect fabric for multicore 64-bit <b><a href="http://arm.com/products/processors/cortex-a/cortex-a15.php" target="_blank">Cortex-A15</a></b> architectures, the <a href="http://arm.com/about/newsroom/arm-announces-new-high-performance-system-ip-to-address-demand-for-energy-efficient-many-core.php" target="_blank"><b>CoreLink CCN-504</b></a> network technology. Simon Segars, EVP and General Manager for the Processor and Physical IP Divisions at ARM, explained that the <a href="http://arm.com/products/system-ip/interconnect/corelink-ccn-504-cache-coherent-network.php" target="_blank"><b>CoreLink</b></a> fabric and the SeaMicro fabric are designed for very different purposes. CoreLink provides cache memory coherency for heterogeneous processor cores, while SeaMicro Freedom is focused on multicore system interfaces to Ethernet and storage networks. The two "<i>fabrics</i>" will work together in multicore server architectures.
AMD and ARM, along with Imagination Technologies, MediaTek, and Texas Instruments, are founding members of the Heterogeneous System Architecture) Foundation (<a href="http://hsafoundation.com/" target="_blank"><b>HSA</b></a>), established in June of this year, to develop open standard hardware specifications for heterogeneous multicore processors. <br />
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Apple announced their much-anticipated <a href="http://www.apple.com/ipad-mini/overview/" target="_blank"><b>iPad mini</b></a> this morning, during a "<a href="http://www.apple.com/apple-events/october-2012/" target="_blank"><b>Special Event</b></a>" at the historic <a href="http://www.sanjose.org/plan-a-meeting-event/venues/california-theatre" target="_blank"><b>California Theater</b></a> in San Jose, CA. CEO Tim Cook gushed about how "<i>cool</i>" the new 7.9" iPad mini is. Though Apple boasted of commanding a 91% share of the tablet space, with 100 million iPads shipped, the company covets the remaining 9% of the market taken mostly by the smaller Amazon Kindle, Samsung Galaxy, and Google Nexus devices.<br>
<a href="http://www.eedailynews.com/2012/10/apple-ipad-mini-versus-google-nexus-7.html#more">Read more »</a>EE Daily Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609630249488100984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-178947916580376471.post-10547016352307874592012-10-02T17:02:00.002-07:002012-10-02T17:34:24.207-07:00Patent Wars heat up EDA industry: Synopsys Inc. v. Mentor Graphics<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Broadcom has introduced a new line of multicore communications processors, developed through their <span class="xn-money">$3.7 billion </span><a href="http://www.broadcom.com/press/release.php?id=s649597" target="_blank"><b>acquisition of Netlogic Microsystems</b></a>, which was completed in February this year. The company is seeking to leverage that investment to increase their penetration in what is, by their estimate, a $3 billion market that includes applications such as enterprise, service provider 4G/LTE, data center cloud computing, and software defined networking (SDN). Broadcom claims that the XLP 200-Series represents the first family of communications processors to be manufactured in a 28nm CMOS technology.
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Chris O'Reilly, Senior Director of Product Marketing for the Processor and Wireless Infrastructure Group at Broadcom, says that the integration of Netlogic into Broadcom filled gaps in the company's portfolio, particularly for embedded and knowledge-based processors, and <a href="http://www.eedailynews.com/2011/06/will-4g-wireless-networks-move.html" target="_blank"><b>remote radio head</b></a> communications. The new XLP 200 products will succeed the Netlogic/Broadcom XLP series of 40nm processors, which included the 32-nxCPU (<i>Netlogic's multi-threaded architecture, 4 threads per core</i>) <a href="http://www.broadcom.com/products/Processors/Enterprise/XLP800-Series" target="_blank"><b>XLP-832</b></a> and 64-nxCPU <a href="http://xlp864/" target="_blank"><b>XLP-864</b></a> that Netlogic announced last year. At the Linley Tech Processor exactly one year ago, Dilip Ramachandran -
Sr. Director of Multi-Core Processor Solutions at Netlogic, gave a preview of their 28nm roadmap, and introduced an 8-core/32-nxCPU <a href="http://www.linleygroup.com/events/proceedings.php?num=10" target="_blank"><b>28nm XLP332E</b></a><b> </b>for wireless base stations.</div>
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O'Reilly says that Broadcom will first introduce a single-core (4 nxCPU) and dual-core (8 nxCPU) version of the XLP 200, but the architecture is scalable up to 640 nxCPUs. The combination of advanced process and architecture give the XLP 200 the ability to achieve either up to a 400% performance increase, or a 60% power savings, compared to benchmarks of some competitor's 65nm devices, according to O'Reilly. By integrating a Grammar Processing Engine and Regular Expression (RegEx) engine with a Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) engine, he says that the XLP 200 improves both accuracy and efficiency of packet processing. The Grammar Processing Engine parses the various protocols, fields and data positions, to process packets in real time. Parsed content is then assigned to the RegEx engine, which forms the search database. O'Reilly says that by implementing regular expression representation of critical packet signatures, the XLP 200 can enable customers to shrink their database in a smaller amount of memory, which can be integrated on-chip. </div>
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Broadcom applies their own architectural enhancements to 64-bit MIPS cores, to implement the quad-issue, quad-threading, superscalar out-of-order execution
processors, which can operate at up to a 2.0 GHz clock rate. Customers can make tradeoffs between power and performance with the XLP 200, depending on their application. Some customers have software which was written assuming a single-core CPU, and to maximize performance they can run their code on the XLP 200 at the maximum clock rate, says O'Reilly, rather than re-write their code. For security, the XLP 200 family also integrates a number of hardware accelerators for encryption/decryption and authentication, which "<i>satisfy 99.5% of the encryption requirements that customers have</i>".
