EnSilica and Express Logic have collaborated to port Express Logic’s popular ThreadX RTOS to EnSilica’s eSi-RISC family of silicon-proven, highly configurable embedded processor cores. ThreadX ease-of-use is facilitated by its intuitive, highly functional API and advanced, instant-on RTOS features.

Targeting applications requiring a high level of processing per MHz and low power consumption in a small footprint, the the eSI-32X0MP scalable, asymmetric multicore processor has been released by EnSilica. The processor, which expands the company’s eSi-RISC family, is suitable for WiFi, LTE Cat-0 and other IoT standards as well as scalable sensor, Gbit security protocol and solid state disk levelling algorithm processing.

  A processor core targeted at IoT sensing nodes and always-on applications has been released by EnSilica. The eSi-3260, which extends the company’s eSi-RISC family, combines advanced DSP functionality with a small footprint and a low power consumption.

EnSilica has announced that it has successfully collaborated with Kili Technology Corporation of Canada on the development of the Kili 3.1 FIPS 140-2 Level 3 (Federal Information Processing Standard) compliant secure processor IC. The Kili 3.1 secure processor IC is designed to meet the stringent requirements of payment, authentication and identity applications and production devices are available now.

EnSilica has announced that it has partnered with Cross Border Technologies to accelerate the sales of both its IC design services and system IP solutions in key European and Asian markets, particularly Germany, France, Japan and Korea.

EnSilica announces they have recently completed a major project with a Tier1 mobile communications company, to deliver a world-class Remote Radio Head (RRH) solution based on the Altera’s High End Stratix FPGA technology.

EnSilica has relocated its global headquarters to larger premises in Wokingham to support the company’s continuing expansion and growth. EnSilica’s new headquarters, located at West Forest Gate in Wokingham (UK), were officially opened by local Member of Parliament, John Redwood MP, on Friday, 16th November 2012.

EnSilica has announced that Posedge has standardized on its eSi-3250 32-bit processor core for the processing engine architecture for its range of wired/wireless networking IP solutions. The decision to standardize on the eSi-3250 has enabled Posedge to develop a single, flexible hardware architecture for multiple products that are also future-proofed for different protocols.

EnSilica has announced that Xtendwave has licensed its high-performance eSi-3200 32-bit processor core to power Everset, Xtendwave’s time code receiver solution for the next-generation WWVB atomic timekeeping signal. The new signal, broadcast by NIST will represent the official time of the USA and includes the implementation of daylight saving time and leap seconds.

EnSilica has opened a new design centre in India (Bangalore), to complement its existing design facilities in the UK. The new design centre will be a centre of excellence for the advanced verification of complex semiconductor products and IP. Verification services will be provided for both European and local customers based on a range of methodologies but with a particular focus on UVM (the Unified Verification Methodology) and SystemVerilog.

EnSilica has launched the eSi-RISC Development Suite v2.5, a major new version of its complete development environment for evaluating the EnSilica family of eSi-RISC highly configurable and low-power soft processor cores and the development of embedded applications. The eSi-RISC Development Suite v2.5 features new capabilities for multicore support, significantly enhanced compiler performance and ultra low-power applications support.

EnSilica, a leading independent provider of front-end IC design services and system solutions, has announced a collaboration with silicon Intellectual Property (IP) provider, Evatronix SA, to offer fully featured eSi-RISC processor SoC solutions incorporating USB 1.1, 2.0 and 3.0 connectivity. The collaboration with Evatronix adds an important building block to EnSilica’s strategy of providing customers with eSi-RISC processor sub-systems compl...

EnSilica, a leading independent provider of front-end IC design services, has announced that Posedge, a semiconductor intellectual property and solutions provider based in Sunnyvale (California, USA), has licensed its high-performance eSi-3250 32-bit processor core for an innovative, new Residential and SMB Gateway solution that performs Wire-Speed Routing at multi-gigabit rates. Posedge will initially use its next generation Residential and SMB ...

EnSilica, a leading independent provider of front-end IC design services, has announced that Korea’s Dongbu HiTek has licensed the eSi-1600, part of its eSi-RISC family of embedded processor cores. “The eSi-1600 provides a highly optimised solution with both very low gate and cycle counts. The fully integrated processor sub-system, including memories, peripherals and timers, will greatly reduce design and verification time. Furthermore, En...

EnSilica, a leading independent provider of front-end IC design services, has announced that ISIS IP, a Chinese fabless semiconductor company focusing on DAB/DAB+/DMB baseband solutions, has chosen the eSi-RISC family of soft processor cores as the MCU for its 2nd generation DAB baseband solution.

EnSilica, a leading independent provider of front-end IC design services, and Pebble Bay, a leading embedded systems development consultancy, are collaborating to target the automotive electronics design market by porting ERIKA Enterprise, the free-of-charge, open source RTOS for automotive systems, to EnSilica’s family of highly configurable and low-power eSi-RISC soft processor cores. The port provides proof of the suitability of EnSilica’...

EnSilica, a leading independent provider of front-end IC design services, has announced a special licensing deal to encourage existing 8051 licensees to switch their next ASIC design start to an eSi-1600 16-bit soft processor core. For all enquiries received before 31st January 2011 and subject to Terms and Conditions, EnSilica is offering to match their 8051 license fee.

EnSilica, a leading independent provider of front-end IC design services, has announced that it has become a partner for Mentor Graphics’ Precise-IP vendor-independent FPGA IP platform. As a result, EnSilica’s range of eSi-RISC embedded processor cores and eSi-Comms library of communications IP has been fully validated for use in Mentor Graphics’ Precision Synthesis FPGA design flow, enabling design engineers to easily implement them on an...

EnSilica, a leading independent provider of front-end IC design services, has launched a major new version of its eSi-RISC Development Suite. The eSi-RISC Development Suite v2.1 provides a comprehensive platform for easily evaluating EnSilica’s family of eSi-RISC highly configurable and low-power soft processor cores, along with a complete development environment for the creation, implementation and test of eSi-RISC processor embedded applicat...

EnSilica, a leading independent provider of front-end IC design services, has significantly enhanced its design service capability with the addition of three new, highly configurable and low-power soft processor cores – the eSi-1600, eSi-3200 and eSi-3250 - to its customer IP portfolio. The new processor cores are available immediately for deployment as part of EnSilica’s full specification-to-silicon design service through a number of leadi...