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.
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 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.
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.
Hifn (NASDAQ:HIFN) delivers the key channel and OEM ingredients
for 21st century storage and networking environments. Leveraging over
a decade of leadership and expertise in the development of purpose-built
Applied Service Processors (ASPs), we are a trusted partner to industry
leaders for whom infrastructure innovation in storage and networking is
critical to success. With the majority of secure networked communications
flowing through Hifn technology, the 21st century convergence of storage
and networking drives our product roadmap forward. For more
information, please visit: http://www.hifn.com.
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 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® 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 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 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 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 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, 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.
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 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 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 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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Inventra Intellectual Property Division
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 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 (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, 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.
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
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 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'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.
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.
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 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 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 (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 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.
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.
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, 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, 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 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 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.
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 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., 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 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. 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 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.
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 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.
Sesca Embedded Solutions Ltd is a fast growing company, located in Finland. Sesca Embedded Solutions Ltd combines special expertise of DSP- and embedded SW-design, FPGA- and ASIC-design, HW design services and project management. Our design flow covers whole life-cycle of product design. We are able to do modules or embedded products from feasibility study to maintenance phase.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 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. (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 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. 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, 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 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.
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, 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, 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.
