News - Press
Jul 2010: e-Smart conference, SmartEvent'10, Sept. 23rd in Sophia, France
- Marc Renaudin, Tiempo CTO, will be presenting the breakthrough benefits of asynchronous design for smart security at the e-Smart conference of the SmartEvent'10, Thursday Sept 23rd in Sophia Antipolis, France.
Marc will adress the following topics:- Asynchronous designs: a major breakthrough leading to unprecedented performances
- Substantial gains in power consumption
- Innovation leading to proven better resistance against hardware attacks
- SmartEvent'10 website and program
Jul 2010: DAC 2010 Report from the Floor by Gabe Moretti
- Read on EDACafé a report of the DAC 2010 by Gabe Moretti who shares his "take-aways" from the show floor, noting in particular that Tiempo is "an interesting startup"!
Jun 2010: Tiempo names Steve Svoboda as VP Business Development for North America
- Tiempo today announced it has named EDA industry veteran Steve Svoboda as Vice President of Business Development. Svoboda will oversee the company's expansion into the North American market, including opening a Silicon Valley-based office to service semiconductor and systems companies requiring next-generation low power solutions.
- Read full Press Release
Jun 2010: Is Asynchronous Technology Ready For Prime Time? by Ann Steffora Mutschler
- Read an article by Ann Steffora Mutschler from the Low-Power Engineering community of Chip Design Mag, taking a look at the growing demand for asynchronous design technology: Is Asynchronous Technology Ready For Prime Time?
Jun 2010: Tiempo Unveils First Timing-Driven Design Flow for its Innovative Clockless Chip Design Technology
- Tiempo demonstrates at DAC 2010, the ability of its asynchronous flow to support standard timing constraints enabling the design of fast asynchronous circuits with low-power
- Come and see our demos at DAC2010, booth #710
- Download full press release here
May 2010: ESC review by Ron Wilson from EDN
- Read a review of the Embedded System Conference by Ron Wilson (from EDN) who shares his observations about the conference.
May 2010: Tiempo exhibits at DAC 2010 (June 13-18). Visit us at booth #710
- Tiempo will exhibit at the 47th DAC taking place in Anaheim, June 13-18. Come and visit us at booth #710 for real-time demos of our breakthrough low-power asynchronous microcontroller IP and our asynchronous design flow.
- Visit DAC website
Apr 2010: Tiempo exhibits at ESC2010 (April 26-29, San Jose, USA)
- Tiempo will exhihit at the 010, Embedded System Conference in San Jose (USA), April 26-29, 2010. Come and visit our booth #3132 (shared with the Minalogic semiconductor cluster) 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.
- For more information, visit ESC conference website
Mar 2010: Constellations Conference - Silicon Valley 2010
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Join the Constellations Conference - Silicon Valley 2010 taking place in Santa Clara (CA), Wednesday, March 31st, 2010 from 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM and co-organized by Tiempo.
The conference will deliver valuable information regarding IP acquisition and development through IP panel discussions and will include a keynote speech by one of the industry's most visionary and colorful veterans, Jim Hogan. It will also be the opportunity to hear about Tiempo latest products and to meet our team.
You can register at the following page: http://constellations2010.eventbrite.com/
Dec 2009: 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
Nov 2009: 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
Nov 2009: SmartCards Trends Article
Nov 2009: Tiempo demonstrates breakthrough performance for contactless secured applications at Cartes 2009, improving processing speed by 6
- 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
Nov 2009: 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
Oct 2009: 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
Jun 2009: Tiempo raises 5 million Euros ($7 million) in Series B funding
Jun 2009: Tiempo demonstrates the first asynchronous synthesis tool using standard languages at DAC 2009
Jun 2009: 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).
Jun 2009: 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
Mar 2009: Tiempo founding member of IPextreme Constellations program
Nov 2008: 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)
Nov 2008: Marc Renaudin editorial for Electronique (in French)
- Editorial from Electronique, Nov 2008
Oct 2008: INSIDE Contactless and TIEMPO announce Partnership on Next Generation Chip Product
- 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)
Jun 2008: DES4 : 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

