Membership List

OCP-IP members may choose to post a company description and Web site link in this section of our Web site. Below are some of OCP-IP's members, listed in alphabetical order. Please note that OCP-IP makes no representations for services or products included on this page.

Members: A-G | H-S | T-Z

| H | I | J| K| L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S |

HCL Technologies

HCL Technologies is one of India’s leading global IT Services companies, providing software-led IT solutions, remote infrastructure management services and BPO. HCL Technologies specializes in 'spec to silicon’ ASIC, FPGA and Embedded Solutions. We are an independent design house focused on designing high-performance hardware engineering solutions. Our robust processes, development methodology, expertise in complete system engineering including Analog and Mixed Signal Design, ASIC, FPGA, ESL (Electronic System Level), Board Design & Firmware have enabled our customers to improve the design cycle and achieve faster go to market. We also bring to the table understanding of the OCP-IP specifications having used a number of OCP TL models in ESL platform modeling projects.


HDL Design House

HDL Design House (HDL DH) is a company providing OCP based IP cores optimized for today's SOC designs. HDL DH's experienced team has worked on different SOC projects for major DSP solution providers. The company's capabilities include design, verification, ATPG/BIST, emulation, SOC top level validation and silicon validation. HDL DH provides customers with various design and verification services for SOC projects.


HDL Dynamics

Originally chartered in 2000 as an IP and tools development consulting and business vehicle, HDL Dynamics has refocused in 2007 to address opportunities in emerging areas in SoC and multi-core infrastructure and development. 


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Hughes Network Systems

Hughes Network Systems, through its DIRECWAY products and services, is the world's leading provider of satellite network solutions provider. HNS is also a leading manufacturer of DIRECTV receiving equipment. Currently, HNS is developing the next-generation satellite broadband platform, SPACEWAY, which is anticipated to begin service in North America by mid-2004. Custom ASICs used in SPACEWAY terminals use OCP technology.


Icera Inc.

Icera is enabling a new era in low power communication devices with a breakthrough technology that delivers unprecedented flexibility combined with dramatic power savings to wireless terminal devices.


Icron Technologies

Icron® is the global leader in extended range USB (Universal Serial Bus) connectivity solutions for industrial and commercial computer markets worldwide. Icron's products are protected by patents and are the only extended range USB products that have been approved by the USB Implementers Forum - the industry body that controls USB technology.



IDT

IDT is a global leader in preemptive semiconductor solutions that accelerate packet processing for advanced network services. IDT serves communications equipment vendors by applying its advanced hardware, software and memory technologies to create flexible, highly integrated products that enhance the functionality and processing of network equipment. IDT accelerates intelligent packet processing with products such as network search engines (NSEs), programmable content inspection engines (CIEs), flow-control management (FCM) ICs and its family of Interpriseô integrated communications processors. The portfolio also comprises products optimized for communications applications, including telecom products, FIFOs, multi-ports, and clock management products. In addition, the product mix includes high-performance digital logic and high-speed SRAMs to meet the requirements of leading communications companies.


Imagination Technologies

Imagination Technologies is a leading technology licensing company, developing core intellectual property (IP) for the digital world. The company develops 2D/3D graphics, digital signal processing, video, audio and speech technologies and license this IP to global semiconductor and system companies. Our technologies are used in mobile devices, in-car information/entertainment systems, digital set-top boxes, arcade entertainment machines, games consoles and PCs, and define the way people and computers interact, making the digital world more controllable, productive, immediate and fun.


Infineon Technologies

Infineon Technologies AG, Munich, Germany, offers semiconductor and system solutions for the automotive and industrial sectors, for applications in the wired communications markets, secure mobile solutions as well as memory products. With a global presence, Infineon operates in the US from San Jose, CA, in the Asia-Pacific region from Singapore and in Japan from Tokyo. In fiscal year 2003 (ending September), the company achieved sales of Euro 6.15 billion with about 32,300 employees worldwide. Infineon is listed on the DAX index of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and on the New York Stock Exchange (ticker symbol: IFX).


