Cortus

Cortus SAS
Société par actions simplifiée
Traded as Private
Industry Semiconductors
Founded November 27, 2005 (2005-11-27)[1]
Founders Michael Chapman, Duc Nguyen Huu
Headquarters Mauguio, France
Key people
 Michael Chapman (CEO), Duc Nguyen Huu (General Manager)
Products Microprocessor designs
Website www.cortus.com

Cortus SAS is an IP design and fabless chip semiconductor company founded in 2005 and headquartered in Mauguio, France. It focuses on developing microprocessor IP for embedded systems, offers design services for chip manufacturers and has built a chip for IoT connectivity. Cortus is a Founding Platinum member of the RISC-V foundation[2].

Cortus has provided IP for more than 2.6 billion devices with "Cortus-Inside".

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This was the first processor released by Cortus, it has now been superseded by the APS3R.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

Ecosystem

The following real-time operating systems have already been ported to these processor architectures:

Fabless

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

Locations

The headquarters is in Mauguio (near Montpellier), France, but there are branch offices in Korea[6] and smaller offices in Germany and Taiwan.

References

  1. ↑ "Cortus anniversary press release". Retrieved 6 June 2016.
  2. ↑ https://riscv.org/membership/1526/cortus/
  3. ↑ "New APS23 and APS25 Processors Designed for "Third Wave" of Computing Devices". Retrieved 7 June 2016.
  4. ↑ http://www.eenewseurope.com/news/cortus-joins-risc-v-fan-club
  5. ↑ "Cortus processor IP manufactured by Russian foundry". Retrieved 10 June 2016.
  6. ↑ "Cortus s'implante aux Etats-Unis et en Corée". Retrieved 7 June 2016.
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