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Broadcom is sampling the XLP 200 series now, and is targeting production volume for 2H 2013. The company says that multiple device options and configurations are available.</div>
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EE Daily Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609630249488100984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-178947916580376471.post-9567875198061069192012-09-05T20:10:00.011-07:002012-09-06T08:03:41.770-07:00Qualcomm - on The Future of Computing & Connected Experiences<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Qualcomm CEO Dr. Paul E. Jacobs speaks on The Future of Computing<br>
at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The ongoing revolution in computing paradigms, to a world which will be dominated by mobile devices, was clearly evident in a succession of Silicon Valley technical conferences last week. At the annual <b><a href="http://www.hotchips.org/" target="_blank">HotChips Conference</a></b> on high-performance processors, in Cupertino August 27 - 29, the traditional world of computing was well represented by Intel, AMD, and IBM. Each company offered insights into their latest multicore CPU architectures for applications from PCs to the cloud, and data center chips to "<i>big iron</i>".<br>
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</div><a href="http://www.eedailynews.com/2012/09/qualcomm-on-future-of-computing.html#more">Read more »</a>EE Daily Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609630249488100984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-178947916580376471.post-48193563752457049702012-08-25T09:54:00.003-07:002012-08-25T10:02:37.193-07:00Netgear offers refunds to owners of faulty CMD31T DOCSIS 3.0 modems<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kTycqMa44oM/UDjxa7RR46I/AAAAAAAADqA/5T3ffK9lpkY/s1600/CMD31T.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="181" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kTycqMa44oM/UDjxa7RR46I/AAAAAAAADqA/5T3ffK9lpkY/s320/CMD31T.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Owners of the Netgear CMD31T DOCSIS 3.0 cable modem have been reporting problems since March of this year, when a Comcast XFINITY network <a href="http://www.eedailynews.com/2012/03/comcast-rolls-back-ipv6-after-telling.html" target="_blank"><b>upgrade to IPv6</b></a> revealed a deficiency in the device's firmware. As a result, Comcast temporarily rolled back the IPv6 upgrade in Silicon Valley, and removed the CMD31T from their list of supported devices. Comcast's customers were stuck, unless they were still covered by their retailer's refund policy.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Netgear sells the CMD31T with just 90 days of "<a href="http://www.netgear.com/images/CMD31T_DS_30May1218-4838.pdf" target="_blank"><b>Basic technical support</b></a>".Owners could return a defective unit to Netgear for a replacement under their one-year <a href="http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5260/kw/warranty%20on%20DGN2000/r_id/166%0A" target="_blank"><b>hardware warranty</b></a>, but that was no solution. As Comcast stated on their device information website at the time:</div><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><div style="color: #073763;"><i>The retail NetGear CMD31T device has a known IPv6-related <b>software defect</b>. This <b>prevents the device from being provisioned</b> on the Comcast network.</i></div></blockquote><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On March 29, Courtney Furia, Account Supervisor at Netgear's PR firm of <a href="http://webershandwick.com/" target="_blank"><b>Weber Shandwick</b></a> said:</div><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><div style="color: #073763;"><i>I wanted to let you know that we do not have an update on compensation at this time. We will be sure to provide you with any additional details as soon as they are available. </i></div></blockquote><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">That was the last response from Netgear, until earlier in August when CMD31T users on both XFINITY and Charter cable systems on the East Coast again reported problems. Netgear continues to claim <a href="http://www.netgear.com/home/products/wired-routers-and-modems/wired-modems/CMD31T.aspx#" target="_blank"><b>compatibility</b></a>, but in May Charter blacklisted the CMD31T. </div><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Compatible — Compatible with major cable Internet service providers like Comcast<sup>®</sup>,Charter, Cablevision, and others (Time Warner Cable not supported)<sup>1</sup> (<i>source: Netgear CMD31T <a href="http://www.netgear.com/home/products/wired-routers-and-modems/wired-modems/CMD31T.aspx#" target="_blank">website</a></i>)</blockquote><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">CMD31T - BLACKLISTED IN 05/24/2012 PER THE BLACKLIST DOCUMENT</span><br />
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(source: Charter communications customer service supervisor) </span></i></div></blockquote><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">At the request of the EE Daily News, Charter then investigated the reasons for the blacklisting, only to conclude that it was inadvertent - "<i><a href="http://www.eedailynews.com/2012/08/charter-says-blacklisting-netgear.html" target="_blank"><b>due to an internal communications error</b></a>".</i> In a bizarre twist, Netgear customer support then referenced the report we published as justification for denying a refund, in their rsponse to a customer who was still experiencing problems:</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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</style> <![endif]--><span style="font-size: x-small;">My name Maria; I am a Customer Care Advocate for Corporate NETGEAR Inc. ...</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span> <span style="font-size: x-small;">I have reached out to my product engineers who work with this device and they have confirmed with Charter that this device is not on the Charter Blacklist. Charter has provided the below information as well from an article about this exact issue:<br />
<br />
"Charter investigated the issue, and they now say that the blacklisting was "inadvertent". Charter also added that the customer made a "good decision" by upgrading to a DOCSIS 3.0 device.<br />
