Renesas has opened its extensive IP license portfolio, offering access to more than 40 licenses, including CPU cores, timer IP for motor applications, USB cores, and SRAM. With the expanded access to that portfolio, designers can meet a broader range of customer requirements.

Starting today, customers will have access to IPs such as advanced 7nm SRAM and TCAM, as well as standard Ethernet time-sensitive networking (TSN) IP, enabling customers to jump-start advanced semiconductor device development projects for next-generation AI chips, ASICs for leading-edge 5G networks, and much more. Access to the IP extends the provision of semiconductor devices and enables other markets, such as in-house custom semiconductors, mass production in FPGAs, and device-less advance technological development efforts.

Customers developing custom chips or using FPGA devices for early development projects can leverage Renesas IP in their subsystem design or use it to speed up their software development cycle, to focus more resources on their specialty areas and bring highly competitive products to market faster. Those who prefer to use existing software assets can use Renesas IP to achieve more efficient system development by reducing the resources required to develop, verify, and evaluate software and boards.

Renesas is also working on providing a system IP which includes PIM (processing in memory) that has attracted attention as an AI accelerator since it was presented at the Symposia on VLSI Technology last June 2019.