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CORTUS and Aspen Logic are holding an educational webinar on creating ASICs for outstanding Internet of Things and Machine-to-Machine products.
Interested parties can now register for the free live webinar, which will cover affordable manufacturing, design and intellectual property (IP) for ASICs.
Cortus specialises in low power, silicon efficient, 32-bit processor IP, while Aspen Logic provides expert logic design and embedded processing development services.
The presentation, titled “Attention IoT Developers: Yes, your Things can stand out!” will run live at 10:00 a.m. PST/ 6:00 p.m. GMT on Tuesday 16th February 2016.
The hour-long webinar will be broken down into a 45 minute presentation, and a 15 minute Q&A.
According to the companies, the webinar is aimed at engineers and managers with limited or no ASIC design experience who are developing Things for the Internet in categories such as smart homes/cities, intelligent sensors, electronic shelf labels and wireless communication devices.
Few IoT developers today are involved in ASIC or hardware design, even though the integration of hardware and software development can lead to unique and outstanding products with the potential to disrupt markets.
According to the organiser, an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) can be a reasonably-priced way of adding differentiation to products, whether at the system-level, in analogue circuit design or in a digital system.
With IoT applications frequently requiring the use or digital, analog, RF and increasingly on-chip sensors, the silicon technologies used must support the mixing of these types of circuit. The risk is low as well: mixed-signal technologies are generally well-proven, low-cost, mature processes that are affordable.
This seminar examines some of the key steps involved in creating a differentiated ASIC including;
What EDA tools are required for developing custom ASICs that support mixed-signal designs?
The important decision criteria for evaluating and selecting processor and system IP cores.
What options are available for ASIC prototyping and production manufacturing?
How to implement hardware security features from simple to very complex that will successfully defend IoT ASICs from unwanted attacks.