Cortus

Cortus SAS is a French semiconductor and IP design company headquartered in Mauguio, France. It focuses on developing microprocessor IP for embedded systems. Cortus is a Founding Platinum member of the RISC-V foundation^[2].

Technology

A specific feature of the processors from Cortus is their low silicon footprint, low power consumption and code density.

To date Cortus have released three families of processors, their initial 32 bit processors with a mixed 16/32 bit instruction set, a later family with 16/24/32 bit instructions and have started offering RISC-V ISA processors.

APS3

This was the first processor released by Cortus, it has now been superseded by the APS3R.

APS1, APS3R, APS5, FPS6

These are members of the initial family of processors with mixed 16/32 bit instruction lengths. The FPS6 offers hardware floating point.

APS23, APS25, FPS26

These are member of the second generation^[3] of processors with 16/24/32 bit instruction lengths. This gives better code density at the expense of silicon footprint, these processors are marginally larger compared to their equivalents in the first family of processors from Cortus.

APS3V

This is the first RISC-V ISA CPU from Cortus.^[4] It implements the RV32IMC instruction set architecture.

Fabless

Cortus uses the fabless model but foundries such as Angstrem-T implement SoCs containing Cortus cores.^[5]

Locations

The headquarters is in Montpellier, France, but there are branch offices in Korea^[6] and smaller offices in Germany, Taiwan and the UK.

References

• Official website