List of semiconductor IP core vendors

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

Analog-to-Digital Converters

• S3 Group
• Cadence Design Systems
• Cosmic Circuits
• Dolphin Integration

Broadband modem and error correction

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

Digital to Analog Converters

• S3 Group
• Cadence Design Systems
• Cosmic Circuits
• Dolphin Integration

DRAM interfaces

DRAM controllers

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

DRAM PHYs

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

Ethernet PHYs

• ARM Ltd (through acquisition of Artisan Components)
• Cadence Design Systems
• MoSys, Inc.

General purpose microprocessors

• Altera - Nios II
• ARM Ltd - ARM
• Cambridge Consultants - XAP
• Cortus - APS1, APS3R, APS5, FPS6
• CEVA, Inc. - CEVA-X DSP
• Dolphin Integration - 8051, 80251
• EnSilica - eSi-RISC
• Freescale and others - ColdFire
• IBM and others - PowerPC
• Intel - x86 Atom
• Imagination Technologies - MIPS
• OpenCores - OpenRISC
• Renesas - SuperH
• Sun Microsystems and others - OpenSPARC
• Synopsys - ARC
• Tensilica - Xtensa
• Xilinx - MicroBlaze

HDMI

• Silicon Image Inc.
• Synopsys

ISP

• Silicon Image Inc.

I/O pad libraries

• ARM Ltd (through acquisition of Artisan Components)
• Faraday Technology
• Synopsys
• TSMC

On-chip SRAMs

• ARM Ltd (through acquisition of Artisan Components)
• Dolphin Integration
• MoSys, Inc.
• Synopsys (through acquisition of Virage Logic)

Peripheral Interconnect Controllers

• Eureka Technology - PCI, AXI, AHB, SD, SDIO, eMMC
• Mobiveil Inc. (PCI Express, Serial RapidIO, Ethernet, Bridges & Switches)

Phase Locked Loops (PLLs)

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

Power Management

• S3 Group
• Cosmic Circuits
• Dolphin Integration

Serial ATA (SATA) controllers

• CEVA, Inc.
• MoSys, Inc.
• Synopsys Inc.

Standard cell libraries

• ARM Ltd (through acquisition of Artisan Components)
• Dolphin Integration
• Faraday Technology
• Synopsys

Storage Controllers

• Eureka Technology - SDRAM, DDR, NOR, NAND, eMMC
• Mobiveil Inc. (NVM Express, NAND, NOR)

Video processors and computer graphics

• ARM (through acquisition of Falanx and Logipard)
• AllegroDVT - HEVC/H.264
• CEVA, Inc.
• Chips&Media
• Google (through acquisition of On2 Technologies)
• Imagination Technologies
• NGCodec, Inc.
• Silicon Image Inc.