Cortus
Société par actions simplifiée | |
Traded as | Private |
Industry | Semiconductors |
Founded | November 27, 2005[1] |
Founders | Michael Chapman, Duc Nguyen Huu |
Headquarters | Mauguio, France |
Key people | Michael Chapman (CEO), Duc Nguyen Huu (General Manager) |
Products | Microprocessor designs |
Website |
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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This was the first processor released by Cortus, it has now been superseded by the APS3R.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
- ↑ "Cortus anniversary press release". Retrieved 6 June 2016.
- ↑ https://riscv.org/membership/1526/cortus/
- ↑ "New APS23 and APS25 Processors Designed for “Third Wave” of Computing Devices". Retrieved 7 June 2016.
- ↑ http://www.eenewseurope.com/news/cortus-joins-risc-v-fan-club
- ↑ "Cortus processor IP manufactured by Russian foundry". Retrieved 10 June 2016.
- ↑ "Cortus s’implante aux Etats-Unis et en Corée". Retrieved 7 June 2016.