AMI Semiconductor expands digital IP library with the addition of 65 Inventra cores.AMI Semiconductor AMI Semiconductor is a company engaged the design and manufacture of customer specific integrated circuit solutions, including solutions for the automotive, medical and industrial markets. Among its products are products that integrate processing of analog and digital signals. (AMIS A·mis , Kingsley 1922-1995. British writer best known for his novels, including Lucky Jim (1954) and Jake's Thing (1978). ) announced recently that it has entered into an agreement with Inventra, the intellectual property (IP) division of Mentor Graphics Mentor Graphics, Inc (NASDAQ: MENT) is a US-based multinational corporation dealing in electronic design automation (EDA) for electrical engineering and electronics, as of 2004, ranked third in the EDA industry it helped create. Corporation (Nasdaq:MENT) to add 65 Inventra IP cores to its extensive digital and mixed-signal ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) Pronounced "a-sick." A chip that is custom designed for a specific application rather than a general-purpose chip such as a microprocessor. libraries. Access to the Inventra cores allows ASIC customers of AMIS to get to market sooner and with less cost by designing industry proven reusable cores into their end applications. The Inventra cores being offered by AMIS are particularly applicable in the automotive, medical, industrial and communication markets, either for digital or mixed-signal ASICs, where AMIS already has a significant customer base and years of design expertise. "Our ability to offer standard and application specific functions from world leading independent IP developers, such as Inventra, frees up time and resources for our customers," said Vince Hopkin, vice president of digital ASICs at AMI Semiconductor. "They can use that time to more fully concentrate on optimizing system architectures and developing even more proprietary functionality into their end products." All the Inventra cores now offered by AMIS include a test bench, simulation model, full documentation and netlists. The key Inventra cores licensed by AMIS include: 10/100 Ethernet MAC, Gigabit Ethernet MAC, I2C I2C Inter-Integrated Circuit I2C Intelligent Interface Controller I2C Intelligent Controller v2.0 Bus Interface, USB USB in full Universal Serial Bus Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. 1.1 Full-Speed Controller, USB 2.0 High-Speed Controller, USB Full-Speed OTG (1) See USB OTG. (2) (The OBJECTive Technology Group, Ltd., Alexandria, VA) An organization that was devoted to distributed computing and object technology. Founded in 1994, it augmented the object and Internet standards community and served as an intermediary between , IDE Controllers (ATA-1, 4, 5, 6), M8051 Family of 8-Bit Processors and CAN 2.0 Network Controller. All of the Inventra cores licensed by AMIS are available in both the XPressArray and cell-based product lines. The Inventra Intellectual Property Division of Mentor Graphics Corporation is recognized as a leader in providing connectivity standards-based IP cores. Mentor Graphics Corporation is a world leader in electronic hardware and software design solutions, providing products, consulting services and award-winning support for the world's most successful electronics and semiconductor companies. Established in 1981, the company reported revenues over the last 12 months of approximately $600 million and employs approximately 3,000 people worldwide. |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion