List of semiconductor IP core vendors

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The following is a list of notable vendors in the business of licensing IP cores.
Analog-to-Digital Converters[edit]
 S3 Group
 Cadence Design Systems
 CoreHW
 Cosmic Circuits
 Dolphin Integration
 Synopsys
Broadband modem and error correction[edit]
 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[edit]
 S3 Group
 Cadence Design Systems
  CoreHW
 Cosmic Circuits (now part of Cadence Design Systems)
 Dolphin Integration
Digital Signal Processors[edit]
 Synopsys - ARC
 Tensilica - Xtensa (now part of Cadence Design Systems)
DRAM[edit]
DRAM controllers[edit]
 Actel
 Altera
 Arm
 Barco Silex
 Cadence Design Systems (through acquisition of Denali Software)
 Faraday Technology
 Lattice Semiconductor
 Rambus
 Synopsys
 Xilinx
DRAM PHYs[edit]
 Arm
 Cadence Design Systems (through acquisition of Denali Software)
 Synopsys (through acquisition of Virage Logic)
High-Bandwidth Memory - HBM PHYs[edit]
 eSilicon
 Rambus
 Synopsys
Hybrid Memory Cube - HMC Controllers[edit]
 Open-Silicon
 University of Heidelberg[1]
Communication IP[edit]
Network-on-Chip (NoC) / On-Chip Interconnect[edit]
 Arteris IP
 Arm
Bluetooth SW Stack, Link Layer and PHY[edit]
 Arm (through acquisition of Dicentric and Sunrise Micro Devices)
Ethernet PHY[edit]
  Arm (through acquisition of Artisan Components)
 Cadence Design Systems
V by One[edit]
 Socionext - HV Series
General purpose microprocessors[edit]
 Arm - 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 - Tricore
 MIPS - MIPS
 OpenCores - OpenRISC
 Renesas - SuperH
 Andes Technology, Codasip, SiFive and others - RISC-V
 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 - MicroBlaze
Graphic Processing Units (GPUs)[edit]
 AMD
 Arm
 Imagination Technologies
 Intel
 NVidia
FPGA[edit]
 Xilinx
 Altera
HDMI[edit]
 Silicon Image Inc.
 Synopsys
ISP[edit]
 Silicon Image Inc.
 Socionext - Milbeaut
I/O pad libraries[edit]
 Arm (through acquisition of Artisan Components)
 Faraday Technology
 Synopsys
 TSMC
On-chip SRAMs[edit]
 Arm (through acquisition of Artisan Components)
 Dolphin Integration
 Synopsys (through acquisition of Virage Logic)
 eSilicon
Phase Locked Loops (PLLs)[edit]
 S3 Group
 Arm (through acquisition of Artisan Components)
 Cadence Design Systems
 CoreHW
 Cosmic Circuits
 CEVA, Inc.
 TSMC
Power Management[edit]
 S3 Group
 CoreHW
 Cosmic Circuits
 Dolphin Integration
 SiliconGate Lda
Serial ATA (SATA) controllers[edit]
 CEVA, Inc.
 Synopsys Inc.
Standard cell libraries[edit]
 Arm (through acquisition of Artisan Components)
 Silvaco (through acquisition of Dolphin Integration's libraries)
 Faraday Technology
 Synopsys
 NanGate
Video processors and computer graphics[edit]
 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 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 Inc.
 Socionext - HEVC/H.265, SEERIS 2.5D Graphics IP