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Beyond Semiconductor
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Beyond Semiconductor is a privately held fabless semiconductor IP company supplying embedded processor IP technology for digital consumer, networking, personal entertainment, communications and industrial applications. Beyond Semiconductor believes in technology leadership, excellent value, and superior quality and service.
Beyond Semiconductor's comprehensive product offering includes 32-bit embedded RISC/DSP processors, software development tools, peripheral cores and complete reference platforms that enable Licensees to quickly start with product development.
Licensees can develop highly differentiated and competitive system-on-chips (SOCs) by easily customizing the processors to their target applications which can be optimized to achieve the highest performance, smallest size, and lowest power consumption of any 32-bit processor in the same class.
At the heart of Beyond Semiconductor's technology is Beyond Architecture designed with emphasis on performance, simplicity and ease of use, power efficiency and scalability.
We offer products and services in the following areas:
* Scalable range of 32-bit embedded RISC/DSP processors
* Rich set of peripheral cores to go along with the processors
* Complete reference and verification platforms to serve as base designs
* Software development tools
* Operating systems and device drivers
* FPGA/ASIC development and evaluation boards
Committed to helping Licensees achieve their business goals, Beyond Semiconductor aggressively invests in research and development. By partnering closely with our Licensees, Beyond Semiconductor can customize its products to closely match Licensee application requirements.
Beyond Semiconductor products have been successfully implemented by industry leaders like ST Microelectronics, Ericsson, Omnivision, and many others.
Please go to www.beyondsemi.com for more information
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To complete our task as engineers we rely on the tools we use. We collaborated with Siemens EDA solutions back in 2025 on a webinar about how we use their tools to develop our designs and layouts.
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