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    Interface Protocols, USB3, PCI Express, MIPI, SATA… the winners and losers in 2012 

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    Eric Esteve
    Published on 01-08-2013 03:25 AM  Number of Views: 3834 
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    Who makes the decision and declare that a specific interface protocol is successful? Not me, as I can only consolidate market share data and some insight information coming from the industry. The end user, when going to a shop (real or virtual) and spend a significant part of his budget to buy an electronic product, selecting among hundreds, will eventually decide for the success of a certain feature (SuperSpeed USB, HDMI or ThunderBolt). But, if you wait for the success of this feature on the mainstream market to integrate it into your system (OEM), your SoC (chip maker) or your IP portfolio (EDA/IP vendor), then you are respectively 12/18 months, 2 years or more late…
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    High Speed PHY Interfacing with SSIC, UFS or PCI express in Smartphone, Media tablet and Ultrabook at Lower Power 

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    Eric Esteve
    Published on 09-19-2012 08:54 AM
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    We have recently commented the announcement from MIPI Alliance and PCI-SIG, allowing PCI Express to be used in martphone, Media tablet and Ultrabook, while keeping decent power consumption, compatible with these mobile devices. The secret sauce is in the High Speed SerDes function selected to interface with these high data bandwidth protocol controller, like SuperSpeed USB Inter Chip (SSIC) from USB-IF, Universal Flash Storage from JEDEC and PCIe from PCI-SIG. The second PHY defined by MIPI ...
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    PCI express WILL be used in Smartphone and Media Tablet… opening infinity of new opportunities 

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    Eric Esteve
    Published on 09-18-2012 10:24 AM  Number of Views: 2284 
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    Looking at the various Interface protocols like HDMI, SuperSpeed USB, Universal Flash Storage (UFS) or even SATA integrated in Application Processor for smartphone and media tablet, one extremely powerful Interface protocol, already in use in electronic systems from various market segments from PC, PC Peripherals, Networking, Computing, Embedded to Test Equipment (and I forgot probably some), was still banned from Mobile application, due to the high power consumption of the PCIe ...
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    Interface IP (USB, PCIe, SATA, HDMI, MIPI, DDRn,…) Survey : the Introduction 

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    Eric Esteve
    Published on 09-11-2012 08:00 AM  Number of Views: 2055 
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    The need to exchange larger and larger amount of data from system to the external world, or internally into an application, has pushed for the standardization of interconnect protocol. This allows interconnecting different Integrated Circuits (IC) coming from different vendors. Some protocols have been defined to best fit certain types of applications, like Serial ATA (SATA) for Storage, and certain protocols are covering ...
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    A brief history of Interface IP, the 4th version of IPNEST Survey 

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    Eric Esteve
    Published on 09-07-2012 03:17 AM  Number of Views: 2068 
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    The industry is moving extremely fast to change the "old" way to interconnect devices using parallel bus, to the most efficient approach based on High Speed Serial Interconnect (HSSI) protocols. The use of HSSI has become the preferred solution compared with the use of parallel busses for new products developed across various segments. These new Interface functions are differentiated from the parallel bus based Interface like PCI by the use of High Speed Serial I/O, based ...
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    Don’t go to Mobile World Congress without “MIPI IP Forecast 2011-2016”! 

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    Eric Esteve
    Published on 02-22-2012 07:48 AM  Number of Views: 2352 
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    And if, like me, you don’t go to MWC, that’s the right time to get your version of the MIPI IP survey, the 3rd version since the first launch in 2010, because IPNEST will give you a good reason to buy it during MWC: you will get it at a lower price. That will apply now and during the event, but only from today, and up to the 3rd of March… But let's have a look at the latest status about MIPI. MIPI is hot, MIPI is coming to the mainstream, don't miss it!

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    Silicon IP has taken over CAE in EDAC results… showing how bad have been analyst in forecasting the IP market! 

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    Eric Esteve
    Published on 01-16-2012 06:10 AM  Number of Views: 1805 
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    Thanks to Paul, who has shared EDAC results for Q3 2011, we can see that Silicon IP has definitely passed CAE revenue! It does not appears clearly ($410 million for IP, 566.7 for CAE), but when you consider that ARM, among many other IP vendors, is not part of EDAC, it’s easy to see that SIP revenue is higher than CAE (ARM revenue for 2010 were $632 million; just add $158 million to $410 and you are done).
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