Improv Systems - Partners

Partners Overview

Improv works with other leading organizations throughout the industry to ensure our technology and solutions are effective in an overall solution for our customers. This collaborative effort is known as the Ensemble(TM) Partner Program, and is comprised of the following organizations:



ASIC Design Partners		Improv works with its ASIC partners to ensure that its cores are implemented with the highest quality in the target process.

Platform IP Partners		Improv's Jazz cores are used together with other software and hardware components in an integrated chip or system. We work closely with our platform partners to create application- and SoC-level solutions for our customers.

EDA Partners		To streamline the implementation of Jazz cores, Improv works with leading EDA suppliers to ensure efficient implementation in FPGA or ASIC technologies.

Industry Affiliations		Improv supports the promotion and adoption of standards, industry data, independent validation and benchmarking.

Improv works with its ASIC partners to ensure that its cores are implemented with the highest quality in the target process.



		Faraday, Asian's biggest design service company with headquarters in Taiwan and branch offices in USA, Japan, China and The Netherlands, delivers state-of-the-art solutions that enable customers to differentiate their products with shorter time-to-market advantage. In addition to providing leading-edge technologies in cell libraries, processor cores, analog and mixed signal IPs, and digital IPs, Faraday's customized ASIC business models and robust design services flow are also highly appreciated by customers.



		Kawasaki Microelectronics Inc. promotes inovative and reliable ASIC products development as a pure ASIC provider.

Improv's Jazz cores are used together with other software and hardware components in an integrated chip or system. We work closely with our platform partners to create application- and SoC-level solutions for our customers.



		Improv systems and ARM™ have strategically collaborated on the development and integration of the Jazz Rehearsal Core Module for the ARM® Integrator Platform. ARM is the industry's leading provider of 16/32-bit embedded RISC microprocessor solutions. The company licenses its high-performance, low-cost, power-efficient RISC processors, peripherals, and system-chip designs to leading international electronics companies. ARM also provides comprehensive support required in developing a complete system. ARM's microprocessor cores are rapidly becoming the volume RISC standard in such markets as portable communications, hand-held computing, multimedia digital consumer and embedded solutions.



		MIPS Technologies, Inc. designs and licenses high-performance, high-value, embedded 32- and 64-bit intellectual property and core technology for digital consumer and embedded systems market. MIPS Technologies' reduced instruction-set computing (RISC) designs are licensed to leading semiconductor suppliers, foundries, ASIC developers, and system OEMs for use in products such as set top boxes, digital cameras, video game systems, routers and handheld computing devices.



		Denali Software, Inc. is the world's leading provider of memory solutions for the electronic systems industry. We offer our customers a simple, yet powerful value proposition: Reduce the cost, risk, and time-to-market associated with memory subsystem design. Since pioneering this market segment in 1994, Denali has provided quality memory solutions to over 300 leading companies in the electronics industry. Denali actively supports over 10,000 product licenses used in the design of cutting-edge memory subsystems for networking, computing systems, consumer electronics, and telecommunications.



		Artisan Components At-A-Glance Founded in 1991, Artisan Components is the leading provider of high-speed, low-power and high-density silicon-proven, physical intellectual property (IP) components for the design and manufacture of complex ICs. With hundreds of licensees, the company's products have set the industry standard for silicon quality and ease-of-use. Artisan offers highly differentiated memory generators, standard cell and I/O cell libraries that are designed to reach the full potential of each manufacturing process. Each product is fully tested using the industry's most comprehensive QA and validation procedures and delivered ready for use with support for leading EDA tools.



		Virage Logic is a global technology and market leader in embedded memory. As the fastest growing US semiconductor IP company, Virage logic delivers innovative embedded memory solutions for SoCs and insures customer sucess from design through final production. Virage Logic has the industry's broadest selection of silicon-proven memories including SRAMs, DRAM, Non-Volatile and custom memories.

To streamline the implementation of Jazz cores, Improv works with leading EDA suppliers to ensure efficient implementation in FPGA or ASIC technologies.





		The Cadence OpenChoice program enables interoperability and facilitates open collaboration with leading IP providers to build, validate, and deliver accurate models for Cadence design and verification solutions. The program aims to ensure IP quality, integration, and provides engineers access to a broad IP offering through a complete IP catalog. This optimizes the electronics design chain and accelerates customer time to market.


		Denali Software, Inc. is the world's leading provider of memory solutions for the electronic systems industry. We offer our customers a simple, yet powerful value proposition: Reduce the cost, risk, and time-to-market associated with memory subsystem design. Since pioneering this market segment in 1994, Denali has provided quality memory solutions to over 300 leading companies in the electronics industry. Denali actively supports over 10,000 product licenses used in the design of cutting-edge memory subsystems for networking, computing systems, consumer electronics, and telecommunications.


		The goal of the MagmaTies program is to provide Magma customers with solutions to speed through the semiconductor design and manufacturing processes. These solutions require proven tools and methodologies, along with well-trained service providers. MagmaTies works with other EDA tool vendors, library vendors, IP providers, design service providers, and semiconductor foundries. Through the program, Magma and MagmaTies members work together to qualify tool interfaces and to test and qualify libraries and foundry processes for use with Magma's software. In addition, Magma is working with intellectual property (IP) providers to develop a methodology for certifying the performance of IP blocks using Blast Speed.



		The IP Catalyst program is an alliance between Synopsys and commercial IP companies to address the need for greater access to consistent, high-quality, portable IP cores. Through this collaboration, Synopsys and IP companies enable end-system designers to more easily find and integrate high-quality intellectual property.

Improv supports the promotion and adoption of standards, industry data and independent validation and benchmarking.





		The SPIRIT Consortium™ supplies, and will further develop, specifications that enable increased design automation for IP re-use methodologies built on multi-vendor tool flows. This is achieved through unifying ways to describe and provide IP to enable rapid import into tools, automated design configuration and integration, and consistent architectural design refinement from system-level design through to chip layout. By adhering to the specifications, IP suppliers will be able to target their designs automatically to multiple tools, tool vendors will have the ability to rapidly import IP-libraries and designs, and systems-on-chip designers will be able to develop complex 'first-time-right' designs on multi-vendor tool and IP flows customized to their specific needs.



		EEMBC is a non-profit consortium that develops benchmark suites that target key embedded system applications including automotive/industrial, consumer, networking, office automation, and telecommunications. Our goal is to provide the certified benchmark scores and related information to help you select the processor for your next design.



		The VSI Alliance was formed in September 1996 with the goal of establishing a unifying vision for the system-chip industry and the technical standards required to enable the most critical component of the vision: the mix and match of Virtual Components (IP) from multiple sources