Virage Logic Adds to SiPro Product Portfolio with Interface IP Offerings

Virage Logic, a provider of both functional and physical semiconductor intellectual property (IP) for the design of complex integrated circuits, announced new additions to its recently introduced SiPro product line of advanced interface IP.

The expanded product line now includes complete standards-based solutions for PCI Express (PCIe) and Mobile Industry Processor Interface (MIPI) as well as a multi-protocol IP solution for High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI), Digital Visual Interface (DVI) and DisplayPort interfaces. The Virage Logic SiPro product portfolio is the result of a collaboration with AMD that was announced in January.

"Since entering the functional IP market more than two years ago with its DDR memory controller interface IP offering, Virage Logic has significantly expanded its offering with production-proven PCI Express, MIPI and HDMI/DVI/DisplayPort interface IP products," said Richard Wawrzyniak, senior market analyst, ASIC & SoC for Semico Research. "Virage Logic is already a provider of embedded SRAMs, logic libraries, embedded NVMs, DDR, and embedded memory test and repair solutions. With this experience in the physical IP space and its new expanded offering in the functional IP space, the company is well positioned to provide a comprehensive IP portfolio to the global semiconductor market moving to advanced nodes."

"We selected Virage Logic to bring our standards-based IP to market because of their expertise in successfully implementing IP in silicon-proven product form and facilitating easy integration into customers' designs," said Jean Boufarhat, vice president, AMD. "AMD implements these standards-based advanced interface IP solutions in our graphics and application processors that are deployed for use in mass markets."

"With production volume exceeding 100 Million units in total silicon shipments over multiple process nodes and products, the SiPro interface IP product line enables customers to proceed with confidence to first silicon success and yield optimization," said Kamalesh Ruparel, vice president and general manager of Virage Logic's ASIP Solutions Group. "The standards-based SiPro PCI Express, SiPro MIPI and SiPro HDMI/DVI/DisplayPort products offer robust high performance and low power solutions for the most demanding System-on-Chip (SoC) and ASIC designs."

Extending Virage Logic's recently introduced SiPro PCI Express PHY offering, the new PCI Express Root Complex and End-Point controllers deliver a complete PCI Express standard-based solution. When bundled with the PCI Express controller, Virage Logic said that the high-speed, high-precision PHY technology, capable of operating up to 5 Gbps, offers an integrated, complete, low-risk standards-based solution.

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