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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. […]

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

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

Leading-edge More-Than-Moore process variants at 55 nm for the challenges of IoT and wearable devices deserve equally state-of-the-art low power design methodologies: it involves Silicon IPs for embedding the Power Regulation Network and for the SoC Mode Control Network, together with the transfer of know-how to ensure a safe and smooth design-in. Designers of low-power

Minimizing the PCB footprint and the BoM cost implies embedding the Power Regulation Network (PRNet) in the SoC. Meanwhile, minimizing drastically the SoC power consumption involves implementing several modes of activity to turn on and off different functions of the SoC, which generates noise on the supply lines during mode switching.   Dolphin Integration is

SoC designers are at ease to compare the performances of memories. It indeed only requires selecting some memory capacities and checking that performances are provided in the same conditions among the suppliers. Area, speed (access time), power consumption in dynamic mode and leakage may be then objectively compared. What about Standard Cell libraries? Not an

As an unavoidable technology for IoT, the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) protocol is designed to enable very low-power consumption devices. To save power, designers of BLE ICs need to implement a wake-up system, sufficiently accurate from a time tracking point-of-view, to ensure that paired devices operate in the same time-window. The higher the clock drift,

Intuitive and simple user interface drives the growing demand for voice control, either complementing or replacing keyboards, touchscreens and other traditional controls. The multiplicity of solutions available for Voice Activity Detection (VAD), combined with the absence of vendor-independent benchmarks, makes it hard for any purchaser to select the best solution. Today, neither unified performances nor

The optimization of a Power Management Network (PMNet): it is no longer about PMIC or embedded PMU efficiency on Watts, but now, about the waste of energy for the whole SoC in mW for IoT. IoT is all about wireless communication, which demands dealing with two major noise issues: the ripple loop with the HF-RF,