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in arm cores the synq series is available with a variety of high end arm cores such as the cortex a53 and the rf focused r5 core these obviously are fairly high gate county and cost cores where as the m1 and m3 cores are being provided without license and without any royalties drop in the ip into your fpga design and go arm and xilinx say this is to meet the needs of their customers who want to be able to use the same arm architecture in their fpga designs as in asics etc and at the lowest investment in time and cost this certainly makes sense having a free arm core is better then a low cost arm core and removing the paperwork hassle helps but that s probably not the only reason arm is doing this and doing it specifically for xilinx there are a couple other things at play here arm mx cores are basic risc processors used for when you just need to get some basic processing done no frills low power and easy to use it turns out that s a market that is now seeing some competition from the sifive risc v core this is a basic easy to use risc core that is synthesizable into asics and fpgas and comes with a one time low cost license fee and no royalties its being used by such heavyweights as nvidia and could threaten the cortex mx domain so it makes sense for arm to offer essentially their introductory processor core for free as a way to sway people to the arm ecosystem but why xilinx perhaps xilinx is just the start of arm s plans xilinx is one of the biggest providers of fpgas in the world so certainly that will help keep people in the arm xilinx infact already has a drop in 32 bit risc processor core available to all their customers the microblaze and picoblaze of their own design there are also drop in 80c186 cores mcs 51 cores the leon sparc core and many others the other big name in fpgas is altera a company that has competed with xilinx for the better part of 30 years and was in june of 2015 bought by none other then intel altera has had a close relationship with intel since the 1980 s when intel first started assisting altera with fab ing their plds this gave altera greater access to intel s fab engineering prowess but also to all of intel s ip is intel going to offer free arm cores on altera fpgas the stratix arria series does include hard cortex a9 a53 cores already it seems unlikely that they would work to support their architectural competitor any more then they have to it is more likely that intel would offer some form of 32 bit x86 processor core for their fpgas now x86 isn t exactly known for low gate counts but it is possible currently softcore 8086 and 80186 processor the turbo86 and turbo186 are 22 000 and 30 000 gates respectively really a rounding error in fpgas that now have millions of gates more and more fpgas are becoming less fpga like and more configurable processor like tags arm risc xilinx posted in processor manufacturers processor news july 11th 2016 by admin sparkplugs o scopes and cell phones amd 486 processor note the logo in the lower right corner package is from kyocera click for larger version what do all 3 of these things have in common and what in the world do they have to do with computer processors ok modern oscilloscopes and cell phones do have cpus in them but spark plugs tektronix was started here in oregon in 1946 making oscilloscopes and other test equipment throughout the last 70 years they have continued to do so but along the way they also began to make everything needed to manufacture the final equipment they sold design simulation software pcb manufacturing ic manufacturing displays and even the packaging used for ic s in recent years many of these vertically integrated operations have been spun off but they do still maintain some tektronix packaging options from the early 1990 s click for larger version when an ic manufacturer such as intel amd etc designs builds an ic what they typically are creating or having made in the case of fabless companies is the silicon die itself this little piece of silicon contains the millions of transistors needed to perform whatever task its made for but for most uses that silicon die needs to be packaged to be useful a sliver of silicon is hard to work with and integrate into designs a package provides the routing of wire leads to the die as well as protects it from the environment while dissipating any heat it generates ic manufactures do not typically make their own packages they are either contracted out or bought off the shelf tektronix is one of several companies that makes and sells ic packages the pictured display is a sample of some of the packaging types they offered you can recognize some of the more common packages as well as some more specialty ones such as the power tab that was used in analog equipment frequently like audio amplifiers etc anam amkor test package tektronix isn t the only company that offers packages for ic perhaps the two largest are ngk and kyocera both have extensive experience with ceramics a material very useful in ic packages developing high strength high temperature ceramics for spark plugs isn t so much different from designing the same for a high end processor kyocera started life making ceramic insulators well before ever getting into cell phones in 2000 and ceramic packaging continues to be their core business often times assembly and test of a ic is handled by yet another company many companies such as amkor entire business is based on taking ic dies from one company assembling them into packages from another testing them and shipping them so next time you look at a cpu and read its makers name boldly written on its top there is a good chance that that name had but one part in that ic tags amkor kyocera ngk packaging textronix posted in processor manufacturers january 21st 2016 by admin microchip pic s up atmel microchip pic16c62 eng sample 1989 yesterday microchip makers of the pic line of microcontrollers announced they were buying atmel for a cool 3 56 billion this isn t entirely surprising considering the ongoing consolidation in the industry it was only last year that dialog attempted to purchase atmel and before that on semiconductor and microchip in december of 2015 nxp and freescale formerly motorola semiconductors merged creating one of the largest microelectronics companies these mergers do create an interesting result product mixes that were formerly competitors end up being marketed side by side in the case of nxp and freescale nxp marketed many mcs 51 microcontrollers in their 8 16 bit lines while freescale of course sold many versions of mc6800 based mcu s these two rivalries have existed since the early 1980 s and likely will continue perhaps the biggest rivalry in mcu though is between atmel and microchip atmel eprom fab d by gi in 1986 right before they became microchip microchip was spun off of general instrument in 1987 but the pic architecture dates back to 1976 and is still being made in nearly the same form pic16c55 atmel was started in 1984 first making eproms and then mcs 51 microcontrollers one of the very first companies to make an 8051 with on die flash memory in a bit of a twist of fate when atmel started it was a fabless company it contracted with several companies to make its eproms including sanyo and general instruments which as mentioned above became microchip atmel also makes aprc processors and for a time made motorola products as well atmel has a very convoluted history for more info