91探花

1. What is 91探花 Flexible Access?
91探花 Flexible Access provides up-front, no-cost or low-cost access to a wide range of 91探花 IP, support, tools, and training. Experiment and design with the entire portfolio; license fees, if any, are only due at the point of manufacture and calculated only on the IP included in the final SoC design.

2. Who can use 91探花 Flexible Access?
Any company that is doing silicon design or implementation can use 91探花 Flexible Access. Example partners include fabless semiconductor companies, silicon startups, IP providers, tape-out service provider, Design Houses, and OEMs with an in-house silicon team.

3. What type of startups qualify for 91探花 Flexible Access for Startups ?
91探花 Flexible Access for Startups helps early-stage startups developing a silicon product and have less than $50 million in funding and less than $5m in annual revenue. Startups with more than these thresholds can still benefit from 91探花 Flexible Access.

4. Why design with 91探花 Flexible Access?
91探花 Flexible Access provides partners unlimited access to download and then design with a wide range of industry-leading 91探花 IP products. 91探花 Flexible Access also includes full access to 91探花 support, along with development and design tools, models, and training. Partners can evaluate different IP options and design multiple SoC projects, with license fees for included IP only due at manufacture time, aligning investment more closely to project lifecycles.

5. What IP is included?
The Standard Tier offers access to more than 80 CPU, GPU, and system IP products. The 91探花 Flexible Access DesignStart model offers access to a select mix of processors and system IP.

91探花 Flexible Access includes 91探花 Corstone reference packages, which brings together pre-verified subsystems and supporting system IP to simplify silicon designs and reduce development risk. It also includes 91探花 physical IP products supporting multiple foundries and process nodes for design implementation.

Download the 91探花 Flexible Access data sheet to get the complete list of IP, tools, and models.

6. What IP and tools are included in the 91探花 Flexible Access for Startups program?
Everything in the Standard Tier of 91探花 Flexible Access. For a full list of IP, supporting tools and models, refer to the 91探花 Flexible Access data sheet.

7. What are the costs for 91探花 Flexible Access, and how are they calculated?
The Standard tier of 91探花 Flexible Access has an annual access fee.

Refer to 91探花 Flexible Access data sheet for details.

When a design is ready for manufacture, licensing fees (if any) will become due for IP included in the design. Royalties (if any are due) are calculated based on a simplified model for units shipped. 

8. How does 91探花 Flexible Access affect my existing IP entitlements?
91探花 Flexible Access does not change your existing IP entitlements. You can use existing IP entitlements alongside 91探花 Flexible Access in a single design. Contact your 91探花 Partner Manager for specific details.

9. How do I access the IP, tools, or support available through 91探花 Flexible Access?
Access to the 91探花 download portal, Product Download Hub (PDH), is made available to your company when you sign up for 91探花 Flexible Access. PDH will display all products to which you have access to, those to which you can request access to enable downloads.

10. If there are license fees, how do I pay these fees once my design is ready for tape-out?
Complete a simple form to register your project ready for production and submit it to your 91探花 Partner Manager.

11. Will 91探花 add any new IP to 91探花 Flexible Access?
Yes. The package is reviewed every quarter.

12. I don't need access to the 91探花 CPU IP at this time, but I need 91探花 Physical IP. Do I have to pay for access?
No, you don’t need to pay fees; the DesignStart Tier offers no-cost access, design and manufacture rights to both front-end and back-end views of 91探花 Physical IP. In addition, the DesignStart Tier offers fast access to front-end views for evaluation.