SoC Technology Center/Industrial Technology Research Institute(STC/ITRI)

ITRI is a non-profit R&D organization engaging in applied research and technical service. STC, one of ITRIís groups, is engaged in five key R&D subjects: DSP Processor Core, Multimedia SoC, RF/Mixed-Signal IC, Low Power Design Technology, IC Design & Test Service. STC aims to initiate a new era for the semiconductor industry, helping Taiwan to become a global SoC design and service center through the infusion of technology R&D and industrial service.


INICORE

Inicore Inc. is a full-service system design house providing FPGA and ASIC solutions, from specification to fully tested silicon. The company's knowledge in architecture, intellectual property, methodology and tool handling provides a complete design environment that helps customers shorten their design cycle and speed time to market. Our offering covers feasibility study, concept analysis, architecture definition, code generation and implementation. When ready, we deliver you a FPGA or take your design to an ASIC provider, whatever is more suitable for your unique solution. Inicore expertise is in the areas of, industrial and building control, automotive, communication and consumer goods, medical instrumentation and data acquisition using micro.controller and DSPs.


Inventure

Inventure, Inc., founded in April 2006, offers IP core solutions. These products, named Z-core, are inherited from the SOC Division of Zuken, Inc.  Solutions mainly consist of licensing, implementation consulting, designing support kits and device IP integration based on our implementation platform for products such as PCI-Express, Giga Ethernet MAC and Interconnect.

All IP core products are compliant with OCP-IP.


Jasper Design Automation

Jasper Design Automation is a privately-held Electronic Design Automation (EDA) company with a mission of making formal IC verification a competitive advantage for its customers. The company's flagship product, JasperGold Verification System, is the first verification product to deliver systematic complete verification, by proving that complex IC design blocks meet high-level requirements defined in their specifications. JasperGold also pre-verifies IP blocks for use under all usage modes, without any testbench development. JasperGold automatically isolates bugs with a fast, unique debugging capability, and then proves the absence of bugs, trimming crucial months off design schedules.


Jeda Technologies

Jeda Technologies is a privately held EDA company that addresses the challenges of verifying ESL based designs. Our products enable engineers to effectively and efficiently identify errors during the System and RTL design phases, resulting in increased design confidence while shortening the verification cycle.
Jeda Technologiesís flagship product is NSCa. NSCa is the first purpose-built native Assertion Based Verification product for System level models written in SystemC. NSCa empowers verification in system level design flow. As an integrated verification solution, NSCa provides the capability to verify designs from System level down to RTL.
Jeda Technologies was founded in December 2002 by veteran technologists with combined experience in hardware design, verification and EDA tool development. The company is headquartered in Los Altos, California with funding from CSVC and Juniper Networks Founders and Executives.


Jetstream Media Technologies

Jetstream Media Technologies is leading the industry with innovative silicon intellectual property (SIP) solutions that enhance the consumer experience. The company's patent-pending PerfectTransformTM architecture allows manufactures to incorporate sophisticated video effects capabilities directly into today's consumer electronic devices. By bringing the power of PC video effects editing capabilities into an IP module, Jetstream Media Technologies will transform the consumer experience and help electronic manufactures create the digital family room.


Kaben Research


Kaben Research is an Intellectual Property (IP) company focused on design, development,
and licensing of mixed-signal building blocks that are key to creating future System-On-a-Chip (SoC) products.




Kawasaki Microelectronics


KETI

Korea Electronics Technology Institute (KETI) is a national research institute under the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy of the Korean Government. Since its establishment in 1991, KETI has been in the vanguard of the Korean electronics industry and has led the technology innovation in the area. It has been spearheading the development of the electronics, information and communication industry of Korea through R&D of high technologies, commercialization of R&D outputs and providing support to venture, small and medium businesses.


