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New Samsung HDR LED TVs go VIDITY

Samsung’s new KU6300 and KU6500 lineup of HDR LED TVs boast full support for VIDITY™, a secure delivery service that facilitates the purchase, delivery and storage of premium content across a wide range of devices.

“Ranging in sizes from 40 to 65 inches, these four TVs have three HDMI inputs and two USB ports,” Explora’sRichard Risitano confirmed. “While similar in features, the KU6500 houses a…

Rambus joins the RISC-V Foundation

Rambus has joined the RISC-V Foundation as a founding member. The organization is dedicated to managing and promoting the adoption of the RISC-V hardware architecture standard throughout the semiconductor market. With this announcement, Rambus joins a coalition comprising dozens of major industry players, including Google, Oracle, Western Digital and BAE Systems.

“RISC-V is a perfect example of…

Rambus joins the RISC-V Foundation

Rambus has joined the RISC-V Foundation as a founding member. The organization is dedicated to managing and promoting the adoption of the RISC-V hardware architecture standard throughout the semiconductor market. With this announcement, Rambus joins a coalition comprising dozens of major industry players, including Google, Oracle, Western Digital and BAE Systems.

“RISC-V is a perfect example of…

Shifting gears for the IoT

Writing for Semiconductor Engineering, Ann Steffora Mutschler observes that a shift is currently underway in the automotive industry as more connected vehicles hit the road each year.

“[Connectivity adds] many of the features that consumers now expect in mobile devices as well as some new ones that ultimately will lead to autonomous vehicles,” she explained.

“But along with those changes are…

Analysts bullish on IoT security

ABI Research analysts say the burgeoning Internet of Things (IoT) will be the next big market for cyber security.

“While it remains a fragmented market that has yet to consolidate, the ecosystem is expanding with vendors finding their way into three groups,” the researchers wrote in a recent blog post.

“[These include] hardware (chipset/SoC/microcontroller), firmware/software (embedded…

Rambus rolls out new version of DPA Workstation analysis platform

Rambus’ Cryptography Research division has rolled out version 8 of its DPA Workstation (DPAWS) analysis platform. The latest iteration of DPAWS features an extensive upgrade to the workstation software and user interface (UI) for enhanced system performance and usability in ASIC and FPGA side-channel vulnerability testing.

According…

The evolution of augmented reality (AR)

Wearable augmented reality (AR) devices are still at a relatively nascent stage. As the technology progresses, augmented reality will likely face a number of obstacles, including evolving social mores, strict adherence to Moore’s Law and the challenge of maintaining a seamless user experience.

According to Rambus Fellow Dr. David G. Stork, it is difficult to ascertain if social mores, or more…

Reduction of CMOS Image Sensor Read Noise to Enable Photon Counting

Rambus’ Jay Endsley, Thomas Vogelsang and Michael Guidash, along with Jiaju Ma of the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College, have published a new article about CMOS imaging in Sensors.

Titled “Reduction of CMOS Image Sensor Read Noise to Enable Photon Counting,” the open access article explores recent activity in photon counting CMOS image sensors (CIS) which has been directed to…

Deciphering sensor data for wearables

Makenna Breitenfeld, the Chief Analyst at Argus Insights, recently penned an EE Times article about wearables and associated apps.

As Breitenfeld opines, the current app experience is limiting the usefulness of wearable products. To be sure, the results of the survey conducted by Argus Insights points to major frustrations with syncing data and broken app experiences.

“Today’s hardware and…

Understanding the multiple reflections effect

Written by Patrick Gill, Principal Research Scientist, Rambus Labs

As a kid, I can remember the rare treat of visiting a house where two mirrors were mounted to face each other on opposite walls.

Any object between them would be copied a myriad of times, usually curving off into the distance as they acquired the greenish tinge characteristic of the wavelengths the mirrors reflect best. It was…

IoT security market to exceed $28 billion by 2020

A new report published by Research and Markets projects that the Internet of Things (IoT) security market will increase from $6.89 billion in 2015 to $28.90 billion by 2020.

“With the technological advancement and increasing application of networking, the concern for security has become a global phenomenon and its intensity is increasing every day,” the researchers explained in a report summary.

The uncanny valleys of VR

Oculus Chief Scientist Michael Abrash says the industry needs to improve the way individuals are represented – in all their uniqueness – within a VR framework.

“Other people are what we are most highly tuned to, because they are what we care about most – and for that same reason, representing them believably is one of the greatest challenges,” he explained in a statement quoted by UploadVR.

Imag…

PULPino is a 32-bit RISC-V processor

Engineers at ETH Zurich and the University of Bologna recently debuted the 32-bit PULPino, an open-source microprocessor based on RISC-V architecture. The PULPino – taped out as a 65nm ASIC – is now available for RTL simulation and FPGA mapping.

“The core has an IPC close to 1, full support for the base integer instruction set (RV32I), compressed instructions (RV32C) and partial support for the…

DEFCON organizer talks IoT security

Ted Harrington, partner at Independent Security Evaluators and organizer of the annual DEFCON hacker conference, is not at all optimistic about a secure IoT. As Harrington tells Inverse, IoT security “will get worse, potentially a lot worse, before it gets better.”

According to Harrington, new technology typically follows three predictable steps: Innovation, (similar) products that hit the…

From consoles to VR

The Atari 2600 (or VCS) – which hit the nascent video game market back in 1977 – packed 128 bytes RAM and an 8-bit MOS 6507 CPU clocked at a mere 1.19 MHz. According to Wikipedia, the RAM was tasked with handling run-time data, which included the call stack and the state of the game world. There was no frame buffer.

Image Credit: Wikipedia (via Evan-Amos)

Fast-forward to 1996 and the launch of…

IoT on the edge

McObject CEO Steve Graves recently noted that there is little industry discussion about data management on so-called edge nodes comprising the Internet of Things (IoT).

“A vast number of edge devices will need to store, retrieve and analyze some data right where they sit, before shipping anything ‘upstream’ to gateway or server-based data aggregation points that we usually think of in connection…

Balancing cores and memory with Smart Data Acceleration

Ed Sperling of Semiconductor Engineering recently noted that adding more cores to a processor doesn’t necessarily improve system performance. In fact, designing the wrong size or type of core may actually waste power.

“This has set the stage for a couple of broad shifts in the semiconductor industry,” Sperling explained. “Memory architectures can play an important role here. Most of the current…