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The Constellations™ Program
Constellations is a community of independent semiconductor IP companies who collaborate at the sales level by sharing sales intelligence and market wisdom to provide a virtual world-wide sales footprint.
Members of the program can submit known opportunities for IP they don’t carry to the Constellations database where they are routed to the sales team of the relevant member companies.
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CAST provides “IP that Works” — dozens of key cores and subsystems based on 15 years of helping designers successfully develop ASIC and FPGA systems. Our line of processors, interfaces, multimedia, encryption, and other IP cores has been proven with hundreds of customers, and our experienced, global sales and support team is ready to help you 24/7.
Certus Semiconductor is a cooperative corporation, joining efforts of several of the worlds leading ESD and IO designers, to bring to the semiconductor IP market a novel support and service model in the area of ESD and IO design. Along with the standard silicon proven ESD and IO libraries in several technologies and foundries, Certus also offers the world’s first “IO template” libraries, as well as low cost, quick turn around and simulation proven custom ESD and IO libraries; using unique device models based on silicon proven designs that offer high confidence of first silicon passing ESD standards. Certus also offers the worlds best ESD strategies/devices for RF and III-V semiconductor products.
Chips&Media,Inc. is a leading video IP provider based in Seoul, Korea (Republic of). Its video technology covers the full line-up of video standards such as MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.263, H.264/AVC, VC-1, RealVideo and AVS from D1 to Full HD resolution. Its advanced ultra low power multi-codec video IP has been chosen by more than 30 top-tiers semiconductor companies into a wide variety of end products, including mobile consumer (e.g., mobile phone, portable multimedia player), home consumer (e.g., HDTV, DVD), networking device (e.g., IP camera, home networking solutions) and has been proven in silicon reaching 20 millions of units.
IPextreme licenses "famous IP" (intellectual property) and methodologies developed by large semiconductor companies to chip designers worldwide.These production-proven IP products serve both broad horizontal markets and specific verticals such as consumer and automotive. With a decade of experience in developing, packaging, licensing and supporting IP, customers and partners can count on IPextreme expertise.
Novelics was founded in Orange County, California in 2005. Novelics is a leading provider of silicon-proven memory IPs for ASICs, ASSPs, and System-on-Chip (SoC) applications. Our comprehensive portfolios of embedded memory Intellectual Property (IP) solutions are implemented in standard digital bulk CMOS processes. SoC end markets include Portable Multimedia, Wireless communication, biometrics, ultra-low power medical, energy management, Pixel processing, imaging, and Automotive.
Novelics innovative IPs enables SoC designers to reduce manufacturing cost with minimized power consumption, and maximum speed & portability. This is for IPs such as coolSRAM-1T, coolSRAM-6T, coolSRAM-8T, coolREG, coolROM, and coolCAM.
NXP is a leading semiconductor company founded by Philips more than 50 years ago. Headquartered in Europe, the company has about 30,000 employees working in more than 30 countries and posted sales of USD 5.4 billion (including the Mobile & Personal business) in 2008. NXP creates semiconductors, system solutions and software that deliver better sensory experiences in TVs, set-top boxes, identification applications, mobile phones, cars and a wide range of other electronic devices. Currently under this Constellations program NXP offers its ultra low power CoolFlux DSP & CoolFlux BSP soft cores, together with application software. News from NXP is located at www.nxp.com.
Posedge Inc. (www.posedge.com), headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, USA, is leading supplier of Wired / Wireless Secure Networking Semiconductor Intellectual Property (“IP”) solutions for SOC/FPGA. Posedge’s highly differentiated product portfolio includes Multi-Gigabit Layer2+ Switch, 10 Gbps MACsec engine, TCP Offload Engine, IPSEC Protocol Processor, Multi-Gigabit Routing Processor in addition to SoC Solutions such as SD / SDIO, Flash and Bus Protocols. Posedge's solutions include hardware, software drivers, firmware, software stacks as applicable and the IP is augmented with leading-edge design and verification Services for customization.
Sidense provides secure, very dense and reliable non-volatile, one-time programmable (OTP) memory IP for use in standard-logic CMOS processes with no additional masks or process steps required and no impact on product yield. The Company’s innovative one-transistor 1T-Fuse™ architecture provides the industry’s smallest footprint, most reliable and lowest power Logic Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) IP solution. With over 40 patents granted or pending, Sidense OTP provides a field-programmable alternative solution to Flash, mask ROM and eFuse in many OTP and MTP applications.
Sidense OTP memory, embedded in over 80 customer designs, is available from 180nm down to 55nm and is scalable to 28nm and below. The IP is offered at and has been adopted by all top-tier semiconductor foundries and selected IDMs. Customers are using Sidense OTP for analog trimming, code storage, encryption keys such as HDCP, WHDI, RFID and Chip ID, medical, automotive, and configurable processors and logic. For more information, please visit www.sidense.com.
As the leading supplier of on-chip communications networks for the embedded market, Sonics has enabled its customers, including semiconductor leaders Broadcom Corporation, Samsung, Texas Instruments and Toshiba, to ship more than 500 million units worldwide. Sonics’ products optimize memory access, seamlessly manage on-chip network traffic, accelerate system performance and reduce power consumption in SoCs with advanced voice, data and video features—including those found in home entertainment, networking, wireless and mobile devices. With a broad array of silicon-proven IP, Sonics helps designers eliminate memory bottlenecks associated with complex, high-speed SoC design, streamline and unify data flows and solve persistent network challenges in embedded systems with multiple cores.
Tiempo develops and markets core IPs designed in a disruptive asynchronous technology, allowing its customers to build ultra-low power and secured chips. Tiempo IP portfolio includes soft and hard cores of asynchronous microcontrollers, microprocessors and crypto-processors, and is supported by an automated synthesis tool using a standard input language. Targeted applications are chips for embedded electronics (sensors, metering, RFID, automotive, mobile consumer) and secured devices (smartcards, NFC).
