List of semiconductor IP core vendors
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The following is a list of notable vendors in the business of licensing IP cores.
[[Artificial Intelligence]] / [[Machine Learning]] / [[General Matrix Multiply|GEMM]] Accelerators
- [http://Akeana.com Akeana]
[[Analog-to-digital converter]]s (ADC)
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 converter]]s (DAC)
- Cadence Design Systems
- Cosmic Circuits (now part of Cadence Design Systems)
- Dolphin Integration
- S3 Group
[[Digital signal processor]]s (DSP)
DRAM
=DRAM controllers=
- Actel
- Altera
- Arm Holdings
- Barco Silex
- Cadence Design Systems (through acquisition of Denali Software)
- Faraday Technology
- Lattice Semiconductor
- Rambus
- Synopsys
- Xilinx (acquired by AMD)
=DRAM PHYs=
- Arm Holdings
- Cadence Design Systems (through acquisition of Denali Software)
- Synopsys (through acquisition of Virage Logic)
=High-bandwidth memory - HBM PHYs=
=Hybrid memory cube - HMC Controllers=
- Open-Silicon
- University of Heidelberg{{cite web |title=Computer Architecture (1996-2021), chair of Computer Architecture Group, Prof. em. Ulrich Brüning |website=Heidelberg University, Institute of Computer Engineering (ZITI) |url=http://www.ziti.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research/em-cag.html |access-date=2024-08-20}}
Communication IP
=[[Network on a chip|Network-on-chip]] (NoC) / On-chip interconnect=
- [http://Akeana.com Akeana]
- Arteris IP
- Arm Holdings
=Bluetooth SW stack, link layer, and PHY=
- Arm Holdings (through acquisition of Dicentric and Sunrise Micro Devices)
=Ethernet PHY=
- Arm Holdings (through acquisition of Artisan Components)
- Cadence Design Systems
=[[V-by-One US|V-by-One]]=
- Socionext - HV Series
General-purpose [[microprocessor]]s
- [http://Akeana.com Akeana]
- Andes Technology, Codasip, SiFive, and others - RISC-V
- Arm Holdings - Arm Cortex and Neoverse processor cores
- CEVA, Inc. - CEVA-X DSP
- Dolphin Integration - 8051, 80251
- eSi-RISC - eSi-RISC
- Freescale and others - ColdFire
- IBM and others - PowerPC/Power ISA
- Infineon Technologies - TricoreA
- MIPS Technologies - MIPS architecture
- OpenCores - OpenRISC
- Renesas - SuperH
- 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 (acquired by AMD) - MicroBlaze
[[Graphics processing unit]]s (GPU)
FPGA
Embedded FPGA (eFPGA)
HDMI
ISP
I/O pad libraries
- Arm Holdings (through acquisition of Artisan Components)
- Faraday Technology
- Synopsys
- TSMC
On-chip SRAMs
- Arm Holdings (through acquisition of Artisan Components)
- Dolphin Integration
- eSilicon
- Synopsys (through acquisition of Virage Logic)
[[Phase-locked loop]]s (PLL)
- Arm Holdings (through acquisition of Artisan Components)
- Cadence Design Systems
- CEVA, Inc.
- Cosmic Circuits
- S3 Group
- TSMC
Power management
Serial ATA (SATA) controllers
Standard cell libraries
- Arm Holdings (through acquisition of Artisan Components)
- Faraday Technology
- NanGate
- Silvaco (through acquisition of Dolphin Integration's libraries)
- Synopsys
Video processors and computer graphics
- Arm Holdings (through acquisition of Falanx and Logipard)
- 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
- intoPIX - Specializes in lightweight low latency image, video and sensor compression, including JPEG XS IP, TicoRAW IP and others.
- Silicon Image
- Socionext - HEVC/H.265, SEERIS 2.5D Graphics IP
- Vivante Corporation (offers GPU IP solutions for applications in the mobile, consumer, automotive, embedded, real time/mission critical, and home entertainment markets.)