Company: AIP
Filing Date: 2025-02-18
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001667011-25-000010
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Company: Arteris, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-18
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 14
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 a pre-verified interconnect IP element library for rapid generation of customer-specific interconnect IP products. Our SIA solutions also help accelerate SoC development by enabling the IP blocks making up an SoC to be packaged in a standard format called IP-XACT (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers—IEEE 1685), which provides a uniform IP block assembly and reuse methodology. Our SIA tool suite includes numerous packages that allow the configuration of IP block exit port registers, establish high-level SoC connectivity and link documentation to the IP-XACT design information.

■Our products help improve the performance of our customers’ SoCs. We believe that using our System IP solutions can result in improved SoC metrics such as higher performance, lower power consumption and smaller die area. We have extensive low-power management features such as three levels of clock gating and power domain features for low-power applications such as smartphone application processors and other SoCs for hand-held applications. We enable customers to partition their designs into “frequency domains”, allowing some domains to run at higher frequencies than others, in order to trade off performance against SoC power consumption.

■We enable lower customer research and development and SoC unit costs. We believe that we enable lower chip research and development costs, lower SoC unit costs and reduce project risk as compared to solutions developed internally or licensed from another vendor. We have targeted our interconnect IP to be area-efficient so that we can offer silicon area savings, and resulting chip cost savings, compared to other interconnect IP alternatives. We provide an integrated package of software, hardware, documentation, verification tools and pre-verified interfaces to major IP blocks and EDA tools. We believe our IP and software can save our customers time and money and enable them to focus on product differentiation and revenue generation.

■We believe we have grown our product portfolio through robust and focused research and development. Developing commercial interconnect IP and software tooling requires large and specialized engineering teams, significant amounts of time and extensive periods of commercial productization. We believe we have been the pioneer of using networking technology for on-chip communications and have been licensing such interconnect IP products since 2006. Our strategy is to deliver continuous innovation across both Interconnect IP and SIA software, with at least one major new product or major technology addition each year, and we have done so since 2013. As of December 31, 2024, we have 159 development engineers on staff covering IP hardware,