Partners

S2C Partners with IP providers to deliver total SoC solutions to customers. These solutions include secure IP evaluation before licensing, secure integration of IP into SoC on FPGA prototypes using TAI IP, and IP/SoC reference designs.

Created in November 2003, Allegro is a privately owned company which provides the industry de-facto standard H.264/MPEG-4 AVC compliance streams and World first H.264 HD High Profile real-time encoder/codec IP. With strong financial position, Allegro is a highly reliable partner and was rated by Dun & Bradstreet as “1: Very Low Risk”.

CAST develops and supports over 100 different popular and standards-based IP cores, including 8051s, H264, PCI Express, AES, and even complete SoC kernel platforms for 32-bits systems. S2C works closely with Cast for IP promotion and support, secure IP evaluation, and reference designs on FPGA prototypes in selected markets worldwide.

Cosmic Circuits is a leading provider of differentiated Analog and Mixed-Signal silicon IP for integration on to System-on-Chips. With a single-minded focus on Analog, and a large team of expert analog designers, Cosmic Circuits offers quality analog Hard-IP solutions for integration into nanometer silicon process nodes.

CSIP(China Silicon Intellectual Properties) is China's national public Services organization that facilitates lawful and efficient IP licensing for IC enterprises in China. S2C and CSIP have conducted a joint evaluation lab since 2005 to provide TAI IP-related design Servicess, including conversion, verification, and system validation.

GUC, the Flexible ASIC Leader, is based in Taiwan and provides a comprehensive suite of The Flexible ASIC Services that meet the unique business and technology requirements of today’s innovative technology company. GUC provides an unmatched combination of advanced technology, low power and embedded CPU design capabilities and production knowhow through close partnership with TSMC and major packaging and testing companies that are ideal for advanced communications, computing and consumer electronics ASIC applications.

IPextreme licenses famous semiconductor IP (intellectual property) and methodologies developed by large semiconductor companies to chip designers worldwide. S2C has partnered with IPextreme to further strengthen the pipeline of production-proven silicon IP to IC design companies and system houses in China.

Ittiam Systems is a leading provider of Digital Signal Processing (DSP) IP to OEM and semiconductor companies worldwide. Its IP solutions include core signal processing software on programmable DSP, synthesizable RTL softcore for SoC designs, and application level software for multiple end-equipment domains. S2C partners with Ittiam to bring its leading edge DSP solutions for media and communication IC designs in China.

MindTree Ltd. is a global IT Solutions company specializing in IT Services, Independent Testing, Infrastructure Management and Technical Support (IMTS). MindTree has been a prominent player in the Bluetooth arena for almost a decade and has witnessed the evolution of this technology from a concept to a key connectivity technology in many products. Tens of customers have incorporated MindTree’s IP offerings into their product designs and millions of units of such products are available in the market today.

Northwest Logic provides high-performance, easy-to-use IP cores including memory controller, MIPI, PCI Express and PCI cores. In China, S2C provides value-added support and Servicess for Northwest IP users throughout different design phases such as rapid SoC prototyping on FPGA and SoC production using eASIC devices.

PerfectVIPs is pioneering the next-generation verification IP technology. PerfectVIPs' innovative verification technology solutions includes the intelligent Verification Engine with built-in Bus Functional Models that gives the freedom to the verification engineer for fine tuning of bit level controllability for transaction generation, test randomization & error creation. With a tie-up of coverage feedback mechanism with test generation, the verification engine automatically creates test cases to cover the functional coverage points completely eliminating the job of manual test writing.

SSIPEX is a Shanghai-based not-for-profit organization that facilitates and promotes silicon IP exchange Servicess as well as IP research and development Servicess.

Tensilica offers the broadest line of controller CPU and specialty DSP processors on the market today, in both an off-the-shelf format via the Diamond Standard series and with full designer configurability with the Xtensa processor family. S2C has already deployed several Tensilica Diamond processor cores into its TAI Logic Module FPGA-Based SoC Design platform for IP demonstration, evaluation, and SoC integration purposes.

Transwitch Corporation (NASDAQ: TXCC) is a leading provider of carrier-class semiconductor solutions for the converging voice, data and video network. Transwitch offers several silicon IP cores in the area of high-speed transceivers such as Gigabit Ethernet, HDMI and DisplayPort. The latest HDP IP core combines both HDMI and DisplayPort on one physical interface allowing consumers to access both standards on one single connector. In addition, Transwitch's unique adaptive equalization technology enables consumers to transmit high-quality HDMI signals over 40 meters using to low-cost CAT5 cables.

S2C builds synergistic relationships with best-in-class companies in the EDA, FPGA, and SoC prototyping industries to bring advantageous FPGA-Based SoC Design solutions to our customers. Our partners likewise benefit by employing our FPGA-Based SoC Design technology to bring enhanced environments in design compilation, design prototyping, and software/hardware co-verification to their customers.

Altera Corporation is the pioneer of programmable logic solutions, enabling system and semiconductor companies to rapidly and cost effectively innovate, differentiate, and win in their markets. Altera offers FPGAs, CPLDs, and ASICs, along with software tools, intellectual property, and customer support, to provide high-value programmable solutions to customers worldwide.

eASIC S2C partners with eASIC to assist designers who wish to realize their SoC designs on zero mask-charge, no minimum order structured ASIC devices. eASIC is a fabless semiconductor company that offers breakthrough structured ASIC devices reducing the overall fabrication time and cost of customized silicon devices.

EE Solutions, Inc. S2C partners with EE Solutions to deliver turnkey system-on-chips (SoC), providing our customers a fast and straightforward means to go from product prototype on FPGA to volume SoC production. EE Solutions is a leading provider of ASIC turnkey and SoC design Servicess with expertise in low power and ultra-deep-submicron design - having successfully taped-out over 260 customer designs in the last five years.

Hitachi Information & Communication Engineering, Ltd. S2C works closely with Hitachi's LogicBench division to develop system level verification methodology and advanced prototyping products.

Interra Systems is a diversified software products and services provider in Digital Media for over fifteen years. Interra's Digital Media solutions are led by Vega, a family of Audio/Video analyzers for multiple standards such as H264,AVS and so on. It provides the most accurate and in-depth video analysis with navigation down to the deepest levels of an encoded stream, significantly reducing R&D and QA time.

Japan Circuit Co., Ltd. Japan Circuit (JC) specializes in very high speed printed circuit board (PCB) design and for the past 20 years, JC's analog team has assisted many of the top-tier semiconductor vendors in Japan to meet ever-challenging high-speed PCB performance requirements. S2C's future high-speed SoC prototyping boards will be simulated by JC's engineers for achieving superior performance supporting interface standards that can run at more than 10GHz.

Verific Design Automation Inc. S2C's FPGA-Based SoC Design tools integrate Verific Design Automation's HDL and netlist parsers to provide robust software for our users. Verific Design Automation is the leader in HDL front-end engines and has over 30,000 customers worldwide.

Xilinx is the world’s leading provider of All Programmable FPGA's, SoC's and 3D ICs. These industry leading devices are coupled with a next-generation design environment and IP to serve a broad range of customer needs, from programmable logic to programmable systems integration.