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  • Functional Safety and what it means for System IP

    Functional safety for Silicon IP used to be a niche activity, limited to an elite circle of chip and system developers in automotive, industrial, aerospace and similar markets. However over the last few years that’s changed significantly. There’s now…

  • Iconic wearable hits the Million mark, sign of things to come?

    Its hard to pinpoint exactly when the wearables revolution really started but one good data point might be the funding of the Pebble watch on Kickstarter in May of 2012:

    Pebble launch.jpg

    In the annals of tech innovation I see this as a tipping point in the classic sense…

  • Addressing functional safety applications with ARM Cortex-R5

    As electronics become ever more pervasive in the automotive, industrial automation and medical device sectors, fault-tolerant electronics sub-systems are becoming a standard requirement. Designing these systems with Cortex-R series processors that have…