A tribute to Research on Interface IP Market

By SemiWiki

November 18, 2011

Denali acquisition by Cadence in May 2010, ChipIdea, Virage Logic, and nSys acquisitions by Synopsys in 2009, 2010 and 2011 (resp.) shows that IP market is consolidating... but new IP vendors are still emerging! So we need to know on which product the Interface IP market leader will tend to a dominant position, which new products will be added to their port-folio, what could be the new strategy from the well known EDA challenger in Interface IP and Verification IP, and get information about the new comers, or IP vendors start supporting emerging protocols…

The use of High Speed Serial Interconnect instead of parallel interface is becoming the preferred solution for new products developed across various segments. In this survey, we study the Interface IP market, looking at all the existing protocols: PCIe, USB (HS & SuperSpeed), Serial RapidIO, Infiniband, Hyper Transport, SATA, Fibre Channel, HDMI, Ethernet, XAUI, Display Port, MIPI and DDRn, and extracting the most promising in term of long term growth. To understand the market, we first analyze for every selected IP segment, the market share, growth rate and positioning of the different vendors, for 2005-2010. Then, we propose a market forecast on the period 2011-2015.

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