IP DB Center of SoC(IPCoS), established and funded by the MOCIE's SI2010 program, is  a IP database center established in KETI with the purpose of facilitating IP/SoC industry. By providing the necessary support to make  "Standardization & Commercialization of IP", the center aims to be the leading IP database service center in the world.




Leiden University

Since 1949, Astron (Netherlands Foundation for Research in Astronomy, www.astron.nl) provides front-line observing capabilities for Dutch and international astronomers across a broad range of frequencies and techniques to enable discovery in astronomy. LIACS (Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science) is one of the forty research institutes of the University of Leiden.


LTRIM Technologies

LTRIM Technologies is a provider of high-end, high-performance power management CMOS analog virtual component solutions that are easily integrated into CMOS mixed- signal system-on-a-chip (SoC) and analog chips. In addition, LTRIM Technologies has created and patented a new Laser Fine-Tuning technology for standard silicon diffused resistors.


Magillem Design Services

Magillem Design Services provides customers with tools and services that drastically reduce the global cost
of complex design  (using ASICs and FPGA), help them preserve their independence from EDA vendors and their
design investment by relying on a worldwide adopted format: IP-XACT by the SPIRIT Consortium™, to which
Magillem has been a key contributor.


Magillem's technology enables a fast integration and accurate management of OCP-IP cores in its customers
systems, based on an XML description of OCP components according to IP-XACT specification.




Manhattan Routing, Inc.

Manhattan Routing is a privately held Silicon Alley based start-up service company founded in February 1997. We specialize in Deep Sub-Micron Chip Assembly (floorplanning, place-and-route, parasitic extraction, timing data generation, and physical verification) at 0.35m m, 0.25m m, 0.18m m, and 0.13m m feature sizes. We work with major IC companies and CAD vendors in Chip Assembly methodology and flow development, IC implementation, and CAD development and support. We also collaborate with other IC contract houses and fab-less semiconductor vendors.


Mentor Graphics

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Mentor Graphics is the leading broad line supplier of standards-based soft cores for consumer portable, computing and home networking applications. As systems become more complex it is becoming increasingly important to reuse existing design information to facilitate the rapid development and verification of systems. Mentor Graphics leads the industry by providing pre-proven IP cores and expertise for USB 2.0, USB On-The-Go, Bluetooth(TM), 802.11a/b, and Ethernet standards to chip designers developing the next-generation system-on-a-chip (SOCs).


Mercury Computer Systems, Inc.

Mercury Computer Systems provides a comprehensive range of solutions to meet customersí challenging computing needs. Offering component-level and system-level solutions that span hardware, software, silicon IP, services, and systems, Mercury serves customers across diverse industry segments including aerospace and defense, telecommunications, life sciences, energy, electronics manufacturing, and education and research. Examples of these challenging applications include radar and sonar signal processing, seismic processing, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and computed tomography (CT).


Micronas

Micronas (SWX Swiss Exchange: MASN, Prime Standard Segment, TecDAX, Frankfurt: MNSN), a semiconductor company group with worldwide operations, is a leading supplier of cutting-edge IC and sensor system solutions for consumer electronics, multimedia and automotive electronics. The holding is headquartered in Zurich (Switzerland). Currently, the Micronas group employs about 1700 people. In 2002, it generated over CHF 707 Million in sales. For more information on Micronas and its products, please visit www.micronas.com.


MIPS Technologies

MIPS Technologies, Inc. designs industry-standard, high-performance, low-power, 32- and 64-bit RISC (reduced instruction-set computing) microprocessor architectures and cores for embedded systems. MIPS Technologies does not manufacture processors; instead, the company licenses intellectual property (IP) to more than 50 semiconductor companies and system OEMs, giving them a faster, easier, cost-effective way to bring their products to market.