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</style> <![endif]--> </div><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Let me reiterate the solutions we have provided. For anyone experiencing issues with the CMD31T, the 5-steps we’ve outlined below will enable them to check the version of the firmware their device is running. As we’ve said, if customers are still experiencing difficulty, they are encouraged to contact NETGEAR support and we would be happy to replace the device at no cost. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This should fully resolve your questions and concerns. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1.<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Connect your laptop directly to the NETGEAR CMD31T Cable Modem using Ethernet LAN Cable</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2.<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Open a browser and browse to <span style="color: #1f497d;"><a href="http://192.168.100.1/">http://192.168.100.1</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3.<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>When prompted for username and password use the following information:</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">a.<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Username: admin</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">b.<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Password: password</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">4.<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Click on the link “Modem Status” in the left side menu</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">5.<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>This page will display the software version. If the software version is V404d, customer should contact NETGEAR support for a replacement </span></div></blockquote><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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</span></div></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The contact number for requesting a refund is 1-888-NETGEAR or 1-888-638-4327.</span></span><br />
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</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><div style="color: red;"><b>Related articles:</b></div><ul><li><a href="http://www.eedailynews.com/2012/08/charter-says-blacklisting-netgear.html" target="_blank">Charter says blacklisting Netgear CMD31T modem was 'inadvertent'</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://www.eedailynews.com/2012/08/charter-communications-blacklists.html" target="_blank">Charter Communications blacklists Netgear DOCSIS modems, as Comcast XFINITY users continue to experience problems. </a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.eedailynews.com/2012/03/comcast-abruptly-cuts-off-users-of.html" target="_blank">Comcast abruptly cuts off users of Netgear DOCSIS 3.0 modems</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://www.eedailynews.com/2012/03/comcast-rolls-back-ipv6-after-telling.html" target="_blank">Comcast rolls back IPv6, after telling Netgear users they must buy new modems</a>.</li>
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</div>EE Daily Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609630249488100984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-178947916580376471.post-15923156045110438862012-08-20T17:01:00.008-07:002012-08-20T19:54:53.710-07:00Predictions for the System on Chip Industry from EDA veteran Jim Hogan<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On August 15, the Silicon Valley Alumni <a href="http://www.meetup.com/nitalumni/events/46609612/" target="_blank"><b>Meetup Group</b></a> for India's National Institutes of Technology (NIT) hosted presentations by Dr. Ajoy Bose, President and CEO of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) vendor <a href="http://www.eedailynews.com/2012/06/atrenta-grabs-assertion-synthesis.html" target="_blank"><b>Atrenta</b></a>, and well-known EDA industry executive and investor - <a href="http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=3568418&ticker=CDNS&previousCapId=41360270&previousTitle=Sealedge%20Investments%20LLC" target="_blank"><b>Jim Hogan</b></a>. Dr. Bose provided a review of the concepts underlying System on Chip (SoC) Realization, for those non-EDA attendees who may have been unfamiliar with the ideas first proposed by Cadence Design Systems, in their <a href="http://www.eedailynews.com/2011/07/cadence-parts-company-with-eda360.html" target="_blank"><b>EDA360</b></a> whitepaper.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><a href="http://www.eedailynews.com/2012/08/predictions-for-system-on-chip-industry.html#more">Read more »</a>EE Daily Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609630249488100984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-178947916580376471.post-50817248148230160622012-08-17T14:49:00.000-07:002012-08-17T14:49:25.618-07:00Charter says blacklisting Netgear CMD31T modem was 'inadvertent'<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KSM64Jc7PIk/UC61lxrCk0I/AAAAAAAADkw/rxAdpfti7b4/s1600/ScreenHunter_01+Aug.+14+17.25.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KSM64Jc7PIk/UC61lxrCk0I/AAAAAAAADkw/rxAdpfti7b4/s1600/ScreenHunter_01+Aug.+14+17.25.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Earlier this week, a Charter Communications internet service subscriber in Atlanta reported to the company that he was having problems connecting with his Netgear CMD31T DOCSIS 3.0 modem. On Monday, August 13, a Charter customer support supervisor responded to the customer by reporting that the CMD31T had been "<a href="http://www.eedailynews.com/2012/08/charter-communications-blacklists.html" target="_blank"><b><i>blacklisted</i></b></a>"</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">CMD31T - BLACKLISTED IN 05/24/2012 PER THE BLACKLIST DOCUMENT</span></div></blockquote><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In recent months, Netgear had also been dropped from the approved modem list by Comcast XFINITY, due to a problem with <a href="http://www.eedailynews.com/2012/03/comcast-rolls-back-ipv6-after-telling.html" target="_blank"><b>IPv6 incompatibility</b></a>. Comcast now says that they have re-tested the CMD31T post Netgear firmware update, and restored it to their approved device list. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">At our request, Charter investigated the issue, and they now say that the blacklisting was "<i>inadvertent</i>". Charter also added that the customer made a "<i>good decision</i>" by upgrading to a DOCSIS 3.0 device. </div><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>As you might expect, we do maintain an internal list of non-supported or non-compliant modems, which have been phased out due to older versions of firmware that are unable to receive updates. <span style="background-color: yellow;">The Netgear CMD31T was inadvertently added to that list</span>, due to an internal communications error. Our Engineering team has removed that device from the list, and our Customer Care team has changed its classification and will also communicate this change to our front line Advisors. Although we don’t specifically endorse any modem make or model, this customer’s choice to upgrade to a DOCSIS 3.0 modem was a good decision.</i><br />
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</i> <i>We do, however, continue to support modems that are no longer receiving updates to the best of our ability. If a modem is classified as unsupported or non-compliant, it will continue to function on our network, although troubleshooting the modem when issues arise may be limited.</i><br />
