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[]

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

• 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[]

• eSilicon
• Rambus
• Synopsys

Hybrid Memory Cube - HMC Controllers[]

• Open-Silicon
• University of Heidelberg^[1]

Communication IP[]

Network-on-Chip (NoC) / On-Chip Interconnect[]

• Arteris IP
• Arm

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
• 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[]

• Silicon Image Inc.
• Synopsys

ISP[]

• Silicon Image Inc.
• Socionext - Milbeaut

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[]

• S3 Group
• Cosmic Circuits
• Dolphin Integration

Serial ATA (SATA) controllers[]

• CEVA, Inc.
• Synopsys Inc.

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 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

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