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Motorola

Motorola is known around the world for innovation and leadership in wireless and broadband communications. Inspired by our vision of Seamless Mobility, the people of Motorola are committed to helping you get and stay connected simply and seamlessly to the people, information, and entertainment that you want and need. We do this by designing and delivering "must have" products, "must do" experiences and powerful networks -- along with a full complement of support services. A Fortune 100 company with global presence and impact, Motorola had sales of US $35.3 billion in 2005. For more information about our company, our people and our innovations, please visit www.motorola.com


MtekVision Co.

Founded in 1999, MtekVision is a world leading solution provider in the design and manufacture of innovative imaging device IC solutions for mobile and portable devices. MtekVision has been delivering leading edge performance solutions for the full range of mobile and portable devices including mobile phones, smart phones, PDAs, MP3 players and voice recorders since 1999. MtekVision provides a one-stop solution in meeting customer's needs with ASIC, system, software, and product design. MtekVision has become Korea's representative fabless semiconductor company with its solutions. The company is headquartered in Seoul, Korea and has 7 offices worldwide.


Nallatech

Nallatech is the professional leader in innovative, low risk and high performance FPGA processing solutions for customers challenging applications. Nallatech designs and manufactures high-performance FPGA embedded solutions including hardware in form factors such as PCI, VME, cPCI, PCI-X and PCI-104, enabling tools and FPGA system software. Customers in the military and aerospace markets benefit from lower costs, reduction in size, weight and power and improved performance, specifically in the application areas of C4ISR, Software Defined Radio, Signals Intelligence and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.


National Applied Research Laboratories National Chip Implementation Center (CIC)

As IC design moves toward system-level integration, it is necessary to provide a new design methodology and environment to cope with design complexity as well as provide competitive solutions. Based on experiences of the last decade, CIC is moving into a new design era. Looking into the coming future at what the country demands, CIC will put greater effort into developing the system-level design environment. In addition to maintaining current support for the academic community, CIC has also developed a systematic system design environment to meet the needs of the nationwide IC design industry focus, especially in regard to SoC.


Nascentric

Nascentric's patent-pending technology allows semiconductor design teams to accurately simulate and analyze larger and more complex circuits dramatically faster than previously possible, thus reducing design iterations, improving quality and facilitating higher silicon yields.


National Tsing Hua University

Tsing Hua University is located in Hsinchu, a city 72 kilometers south of Taipei. Currently the university has altogether 15 departments and 7 graduate institutes in five colleges: the College of Science, the College of Engineering, the College of Nuclear Science, the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, and the College of Life Science.

The University emphasizes not only basic and applied research in sciences and technologies, but also research in the humanities and social sciences. Although academic units on campus work mostly on independent research projects, major long-term projects are initiated through interdisciplinary research centers to promote research quality.


NEC


Nexus

The Nexus 5001™ Forum, formerly known as the Global Embedded Processor Debug Interface Standard Consortium, was formed in April 1998. The Forum's membership spans the semiconductor, development tools and automotive electronics industries. Although the Forum initially focused on the stringent requirements of microprocessor debug tools for automotive powertrain applications, its overall goal is to enable the improved development of state-of-the-art, easy-to-use, high-performance processor and system-on-chip analysis architectures and tools. The Nexus 5001™ Forum is a program of the IEEE Industry Standards and Technology Organization (IEEE-ISTO). For additional background and membership information, visit http://www.nexus5001.org.


Nokia

Nokia is the world leader in mobile communications. Backed by its experience, innovation, user-friendliness and secure solutions, the company has become the leading supplier of mobile phones and a leading supplier of mobile, fixed broadband and IP networks. By adding mobility to the Internet Nokia creates new opportunities for companies and further enriches the daily lives of people.


NoBug Consulting

NoBug Inc, a leading provider of ASIC design and verification services, is focused on leading edge technologies in areas such as microprocessors, digital video and networking applications. Since its inception, the company has been dedicated to providing high quality services and products in many aspects related to the front end of the ASIC flow. From architecture and environment developments, RTL Coding and simulations all the way to verified netlists, NoBug engineers have taken active parts in complex projects with companies such as IBM, MIPS Technologies, MMC Networks and more.


