List of semiconductor IP core vendors
The following is a list of notable vendors in the business of licensing IP cores.
Analog-to-digital converters (ADC)
- Cadence Design Systems
- Cosmic Circuits
- Dolphin Integration
- S3 Group
- Synopsys
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)
Digital-to-analog converters (DAC)
- Cadence Design Systems
- Cosmic Circuits (now part of Cadence Design Systems)
- Dolphin Integration
- S3 Group
Digital signal processors (DSP)
- Synopsys - ARC
- Tensilica - Xtensa (now part of Cadence Design Systems)
DRAM
DRAM controllers
- Actel
- Altera
- Arm Holdings
- Barco Silex
- Cadence Design Systems (through acquisition of Denali Software)
- Faraday Technology
- Lattice Semiconductor
- Rambus
- Synopsys
- Xilinx (acquired by AMD)
DRAM PHYs
- Arm Holdings
- Cadence Design Systems (through acquisition of Denali Software)
- Synopsys (through acquisition of Virage Logic)
High-bandwidth memory - HBM PHYs
Hybrid memory cube - HMC Controllers
Communication IP
Network-on-chip (NoC) / On-chip interconnect
Bluetooth SW stack, link layer, and PHY
- Arm Holdings (through acquisition of Dicentric and Sunrise Micro Devices)
Ethernet PHY
- Arm Holdings (through acquisition of Artisan Components)
- Cadence Design Systems
- Socionext - HV Series
General-purpose microprocessors
- Andes Technology, Codasip, SiFive, and others - RISC-V
- Arm Holdings - arm Cortex and Neoverse processors
- CEVA, Inc. - CEVA-X DSP
- Dolphin Integration - 8051, 80251
- eSi-RISC - eSi-RISC
- Freescale and others - ColdFire
- IBM and others - PowerPC
- Infineon Technologies - TricoreA
- MIPS Technologies - MIPS architecture
- OpenCores - OpenRISC
- Renesas - SuperH
- Socionext - Fujitsu FR
- Sun Microsystems and others - OpenSPARC
- Synopsys - ARC
- Tensilica - Xtensa (now part of Cadence Design Systems)
- Western Design Center - 6502, 65816, 65xx
- Xilinx (acquired by AMD) - MicroBlaze
FPGA
Embedded FPGA (eFPGA)
- Menta SAS
HDMI
ISP
I/O pad libraries
- Arm Holdings (through acquisition of Artisan Components)
- Faraday Technology
- Synopsys
- TSMC
On-chip SRAMs
- Arm Holdings (through acquisition of Artisan Components)
- Dolphin Integration
- eSilicon
- Synopsys (through acquisition of Virage Logic)
Phase-locked loops (PLL)
- Arm Holdings (through acquisition of Artisan Components)
- Cadence Design Systems
- CEVA, Inc.
- Cosmic Circuits
- S3 Group
- TSMC
Power management
- S3 Group
- Cosmic Circuits
- Dolphin Integration
- SiliconGate Lda
Serial ATA (SATA) controllers
Standard cell libraries
- Arm Holdings (through acquisition of Artisan Components)
- Faraday Technology
- NanGate
- Silvaco (through acquisition of Dolphin Integration's libraries)
- Synopsys
Video processors and computer graphics
- Arm Holdings (through acquisition of Falanx and Logipard)
- CEVA, Inc.
- Chips&Media Specializes in video codecs, image signal processing, and deep learning-based computer vision system (super-resolution).
- Google (through acquisition of On2 Technologies)
- Imagination Technologies
- Silicon Image
- Socionext - HEVC/H.265, SEERIS 2.5D Graphics IP
- Vivante Corporation (offers GPU IP solutions for applications in the mobile, consumer, automotive, embedded, real time/mission critical, and home entertainment markets.)
References
- ^ "Computer Architecture (1996-2021), chair of Computer Architecture Group, Prof. em. Ulrich Brüning". Heidelberg University, Institute of Computer Engineering (ZITI). Retrieved 2024-08-20.
