News - Press

Tiempo exhibits at EDS Fair 2010 (Jan 28-29, 2010, Yokohama, Japan)
  • Tiempo will exhihit at the 2010 EDS Fair in Yokohama (Japan), January 28-29, 2010. Come and visit our booth #107 to discover Tiempo breakthrough asynchronous design technology
  • Multiple demos of our IP cores will be presented, demonstrating the unmatched performances of our microcontoller and cryptoprocessor cores.
  • EDS Fair 2010 website
Tiempo exhibits at IP/ESC'09 (Dec. 1-3)
  • Tiempo will exhibit at the IP/ESC'09 conference. Come and visit our booth #13 to discover Tiempo breakthrough asynchronous design technology
  • Multiple demos of our IP cores will be presented, demonstrating the unmatched performances of our microcontoller and cryptoprocessor cores.
  • IP/ESC'09 website
SmartCards Trends Article
  • Read the cover page story about TIempo, "Contactless/security 'the' breakthrough", from the SmartCards Trends issued for the Cartes 2009 event.
  • Full article: here
  • Visit SmartCards Trends website.
  • Tiempo is demonstrating at the “Cartes 2009” event how its asynchronous design technology can dramatically improve processing speed for contactless applications with, as an illustration, a live demo of a secured PayPass™ transaction in which processing speed on the card is six times faster than industry implementations, showing a complete transaction in less than 60 ms.
  • Download full press release here
Tiempo exhibits at Cartes 2009 (November 17-19 2009)
  • Tiempo will exhibit at 'Cartes 2009' taking place in Paris, November 17-19. Come and visit us at booth 3D095 at the 'Village de l'innovation' for demos of our breakthrough low-power and highly secured asynchronous cryptoprocessor IPs and our asynchronous design technology.
  • Visit Cartes 2009 website
Tiempo listed in the EE Times 60 Emerging Silicon Startups
  • Tiempo joins the "EE Times 60 Emerging Silicon Startups" list for the latest update to version 9.0.
  • View article on EETimes here
TAM16 wins "Electron d'or 2009" award
  • TAM16, Tiempo asynchronous 16-bit microcontroller, wins the prestigious "Electron d'or" award by Electronique Magazine in the IP category.
  • Click here for the article (in French).
Tiempo exhibits at DAC 2009 (July 26-29). Visit us at booth 4104
  • Tiempo will exhibit at the 46th DAC taking place in San Francisco, July 26-29. Come and visit us at booth 4104 for real-time demos of our breakthrough low-power asynchronous microcontroller IP and our asynchronous design flow.
  • Tiempo will present its technology on the ICDC stage Monday 27, 2.30pm - 3.00pm. Click here for further details.
  • Visit DAC website
Ultra-low power 16-bit microcontroller core consumes less than 40 µA per MIPS
  • Tiempo announces its new chip, fully operational at first run, that silicon-proves its 16-bit microcontroller core IP – TAM16 – on a CMOS 130 nm general-purpose process. The chip logic has been entirely designed in Tiempo’s innovative asynchronous and delay insensitive technology
  • Full press release (PDF format)
Marc Renaudin editorial for Electronique (in French)
  • Aix en Provence, France, Oct 9th, 2008 : INSIDE Contactless, world leader in advanced contactless microprocessor platforms, and TIEMPO have announced a partnership for the design of a next generation chip product that incorporates asynchronous design technology.
  • Full press release (PDF format)
DES 4  : new fully-asynchronous low-power and secured crypto-processor chip
  • Press release (PDF format)
  • Four DES cores, fully asynchronous & delay-insensitive, with different levels of security
  • Each core is available as IP and executes standard ciphering algorithms DES, DES-1, 3DES and 3DES-1
  • Electrical characteristics (CMOS 130 nm technology):
    • Supply voltage range: 0.6 V to 1.2 V
    • Max. current peaks: 250 µA to 800 µA
    • Power consumption: 200 µA to 1 mA
    • DES execution time: 2,3 µs to 250 ns