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.
Analog-to-Digital Converters
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
- S3 Group
- Cadence Design Systems
- Cosmic Circuits (now part of Cadence Design Systems)
- Dolphin Integration
Memory Interfaces
DRAM controllers
- Actel
- Altera
- ARM
- Barco Silex
- Cadence Design Systems (through acquisition of Denali Software)
- Eureka Technology
- Faraday Technology
- Lattice Semiconductor
- Rambus
- Synopsys
- Xilinx
DRAM PHYs
- ARM
- Cadence Design Systems (through acquisition of Denali Software)
- Synopsys (through acquisition of Virage Logic)
Hybrid Memory Cube - HMC Controllers
Hybrid Memory Cube - HMC PHYs
Ethernet PHYs
- ARM (through acquisition of Artisan Components)
- Cadence Design Systems
- MoSys, Inc.
- Vitesse Semiconductor
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
- OpenCores - OpenRISC
- Oregano Systems - 8051
- Renesas - SuperH
- Sun Microsystems and others - OpenSPARC
- Synopsys - ARC
- Tensilica - Xtensa
- Xilinx - MicroBlaze
HDMI
ISP
I/O pad libraries
- ARM (through acquisition of Artisan Components)
- Faraday Technology
- Synopsys
- TSMC
- Aragio Solutions (Robust ESD, Small cells, multiple foundries)
On-chip SRAMs
- ARM (through acquisition of Artisan Components)
- ChipStart
- Dolphin Integration
- MoSys, Inc.
- Synopsys (through acquisition of Virage Logic)
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
Power Management
Serial ATA (SATA) controllers
Standard cell libraries
- ARM (through acquisition of Artisan Components)
- ChipStart
- Dolphin Integration
- Faraday Technology
- Synopsys
Storage Controllers
- Eureka Technology - SDRAM, DDR, NOR, NAND, eMMC
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
- AllegroDVT - HEVC/H.264
- CEVA, Inc.
- Chips&Media
- Google (through acquisition of On2 Technologies)
- Imagination Technologies
- NGCodec, Inc.
- Silicon Image Inc.
- Digital Blocks, Inc. - TFT LCD Controller IP Verilog, 2D Graphics IP Verilog