The following is a list of notable vendors in the business of licensing IP cores.

Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning / GEMM Accelerators Akeana Quadric GPNPU processors

Analog-to-digital converters (ADC) Cadence Design Systems Cosmic Circuits Dolphin Semiconductor S3 Group 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 (DAC) Cadence Design Systems Cosmic Circuits (now part of Cadence Design Systems) Dolphin Semiconductor S3 Group

Digital signal processors (DSP) Synopsys - ARC Tensilica - Xtensa (now part of Cadence Design Systems)

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 eSilicon Rambus Synopsys

Hybrid memory cube - HMC Controllers Open-Silicon University of Heidelberg

Communication IP

Network-on-chip (NoC) / On-chip interconnect 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 Socionext - HV Series

General-purpose microprocessors Akeana Andes Technology, Codasip, SiFive, and others - RISC-V Arm Holdings - Arm Cortex and Neoverse processor cores CAST - RISC-V, 8051, 80251, with ASIL-D-ready certification CEVA, Inc. - CEVA-X DSP Dolphin Semiconductor - 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 units (GPU) AMD Arm Holdings Imagination Technologies Intel NVidia

FPGA Altera Xilinx (acquired by AMD)

Embedded FPGA (eFPGA) Menta SAS

HDMI Silicon Image Synopsys

ISP Silicon Image Socionext - Milbeaut

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 Semiconductor eSilicon Synopsys (through acquisition of Virage Logic)

Phase-locked loops (PLL) Arm Holdings (through acquisition of Artisan Components) Cadence Design Systems CEVA, Inc. Cosmic Circuits S3 Group TSMC

Power management S3 Group Cosmic Circuits Dolphin Semiconductor SiliconGate Lda

Serial ATA (SATA) controllers CEVA, Inc. Synopsys Inc.

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.)

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