SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Virage Logic Corp. has announced its new offering, a silicon and volume production-proven 40-nanometer (nm) G PCI Express Gen1/Gen2 Physical Layer (PHY).
The SiPro™ PCI Express PHY product line represents the first offering in Virage Logic’s advanced interface IP SiPro product portfolio that is a result of its collaboration with AMD announced in January 2009. This agreement grants Virage Logic the rights to license and modify certain AMD standards-based advanced interface IP that was designed for and used in the 40nm ATI Radeon™ graphics products from AMD.
“Our relationship with AMD has enabled us to accelerate the expansion of our broad product portfolio with production-proven standards-based IP for PCI Express,” said Kamalesh Ruparel, vice president and general manager, Application Specific IP (ASIP) solutions, Virage Logic.
“As the semiconductor industry’s trusted IP partner, we are committed to helping our customers reduce risk and speed new product development, particularly at the advanced nodes such as 40nm. The introduction of SiPro PCI Express PHY is yet another example of how we are delivering on that commitment.”
The Virage Logic SiPro PCI Express PHY is based on the successful implementation by AMD at 65nm, 55nm and 40nm, where it has been used in high-volume production for PC-oriented chipsets and graphics adaptors.
PCI Express standards are typically used in high-performance applications delivering large amounts of data from point-to-point, including storage, servers, networking, communications, high-end video applications and add-on PC cards.
“AMD has a long history with Virage Logic and views them as a trusted provider of highly differentiated physical IP,” said Chekib Akrout, corporate vice president, Central Engineering, AMD.
“Virage Logic has made a long-standing commitment to providing high-quality advanced semiconductor IP solutions and AMD’s internally designed, production-proven IP is the perfect complement to Virage Logic’s comprehensive product offering.”
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Semiconductor IP: Changes in market direction
USA: The third party semiconductor intellectual property (SIP) market was not immune to the market forces unleashed in 2008 but managed to achieve a 4.9 percent growth.
While this growth rate was much lower than historical trends, it is Semico’s view that the IP market will continue to outperform other semiconductor markets, and remain in positive territory with 2.9 percent growth in 2009.
The positive growth is due to the trend for more and more IP to be incorporated into SoCs and other device types that use IP. The SIP market will return to stronger growth in 2010 and continue to gather momentum from 2011–2013, even though the growth rates will still be somewhat below historical norms.
These market trends are analyzed in Semico’s report: “Semiconductor Intellectual Property: Changes in Market Direction.”
“The forecast for the IP market is still optimistic and we do not see any negative growth for the IP market during the entire forecast period,” states Rich Wawrzyniak, Semico Senior Analyst.
“Historically, the industry innovates its way out of a downturn. Semico’s assumption is that successful companies will roll out new products to stimulate the market. That means new designs and more use of IP.”
Semico’s report examines how the SIP market is undergoing a round of consolidation with the number of companies shrinking approximately 50 percent by 2008 compared to 2000.
Wawrzyniak verifies: “This is not a sign of a weakening market but rather a sign of the market sorting itself out with strong contenders consolidating their positions.”
Semico projects this market to continue to grow, surpassing $4 billion by 2013, with a CAGR exceeding 10 percent.
Semico’s report tracks the SIP market by the commonly accepted labels such as ‘Star’ and ‘Commodity’ SIP. These categories are further segmented by more descriptive labels such as ‘Critical IP’, ‘Purpose-Built IP’ and ‘Chip Enhancement IP’.
The report also tracks the SIP market by function such as Memory, CPU, DSP, Analog, Logic, Interface, Interconnect and Chip Enhancement IP.
While this growth rate was much lower than historical trends, it is Semico’s view that the IP market will continue to outperform other semiconductor markets, and remain in positive territory with 2.9 percent growth in 2009.
The positive growth is due to the trend for more and more IP to be incorporated into SoCs and other device types that use IP. The SIP market will return to stronger growth in 2010 and continue to gather momentum from 2011–2013, even though the growth rates will still be somewhat below historical norms.
These market trends are analyzed in Semico’s report: “Semiconductor Intellectual Property: Changes in Market Direction.”
“The forecast for the IP market is still optimistic and we do not see any negative growth for the IP market during the entire forecast period,” states Rich Wawrzyniak, Semico Senior Analyst.
“Historically, the industry innovates its way out of a downturn. Semico’s assumption is that successful companies will roll out new products to stimulate the market. That means new designs and more use of IP.”
Semico’s report examines how the SIP market is undergoing a round of consolidation with the number of companies shrinking approximately 50 percent by 2008 compared to 2000.
Wawrzyniak verifies: “This is not a sign of a weakening market but rather a sign of the market sorting itself out with strong contenders consolidating their positions.”
Semico projects this market to continue to grow, surpassing $4 billion by 2013, with a CAGR exceeding 10 percent.
Semico’s report tracks the SIP market by the commonly accepted labels such as ‘Star’ and ‘Commodity’ SIP. These categories are further segmented by more descriptive labels such as ‘Critical IP’, ‘Purpose-Built IP’ and ‘Chip Enhancement IP’.
