# List of semiconductor IP core vendors

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

## Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning / GEMM Accelerators

* Akeana

## Analog-to-digital converters (ADC)

* Cadence Design Systems
* Cosmic Circuits
* Dolphin Integration
* 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 Integration
* 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
* 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 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 Integration
* 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 Integration
* 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.)