Interface IP Market Survey 2006-2011 and Forecast 2012-2016
出 版 商：IPnest
出版日期：2013/10/15
頁 數：84頁
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The need to exchange larger and larger amount of data from system to the external world, or internally into an application, has pushed for the standardization of interconnect protocol. This allows interconnecting different Integrated Circuits (IC) coming from different vendors. Some protocols have been defined to best fit certain types of applications, like Serial ATA (SATA) for Storage, and certain protocols are covering a wide range of applications, like Universal Serial Bus (USB) or PCI-Express (PCIe). The wide deployment of these High Speed Serial Interconnect (HSSI) has started at the beginning of the 2000's (even if the first have appeared during the 90's with USB, Ethernet and 1394), and the different standard organization are constantly working to define the next step, resulting in an increase of the effective data bandwidth. This evolution has been the guarantee to escape for a product commoditization: a new generation of the protocol is defined every 18 to 30 months. Thus, an IP vendor has the opportunity to release a new upgrade of a standard based product frequently enough to keep the selling price in the high range. This is true for almost all protocols, at least for the standard which will be used for a decent period (say at least 5 to 10 years).
There is so many protocols and so many possibilities of using it, that the real question is not to know if a product will use High Speed Serial Interconnect to exchange data, but which protocol to use, and which generation for a given protocol. If you want to secure your investment, you'd better choosing a protocol supported by a solid roadmap. If your product needs to be interoperable, you need to select a widely spread protocol, also supported by many IP vendors, with Customer Off-The-Shelf (COTS) available...
Table of Content ...................................................................................................................................... 3
Table of Illustrations ................................................................................................................................ 7
INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................................................... 9
Quick overview of the existing protocols ................................................................................................ 9
Universal Serial Bus (USB) .................................................................................................................... 9
PCI-Express (PCIe) .............................................................................................................................. 10
Serial ATA (SATA) ............................................................................................................................... 10
Fibre Channel (FC) .............................................................................................................................. 10
High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) ................................................................................... 10
DiiVA .................................................................................................................................................. 11
Memory Interfaces ............................................................................................................................ 11
Parallel for DRAM: DDR 2/3/4 (and LPDDR 2/3) ............................................................................ 11
High Speed Serial for DRAM: Work In Progress ............................................................................. 11
Nand Flash Controller ........................................................................................................................ 12
MIPI .................................................................................................................................................... 12
Ethernet Related Standards ............................................................................................................... 12
Infiniband (IBA) .................................................................................................................................. 13
Serial RapidIO (sRIO) .......................................................................................................................... 13
Hyper Transport (HT) ......................................................................................................................... 13
Display Port (DP) ................................................................................................................................ 13
ThunderBolt (previously known as Light Peak) ................................................................................. 14
Top 5 Interface IP Market Study .................................................................................................... 15
Universal Serial Bus ............................................................................................................................... 15
Introduction ....................................................................................................................................... 15
USB 2.0 Results 2003-2012 ................................................................................................................ 15
USB 3.0 IP Vendors Revenue 2009-2012 ........................................................................................... 17
USB 3.0 IP Forecast 2013-2017 .......................................................................................................... 18
USB 2.0 IP Forecast 2013-2017 .......................................................................................................... 19
Consolidated USB IP Forecast 2013-2017 .......................................................................................... 19
License IP Pricing ................................................................................................................................... 20
PHY IP Pricing ..................................................................................................................................... 20
Controller IP Pricing ........................................................................................................................... 20
Pricing trend....................................................................................................................................... 20
IP Vendor List ..................................................................................................................................... 21
Arasan ............................................................................................................................................ 21
CAST ............................................................................................................................................... 21
Evatronix ........................................................................................................................................ 21
Faraday Technology ....................................................................................................................... 21
GDA ................................................................................................................................................ 21
Innovative Logic ............................................................................................................................. 22
Inventure ........................................................................................................................................ 22
NEC Electronics .............................................................................................................................. 22
PLDA ............................................................................................................................................... 22
Synopsys ......................................................................................................................................... 23
IP vendor summary ........................................................................................................................ 23
SuperSpeed USB going to mainstream: it’s now! .............................................................................. 24
SSIC target Mobile Application and Supports MIPI M-PHY ............................................................... 24
USB 3.1 (10 Gbps link) prototyping now ............................................................................................ 24
Summary ............................................................................................................................................ 25 This survey has been licensed to COMPANY under a “Team License” agreement: it is to be used by the customer’s marketing team only.
