Category Archives: Asides

Triad Semiconductor ARM Cortex-M0 Announcement – almost there

We are only a day and a half away from some exciting news about Triad Semiconductor and ARM’s newest low power, low area, high performance Cortex M0 core. Check back early Monday morning!

Swift Mocha (I want some…)

Check back on February 23rd for exciting news about Triad’s newest VCAs.

Swift – Sleeping on the Wing

Swift
Yes, a Swift (the bird) can actually ‘sleep’ while in flight. Now, that’s an extremely interesting metaphor for power-aware applications. Seems that technology that is Swift-like would have the ability to effortlessly go back and forth between high-performance compute intensive operation and deep-sleep power savings modes. TRIAD seems pretty Swift-like when you think about it…(check [...]

ARM Hints at new low-cost Swift Core

From recent press releases it looks like ARM is providing information about a new Cortex range processor named Swift and Sparrow…(TRIAD’s ARM Powered VCAs)
ARM Holdings plc (Cambridge, England), a licensor of processor-related intellectual property, has disclosed plans for processor cores to be introduced into its Cortex range, codenamed Swift and Sparrow.
Swift is a low-cost, low-power [...]

Chip Design Magazine Article: Configurable Power Management ASICs

Triad Semiconductor’s Reid Wender writes about Configurable Power Management ASICs in this recent article in Chip Design Magazine.