Customized IP and verification solutions open the door to high-quality chip design

China's integrated circuit design industry has made great progress in the past decade. This is not only reflected in the emergence of a large number of successful chip design companies in the industry, who are constantly working to make their products reach world-class levels, but also in the fact that these leading Chinese companies are very good at establishing a complete industrial ecosystem, and their products have entered the world's leading brand manufacturers (OEM) and design companies in various industries, and have also established in-depth cooperative relationships with major wafer foundries, including leading silicon IP companies and EDA tool providers such as SmartDV Technologies™. In addition, China's local IP and EDA tool providers have also made great progress and have begun to cooperate deeply with leading manufacturers such as SmartDV to jointly support Chinese and global customers.

In order to support the further development of China's integrated circuit design industry, SmartDV has established a wholly-owned subsidiary in China, Intellectual Property Semiconductor, with the goal of using SmartDV's world-leading silicon intellectual property (IP) technology and products, as well as localized support services to empower China's integrated circuit industry and electronic information industry. Currently, SmartDV has 300 customers worldwide, including seven of the top ten semiconductor companies and four major consumer electronics companies; in China, we also have dozens of very good customers, and our IP products and technologies are helping the innovative engineers develop first-class SoC, ASIC and FPGA products.

SmartDV was founded in 2007 in India by experienced ASIC design professionals Deepak Kumar Tara, Durga Lakshmi Tara and Kavita Tara Haridos. By combining proprietary SmartCompiler™ technology with the knowledge of hundreds of expert engineers, SmartDV can quickly, economically and reliably customize IP to support users in achieving their unique design goals. Therefore, SmartDV has always focused on the IP field and continuously launched IP products that are popular in the market. At the same time, these advanced IP products developed based on SmartDV's independent technology and methods can be combined with Chinese innovation without being restricted by geographical factors.

According to data from relevant industry organizations and market research institutions, China now has more than 3,400 integrated circuit design companies and IP and EDA tool providers, and there are hundreds of universities, research institutes and integrated circuit design centers (ICCs) conducting research and teaching related to integrated circuit design. Therefore, SmartDV sees a huge opportunity in this, that is, SmartDV and Chinese customers and partners will work together to innovate, jointly create a more perfect and advanced semiconductor industry ecosystem in China, and jointly explore the global market.

Since 2020, SmartDV's IP products have been adopted by Chinese customers. In 2022, SmartDV established Intellectual Property Semiconductor in anticipation of Chinese customers. Through this localized entity, SmartDV can not only provide Chinese customers with standard-based design IP and verification solutions (VIP) for their next-generation SoC, ASIC or FPGA to help Chinese customers complete their chip design with high quality and speed, but also help differentiate chip design through customized IP and other models.

In addition, we also hope to cooperate with universities and research institutions to jointly cultivate excellent IP and chip design talents. In terms of industrial cooperation, Intellectual Property Semiconductor hopes to become a fast-growing Chinese EDA tool provider, PHY IP provider, FPGA chip provider, RISC-V core IP provider and technical partner of integrated circuit design centers, and jointly provide mutually verified and pre-integrated IP solutions to global customers. As China's independent standard system in the ICT field becomes more and more perfect, Intellectual Property Semiconductor will also cooperate with various standard organizations to jointly promote the process of these Chinese standards taking root and bearing fruit in the market.

SmartDV provides a wide range of diverse semiconductor IP products and verification solutions, covering 5G, aviation, aerospace, automotive, mobile, networking, serial bus, storage, video/display and other fields . Thousands of chip designers around the world trust SmartDV's proven and easy-to-integrate IPs, which they can easily integrate into their SoCs, ASICs and FPGAs and complete their projects with high quality. Therefore, SmartDV is willing to invest in the Chinese market for a long time and work more closely with Chinese customers and partners through intellectual property semiconductors.

Many industry friends have visited the SmartDV Group website and Intellectual Property Semiconductor website before. Recently, we have launched the WeChat public account "Intellectual Property Semiconductor" and the Toutiao account "Intellectual Property Semiconductor" to communicate with Chinese customers and partners in a more timely, faster and more convenient manner, and to allow more industry professionals to deepen their understanding of Intellectual Property Semiconductor and SmartDV, and to attract more outstanding talents to join Intellectual Property Semiconductor. On these digital platforms, in addition to providing news about SmartDV's latest IP technologies and products, we will also provide in-depth content such as design experience sharing and executive trend insights, as well as excellent articles and reports on industries and technologies from third-party media and research institutions.

Looking ahead, China's chip design industry will continue to improve its competitiveness with independent innovative technologies and differentiated products, so it needs leading IP providers like SmartDV to provide customized IP products and advanced verification solutions for its innovation . At the same time, China's EDA tool and IP manufacturers and integrated circuit design centers also need partners like SmartDV to work together to provide more complete solutions for global users. Therefore, everyone is welcome to contact us in various ways to jointly open the door to accelerated development.