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PCI Express............................................................................................................................................. 26
Introduction ....................................................................................................................................... 26
PCIe Results 2010-2012 ..................................................................................................................... 27
Various PCIe solutions ....................................................................................................................... 28
PCI Express Forecast 2013-2017 ........................................................................................................ 28
PCIe IP license price ........................................................................................................................... 30
PCIe IP Vendor list .............................................................................................................................. 31
Cadence .......................................................................................................................................... 31
Faraday ........................................................................................................................................... 31
Inventure ........................................................................................................................................ 31
PLDA ............................................................................................................................................... 31
SYNOPSYS ....................................................................................................................................... 31
SNOWBUSH .................................................................................................................................... 32
Others ............................................................................................................................................. 32
IP vendor summary ........................................................................................................................ 32
Summary ............................................................................................................................................ 33
Serial ATA .............................................................................................................................................. 34
Introduction ....................................................................................................................................... 34
SATA IP Results 2010-2012 ................................................................................................................ 35
Design Starts including SATA IP in 2012 ............................................................................................ 35
SATA Forecast 2013-2017 .................................................................................................................. 36
SATA IP license price .......................................................................................................................... 38
Main competitors .............................................................................................................................. 38
Ceva ................................................................................................................................................ 38
Snowbush ....................................................................................................................................... 38
Synopsys ......................................................................................................................................... 38
IP vendor summary ........................................................................................................................ 39
Summary ............................................................................................................................................ 39
DDRn Memory Interface ....................................................................................................................... 40
Introduction ....................................................................................................................................... 40
DDR Results 2005-2012 ..................................................................................................................... 41
SoC Proportion Growth on 2010-2017 .............................................................................................. 42
Evaluating DDRn IP sourcing rate ...................................................................................................... 43
DDRn IP Forecast 2013-2017 ............................................................................................................. 44
DDRn IP license price ......................................................................................................................... 45
SDRAM respective usage ................................................................................................................... 46
What about serial Interface for memory? ......................................................................................... 47
Main competitors .............................................................................................................................. 48
ARM ................................................................................................................................................ 48
Denali (now Cadence) .................................................................................................................... 48
Global Unichip Corp. (GUC) ............................................................................................................ 49
RAMBUS ......................................................................................................................................... 49
Synopsys ......................................................................................................................................... 49
Summary ............................................................................................................................................ 50
Introduction ....................................................................................................................................... 51
HDMI Results 2010-2012 ................................................................................................................... 51
HDMI, MHL and eDP .......................................................................................................................... 52
HDMI Forecast 2013-2017 ................................................................................................................. 53
HDMI and HDMI Combo (eDP, MHL) IP license price ........................................................................ 54
Main competitors .............................................................................................................................. 54 This survey has been licensed to COMPANY under a “Team License” agreement: it is to be used by the customer’s marketing team only.
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Silicon Image .................................................................................................................................. 54
Silicon Library ................................................................................................................................. 54
Synopsys ......................................................................................................................................... 54
Transwitch ...................................................................................................................................... 54
Others ............................................................................................................................................. 54
Summary ............................................................................................................................................ 55
Display Ports ...................................................................................................................................... 56
Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 56
IP vendors ....................................................................................................................................... 56
DP Forecast 2013-2017 .................................................................................................................. 56
Summary ........................................................................................................................................ 56
Top 5 Interface IP evolution 2010-2012 ................................................................................................ 57
Top 5 Interface IP (USB, PCIe, DDRn, SATA, HDMI) 2010-2012 ......................................................... 57
Top 5 Interface IP (DDRn, USB, PCIe, HDMI, MIPI) 2013-2017 ......................................................... 58
Emerging Wired Interconnect ............................................................................................................... 59
MIPI IP ................................................................................................................................................ 59
Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 59
MIPI Results 2010-2012 ..................................................................................................................... 63
MIPI Forecast 2013-2017 ................................................................................................................... 64
MIPI IP Forecast in Wireless ........................................................................................................... 64
MIPI IP Forecast in PC & Media Tablet ........................................................................................... 64
MIPI IP Forecast in Consumer Electronic ....................................................................................... 65
MIPI IP Forecast by Type ................................................................................................................ 65
MIPI IP Total Forecast by Segment ................................................................................................ 66
MIPI IP license price ........................................................................................................................... 67
PHY IP Pricing ................................................................................................................................. 67
Controller IP Pricing ....................................................................................................................... 67
Main Competitors .............................................................................................................................. 68
Arasan ............................................................................................................................................ 68
Cosmic Circuits (now Cadence) ...................................................................................................... 68
Faraday Technology ....................................................................................................................... 68
GDA ................................................................................................................................................ 68
HDL DH ........................................................................................................................................... 68
GUC ................................................................................................................................................ 68
Mixel ............................................................................................................................................... 68
Northwest Logic ............................................................................................................................. 69
Synopsys ......................................................................................................................................... 69
VLSI+ ............................................................................................................................................... 69
Summary ........................................................................................................................................ 70
Ethernet ................................................................................................................................................. 71
Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 71
Ethernet market in 2010- 2012 ...................................................................................................... 71
IP vendors ....................................................................................................................................... 71
Ethernet IP Forecast 2012-2016 .................................................................................................... 72
Summary ........................................................................................................................................ 72
Others Wired Interconnect ................................................................................................................... 73
Introduction ....................................................................................................................................... 73
“Others Wired Interface IP” Evaluation 2008-2017 .......................................................................... 74
Wired Interconnect Consolidated Forecast 2008-2017 ........................................................................ 75
Wired Interconnect 2008-2017 ......................................................................................................... 75 This survey has been licensed to COMPANY under a “Team License” agreement: it is to be used by the customer’s marketing team only.
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IP vendor summary ............................................................................................................................... 76
IP vendors positioning in 2012 .......................................................................................................... 76
Cadence ............................................................................................................................................. 76
Rambus .............................................................................................................................................. 77
Silicon Image ...................................................................................................................................... 77
Synopsys ............................................................................................................................................ 77
New comers to watch ........................................................................................................................ 78
Verification IP ..................................................................................................................................... 78
Building a successful strategy ............................................................................................................ 78
CONCLUSION ......................................................................................................................................... 79
Recommended Reading: Publications and Market Survey ............................................................ 81