<b> -source: Charter spokesperson</b></blockquote><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In the mean time, users of the CMD31T continue to report issues, and a XFINITY customer in Maryland had to return his modem when Comcast was unable to establish a connection after one and a half hours of trying. Netgear's PR firm has promised a report on these issues by early next week. </span><br />
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<div style="color: red;"><b>Related articles:</b></div><ul><li><a href="http://www.eedailynews.com/2012/08/charter-communications-blacklists.html" target="_blank">Charter Communications blacklists Netgear DOCSIS modems, as Comcast XFINITY users continue to experience problems. </a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.eedailynews.com/2012/03/comcast-abruptly-cuts-off-users-of.html" target="_blank">Comcast abruptly cuts off users of Netgear DOCSIS 3.0 modems</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://www.eedailynews.com/2012/03/comcast-rolls-back-ipv6-after-telling.html" target="_blank">Comcast rolls back IPv6, after telling Netgear users they must buy new modems</a>.</li>
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</tbody></table>Add Charter Communications customers to the list of broadband subscribers who have been cut off the 'net, when their Internet Service Provider (ISP) ceased to support the Netgear CMD31T DOCSIS (Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification) 3.0 modem. This follows the problems that <a href="http://www.eedailynews.com/2012/03/comcast-abruptly-cuts-off-users-of.html" target="_blank"><b>Comcast Xfinity</b></a> subscribers experienced back in March, when that provider of cable broadband services was forced to roll back an <a href="http://www.eedailynews.com/2012/03/comcast-rolls-back-ipv6-after-telling.html" target="_blank"><b>IPv6 upgrade</b></a>, after finding that it rendered the Netgear CMD31T useless.<br>
<a href="http://www.eedailynews.com/2012/08/charter-communications-blacklists.html#more">Read more »</a>EE Daily Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609630249488100984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-178947916580376471.post-90254360329013278272012-08-03T20:53:00.004-07:002012-08-04T08:27:45.079-07:00Synopsys moves to fill their analog design tool gap with Springsoft acquisition<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n2jNBI9HGO8/UBxQUU-wi3I/AAAAAAAADRE/RmvVxiIifrQ/s1600/Logos.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="126" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n2jNBI9HGO8/UBxQUU-wi3I/AAAAAAAADRE/RmvVxiIifrQ/s200/Logos.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On Friday, August 3, Synopsys Inc. ended the week as they had started it, with an acquisition targeted at shoring up the EDA vendor's greatest weakness, a lack of commercially successful analog design tools. On Monday, the company announced they were buying <b><a href="http://synopsys.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=43&item=1050" target="_blank">Ciranova</a></b>, developer of <b><a href="http://www.ciranova.com/products/pycell_studio.php" target="_blank">PyCell Studio</a></b>, which Synopsys relies on for generation of OpenAccess-based layout cell libraries to support their <a href="http://www.synopsys.com/Tools/Implementation/CustomImplementation/Pages/default.aspx" target="_blank"><b>Galaxy Custom Designer</b></a> product. Ciranova also provides the <a href="http://www.ciranova.com/products/ciranova_helix.php" target="_blank"><b>Helix</b></a> tool for performing analog layout placement.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ciranova is one of a number of ~10-year old EDA startups seeking a long-awaited exit, having received a total of more than $27M in VC funding since their founding in 2002. In 2010, Synopsys joined Mentor, Intel and long-time Ciranova investor Alloy Partners with the last injection of capital into the late-stage startup. Synopsys has invested heavily in their attempts to develop a competitive product for Cadence's market-dominant Virtuoso suite, including hiring much of the original Cadence R&D team. Nevertheless, Custom Designer has been mostly relegated to internal use by Synopsys' mixed-signal IP developers. The tool has failed to gain any significant market traction. The Synopsys strategy of building a Virtuoso clone has been a failure. There is little to incentive users to switch, when they have many years invested in customizing their analog design flow with Cadence's still proprietary SKILL language. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Following the Ciranova deal, today Synopsys essentially abandoned their in-house effort to develop a competitor for Virtuoso, by announcing the <a href="http://synopsys.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=43&item=1052" target="_blank"><b>acquisition of Taiwan-based Springsoft</b></a> for US$406M. Synopsys is estimating that the net purchase price will be US$305M, net of cash acquired. The parties expect the <a href="http://www.springsoft.com/news-events/news/financial-news/springsoft-agrees-to-be-acquired-by-synopsys" target="_blank"><b>NT$57.00 per share deal</b></a> to close, pending shareholder approval, by the end of January 2013. Springsoft's last closing price on the Taiwanese stock exchange, before the deal was announced, was NT$45.65.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The coveted pieces in the Springsoft acquisition for Synopsys are the <a href="http://www.springsoft.com/products/laker-custom-ic-design-solutions" target="_blank"><b>Laker</b></a> tools for custom IC design. Laker was originally created by <a href="http://www.springsoft.com/ch/news-events/news/company-news/silicon-canvas-partners-with-umc-to-distribute-laker-technology-files" target="_blank"><b>SiliconCanvas</b></a> (<a href="http://www.springsoft.com/print&p_docid=473" target="_blank"><b>acquired by Springsoft</b></a> in 2008), and quickly became one of the few viable competitor's to Cadence market dominance in the space, at around the same time as Ciranova began operation.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Springsoft's revenue was flat for several years, but began growing steadily after the 2008 Laker acquisition, when the company also added Novas design debugging tools, along with a few other small EDA vendors. Ironically, the company can trace it origins to the founder's work in creating what eventually became Cadence Taiwan. Springsoft recorded 2011 annual revenue of just greater than US$77M.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">After sitting on its cash for some time, Synopysys' latest spending spree brings their total to nearly US$1B of acquisitions in the last nine months. In February, Synopsys completed their US$507M <a href="http://www.eedailynews.com/2011/12/lava-flows-to-synopsys-in-507m-fire.html" target="_blank"><b>acquisition of Magma</b></a>. A comparison of other recent ~US$300M priced EDA acquisitions over the last few years, such as Cadence-Denali, <a href="http://www.eedailynews.com/2010/06/another-spin-on-eda-360-wheel-synopsys.html" target="_blank"><b>Synopsys-Virage</b></a>, and <a href="http://www.eedailynews.com/2011/07/show-me-money-valuation-of-apache.html" target="_blank"><b>ANSYS-Apache</b></a>, makes it appear that Synopsys got a steal with Springsoft. Some of the steep rise of the Springsoft revenue curve above is due to the rising value of the New Taiwan dollar to the U.S. dollar. Springsoft's growth, normalized to their national currency, has been ~4% per annum. It would appear that Springsoft's owners are also looking for a 10-year exit, about the limit for VCs everywhere.<br />
