Synopsys' USB 3.0 IP inside 100 Million SoCs

World 2nd biggest silicon IP vendor Synopsys has announced that its DesignWare USB 3.0 Controller and PHY IP used in more than 100 million production-shipped system-on-chips (SoCs) used in mobile computing, digital home and cloud computing applications such as smartphones, tablets, set-top boxes, digital TVs, gaming systems and servers. 60+ semiconductor companies have used DesignWare USB 3.0 IP in their products’ SoCs, including SoCs in the MicrosoftXBOX One. To help ensure interoperability and lower designers’ integration risk, the DesignWare USB 3.0 solution has been certified by the USB-IF through USB compliance testing inplug fests and by third-party labs. “Based on a long history of close collaboration with Synopsys, we have shipped hundreds of millions of products that incorporate Synopsys’ DesignWare USB 2.0 and 3.0 IP. In the last year alone, tens of millions of units were shipped globally,” said Sanghyun Lee, vice president of digital IP development team, System LSI Business at Samsung Electronics. “By using Synopsys’ DesignWare USB 3.0 IP, Samsung can deliver leading SoC products to our customers.” “Our SoCs for digital home, networking and WiFi applications ship in very high volumes, so we need high-quality, highly reliable USB 3.0 IP to help ensure our success,” said Yee-Wei Huang, vice president and spokesman at Realtek. “We chose DesignWare USB 3.0 ...