NVIDIA Corporation

NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA) is a market leader in visual computing technology dedicated to creating products that enhance the digital media experience on consumer and professional computing platforms, from desktops and workstations to notebooks and handhelds. The company's graphics and communications processors have broad market reach and are incorporated into a wide variety of computing platforms, including consumer PCs, enterprise PCs, professional workstations, digital content creation systems, military navigation systems and video game consoles. For more information on nVidia's handheld products visit: www.nvidia.com/page/handheld.html


On2

On2 Technologies (Amex: ONT) ensures a compelling video experience for any video application anywhere. From low bit rate to high definition (HD), On2 provides optimized video compression technology enabling innovative solutions for application developers, content and service providers, chip vendors, device manufacturers, digital signage companies and beyond. Through continual innovation On2 satisfies the toughest power, bandwidth and quality requirements for video. The company's proprietary (VP6, VP7) and standards based(MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.263, H.264, VC-1) codecs dominate with more than 1 Billion deployments in the internet, 200+ Million in mobile and are proven in silicon with over 25 semiconductor manufacturers globally.For more information please visit www.on2.com.

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ON DEMAND Microelectronics

ODM is a semicon leader in the development of digital TV solutions, offering fully software-programmable cores for high definition, multi-standard video -, image - and base band processing.


ODM is a semicon leader in the development of digital TV solutions, offering fully software-programmable cores for high definition, multi-standard video -, image - and base band processing. ODM was founded in 2002 as a direct spin-off from Analog Devices. ODM´s corporate headquarters and design center is based in Vienna, Austria, sales- and support offices are located in Austin/Texas, Munich and Taipei.



Open SystemC Initiative (OSCI)

The Open SystemC Initiative (OSCI) is an independent, not-for-profit organization composed of a broad range of organizations dedicated to supporting and advancing SystemC as an open industry standard for system-level design and verification. The SystemC language and its prototype reference implementation as a C++ class library can be downloaded at www.systemc.org.


Paradigm Works

Paradigm Works, Inc. is a foundry independent chip consulting company dedicated to providing "best in class" consulting services and technology development to our customers. The company specializes in all aspects of ASIC and FPGA development, including Architecture, Design, Synthesis, Verification, Embedded Software, Design for Test, Physical Design, Environments, Tools and Methodologies.


pls Development Tools

pls Development Tools, located in Lauta, Germany, was founded in 1990. The company is among the worldwide leading suppliers of software debugging solutions and complete development tools for the 16-bit and 32-bit microcontroller families from Infineon Technologies and STMicroelectronics as well as a number of different ARM7/ARM9 and PowerPC derivatives. The innovative software architecture of the Universal Debug Engine® (UDE) guarantees optimal conditions for the debugging of modern System-on-Chip based systems.


Princeton University

Princeton simultaneously strives to be one of the leading research universities and the most outstanding undergraduate college in the world. As a research university, it seeks to achieve the highest levels of distinction in the discovery and transmission of knowledge and understanding, and in the education of graduate students. At the same time, Princeton is distinctive among research universities in its commitment to undergraduate teaching.


ProDesign

ProDesign leverages its experience in system and FPGA designs to provide new methodologies to advance state-of-the-art validation and verification disciplines. The core competence of the company is in the field of hardware-assisted verification, with emphasis on hardware emulation and system-level verification and validation methodologies. ProDesign is creator of the CHIPit family of hardware-assisted verification platforms for the SoC and ASIC development community. CHIPit provides an integrated set of tools with debug capabilities that provide a dual solution for hardware and software verification and validation.


