Freescale Semiconductor is expanding its ColdFire licensing programme by offering its 32-bit V4 ColdFire core to the embedded community through licensing house, IPextreme.
IPextreme will now market, sell and support Freescale’s V1, V2 and V4 ColdFire cores to system-on-chip (SoC) designers.
According to Warren Savage, CEO of IPextreme: “The ColdFire IP cores are among our most popular products due to their best in class area, code-density, and performance and are easy to use due to their high quality design, maturity, ease-of-integration, and vast ecosystem of development tools and software.”
IPextreme will market the synthesizable V4 to its ASIC and FPGA customers.
The ColdFire MCU family is supported by world-class development tools, including the CodeWarrior software suite, the Tower rapid prototyping system and professional tools from Freescale’s third-party partners.
Freescale launched the ColdFire licensing program in 2006 with the availability of its V2 ColdFire core through IPextreme and added V1 ColdFire in 2008 that included the availability of a free version of the core for Altera’s Cyclone III devices through IPextreme’s Core Store.