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<li><a href="http://www.eedailynews.com/2012/01/magma-details-shotgun-marriage-to.html" target="_blank">Magma details a shotgun marriage to Synopsys, after a 10-month courtship and wooing of Cadence</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.eedailynews.com/2010/06/another-spin-on-eda-360-wheel-synopsys.html" target="_blank">Another spin on the EDA 360 wheel: Synopsys acquires Virage Logic</a></li>
</ul>EE Daily Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609630249488100984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-178947916580376471.post-58615772561964751312012-07-24T15:14:00.002-07:002012-07-24T15:16:07.560-07:00What does Samsung get with purchase of CSR handset connectivity group?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhtDRthf0OHWs2mza35mYFSFvUvS_MuU5caCdlneQdZ0ZV5HYPx5YY0g5dg9YDtju2LUJ5BI3IbcwSPVunqs1oPRusODAA9x_rhAUkrV4i85lN_8MTbhqoArxMj6ZQpppAjVoiV912uBQ/s1600/csr-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhtDRthf0OHWs2mza35mYFSFvUvS_MuU5caCdlneQdZ0ZV5HYPx5YY0g5dg9YDtju2LUJ5BI3IbcwSPVunqs1oPRusODAA9x_rhAUkrV4i85lN_8MTbhqoArxMj6ZQpppAjVoiV912uBQ/s320/csr-1.jpg" width="320"></a></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On July 17, <a href="http://www.csr.com/assets/financial_reports/Transforming_CSRs_Growth_Potential_and_Profitability-FINAL-17.07_.12_.pdf" target="_blank"><b>CSR plc</b></a> (Cambridge Silicon Radio) announced their intent to sell their handset connectivity and location development group to Samsung, for US$310 million. The purchase price equates to US$1 million per person, with 310 CSR employees (292 in R&D plus 18 in marketing and support) scheduled to be transferred to Samsung when the deal is closed. In an interview following the announcement, CSR CEO Joep van Beurden said that the employees in the handset development group represent 25% of his company's total R&D staff. For an additional US $34.4 million, Samsung will be acquire new common shares of CSR equivalent to a 4.9% ownership in the company. The companies expect the deal to close in Q4 of 2012.<br>
</div><a href="http://www.eedailynews.com/2012/07/what-does-samsung-get-with-purchase-of.html#more">Read more »</a>EE Daily Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609630249488100984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-178947916580376471.post-38633294156389772712012-07-17T17:53:00.014-07:002012-08-10T11:26:05.139-07:00Speakers at SEMICON West describe a fragmented 3D IC landscape<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SWtiX5s5RoI/UASn0QXlwkI/AAAAAAAADH0/sKx57XQzShc/s1600/scWest12-logo-location.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SWtiX5s5RoI/UASn0QXlwkI/AAAAAAAADH0/sKx57XQzShc/s1600/scWest12-logo-location.jpg" /></a></div><br />
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<a href="http://semiconwest.org/AboutInformation/TimeandLocation" target="_blank"><b>SEMICON West</b></a>, which completed its 42nd annual event at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco last week, is the premier trade-show of the <a href="http://www.semi.org/en/About" target="_blank"><b>SEMI</b></a> industry association, representing the global semiconductor manufacturing supply chain. While much of this year's SEMICON show and technical discussions were focused on how to continue traditional Moore's Law scaling, increasing cost and technical barriers have driven the industry to turn more attention to the potential alternative for achieving higher functional integration through 3D multi-chip ICs.<br />
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In a series of presentations on the second day of the conference, invited speakers explored the topic of "<a href="http://www.semiconwest.org/node/8526" target="_blank"><b><i>The 2.5 & 3D Packaging Landscape for 2015 & Beyond</i></b></a>". In the session abstract, SEMIS's Advanced Packaging Committee expressed their objective to explore questions such as <i>"What will the supply chain and infrastructure look like?",</i> in just three years. The answer, after representatives from semiconductor manufacturers, Electronic Design Automation (EDA), systems houses, Outsourced Assembly and Test (OSAT), and academics had their say... was very fragmented.<br />
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<u><b>Altera and TSMC</b></u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">John Xie,Senior Manager for Packaging Technology at Altera, started off the presentations at SEMICON with "<a href="http://www.semiconwest.org/sites/semiconwest.org/files/docs/John%20Xie_Altera%20Corporation.pdf" target="_blank"><b><i>Interposer Integration through Chip on Wafer on Substrate (CoWoS) Process</i></b></a>". In March of this year, <a href="http://www.altera.com/corporate/news_room/releases/2012/corporate/nr-cowos.html" target="_blank"><b>Altera announced</b></a> "</span><i>the world's first heterogeneous 3D IC test vehicle using TSMC's Chip-on-Wafer-on-Substrate (CoWoS) integration process</i>". TSMC is planning to offer the CoWoS process as part of a complete turnkey service. In CoWoS, ICs are first bonded to thick silicon wafers (i.e. the interposer), prior to completion of processing for dicing and attachment to the final package. The TSMC interposer-based process is more properly described as 2.5D, and is effectively similar to the Stacked-Silicon Interconnect (<a href="http://www.xilinx.com/technology/roadmap/ssi-technology.htm" target="_blank"><b>SSI</b></a>) process which Xilinx has employed, also with TSMC as a foundry. In May, Xilinx one-upped the TSMC-Altera announcement with one of their own, disclosing that they had shipped the "<span class="ccbnNewsTtl"><span class="ccbnNewsTtl"><i>World's First Heterogeneous 3D FPGA</i>", the <a href="http://press.xilinx.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=212763&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1700586&highlight=" target="_blank"><b>H580T</b></a>. In a <a href="http://tech.opensystemsmedia.com/fpga/2012/07/xilinx-cto-makes-case-for-the-value-of-programmability-in-semicon-west-keynote/#__utma=1.45654181.1341949126.1342225242.1342483563.6&__utmb=1.2.9.1342483570305&__utmc=1&__utmx=-&__utmz=1.1341949126.1.1.utmcsr=E-Letter%7Cutmccn=July%202012%7Cutmcmd=%28not%20set%29%7Cutmctr=Editor%27s%20Insight%7Cutmcct=DSP&__utmv=-&__utmk=217115414" target="_blank"><b>SEMICON keynote</b></a> address earlier in the day at SEMICON, Xilinx CTO Ivo Bolsens described how 3D ICs are a key to his company's strategy for delivering customer value through higher levels of integration.</span></span><br />
