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D&R IP/SOC Market Watch D&R IP/SOC Market Watch Market Offer Analysis and Trends in the System-on-Chip Industry This report is designed to present a snapshot of the IP/SOC market In this Issue through the analysis of the user activities on the D&R web portal during a 4 month period. ¨ Methodology ……………………………………………………….… 3 Typically the D&R website logs o Geographic Distribution more than 200,000 page views o Visitor activity per Application Field per month and has more than o Corporation Size 35,000 registered and profiled o User Profile users worldwide. Thus the data on which this report is based ¨ Worldwide IP Suppliers ………………………………………………. 6 should accurately reflect the trends in the IP /SOC world ¨ Hottest Providers classified according to their core business ……. 8 o Licensable IP Providers This report is targeted at IP o Design centres consumers who need to know o EDA Vendors providing IP (SIP,VIP) core portfolio about the IP market offer. Note o IP based ASSP/IDM vendors that D&R offers surveys on o Fabless IC vendors specific products or market § Fabless programmable Chip Vendors segments under special § Other Fabless Chip Vendors agreement. Do not hesitate to contact us should you have such ¨ Worldwide IP Offers and market appeal ……….…………………. 13 a need. o Silicon IP Offerings o Other IP offerings o IP based Design Platforms offerings This report targets also IP providers and especially D&R ¨ IP product appeal ……………………………….…………………... 16 partners who need to know how o Wireless communication efficient their product publishing is o Processors & Microcontrollers compared to others. We o Video / Image / Audio especially welcome feedback o Bus Interfaces from IP providers. o Analog & Mixed Signal o Memory Element Due to the increasing number of o Peripheral Cores products and providers we cannot o Security / Error Corr. Det. / Modulation display complete product listings. o Digital Signal Processing But we aim to provide some o Verification IPs indication of the kind of attention o Software IPs various products are receiving. o Design Platform Further, more detailed information is available. ¨ Annex ………………………………………………………………... 31 Design And Reuse S.A. [email protected] www.design-reuse.com 1 © Copyright Design and Reuse 2006. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part is prohibited without written permission from Design and Reuse. This report is the property of Design and Reuse and is made available to a restricted number of clients only upon these terms and conditions. The contents of this report represent the interpretation and analysis of statistics and information that is either generally available to the public or released by responsible agencies or individuals. The information contained in this report is believed to be reliable but is not guaranteed as to its accuracy or completeness. Design and Reuse reserves all rights herein. Reproduction or disclosure in whole or in part to parties other than the Design and Reuse client who is the original subscriber to this report is permitted only with the written and express consent of Design and Reuse. This report shall be treated at all times as a confidential and proprietary document for internal use only. 2 Bulletin 28 July 2006 Methodology This report is based on the analysis of the activity on the D&R web site between February 1, 2006 and May 31, 2006. D&R takes a snapshot every 4 months of the set of products, the providers, and the new registered users, and reports on any action occurring on its site during this period. Over several years, D&R has built up an accurate picture of both the current status and trends in the IP/SoC market. The numbers presented in this section are based on the 3 794 new users registered between February 1, 2006 and May 31, 2006. · Geographic Distribution The most active region which does not stop growing in terms of participation is the Asian part of the world representing presently 43 % of D&R portal users. America is stable with its 29 % and Europe goes down to 25 %, slightly above half the number of Asian. The dominance of Asia has been an ongoing trend for 7 years. Oceania Unspecified Africa 1% 3% 2% Europe America 22% 29% Asia 43% Figure 1 : Geographical Distribution · Activity per Application Field The distribution of the users in terms of the application fields is remarkably stable over few years. The majority of portal users come from the Computer systems sector, with communication systems representing the next largest end user market. Components and automotive are the most active applications fields. © Design And Reuse S.A. Page3 3 Bulletin 28 July 2006 Avionics, Government & Components Military Computers, 11% Electronics