Palmchip to include inSilicon IP in SOC platforms

Palmchip is to become a value added reseller for inSilicon's communications technologies that will be integrated into Palmchip platform solutions.

inSilicon Corp - a leading provider of semiconductor intellectual property (IP) communications technology - has announced that Palmchip Corp, a leader in developing and licensing re-usable, configurable semiconductor IP for system-on-chip (SOC) solutions, will be a value added reseller for inSilicon's communications technologies that will be integrated into Palmchip platform solutions.

Under the terms of the agreement, Palmchip will market and sublicense inSilicon's industry-leading portfolio of communications IP together with Palmchip's products to provide applications-targeted SOC platforms.

Palmchip's flagship CoreFrame integration architecture enables fast plug-and-play of multisourced IP.

Within the CoreFrame architecture, Palmchip's PalmPak SOC development platform contains all of the peripheral functions required for a basic SOC (the CoreFrame architecture with PalmChannel controller and CPU-MChannel, DMA Channel, Flash/SDRAM memory controller, communications I/O, and basic HW/SW verification test bench).

"Palmchip is focused on reducing customer time-to-market by providing comprehensive, pre-verified SOC platform solutions", said Robert Nalesnik, vice president of marketing of inSilicon.

"We're excited about our role in providing Palmchip the keystone communications technologies as part of their extremely flexible SOC development suite".

"inSilicon's lineage of communications IP expertise and silicon-proven products brings significant value to our customers", said Melissa Jones, vice president of marketing of Palmchip.

"Its broad array of system-proven technologies will enable high design efficiency and device interoperability".

As part of the agreement, Palmchip will develop interfaces to the VSIA Virtual Component Interface (VCI) standard, which enables a common interface to inSilicon components.

inSilicon, an early adopter of VCI, currently ships eight VCI-compatible communications products.

Palmchip is developing application-ready platforms that add specialized IP to further meet the design and time-to-delivery requirements of customers in specific embedded application markets including mobile communication and entertainment devices, PDAs, digital cameras, set-top boxes, network controllers, and office automation devices.

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