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Xie also stated that "<i>true 3D</i>" IC integration would require the implementation of Through-Silicon Vias (TSVs) in the active area of stacked ICs. However, compared to alternative 2.5D processes, Xie said that<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> CoWoS offers the best yield potential. TSMC's process, according to Xie, is better for micro-bump joining of ICs to interposers, provides better compatibility with large die, and avoids the need to handle thin wafers. The turnkey nature of the process, however, </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span>presents an issue with how to integrate die fabricated at other foundries. The interposer can also impact device performance, and Xie expressed a c<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">oncern for insertion loss from the TSV connections, especially regarding the Power Distribution Network (PDN). Altera inserts inductors to increase device bandwidth, and embeds</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> Metal-insulator-Metal (MiM) capacitors to improve transceiver jitter by 10%. Among the challenges for 3D IC design, Xie said that</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> EDA tools are still a work-in-progress. </span>Cost also remains an issue, with the<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> interposer being the dominant factor, comparable to the cost for an active silicon die.</span> <br />
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<b><u>Pessimism from HiSilicon/Huawei</u></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In "<a href="http://www.semiconwest.org/sites/semiconwest.org/files/docs/Huili%20Fu_HiSilicon%20Technologies.pdf" target="_blank"><b><i>The Demands and the Challenges of TSV Technology Application in IC & System</i></b></a>", Dr. Huili Fu - Chief IC Packaging Expert at Huawei's ASIC design subsidiary HiSilicon Technologies, focused mostly on the challenges facing the 3D IC industry. While acknowledging the potential benefits of multi-chip packaging for achieving higher interface bandwidth and functional integration, somewhat surprisingly, Fu also stated that "<i>Nobody wants to use 2.5D for Smartphones</i>". Cost and package thickness are obstacles for adoption in such applications. At the top of Dr. Fu's list of 3D IC challenges were the immature TSV manufacturing process, the problems of handling thin wafers, issues with micro-bumps, and die-to-die assembly. Fu also cited challenges in testing of micro-bumps, and the test, cost and assembly issues related to use of the Through-Silicon Interposer (TSI). </span><br />
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Turning to 3D IC Infrastructure, Fu pointed out challenges in instituting standards, development of design flows and EDA tools, and supply chain evolution. As Altera also noted, TSVs present challenges for high-speed design, because the interposers create very lossy transmission lines. There is also inconsistency in the impedance of the routing structure, according to Fu.<br />
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There is much discussion of the use of 2.5D/3D IC integration for processor-memory applications. However, Fu cautioned that thermal cross-talk is a major problem for such heterogenous integration, for which there is no obvious solution. There is generally a junction temperature limit for memory of 85 degrees C, he said, and while there is a desire to place memory closer to logic for increased bandwidth, the sensitivity to temperature and requirements for refreshing is an obstacle. The problem only gets worse with true 3D stacking, especially for smartphones which lack top side heat sinks, according to Fu.<br />
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<u><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Current Approaches to 2.5 and 3D are too expensive</span></b></u><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">This was the view expressed by </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Georgia Institute of Technology professor </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Rao Tummala, who also asked (rhetorically), "<a href="http://www.semiconwest.org/sites/semiconwest.org/files/docs/Rao%20Tummala_Georgia%20Institute%20of%20Technology.pdf" target="_blank"><b><i>Are There Lower Cost Options</i>?</b></a>" Of course, Georgia Tech has an answer for that question, in work being done at the university's <a href="http://www.prc.gatech.edu/" target="_blank"><b>Packaging Research Center</b></a> (PRC) on polysilicon-based interposer panels.<br />
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Tummala expressed his opinion that 3D IC </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">adoption will take off when current technologies don’t do what the market needs, or - if new technologies are lower cost, which he stated is never the case. Technically, the use of 3D ICs with TSVs is the next </span>logical step in the evolution of IC packaging, said Tummala, <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">but the critical difference is that 3D ICs change the IC fabrication process, because packaging would now be part of chip manufacturing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Professor Tummala presented what he sees as three major applications for 3D ICs; in mobile devices, "<i>ultra-high performance</i>" computing, and high-performance devices. His example company for ultra-high performance was IBM, Xilinx and Altera for high-performance, and Apple and Samsung for mobile devices. Cost and thermal issues make 3D ICs unsuitable for high performance applications, in Tummala's assessment, while acknowledging that Xilinx has solved the thermal issue through side-by-side 2.5D packaging. Cost is still an issue for 2.5D, he said, along with the lack of a second source for manufacturing. While cost is the only issue for mobile, according to Tummala, ultra-high performance applications can accept these issues. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Georgia Tech has assembled a large number of corporate, government, and academic participants in their PRC <a href="http://www.prc.gatech.edu/partnership/index.shtml#Participants" target="_blank"><b>consortium</b></a>. At SEMICON, Professor Tummala argued that the industry "<i>needs</i>" the Georgia Tech panel approach, which utilizes rectangular polysilicon panels to fabricate interposers, in place of conventional 300mm CMOS wafers. In a <a href="http://www.prc.gatech.edu/partnership/PDF_brochures/GT%20PRC%20Silicon%20Glass%20Packages%20Webinar%20%20July%2021%20Final.pdf" target="_blank"><b>2010 webinar</b></a> on their technology, Tummala estimated that a 600mm panel could support integration of 8X the number of packages as a 300mm CMOS wafer, and that the materials and processes could provide an additional 2X cost savings. The Georgia Tech approach supports a 3D stack of two or more ICs on both sides of interposer, with TSVs at the same density as the ICs. Tummala said that this presents minimal challenges in thermal management and testability. </span><br />
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<u><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Industry Ecosystem Panel points in multiple directions</span></b></u><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">SEMICON concluded the 3D IC session with an industry ecosystem panel consisting of: </span><br />
