One-stop shop IP offerings, key business trend in silicon IP market

However good is your silicon VLSI IP, if it requires large amount of verification and integration efforts to integrate with other IPs market, SOC designers will rise a question mark in selecting such IPs. Instead they have a choice to select complete IP subsystem with silicon proven support, integration and verification support, and IPs which are already a commercial success; they would prefer to go for that. That's the reason most of the VLSI IP vendors who have strong competition are moving towards supporting the chip designers with complete IP subsystem. If this trend continues, someday you will have a complete SOC IP platform available from IP vendors, if not through a single vendor but by partnering with complementing IP suppliers. That's what DSP IP vendor CEVA has done recently to capture RF IP market in the fast-growing wearables and IOT as well as smart device market. CEVA had acquired RivieraWaves in 2014, and has started partnering with complementing RF IP vendors in offering larger part of SoC block. CEVA and RivieraWaves were collaborating in Wi-Fi market for the last two years before this acquisition could happen. CEVA partnered with Catena to make CEVA's RivieraWaves Wi-Fi and Bluetooth IP Works seamlessly with Catena's radio IP with integrated PA and switch to give a very power and area efficient solution. Catena's Connectivity RF IP portfolio inc...