List of semiconductor IP core vendors
The following is a list of major vendors in the business of licensing IP cores. The top semiconductor IP vendors in the World are Arm, Synopsys, Imagination Technologies and Cadence Design Systems.[1]
Analog-to-Digital Converters
- S3 Group
- Cadence Design Systems
- Cosmic Circuits
- Dolphin Integration
- Synopsys
- 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)
Digital to Analog Converters
- S3 Group
- Cadence Design Systems
- Cosmic Circuits (now part of Cadence Design Systems)
- Dolphin Integration
DRAM
DRAM controllers
- Actel
- Altera
- Arm
- Barco Silex
- Cadence Design Systems (through acquisition of Denali Software)
- Faraday Technology
- Lattice Semiconductor
- Rambus
- Synopsys
- Xilinx
DRAM PHYs
- Arm
- 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
Bluetooth SW Stack, Link Layer and PHY
- Arm (through acquisition of Dicentric and Sunrise Micro Devices)
Ethernet PHY
- Arm (through acquisition of Artisan Components)
- Cadence Design Systems
V by One
- Socionext - HV Series
General purpose microprocessors
- Arm - Arm Cortex and Neoverse processors
- Cortus - APS1, APS3R, APS5, FPS6
- CEVA, Inc. - CEVA-X DSP
- Dolphin Integration - 8051, 80251
- eSi-RISC - eSi-RISC
- Freescale and others - ColdFire
- IBM and others - PowerPC
- Infineon Technologies - Tricore
- Intel - x86 Atom, Nios II
- Imagination Technologies - MIPS
- OpenCores - OpenRISC
- Qualcomm - Arm
- Renesas - SuperH
- Socionext - Fujitsu_FR
- STMicroelectronics - Arm
- Sun Microsystems and others - OpenSPARC
- Synopsys - ARC
- Tensilica - Xtensa
- Texas Instruments - MSP, Arm
- Western Design Center - 6502, 65816, 65xx
- Xilinx - MicroBlaze
HDMI
ISP
I/O pad libraries
- Arm (through acquisition of Artisan Components)
- Faraday Technology
- Synopsys
- TSMC
On-chip SRAMs
- Arm (through acquisition of Artisan Components)
- Dolphin Integration
- Synopsys (through acquisition of Virage Logic)
- eSilicon
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)
- Dolphin Integration
- Faraday Technology
- Synopsys
- NanGate
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.）
- CEVA, Inc.
- Chips&Media
- Google (through acquisition of On2 Technologies)
- Imagination Technologies
- Silicon Image Inc.
- Socionext - HEVC/H.265, SEERIS 2.5D Graphics IP
References
- ^ https://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/mannerisms/ten-best/top-ten-ip-companies-2017-07/
- ^ Neuwirth, (c) 2014, Sarah. "Computer Architecture Group - Prof. Dr. U. Brüning". ra.ziti.uni-heidelberg.de.
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