<ul><li><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> Samta Bansal, Senior Manager, Product Marketing, Silicon Realization at <a href="http://www.semiconwest.org/sites/semiconwest.org/files/docs/Samta%20Bansal_Cadence%20Design%20Systems.pdf" target="_blank"><b>Cadence</b></a> Design Systems</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> Li Li, Distinguished Engineer at <a href="http://www.semiconwest.org/sites/semiconwest.org/files/docs/Li%20Li_Cisco%20Systems.pdf" target="_blank"><b>Cisco</b></a> Systems, Inc. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> Rich Rice, Sr. VP of Sales and Engineering at Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Group (<a href="http://www.semiconwest.org/sites/semiconwest.org/files/docs/Rich%20Rice_ASE.pdf" target="_blank"><b>ASE</b></a>) Inc.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> David Stepniak, Analog Development and Execution Packaging Manager at <a href="http://www.semiconwest.org/sites/semiconwest.org/files/docs/David%20Stepniak_Texas%20Instruments.pdf" target="_blank"><b>Texas Instruments</b></a></span></li>
</ul>TI's Stepniak added another direction to the 3D IC discussion, saying that 3D/2.5D are important for analog and embedded applications, with Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems for example, and not just logic and memory. Stepniak called on the industry to develop a more broad-based vision for 3D ICs, and not just focus on TSVs. He pointed out that requirements for TSVs in analog devices are different than for digital CMOS applications, and that a spectrum of interposers will be required for different applications.<br />
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ASE's Rice offered his opinion that several different 3D IC manufacturing flows will be deployed:<br />
<ul><li>IDM/foundry captive processes</li>
<li>Foundry fabrication with TSVs and Back-Side Integration (BSI) <i>to</i> OSAT assembly</li>
<li>Foundry IC fabrication <i>to</i> interposer foundry <i>to</i> OSAT BSI</li>
<li>Foundry IC and interposer with BSI to OSAT assembly</li>
</ul>In Rice's view, OSATs will support multi-foundry manufacturing flows, and heterogeneous products, with a high mix. He sees TSMC supporting more homogeneous structures, and a low mix. He said that a foundry-directed flow with outsourcing to an OSAT is still a possibility. <br />
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Cisco's Li expressed an optimistic view that 3D ICs with TSVs and large area silicon interposers are the future, with 3D stacked die fulfilling the increasing need for memory bandwidth. Cadence's Bansal called for <br />
3D-IC ecosystem collaboration, citing examples of the Micron-led <a href="http://www.hybridmemorycube.org/" target="_blank"><b>Hyper Memory Cube consortium</b></a>, and the TSMC-Altera CoWoS collaboration. Bansal said that data exchange format standards and tool interoperability between companies are needed, in order to develop a “<i>3D ready exchange Process Design Kit (PDK)</i>”.<br />
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The panel also offered different opinions on what are the biggest roadblocks to 3D IC adoption. For TI, full-system yield is the biggest issue. With their position as an OSAT, ASE focused on how to handle ultra-thin die. Cisco expressed the need to educate ASIC and system architects on how to partition systems for 3D IC applications. For Cadence, testability is the #1 issue.<br />
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<u><b>Summary: Multiple dimensions for 3D ICs</b></u><br />
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While much has been said and written about 3D ICs, as an alternative to the inevitable end of Moore's Law in semiconductor fabrication, the discussions at SEMICON show that achieving such a transition will be far more difficult than simply changing the direction of scaling. There have long been alternatives to single-die packaging, and the development of 2.5D ICs with silicon interposers is more evolutionary than revolutionary. Stacked 3D ICs will continue to be developed for narrowly targeted applications, such as the HMC stacked memory devices, but more widespread use will require much more development across the ecosystem. IDMs such as Texas Instruments will be able to develop more specialized solutions to address their integration needs. Unlike the development of the fabless IC industry, which rapidly converged around a foundation of common processes and design methodologies, the development of 2.5D/3D ICs is branching off into many different directions.<br />
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<div style="color: red;"><b>Related article</b></div><a href="http://tech.opensystemsmedia.com/fpga/2012/07/xilinx-cto-makes-case-for-the-value-of-programmability-in-semicon-west-keynote/#__utma=1.45654181.1341949126.1342225242.1342483563.6&__utmb=1.2.9.1342483570305&__utmc=1&__utmx=-&__utmz=1.1341949126.1.1.utmcsr=E-Letter%7Cutmccn=July%202012%7Cutmcmd=%28not%20set%29%7Cutmctr=Editor%27s%20Insight%7Cutmcct=DSP&__utmv=-&__utmk=217115414" target="_blank">Xilinx CTO makes case for the value of programmability in SEMICON West keynote</a>EE Daily Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609630249488100984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-178947916580376471.post-83349269475673963992012-07-09T00:12:00.007-07:002012-07-09T08:15:59.980-07:00Growth of voice-recognition UI drives need for embedded speech processors<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Google introduced offline voice typing for Android Jelly Bean<br />
at the 2012 IO Developer's COnference.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Apple's introduction of the <a href="http://www.apple.com/iphone/features/siri.html" target="_blank"><b>Siri</b></a> (described as <i>beta</i>) voice-input User Interface (UI) on the iPhone 4S, and the company's pervasive advertising campaign, has raised the public's awareness that speech recognition technology is no longer just science fiction. While <a href="http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/research.google.com/en/us/pubs/archive/36340.pdf" target="_blank"><b>Google</b></a> has incorporated voice input in their mobile apps for several years, the addition of a spoken response in Siri has stimulated thoughts of the H.A.L. 9000 computer in Stanley Kubrick's 1968 classic movie - <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622/" target="_blank"><b><i>2001: A Space Odyssey</i></b></a>. <br />
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At the recently completed 2012 <a href="https://developers.google.com/events/io/" target="_blank"><b>Google IO</b></a> Developer's Conference, Google responded to Apple by adding voice response to the search functions in the new Android version 4.1, aka <a href="http://www.android.com/options/" target="_blank"><b>Jelly Bean</b></a>. Voice search in Android will now be very Siri-like, using what Google calls a <a href="http://www.google.com/insidesearch/features/search/knowledge.html" target="_blank"><b><i>knowledge graph</i></b></a> to formulate contextually-aware spoken responses.<br />