PUCRS

PontifÌcia Universidade CatÛlica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) is a Catholic University located in southern Brazil. It counts today around 30,000 undergraduate and graduate students and 2,000 Academic personnel. In its Central Campus is located the biggest Science and Technology Museum and the biggest University hospital in Latin America. The University offers 61 undergraduate, 23 MSc and 13 PhD curricula, besides 41 other graduate degrees. The partnership with OCP was promoted through the Hardware Design Support Research Group (GAPH), located at the Computer Science Graduate Program of the Informatics Faculty. The GAPH group, together with other 7 Brazilian Universities is working on the Brazil-IP project, a collaborative effort of Brazilian institutions to create a distributed network of integrated circuit (IC) design centers capable of delivering OCP-IP compliant intellectual property (IP cores) and a system-level design SoC methodology based on such cores.


QThink

QThink designs high-performance chips for leading edge semiconductor companies. QThink offers full front-to-back design capabilities, from design spec to GDSII, to companies involved in wired and wireless communications, high-speed networking, multimedia and high-speed computing. QThink will use OCP-IP's technology to implement SOC designs using existing OCP-IP compatible cores, or in other cases, to assist its clients in developing reusable OCP-IP compatible cores.


QualCore Logic Inc.

QualCore Logic Inc., offers a wide array of engineering services encompassing all aspects of IC design engineering from specification to GDSII and physical verification. Clients gain access to silicon proven intellectual property cores, engineering teams and EDA tooling that can either supplement their existing engineering resources, fill gaps that may in client engineering expertise or simply increase engineering throughput.


Regulus

Regulus works mainly in Image Processing Technology and offers professional design services in ASIC, FPGA and Middleware areas. The company provides full IP development support from System Specifications through Mass Production process. Regulus is also developing their own IP cores, boards and tools as design platforms to support faster system development.


Ricoh Co., Ltd.

Ricoh Co.,Ltd. was established on February 6, 1936. The Ricoh Group consists of 381 subsidiaries.

The Ricoh Group is engaged in such global-scale activities as the development, production, marketing, after-sales service, and recycling of office equipment, including copiers and printers and other electronic equipment, all over the world.


Rockwell Collins

Rockwell Collins is a pioneer in the design, production and support of innovative solutions for our customers in aerospace and defense. Working together, our global team shares a vision to create the most trusted source of communication and aviation electronics solutions, applying insight and foresight to help our customers succeed.




Royal Institute of Technology

The Royal Institute of Technology (Kungliga Tekniska Hˆgskolan), KTH, is responsible for one-third of Sweden's capacity for engineering studies and technical research at post-secondary level. Our university has over 11,000 undergraduate students, 1,500 active postgraduate students and a staff of 3,100 people.




Sasken Communication Technologies Ltd.

Sasken is an embedded communications solutions company that helps businesses across the communication value chain accelerate product development lifecycles. Sasken offers a unique combination of research and development consultancy, wireless software products, software services and network engineering services, and works with network OEMs, semiconductor vendors, terminal device OEMs and operators across the world. Global Fortune 500 and Tier 1 companies in these segments are part of Sasken's customer profile. Sasken employs over 3,500 people at its offices in India, China, Finland, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Sweden, UK and USA.




Shanghai Hometown Microsystems Inc.

Outsourcing Automation Turnkey Solutions for Local Globalization & Global Localization. They provide 24X7X365 online and off-line technical support for IP and SoC vendors. Contact: service@hwswworld.com


Shanghai IP Exchange

Shanghai Silicon Intellectual Property Exchange (SSIPEX) was initiated by the Chinese Ministry of Information Industry, the Shanghai Information Commission and the Shanghai Technology Commission. SSIPEX is a comprehensive services platform bringing together buyers and sellers of silicon IP to trade in a safe and efficient way in the booming Chinese IC market. IP hunting & trading, legal consultation including patent application and strategic patent portfolio analysis plus in-depth Chinese IC market research represent the core of SSIPEX activities.


Shenzhen Graduate School of Harbin Institute of Technology

The graduate school works with OCP compatible IP Cores, bus and network-on-chip OCP compatible SoC platform, EDA tool-based verification environment and FPGA based emulation environment for SoC Algorithms and VLSI Architecture for video and audio processing.


