At Rambus, we create cutting-edge semiconductor and IP products, providing industry-leading chips and silicon IP to make data faster and safer.
Semiconductor Engineering Editor in Chief Ed Sperling recently noted that getting data in and out of memory is just as important as optimizing the speed and efficiency of a processor.
“[Nevertheless], for years design teams managed to skirt the issue because it was quicker, easier and less expensive to boost processor clock frequencies with a brute-force approach,” he explained. “That worked well enough prior to 90nm, and adding more cores at lower clock speeds filled the gap starting at 65nm.”
Northwest Logic was started in November of 1995 in the garage of one of the founding partners with an initial focus on providing FPGA-based design services. Over the years, we have grown into a provider of high-performance, high-quality IP Cores with a world-wide set of industry-leading customers. We want to thank all of our customers, partners, vendors and employees who been part of this journey. We look forward to continuing to work with you for another 20 years!
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Northwest Logic’s DDR4/3 Controller Cores have been fully integrated and validated with Intel Custom Foundry’s DDR4/3 PHY. This complete solution is fully silicon-proven in a 14nm testchip. “With the successful integration of Northwest Logic’s DDR controller and Intel Custom Foundry’s DDR PHY IP, we now offer comprehensive DDR support to our customers”, said Tony Pialis, Director of Analog Mixed-Signal IP of Intel Custom Foundry. “Our customers can leverage the robust and silicon-ready IO solutions offered by Intel Custom Foundry and Northwest Logic.” Northwest Logic is one of the Intel Custom Foundry Eco-system partners. For more information, contact Northwest Logic or Intel.
Northwest Logic has released its CSI-2 Controller with full support of the MIPI C-PHY standard. The C-PHY uses 3-phase symbol encoding to carry data over 3 pins per lane (also known as trios). The C-PHY can support up to 3 trios at rates up to 2.5 Gsym/s for a peak bandwidth of 17.1 Gbit/s. This utilizes the same number of pins as a four lane D-PHY running at 2.5 Gbit/s/lane, but can carry 70% more data. The Northwest Logic CSI-2 Controller can support C-PHY, D-PHY and combo C/D-PHY. For this release, Northwest Logic delivered the controller integrated and verified with a combo C/D-PHY from Mixel. For more information, contact Northwest Logic.
Northwest Logic provides a complete, silicon-proven, easy-to-use PCI Express solution for use in ASICs, Structured ASICs and FPGAs. The PCI Express and DMA IP cores have been used in a variety of designs including networking, storage, and military applications and on advanced process nodes including 16, 20, and 28 nm. For more information on this solution, please visit: www.nwlogic.com
DINI Group continues to use Northwest Logic’s PCI Express solution to bring up its ASIC prototyping platforms. The Kintex Ultrascale ASIC prototyping platform is one of their latest offerings. Visit DINI Group to see their complete selection of boards. “We have had very positive experience using Northwest’s IPs and we continue to use them for our ASIC board bring-up. We have been working with Northwest Logic for close to a decade now. They are our first choice for PCIe and memory interface IP,” said Mike Dini, President of DINI group. “DINI Group’s ASIC prototyping platforms, in combination with Northwest Logic’s silicon-proven PCI Express Cores, enable large PCIe-based designs to be quickly prototyped.”
S2C’s MIPI D-PHY Interface Module provides both 4 channel MIPI D-PHY Rx and 4 channel MIPI D-PHY Tx support using the Meticom MC20901 Rx and MC20902 Tx chips. The list price of S2C Meticom MIPI D-PHY Interface Module (part number: P-MIPIPHYIB) is $400.00. Contact S2C for details.
PanaCast 2 is the world’s first Panoramic-4K Plug-and-Play USB real time video camera that connects directly to your PC or Mac. It delivers a 180º wide by 54º tall panoramic video stream (3840X1080) and high fidelity stereo audio. “We use the Northwest Logic CSI-2 Rx Controller Core to bring MIPI data into the Xilinx Artix-7 FPGA inside our PanaCast 2 camera” said Yashket Gupta, Lead Engineer, Hardware Design. Adding, “We found the core easy to work with and support is top notch”. Please click here for more info in PanaCast 2. Please click here for more info on Northwest Logic MIPI Solutions.
Rambus CMO Jerome Nadel recently sat down with The CMO Club to discuss the diverse origins of his marketing career. Similar to many of his peers, Nadel did not originally set out to become a marketer. Indeed, his background is in psychology and scientific research, both of which saliently continue to influence his marketing approach today.
Collaboration with Microsoft researchers focuses on enhancing memory capabilities to support quantum computing
SUNNYVALE, Calif. – December 17, 2015 – Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ: RMBS) today announced it will collaborate with Microsoft researchers in the exploration of future memory requirements for quantum computing. The expertise of Rambus in high-bandwidth, power-efficient memory architectures, combined with Microsoft researchers’ knowledge of advanced system and data center design will be applied to drive new technology platforms.
“Existing computer architectures are reaching limits due to the ever increasing demands of real-time data consumption, which is driving the need to explore new high-performance, energy-efficient computer systems,” said Gary Bronner, vice president of Rambus Labs. “By working with Microsoft on this project, we can leverage our vast expertise in memory systems to identify new architectural models.”
“We’ve been investing in projects that advance our understanding of quantum computing along with its applications and implementation,” said Douglas Carmean, Architect, Quantum Architectures and Computation Microsoft Research. “We are focusing on exploring theoretical and experimental approaches to creating quantum computers, designing software, hardware and other elements that support our research and direction. In this process, we are engaging with partners that have critical expertise, such as Rambus, to build new types of computing platforms.”
Rambus has a long history of researching and exploring emerging platforms, developing meaningful technologies with broad applicability. As part of this program, Rambus and Microsoft will pool resources to further examine potential architectures that can greatly enhance memory capabilities in various settings to improve overall system performance. Specific details of the project are confidential.
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Rambus has confirmed that it will be collaborating with Microsoft researchers to explore future memory requirements for quantum computing.
According to Rambus Labs VP Gary Bronner, existing computer architectures are reaching their limits due to the ever-increasing demands of real-time data consumption.
Ernest Worthman of Semiconductor Engineering recently described White Box Cryptography (WBC) as a “novel approach” that implements cryptography algorithms in software, rather than hardware.
“The idea is to keep the cryptographic assets secure against attacks, using code obfuscation,” he explained. “Essentially, a white box implementation is taking a key and creating, in software, a key-instantiated version where the key is hidden in the code.”