The report also tracks the SIP market by function such as Memory, CPU, DSP, Analog, Logic, Interface, Interconnect and Chip Enhancement IP.
Monday, June 29, 2009
Virage Logic joins Power.org community
PISCATAWAY, USA: Power.org, the organization that promotes and develops standards for Power Architecture technology, today announced that Virage Logic Corp., the semiconductor industry's trusted IP partner, has joined Power.org as a participant member.
Virage Logic provides an extensive range of semiconductor IP that removes the traditional bottleneck in processor design -- access to embedded memories and silicon implementation -- speeding time-to-market and helping minimize design costs.
"The strength of a processor is dependent on its peripherals and with Virage Logic's production-proven, advanced interface IP solutions, PowerPC-based designs can leverage the critical IP required for successful SoC designs," said Power.org CTO, Kaveh Massoudian.
"The company's technology and expertise will provide a valuable asset to the Power Architecture ecosystem, making Power Architecture technology available to the mass market and to the mainstream fabless semiconductor market."
Recently, Virage Logic announced an agreement with IBM designating the company as an IBM PowerPC Design Center, granting it the rights to license and distribute IBM's PowerPC processor and peripheral cores when combined with Virage Logic's broad portfolio of semiconductor IP.
"Our participation in Power.org allows us to broaden the portfolio of highly differentiated silicon-proven IP available to the Power.org community," said Dr. Yankin Tanurhan, vice president and general manager, non-volatile memory (NVM) solutions, Virage Logic. "We look forward to working closely with members of the organization to drive innovation while helping them achieve their cost, performance and time-to-market goals."
Virage Logic provides an extensive range of semiconductor IP that removes the traditional bottleneck in processor design -- access to embedded memories and silicon implementation -- speeding time-to-market and helping minimize design costs.
"The strength of a processor is dependent on its peripherals and with Virage Logic's production-proven, advanced interface IP solutions, PowerPC-based designs can leverage the critical IP required for successful SoC designs," said Power.org CTO, Kaveh Massoudian.
"The company's technology and expertise will provide a valuable asset to the Power Architecture ecosystem, making Power Architecture technology available to the mass market and to the mainstream fabless semiconductor market."
Recently, Virage Logic announced an agreement with IBM designating the company as an IBM PowerPC Design Center, granting it the rights to license and distribute IBM's PowerPC processor and peripheral cores when combined with Virage Logic's broad portfolio of semiconductor IP.
"Our participation in Power.org allows us to broaden the portfolio of highly differentiated silicon-proven IP available to the Power.org community," said Dr. Yankin Tanurhan, vice president and general manager, non-volatile memory (NVM) solutions, Virage Logic. "We look forward to working closely with members of the organization to drive innovation while helping them achieve their cost, performance and time-to-market goals."
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
IP Pavilion: SiliconXpress's Web-based semiconductor IP portal
LUBBOCK, USA: SiliconXpress, an innovative fabless semiconductor company specializing in digital and mixed-signal device design, fabrication, packaging and testing, has announced the launch of IP Pavilion.
IP Pavilion is a free online community designed to connect semiconductor IP providers across the globe with interested parties needing to find sources of semiconductor IP. This secure, web-based platform enables interested parties to quickly and easily use pre-composed IP specific RFQs and have them distributed to the most relevant IP providers. Ongoing communication between the parties is securely documented within the portal so it can be referenced as needed.
"We are very excited to launch this new portal, IP Pavilion, and support the needs of our growing IP customer and IP provider base," said Dr. Aftab Farooqi, president and CEO of SiliconXpress, "It is estimated there are over 500 semiconductor IP providers worldwide and most are small, highly innovative companies with limited marketing capabilities and customer reach. By creating this community, we are enabling customers to quickly and efficiently reach IP providers and source semiconductor IP that may be leveraged in their new products."
SiliconXpress is a fabless semiconductor company providing turnkey, design, fabrication, packaging and testing services for digital and mixed-signal devices. Among the services offered include RTL development, FPGA to ASIC conversions, RTL to GDSII, RTL to packaged and tested devices, RTL to production silicon and wafers to production silicon.
IP Pavilion is a free online community designed to connect semiconductor IP providers across the globe with interested parties needing to find sources of semiconductor IP. This secure, web-based platform enables interested parties to quickly and easily use pre-composed IP specific RFQs and have them distributed to the most relevant IP providers. Ongoing communication between the parties is securely documented within the portal so it can be referenced as needed.
"We are very excited to launch this new portal, IP Pavilion, and support the needs of our growing IP customer and IP provider base," said Dr. Aftab Farooqi, president and CEO of SiliconXpress, "It is estimated there are over 500 semiconductor IP providers worldwide and most are small, highly innovative companies with limited marketing capabilities and customer reach. By creating this community, we are enabling customers to quickly and efficiently reach IP providers and source semiconductor IP that may be leveraged in their new products."
SiliconXpress is a fabless semiconductor company providing turnkey, design, fabrication, packaging and testing services for digital and mixed-signal devices. Among the services offered include RTL development, FPGA to ASIC conversions, RTL to GDSII, RTL to packaged and tested devices, RTL to production silicon and wafers to production silicon.
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