( ESNUG 491 Item 8 ) -------------------------------------------- [05/12/11]
From: John Weiland <john.weiland=user abraxascorp got calm>
Subject: DesignWare, ChipEstimate, Denali, CAST, Mixel, TCI, Tiempo, Menta
Hi, John,
The French web site Design-Reuse.com is by far the largest storefront for
design IP; it's where I would go first to look for something. They have
decided to follow Google's lead and give top billing to "partners" when
someone searches for IP.
SYNOPSYS
If you include their DesignWare components, Synopsys may be the biggest IP
provider in the world. Their library includes ADCs, DACs, codecs, PowerPCs,
8051, 6811, Nios, DDR2/3, touch screen controller, Ethernet, HDMI, JPEG,
MIPI, PCI/PCI-X/PCIe, SATA, and USB, with some IP designed for low power.
Synopsys also sells CoreAssembler, which allows the user to quickly connect
together IP blocks that have IP-XACT descriptions or use AMBA buses. One
can use it with just a DesignWare license (no CoreAssembler license) but it
will only work with DesignWare in that case, not IP-XACT blocks. Their
CoreBuilder tool can create IP-XACT models and CoreConsultant is like a
reference flow for engineers to package, manage and use their own IP cores.
Synopsys/Synplicity also sells Ready IP, a tool for encryption of IP from
vendors like ARM, Tensilica and CAST. Virage, which was bought by Synopsys,
has 45/40 nm IP such as data converters, PCIe, MIPI, HDMI, I2C, SPI, timers,
DDR controllers, PHY and DLL. They are emphasizing low power and some IP
have multiple modes like light sleep, deep sleep and shut down. They also
sell the ARC family of configurable processors.
CADENCE
ChipEstimate.com was bought by Cadence but continues to have a separate
booth at DAC. They have a tool called InCyte to allow a user to estimate
the size of designs that use a lot of IP. Years ago they bought the old
VCX site and use it to provide models for various IP providers. Currently
ChipEstimate has models for 80,000 different pieces of IP from over 200
different IP providers. They are now part of the Cadence flow and InCyte
may be enhanced to do more design management.
Cadence wants to refine the floorplan in Encounter and feed it back to
InCyte, and create CPF within InCyte from graphical input. They have
24,000 registered users.
Cadence sells a variety of design IP including H.264, JPEG, DMA, SATA,
PCIe, USB, ADCs, DACs and 802.11.
Cadence/Denali sells memory IP, including models for 14,000 memories
(available at eMemory.com) and a tool to create new models, NAND flash
controller and file system, DDR controllers (including a DDR3 controller
and a combo DDR2/DDR3 controller - just flip a register), DDR hard PHY
and DDR PHY interface (including DDR3 2133), and design IP for PCI Express.
They also have a combo flash controller for Toggleman. Cadence/Denali has
PCI Express IP for generation 2 and 3, EMMC 4.4, and Ethernet 40G/100G.
MENTOR & OTHERS
Mentor sells a variety of IP including USB cores, Ethernet (10/100/1000 and
10 Gb), PCI Express and PCI to AMBA, ATA, PCMCIA, 8051 microcontrollers
and I2C interfaces.
CAST sells a variety of IP including what they say is the most popular 8051
that is not coming from and EDA or FPGA company (with over 150 licenses),
H.264, encryption and interfaces.
Mixel sells mixed signal IP, including PLLs, DLLs, SERDES, PHYs and mobile
PHYs, ADC and DAC, and power-on resets. TSMC and Chartered supported.
Analog Bits, Inc. sells some widely used IP. They are best known for high
precision PLLs, DLLs and SERDES PHY IP, but they also provide SRAM and CAM
blocks. They are targeted at several foundries. They say they have a
working 40 nm SERDES this year, with a 32 nm design taped out and 28 nm
in the works.
Cambridge Analog (in Massachusetts, not England) sells analog IP like ADCs
(their primary focus), DACs, and PLLs. They say their ADC is super low
power and their PLL requires no capacitor. They have IP for the IBM 10LPE
(65 nm) and IBM 8SF (130 NM) processes.
Cosmic Circuits, an Indian company new to DAC, sells analog and mixed signal
IP and seems to focus on system level functions. They say they have over
200 designs, including ADC and DAC, analog base band, power regulators, PLLs
and DLLs, audio and voice front ends, temperature sensors, and MIPI D-PHYs.
Foundries supported include TSMC, Chartered/GlobalFoundries, Samsung, IBM,
UMC, Fujitsu and Siltera.
True Circuits, Inc. sells IP, including DLLs, PLLs and SERDES I/O. They
support TSMC, UMC and IBM/Common Platform. 28 nm designs are coming 4Q10 for
TSMC and GlobalFoundries.
Rapid Bridge sells libraries as well as IP, including PLLs, a DLL, DAC,
various PHYs and SERDES, and SRAM, multiport memory and a One Time
Programmable (OTP) memory.
In addition to their memories, MoSys offers SERDES and DDR3 PHYs operating
up to 2133 Mbps.
Uniquify, a design services firm, also sells DDR controller and AMBA bus
interface IP, as well as a DLL.
Posedge sells IP, mostly for networking. These include 802.1AE, SD/SDIO/MMC,
DDR1 and DDR2, HDMI controller, and a 2048 point FFT.
Menta in France sells embedded FPGA IP for use in ASICs and ASSPs. They
provide the tools for mapping, place and route.
Tiempo is a French company that sells asynchronous IP. They say they are
different from Handshake Solutions (Philips) because they do not sample
data, and say they are similar to Achronix. Their IP includes 16 and 32 bit
low power processors and a range of crypto-processors (looking at the power
spikes in a crypto-processor can give hints about the key, but if the part
is asynchronous that becomes much harder). They have hooks for Adaptive
Voltage Scaling but have not done any designs with that yet.
Avant Technology Inc. is a Taiwanese firm distributes IP and EDA tools from
small companies. Offerings include USB, Ethernet, SATA, SRAMs, ROM and
register file.
- John Weiland
Abraxas Corp. Columbia, MD
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