Siemens Program and System Engineering PSE

CES Design Services, a business unit of Siemens Program and System Engineering PSE, provides professional services in the field of electronic design to a worldwide customer base. CES' Chip design center has great experience in digital SoC design with widely used processor cores like ARM, MIPS and PowerPC and bus architectures from OCP to AMBA.


Silicon & Software Systems (S3)

Founded in 1986, Silicon & Software Systems (S3) is one of the world's leading electronics design companies. S3's established worldwide client base consists of OEMs, semiconductor vendors and start-ups. Based on an extensive portfolio of domain specific knowledge and customizable IP, S3 provides innovative solutions in four market areas: Network Processing, Digital Consumer, Wireless Systems and Medical Systems. S3's state-of-the-art design expertise in IC, software and hardware systems design is a fundamental element of its success.


Silicon Image

Headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., Silicon Image, Inc. is a leader in driving the architecture and semiconductor implementations for the secure storage, distribution and presentation of high-definition content in the consumer electronics and personal computing markets. Silicon Image creates and drives industry standards for digital content delivery such as DVI, HDMI™ and Serial ATA (SATA), leveraging partnerships with global leaders in the consumer electronics and personal computing markets to meet the growing digital content needs of consumers worldwide. With a proven track record of improving cross-product interoperability, Silicon Image has shipped more than 100 million HDMI/HDCP and DVI/HDCP semiconductor solutions and offers one of the most robust and comprehensively tested technology platforms in the consumer electronics industry through the Simplay HD™ Testing Program of Simplay Labs. Simplay Labs, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Silicon Image, is a leading provider of testing technologies, tools and services for high-definition consumer electronics devices such as HDTVs, set-top boxes, audio/video receivers and DVD players, helping manufacturers to achieve compatibility and deliver the highest-quality HDTV experience to consumers. Silicon Image is the leading provider of semiconductor intellectual property solutions for high-definition multimedia and data storage applications.


Silicon Integration Initiative

Si2 is an organization of industry-leading companies in the semiconductor, electronic systems and EDA tool industries. We are focused on improving productivity and reducing cost in creating and producing integrated silicon systems. We believe that through collaborative efforts, the industry can achieve higher levels of systems-on-silicon integration while reducing the cost and complexity of integrating future design systems.


Silicon Interfaces

Silicon Interfaces offers Design Services in the areas of Networking, Data Communications, Interconnect and Storage, primarily in the areas of System Verilog/Verilog/VHDL for Design, Modeling and Verification of complex SoC, ASIC and FPGAs. Apart from front-end we also do work on Mixed-Mode, Analog and IC backend through our Associate companies and we offer a complete solution to our Customer. An interesting aspect of our Design Services is that we can undertake work in our state-of-the-art Design Centers based in Mumbai with tools from Cadence, Synopsys, Mentor, Xilinx, Altera and other leading EDA Companies. We also provide specialized Verifications, VHDL to Verilog Translation, Libraries and IP Cores Development and EDA Product Support Services. Further, since July 2001, Silicon Interfaces promoted an IP Development Program - Silicon Cores: Core to the Intelligent Systems(tm). The IPs are Bluetooth Baseband, Gigabit Ethernet MAC, Sonet Framer STS-1/3/12, 1394, USB2 Function Controller, Infiniband, Rapid IO, 802.11 a+b, Serial Communication Controller, Ethernet MAC Controller, UART and 8051.


Silicon Labs

Silicon Laboratories Inc. is a leading designer of high-performance, analog-intensive, mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs) for a broad range of applications. Silicon Laboratories' diverse portfolio of highly-integrated, patented solutions is developed by a world-class engineering team with decades of cumulative expertise in cutting-edge mixed-signal design. The company has design, engineering, marketing, sales and applications offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia.


Silicon Valley PA Inc.