on this read here and here today the pic line continues to be popular with devices for the low end such as the pic10 12 all the way to the mips based pic24 on the upper end atmel continues to make 8051 mcus but also makes the 8 and 32 bit avr line perhaps best known today for its use in arduino boards they also make mcu s based on the arm core a competitor to mips and atmel s own avr32 likely to the consternation to many fans of either company this merger does make sense more so than on or dialog buying atmel while microchip and atmel both compete in the same markets they do so with different architectures product lines are unlikely to change and overhead saving should free up both for stockholders yawn and engineering teams alike no word has been giving yet on wether microchip intends to keep the atmel branding but perhaps they should as an avr mcu with a microchip logo on it may just prove to be too much for some tags atmel mcs 51 microchip pic posted in processor manufacturers processor news january 18th 2015 by admin hua ko hke65sc02pl gte micros asian twin hua ko cmos 6502 4mhz industrial temp direct copy from gte micro hua ko electronics was started in 1979 in hong kong though with close ties to the prc their story is a bit more interesting then their products which were largely second sources of western designs in 1980 they started a subsidiary in san jose ca this was a design services center mainly ran as a foundry for other companies they developed mask sets in their ca facility but wafer fab and most assembly was done back in hong kong as well as the philippines by 1984 chipex also had a side business they were illegally copying clients designs and sending them back to the prc in addition they were sending proprietary and restricted equipment back to hong kong and the prc in 1982 their san jose facilities were raided and equipment seized several employees were arrested and later charged and convicted the following investigation showed that the prc consulate had provided support and guidance for chipex s operations and illegal activities so where exactly did the hke65sc02 design come from read more posted in cpu of the day processor manufacturers may 9th 2011 by admin intel s ivy bridge 50 years of flat transistors come to an end traditional microprocessor transistors are planar or flat as they pass through the switching gate april marked the 50th anniversary of robert noyce s patent on making silicon ic s with a planar process a concept that has changed little since then that is until this month when intel announced their new 22nm process a process that will not be restricted to planar transistors intel like hollywood as of late has gone 3d instead of a transistor being built in planes layers intel has developed a way to produce transistors with source drain spanning several planes on the die essentially they are formed vertically rather then horizontally this in an of itself is not remarkable it has been thought of and done before what intel did is make it happen on a commercially viable process intel claims to be able to initially manufacture these on a commercial scale at only a 3 cost increase over traditional planar processes and of course expects that 3 added cost to drop to zero or in fact result in a cost savings as the process is refined the tri gate system features 3d fins this allows the same surface area in a smaller die area what this allows is 2 3 times the number of transistors in the same space as a planar process assuming the same process size intel plans to use this process for the 22nm node intel s first processor the 4004 was constructed on a 10 micron process with 2300 transistors thats 500 000 times larger features and over a million times less transistors yet it consumed almost a 1 watt of power with intel s new 3 d 22nm process it should give intel the break they need into the mobile phone market a market they have been desiring to reenter ever since selling off their mobile arm pxa strongarm division to marvell several years ago tags intel posted in processor manufacturers processor news february 5th 2011 by admin atmel buys mhs again the twisted history of atmel temic and mhs today atmel purchased mhs electronics a french company why is this interesting because this is not the first time atmel has bought mhs in one form or another atmel matra mhs and temic s histories are rather intertwined with mergers acquisitions and name changes occurring frequently over the last 25 years a bit of history atmel 4mbit eprom 1995 atmel was founded in 1984 by george perlegos a former intel employee as a fab less semiconductor company originally atmel designed eprom s and plds they were manufactured by sanyo which had an intel license intel however sued atmel along with hyundai ict aas cypress and pacesetter electronics over eprom patents in 1987 the courts sided with intel which severely hampered atmel s ability to make eprom s their focus then switched to non volatile memories such as flash for which they have become very well known and continue to make in 1989 they bought their own fab from honeywell in colorado springs co and in 1993 released an 8051 intel licensed with integrated flash memory this catapulted atmel into the microcontroller market that is today one of their core businesses in 1994 atmel purchased seeq an eprom and eeprom company that perlegos helped start in 1981 in 1995 atmel opened a fab in rousset france thus beginning the french connection temic 80c32 1998 temic had its beginning in 1903 as telefunken ironically a joint venture of siemens and another company in 1967 aeg merged with telefunken and in 1985 daimler benz bought telefunken aeg and renamed it to simply aeg the semiconductor division of aeg was then called temic te lefunken mic roelectronics in 1998 aeg sold temic to vishay another automotive electronics supplier vishay only had interest in the discrete and power electronics portions so immediately sold the ic portion to atmel this gave atmel a bipolar fab in germany matra harris semiconductors sa mhs was created in 1979 as a joint venture between matra the french high technology group and harris semiconductor an american semiconductor manufacturer in 1989 harris withdrew from the partnership and the name was changed to matra mhs sa two years later aeg the electronics division of daimler benz purchased 50 of matra and merged the unit with its temic semiconductor subsidiary in 1998 aeg purchased the remaining shares of the company and the name was changed again to mhs sa mhs 80c52 1988 this was part of the sale to vishay mentioned above which atmel then purchased mhs had one cmos fab in nantes france which was included in the sale here is where it gets complicated the result of all of this was atmel now owned temic mhs 2 fabs in france one in germany their original fab in colorado as well as a fab in england and one in texas atmel needed to consolidate their fabs so in 2005 they sold the mhs fab in nantes france to xbybus a french company xbybus ran the nantes fab as mhs electronics in 2008 atmel sold their fab in germany the former temic fab to tejas semiconductor this left atmel with one fab in colorado and one in rousset france labor issues at the french fab in regards to atmel s need to reduce production led to indefinite strikes at this fab hampering atmel s work to sell it finally in 2010 atmel received approval from the french gov t to sell the fab to lfoundry a french company this marked the end of atmel s fab presence in...