Traded as Private Products Microprocessor designs Headquarters Montpellier | Industry Semiconductors Website www.cortus.com Founded 27 November 2005 | |
Founders Michael Chapman, Duc Nguyen Huu Key people Michael Chapman (CEO), Duc Nguyen Huu (General Manager) Type of business Société par actions simplifiée | ||
Cortus SAS is a French semiconductor and IP design company headquartered in Montpellier, France. It focuses on developing microprocessor IP for embedded systems.
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Technology
A specific feature of the processors from Cortus is their low silicon footprint, low power consumption and code density.
To date Cortus have released two families of processors, their initial 32 bit processors with a mixed 16/32 bit instruction set and a later family with 16/24/32 bit instructions.
APS3
This was the first processor released by Cortus, it has now been superseded by the APS3R.
APS1, APS3R, APS5, FPS6
These are members of the initial family of processors with mixed 16/32 bit instruction lengths. The FPS6 offers hardware floating point.
APS23, APS25, FPS26
These are member of the second generation of processors with 16/24/32 bit instruction lengths. This gives better code density at the expense of silicon footprint, these processors are marginally larger compared to their equivalents in the first family of processors from Cortus.
Fabless
Cortus uses the fabless model but foundries such as Angstrem-T implement SoCs containing Cortus cores.
Locations
The headquarters is based in Montpellier, France but there are branch offices in Sunnyvale (California), USA and in Korea and smaller offices in Germany, Taiwan and the UK.