MIPS Everywhere

Designing Your Next System-on-a-chip (SoC) with MIPS Technologies

For more than a decade, MIPS Technologies has garnered broad success across the embedded marketplace. The company's strongest markets include Digital Consumer, Broadband and other high-volume embedded SoC markets. Looking at the block diagram for a typical SoC (see figure below), MIPS IP is used in the control plane leveraging the strong software ecosystem, and in the data plane leveraging the ESL modeling for configurability. The MIPS IP can be implemented as cores provided by MIPS Technologies, Inc. or as implementations by MIPS' licensees that run MIPS32® and MIPS64® software.

In the control plane, MIPS is used in a broad range of products. Our sponsorship of Linux-mips.org shows the company's commitment to open source. Additionally, MIPS is supported by a broad range of RTOS and tool chains from leaders such as Express Logic, Green Hills Software, Mentor Graphics, Inc., Microsoft Corporation, MontaVista and Wind River Systems. Middleware and market-specific applications software is available from a broad range of companies who are members of the MIPS Alliance Program.

The MIPS® Ecosystem includes providers of other IP necessary for completion of the on-chip embedded memory, common peripheral IP and products that show key implementation configurations as examples of leveraging the MIPS32 cores and EDA tools such as Cadence Design Systems, Magma and Synopsys, Inc.

Finishing the system backplane and memory architecture is critical to generating the performance delivered by the MIPS cores. MIPS works with key ecosystem partners worldwide, including Sonics, Inc, and Denali Software, Inc., as well as other MAP partners to provide reference designs. Additionally, MIPS provides a broad range system debug and performance monitoring IP-complete with integration in Eclipse-enabled GNU tool chains from the company's FS2 division.

Today, MIPS Technologies ships more than 90M units per quarter and has nearly 900 MIPS-Based™ designs worldwide.