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List of semiconductor IP core vendors

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The following is a list of major vendors in the business of licensing IP cores.

Contents

Analog-to-Digital Converters

  • S3 Group
  • Cadence Design Systems
  • Cosmic Circuits
  • Dolphin Integration
  • Omniphy
  • Synopsys
  • INVECAS
  • Omni Design Technologies

    • Broadband modem and error correction

  • Cadence Design Systems
  • CEVA, Inc.
  • IMEC
  • On2 Technologies (through acquisition of Hantro)
  • Synopsys (through acquisition of Virage Logic)
  • Tensilica (now part of Cadence Design Systems)

    • Cryptography and Security

  • Barco Silex
  • intoPIX
  • Malaysia Microelectronic Solutions Sdn Bhd
  • IntelliProp, Inc - AES-ECB, AES-XTS
  • Secure-IC

    • Digital to Analog Converters

  • S3 Group
  • Cadence Design Systems
  • Cosmic Circuits (now part of Cadence Design Systems)
  • Dolphin Integration
  • Omniphy
  • INVECAS

    • DRAM controllers

  • Actel
  • Altera
  • ARM
  • Barco Silex
  • Cadence Design Systems (through acquisition of Denali Software)
  • Eureka Technology
  • Faraday Technology
  • Lattice Semiconductor
  • Rambus
  • S3Craft Technologies
  • Synopsys
  • Xilinx

    • DRAM PHYs

  • ARM
  • Cadence Design Systems (through acquisition of Denali Software)
  • Synopsys (through acquisition of Virage Logic)
  • Omniphy
  • INVECAS

    • Hybrid Memory Cube - HMC Controllers

  • ChipStart
  • Pico Computing
  • Open-Silicon
  • University of Heidelberg

    • Hybrid Memory Cube - HMC PHYs

  • ChipStart
  • Omniphy
  • ARM (through acquisition of Dicentric and Sunrise Micro Devices)
  • Mindtree Technologies
  • CEVA

    • Ethernet PHY

  • ARM (through acquisition of Artisan Components)
  • Cadence Design Systems
  • MoSys, Inc.
  • Vitesse Semiconductor
  • Omniphy
  • INVECAS

    • V by One

  • Omniphy

    • General purpose microprocessors

  • Altera - Nios II
  • ARM - ARM
  • Cambridge Consultants - XAP
  • Cortus - APS1, APS3R, APS5, FPS6
  • CEVA, Inc. - CEVA-X DSP
  • Digital Blocks, Inc. - 8051 with Standard and Configurable Peripherals
  • Dolphin Integration - 8051, 80251
  • EnSilica - eSi-RISC
  • Freescale and others - ColdFire
  • IBM and others - PowerPC
  • Intel - x86 Atom
  • Imagination Technologies - MIPS
  • [MicroCore Labs] - MCL86 - 8086/8088 core (cycle compatible) & MCL51 - 8051 core
  • OpenCores - OpenRISC
  • Oregano Systems - 8051
  • Qualcomm - ARM
  • Renesas - SuperH
  • Sun Microsystems and others - OpenSPARC
  • Synopsys - ARC
  • Tensilica - Xtensa
  • Texas Instruments - MSP, ARM
  • Western Design Center - 6502, 65816, 65xx
  • Xilinx - MicroBlaze

    • HDMI

  • Silicon Image Inc.
  • Synopsys
  • Omniphy

    • CSI-2

  • BitSim AB - Bit-MIPI CSI-2 (serial camera interface)

    • ISP

  • Silicon Image Inc.

    • I/O pad libraries

  • ARM (through acquisition of Artisan Components)
  • Faraday Technology
  • Synopsys
  • TSMC
  • Aragio Solutions (Robust ESD, Small cells, multiple foundries)
  • INVECAS

    • Network Processing

  • InnoRoute - Ethernet, VLAN, IPv4, IPv6, EFM Bonding
  • Digital Blocks, Inc. - UDP, IPv4, IPv6, TCP, RTP Hardware IP Verilog Packet Processors

    • On-chip SRAMs

  • ARM (through acquisition of Artisan Components)
  • ChipStart
  • Dolphin Integration
  • M31 Technology
  • MoSys, Inc.
  • Synopsys (through acquisition of Virage Logic)
  • eSilicon
  • INVECAS

    • Peripheral Interconnect Controllers

  • Eureka Technology - PCI, AXI, AHB, SD, SDIO, eMMC
  • Digital Blocks, Inc. - AMBA AXI4, AXI3, AHB, APB

    • Phase Locked Loops (PLLs)

  • S3 Group
  • ARM (through acquisition of Artisan Components)
  • Cadence Design Systems
  • Cosmic Circuits
  • CEVA, Inc.
  • TSMC
  • INVECAS

    • Power Management

  • S3 Group
  • Cosmic Circuits
  • Dolphin Integration

    • Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) controllers

  • ASICS World Services, LTD
  • IntelliProp, Inc

    • Serial ATA (SATA) controllers

  • ASICS World Services, LTD
  • L&T Technology Services
  • CEVA, Inc.
  • IntelliProp, Inc
  • MoSys, Inc.
  • Synopsys Inc.

    • Standard cell libraries

  • ARM (through acquisition of Artisan Components)
  • ChipStart
  • Dolphin Integration
  • Faraday Technology
  • M31 Technology
  • Synopsys
  • INVECAS

    • Storage Controllers

  • Eureka Technology - SDRAM, DDR, NOR, NAND, eMMC
  • IntelliProp, Inc - NAND, eMMC

    • Switches/Routers

  • PacketArc - 1Gbit/s and 10Gbit/s Ethernet switches
  • Flexibilis - 1Gbit/s Ethernet switches

    • Video processors and computer graphics

  • ARM (through acquisition of Falanx and Logipard)
  • Vivante Corporation （offers GPU IP solutions for applications in the mobile, consumer, automotive, embedded, real time/mission critical, and home entertainment markets.）
  • Tata Elxsi - HEVC/H.264
  • Barco Silex - JPEG, JPEG2000, VC-2, MPEG-2, Video Over IP
  • AllegroDVT - HEVC/H.264
  • Alma Technologies - H.264, JPEG, JPEG2000
  • AMPHION Semiconductor - HEVC/H.265, AVC/H.264, JPEG, JPEG2000
  • CEVA, Inc.
  • Chips&Media
  • Google (through acquisition of On2 Technologies)
  • Imagination Technologies
  • intoPIX - JPEG2000, TICO, ST2022, AVB
  • NGCodec, Inc.
  • Silicon Image Inc.
  • Think Silicon Ltd — GPUs and Display Controllers for Wearables and IoT devices
  • videantis GmbH—Processor IP for computer vision and video coding
  • Digital Blocks, Inc. - TFT LCD Controller IP Verilog, 2D Graphics IP Verilog
  • BitSim AB - TFT LCD Controller IP VHDL, 2D Graphics and video IP VHDL

    • References

    List of semiconductor IP core vendors Wikipedia
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