List of semiconductor IP core vendors

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

Analog-to-Digital Converters

 * S3 Group
 * Cadence Design Systems
 * CoreHW
 * Cosmic Circuits
 * Dolphin Integration
 * 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

 * S3 Group
 * Cadence Design Systems
 * CoreHW
 * Cosmic Circuits (now part of Cadence Design Systems)
 * Dolphin Integration

Digital Signal Processors

 * Synopsys - ARC
 * Tensilica - Xtensa (now part of Cadence Design Systems)

DRAM controllers

 * Actel
 * Altera
 * Arm
 * Barco Silex
 * Cadence Design Systems (through acquisition of Denali Software)
 * Faraday Technology
 * Lattice Semiconductor
 * Rambus
 * Synopsys
 * Xilinx

DRAM PHYs

 * Arm
 * 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

Network-on-Chip (NoC) / On-Chip Interconnect

 * Arteris IP
 * Arm

Bluetooth SW Stack, Link Layer and PHY

 * Arm (through acquisition of Dicentric and Sunrise Micro Devices)

Ethernet PHY

 * Arm (through acquisition of Artisan Components)
 * Cadence Design Systems

V by One

 * Socionext - HV Series

General purpose microprocessors

 * Arm - Arm Cortex and Neoverse processors
 * CEVA, Inc. - CEVA-X DSP
 * Dolphin Integration - 8051, 80251
 * eSi-RISC - eSi-RISC
 * Freescale and others - ColdFire
 * IBM and others - PowerPC
 * Infineon Technologies - Tricore
 * MIPS - MIPS
 * OpenCores - OpenRISC
 * Renesas - SuperH
 * Andes Technology, Codasip, SiFive and others - RISC-V
 * 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 - MicroBlaze

Graphic Processing Units (GPUs)

 * AMD
 * Arm
 * Imagination Technologies
 * Intel
 * NVidia

FPGA

 * Xilinx
 * Altera

Embedded FPGA (eFPGA)

 * Menta SAS

HDMI

 * Silicon Image Inc.
 * Synopsys

ISP

 * Silicon Image Inc.
 * Socionext - Milbeaut

I/O pad libraries

 * Arm (through acquisition of Artisan Components)
 * Faraday Technology
 * Synopsys
 * TSMC

On-chip SRAMs

 * Arm (through acquisition of Artisan Components)
 * Dolphin Integration
 * Synopsys (through acquisition of Virage Logic)
 * eSilicon

Phase Locked Loops (PLLs)

 * S3 Group
 * Arm (through acquisition of Artisan Components)
 * Cadence Design Systems
 * CoreHW
 * Cosmic Circuits
 * CEVA, Inc.
 * TSMC

Power Management

 * S3 Group
 * CoreHW
 * Cosmic Circuits
 * Dolphin Integration
 * SiliconGate Lda

Serial ATA (SATA) controllers

 * CEVA, Inc.
 * Synopsys Inc.

Standard cell libraries

 * Arm (through acquisition of Artisan Components)
 * Silvaco (through acquisition of Dolphin Integration's libraries)
 * Faraday Technology
 * Synopsys
 * NanGate

Video processors and computer graphics

 * Arm (through acquisition of Falanx and Logipard)
 * Vivante Corporation (offers GPU IP solutions for applications in the mobile, consumer, automotive, embedded, real time/mission critical, and home entertainment markets.)
 * 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
 * Silicon Image Inc.
 * Socionext - HEVC/H.265, SEERIS 2.5D Graphics IP