Automotive, Systems, 4% Consumer Peripherals Electronics & 27% Appliances 13% Other / Communication Unspecified Systems 24% 21% Figure 2 : Application Field · Corporation Size The majority of large companies (over $100M revenue), are the IP consumers (system houses, electronic equipment providers, ASIC vendors, military or automotive companies). Some 42% of the site visitors are from these companies. The medium sized companies ($10M to $100M revenues) are mainly large design centres and IP providers and represent 20%. The companies whose revenues are under $10M are mostly IP providers and smaller IP providers. $10 Million to $99 Million Under $10 20% Million 38% $100 Million to $499 Million 10% $500 Million to $1 Billion 9% Over $1 Billion 23% Figure 3 : Number of registered users according to the corporation size . · User Profile User profile analysis shows that close to 60% of the new D&R users work in the design engineering and related R&D fields while 20% are at a senior management level. It is interesting to notice that at the management level the distribution of responsibility is broad, covering CEO, sales VP, marketing VP, analyst, procurement etc... © Design And Reuse S.A. Page4 4 Bulletin 28 July 2006 Company Size 1 - 6 - 20 50 - 100 500 1,000 5,000 or Unspe- Total 5 19 - 99 - - - More cified Job Function 49 499 999 4,999 Design Engineering 74 74 85 82 157 57 120 245 636 1530 Research/Development 15 11 15 18 29 14 40 77 254 473 Engineering Student 52 13 5 12 17 10 14 22 304 449 Sales/Marketing 4 8 8 12 30 7 24 30 48 171 CEO/Chairman/President 40 34 12 6 6 1 2 4 57 162 Technology 7 9 4 3 10 2 8 12 95 150 VP/Director/Chief of Design 10 14 8 8 15 6 6 8 34 109 Engineering VP/Director of Sales & 4 13 13 5 17 5 2 7 20 86 Marketing CTO/VP/Director of 14 14 7 4 11 5 3 2 22 82 Technology Executive/Senior/Corporate 10 20 11 7 12 0 1 3 16 80 Vice President/Director VP/Director of 4 4 6 2 11 4 5 7 22 65 Research/Development Process Engineering 4 3 1 2 3 2 0 2 25 42 VP/Director 3 0 1 1 2 0 1 1 6 15 Manufacturing/Production Manufacturing/Production 0 0 1 2 1 0 1 5 4 14 Buyer/Agent/ 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 3 5 13 Specialist/Planner Financial Analyst 2 2 0 0 1 0 0 2 3 10 Operations 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 5 9 Purchasing/Procurement 1 0 0 1 1 0 3 2 1 9 CFO/VP Finance/Controller 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 8 Supply Chain 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 7 VP/Director 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 4 7 Purchasing/Procurement Wafer Fab. 2 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 7 Logistics 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 4 5 Other / Unspecified 30 16 12 7 9 3 9 10 195 291 Total 278 236 190 174 336 119 241 443 1777 3794 Table 1 : Registered Users Job function © Design And Reuse S.A. Page5 5 Bulletin 28 July 2006 Worldwide IP Suppliers The D&R web portal is dedicated to Intellectual Property integrated into electronic systems. Which products from which providers are displayed on D&R web site? D&R website’s goal is to display the key components required for designing a System on Chip (SoC) or electronic subsystem, focusing on the Intellectual Property whether it is proprietary or externally acquired from a third party. The types of products displayed include Silicon IPs, Verification IP, Software IP, as well as Design Platform, Prototyping Platforms, and EDA tools especially those aimed at IP based chip design. This report focuses, in priority, on the Silicon IP sector. The providers whose IPs are listed in the D&R catalogs can be segmented into several categories: · Providers of licensable IP whose core business is the licensing of a set of IP blocks often dedicated to a specific market segment. · EDA vendors which sell design tool flows (design and/or qualification) and for which an IP (Silicon IP or verification IP) portfolio (the successor to high level libraries) is mandatory to support these design flows. · Design centers whose core business or mission is to provide design services or turnkey solutions to the market .These services are partially based on certain high value IPs that are licensed “individually” as stand alone blocks. In other words a design center may at a given point decide to license a high value design block, to a broad customer base, thereby triggering a large amount of design activity · Fabless IP providers who may be interested in licensing a design block, not only for direct or immediate income, but also for building an industry standard around this strategic block, and taking a leadership position for its fabless business as the market grows.
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