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Google then went a step further than Apple, by introducing offline voice typing in Android Jelly Bean. The average iPhone user may be unaware that Siri relies on a connection to cloud servers, as has Google's voice search, but Google now claims to have "<i>shrunk the Google speech recognizer</i>" to fit into smartphones. While this will not provide the intelligent response of online voice search, by providing this capability Google has addressed one of the problems with speech UIs, i.e. the need for a continuous internet connection to execute the recognition algorithms and language database search.<br />
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Another problem with speech UIs is response time, or latency. As Google said in their IO presentation, a slow connection can make voice input unusable. By embedding the speech recognizer in the device, Android developers can more confidently include voice input in their applications. However, the demo device at Google IO was a top of the line Nexus smartphone, so it remains to be seen how pervasive the offline Android voice typing functions will be, at least initially. Google appears to be relying on general purpose application processor horsepower, and on-board memory resources, to execute these functions in software. It is noteworthy that Google qualified their introduction, by saying only U.S. English language will be supported at launch. Installing a multi-language database was no doubt infeasible at this time.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spansion's Acoustic Co-Processor combines customer logic and flash memory<br />
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</tbody></table>Now Spansion, best known as a provider of flash memory, is seeking to address these issues with the introduction of their Acoustic Coprocessor, which combines custom-designed logic and high-speed memory to accelerate and optimize voice-enabled human machine interfaces (HMI). The company says that their new product will be ideal for voice recognition systems in automotive, gaming and consumer electronics, applications where the addition of a new component will be less difficult than with the cost, space and power limitations of smartphones. As Tensilica CTO Chris Rowen said, during his presentation at the <a href="http://www.globalpresspr.com/" target="_blank"><b>Global Press Summit</b></a> earlier this year, including always-on voice recognition in such devices will drive increased usage of specialized audio DSP blocks, which would be integrated directly into an application processor System on a Chip (SoC). <br />
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Alvin Wong, Spansion's VP of Marketing and Business Development, says that the acoustic co-processor is inserted into the speech processing path immediately after the Analog-Digital conversion of the voice input. The processor utilizes voice technology from <a href="http://www.nuance.com/for-individuals/by-solution/speech-recognition/index.htm" target="_blank"><b>Nuance Communications</b></a>, a provider of speech recognition solutions for PC applications, call centers, and in healthcare. The acoustic co-processor logic, which is Spansion's own design, executes algorithms to score sound packets (similar to syllables or phonemes) from the digitized voice against the acoustic database, stored in flash memory on the same chip. The co-processor transmits sound scores over a Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) to an application processor, which then executes a search algorithm to select the most likely spoken words from a language database.<br />
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Wong says that by implementing the scoring algorithms in their acoustic co-processor hardware, Spansion is able to significantly improve both response time and accuracy over conventional voice interfaces. In a benchmark experiment with an automobile infotainment system, Spansion claims to have reduced the CPU load and response time by 50%, compared to a standalone 800MHz ARM processor. Spansion attributes much of the speedup in the scoring process to their design of a dedicated 1.2GB/s wide data bus between the acoustic processor logic and the flash memory. The embedded flash memory in the Spansion acoustic co-processor allows for storage of as many as 10 to 12 language models, according to Wong, each with their own library of sounds that are provided by Nuance. The larger acoustic databases provide finer granularity, and hence greater accuracy, in the matching process. In addition, offloading the scoring process can also free the application processor to execute a more natural language interface.<br />
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Spansion is planning to deliver design samples of their automotive platform in Q3, and is targeting Q1 of 2012 for full production. Device scaling will be based on how much flash memory is required to store language models.The company plans to introduce a low-end co-processor, supporting 1 or 2 language models, along with a high-end device capable of 10 to 12 models.EE Daily Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609630249488100984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-178947916580376471.post-48992312350228795732012-06-28T19:54:00.003-07:002012-06-28T20:00:14.231-07:00The curious case of the Nexus Q<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cRDb7mCqIDc/T-0FHjoaWMI/AAAAAAAAC-U/gGJ1EQym7cY/s1600/ScreenHunter_15+Jun.+27+10.35.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="248" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cRDb7mCqIDc/T-0FHjoaWMI/AAAAAAAAC-U/gGJ1EQym7cY/s400/ScreenHunter_15+Jun.+27+10.35.jpg" width="400"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The most curious announcement from Google, at their I/O conference this week, has been the "<a href="https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_q&feature=corpus_selector" target="_blank"><b>Nexus Q</b></a>". At a <a href="http://www.eedailynews.com/2012/05/google-and-sony-continue-to-fumble-with.html" target="_blank"><b>Sony-Google TV</b></a> event in May, Google Product Manager Eric Liu was asked if a Nexus-like device might become available for the TV platform. The question pertained to the status of the Nexus-branded products as Google-endorsed platforms for application developers. Up until the Q announcement, Google has relied on partners such as Sony and Logitech to design and build Google TV devices. Just before the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show, <a href="http://www.eedailynews.com/2012/01/ces-downloads-google-tv-vs-android-tv.html" target="_blank"><b>Google announced</b></a> that LG, Samsung, and Vizio would join Sony, and after Intel dropped out, Marvell and MediaTek would provide chipsets.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br>
</div><a href="http://www.eedailynews.com/2012/06/curious-case-of-nexus-q.html#more">Read more »</a>EE Daily Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609630249488100984noreply@blogger.com0