Digital Core Design (DCD), founded in 1999, is a private Intellectual Property (IP) Core provider and System-on-Chip (SoC) design house, and one of the leading and most successful IP companies. DCD provides VHDL and Verilog high quality synthesizable IP cores for such devices as: microcontrollers, bus interfaces, arithmetic coprocessors and other arithmetic components. DCD's expertise is to combine customers' application know-how with its design methodology, IP-Cores and System-on-Chip knowledge..

Thanks to product oriented design approach that enables unique embedded system solutions, DCD reduces time-to-market for companies engaged in three main applications:

• Development of leading-edge SoC designs and using IP Cores for nonproprietary parts of the product
• Enhancement of existing Printed Circuit Boards and their consolidation to chips
• Extension of existing products through replacement of obsolete parts

Designed from the ground up to meet SoC requirements, DCD's products offer:

• An industry-leading combination of high performance, low power, and small die size
• Easy system integration - to peripherals, coprocessors, and memories
• Easy customization for adaptability to a wide range of applications
• A choice of robust third party development and software tools
• An ASIC-style implementation methodology that leverages commercially available design tools

Specializing in modifications of existing popular microcontrollers and microprocessors, Digital Core Design offers new improved microcontroller architectures - 100% software compatible with their predecessors. The processors can be integrated with a broad range of available peripherals, including: Timers, UARTS, I2C interface, SPI interface, Compare/Capture, Watchdog Timer and fixed/floating point coprocessors.

The other company specialization is developing of unique Fixed and Floating Point arithmetic coprocessors and IEEE 754 compliant pipelined floating point units which allow an extremely fast floating point computation.

The DCD's focused approach resulted in the development of its own DoCD™ Debug System supporting DCD IP Cores, which includes: Debug IP Core, Hardware Assisted Debugger and Debug Software.

Using DCD IP Cores the client can benefit from:

• Getting a silicon proven and complete IP solution (core and debug system) from only one designer and vendor
• The best performance, the lowest power consumption and the smallest die size in the IP market
• Full customization
• Rapid prototyping and time-to-market reduction
• Design risks elimination
• Development costs reduction
• Productivity increase
• Technological independence (VHDL/Verilog)
• Global sales network
• Professional service and technical support of experienced engineers

The functionality of IP solutions offered by DCD were up to date appreciated by over 200 licenses sold to over 150 customers worldwide, such as: INTEL, SIEMENS, PHILIPS, TOYOTA, MAXIM, RAYTHEON, OSRAM, GENERAL ELECTRIC, FARADAY, SAGEM, FLEXTRONICS and GOODRICH. DCD IP Cores were successfully implemented in a wide spectrum of projects, ranging from medical care applications, by industrial control to military systems.

DCD also became a member of first-class branch partner programs like: AMPP of ALTERA, AllianceCORE of XILINX, ispLeverCORE Connection of LATTICE and IP Catalyst of SYNOPSYS.