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Succeeding in dynamic markets like MCUs, wireless communication, IoT, wearables… requires, from Fabless makers, to react fast so as to deliver a SoC with the right specifications in a timely manner. As a result, project leaders, SoC architects and design engineers are confronted with the challenge of selecting the best silicon IPs within very short …

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Allowing devices to run on the same battery for years rather than months partakes in enhancing significantly end-user satisfaction. Numerous wireless communication SoC, whether BLE, Zigbee, Sigfox, LoRa, M2M 4G…, have a duty cycle such that the power consumption in sleep mode dominates the overall current drawn from the battery. For such applications, the design …

Extending 2 to 5 times the operation time of your battery-powered SoC: from dream to reality! Read More »

Connected battery-based devices require always more computing power to run feature rich application programs while using the minimal energy to ensure the longest usage without recharge. As a result, fabless companies need to hunt down every “mA” to satisfy the low-power expectations of their SoC users. Numerous System-on-Chips rely on a Non-Volatile flash Memory – …

R-Stratus-LP silicon IP reduces significantly power consumption of flash memories Read More »

The industry’s focus on battery-powered devices sets new expectations in terms of energy saving for a wide range of applications such as IoT, wearables and wireless MCUs. Meeting the underlying low-power challenge requires a new class of silicon IPs to enable unmatched power consumption figures and new IoT SoC architectures leveraging operating modes with reduced …

Dolphin Integration Receives Open-Silicon’s Award for the
Emerging IP Partner of the Year 2016 in the Low Power IoT Ecosystem Read More »

In our connected and mobile world, IC designers are striving to save µA or even nA of power consumption to extend battery usage without recharge. IoT applications bring the need for LP to new heights involving the adoption of more complex SoC architectures based on multiple power domains, which also require embedding the whole power …

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Low-power SoCs rely on two design techniques, namely multiple operating frequencies and supply voltages to minimize dynamic power and coarse grain power gating by shutting down parts in sleep mode to save a large amount of leakage power (e.g. up to 99% saving). The implementation of such design techniques requires the insertion of specific cells …

Minimize power domain leakage and design margins while shortening Time-To-Market Read More »

Launching any SoC on a highly competitive market demands a differentiation for which Hisense was searching for an ultra low-power solution to extend battery life-time of wireless-connected devices. Designing such an integrated circuit introduces new challenges: silicon area, power consumption and BoM cost must be aggressively reduced, while dealing with noise issues in a mixed-signal …

Hisense selects their SoC Fabric for IoT from Dolphin Integration Read More »

For RFID Tags, dynamic power is a critical factor as the capability for lower power translates immediately into a wider range of detection (RFID tag read range) and/or a highest identification rate in the same range. The main degree of freedom to improve power and area of RFID tag is located in the digital block. …

Amazing improvement of power and density for RFID chips with standard cell libraries at 180 nm Read More »

The trend for intuitive and simple user interfaces is driving the growing demand for voice control, either for complementing or for replacing keyboards, touchscreens and other traditional controls. This need for a new generation of green microphones leads to embedding the capability for waking up the rest of the system as soon as a voice …

Dolphin Integration unveils a Smart Modulator for lowest power-consumption of digital microphones Read More »

For integrated circuits with really high volumes, such as MCUs, SESAME uHD (ultra High Density), the flagship product in Dolphin Integration’s standard cell library offering, is paramount to decrease die costs. It stars its patented pulsed latches as « Spinner Cells » instead of standard D-flip flops, openly documented in “Thorough validation: the conundrum of Pulsed latch …

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