Silicon Valley PA, Inc. (SVPA) is an architecture and design solutions company serving the Semiconductor Industry. SVPA specializes in System-on-Chip (SOC) architecture and comprehensive design services augmented by its extensive partnerships with IP providers as well as research and design centers in the US and Eastern Europe. The company possesses world-class expertise in on-chip interconnects and complex memory subsystems. SVPA also specializes in the OCP-related services including OCP training and development of OCP wrappers and bridges.


Silistix

Silistix is a venture-funded start-up spun-out of the University of Manchester, UK. The company's focus is the development and deployment of self-timed CHip-Area INterconnect (CHAIN) technology for on-chip communication. Network on Chip (NoC) is an example of a CHAIN system. The complexity of Systems-on-Chip (SoC) has accelerated to the point that the on-chip interconnection of functional blocks by conventional bus technology is becoming completely intractable. Achieving satisfactory communication among multiple clock domains connected by long, slow wires is the most significant SoC design challenge of the next decade. This phenomenon is commonly referred to as ‘Timing Closure’. Silistix' CHAIN technology provides a solution to the complexity problem in a manner analogous to that used by telephone systems as they migrated from circuit-switched to packetswitched communication, revolutionizing the industry in the process. Similarly, Silistix' solution relegates the ‘Timing Closure’ issue to a much simpler class of problem, reduces on-chip congestion and overall power consumption, and minimizes the impact of on-chip RF noise.


Sonics, Inc.

Sonics, Inc. is a premier developer of smart intellectual property (IP) products that dramatically accelerate complex system-on-chip (SOC) design times while minimizing risk. The Sonics Methodology and Architecture for Rapid Time-to-market (SMART) initiative is a comprehensive collection of products, services and partnerships to ensure customers successfully develop more capable devices with lower power consumption and lower cost while achieving more SOC complexity faster.


SpringSoft

Springsoft, Inc. is a leading supplier of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software and services to the global semiconductor and electronics industries. These products are used to design and develop complex integrated circuits (ICs), including system-on-a-chip (SoC) designs. Founded in February 1996 and listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange in September 2001, SpringSoft is the largest publicly traded EDA company in Asia. Headquartered in Hsinchu, Taiwan, SpringSoft has established a worldwide customer base and sales channel. All of the top 25 semiconductor companies and IC design houses are Springsoft customers.


STMicroelectronics

STMicroelectronics is a global independent semiconductor company and is a leader in developing and delivering semiconductor solutions across the spectrum of microelectronics applications. An unrivaled combination of silicon and system expertise, manufacturing strength, Intellectual Property (IP) portfolio and strategic partners positions the Company at the forefront of System-on-Chip (SoC) technology and its products play a key role in enabling today's convergence trends.


STARC

Semiconductor Technology Academic Research Center (STARC) is funded by Japan's leading semiconductor manufacturers. STARC aims to strengthen the country's technological foundation in regard to silicon semiconductors and enhance international competitiveness by commissioning universities for basic research and/or promoting joint projects with them on a sizable scale. By doing so, the center hopes to contribute to industrial growth not only on a domestic level, but also on a global scale. Creative and unique research results with tremendous applicability arise from these activities. Further, the center is a place to nurture young engineers and researchers with a strong interest in and passion for technological development as the backbone of the future semiconductor industry.


Synfora

Synfora, Inc. is the leading provider of application engine synthesis (AES) software used to design complex systems-on-chips (SoCs). Synfora's PICO Express product dramatically reduces the cost, time, and risks of system-on-chip (SoC) design by enabling designers to automatically explore and implement their algorithms in efficient hardware. These application engines are used in SoCs targeting the audio, video, imaging, wireless, security, and other segments of the integrated circuit (IC) design market.


Synopsys

Synopsys, Inc. is a world leader in electronic design automation (EDA) software for integrated circuit (IC) design. The company delivers technology-leading IC design and verification platforms to the global electronics market, enabling the development of complex systems-on-chips (SoCs). Synopsys also provides intellectual property and design services to simplify the design process and accelerate time-to-market for its customers.


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