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
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 ($7 million) in Series B funding
Jun 2009: Tiempo demonstrates the first asynchronous synthesis tool using standard languages at DAC 2009
Jun 2009: TAM16 wins "Electron d'or 2009" award
- TAM16, Tiempo asynchronous 16-bit microcontroller, wins the prestigious "Electron d'or" award by Electronique Magazine in the IP category.
- Click here for the article (in French).
Mar 2009: Tiempo founding member of IPextreme Constellations program
Nov 2008: Ultra-low power 16-bit microcontroller core consumes less than 40 µA per MIPS
- Tiempo announces its new chip, fully operational at first run, that silicon-proves its 16-bit microcontroller core IP – TAM16 – on a CMOS 130 nm general-purpose process. The chip logic has been entirely designed in Tiempo’s innovative asynchronous and delay insensitive technology
- Full press release (PDF format)
Oct 2008: INSIDE Contactless and TIEMPO announce Partnership on Next Generation Chip Product
- Aix en Provence, France, Oct 9th, 2008 : INSIDE Contactless, world leader in advanced contactless microprocessor platforms, and TIEMPO have announced a partnership for the design of a next generation chip product that incorporates asynchronous design technology.
- Full press release (PDF format)
Jun 2008: DES4 : new fully-asynchronous low-power and secured crypto-processor chip
- Press release (PDF format)
- Four DES cores, fully asynchronous & delay-insensitive, with different levels of security
- Each core is available as IP and executes standard ciphering algorithms DES, DES-1, 3DES and 3DES-1
- Electrical characteristics (CMOS 130 nm technology):
- Supply voltage range: 0.6 V to 1.2 V
- Max. current peaks: 250 µA to 800 µA
- Power consumption: 200 µA to 1 mA
- DES execution time: 2,3 µs to 250 ns
Feb 2008: Tiempo closes a first round of funding at 1.1 M€ (1.6 M$)
