ARM is all set to bolster its IP configuration and integration capabilities with the acquisition of Dublin based Duolog Technologies in an effort to help its partners tackle the increasing complexities around SoC integration.
The company on Thursday, said that it will extend the use of Duolog Socrates IP integration tools within its own sub-system design flow and also continue to support Duolog’s Socrates licensee base.
ARM said that the Duolog acquisition will broaden its “market reach for ARM’s CoreLink interconnect and Controllers and CoreSight debug and trace” technologies throughout the enterprise, mobile and Internet of things (IoT) markets.
“Duolog’s award-winning Socrates platform configures IP in a standardized way ideal for importing into EDA tools to perform tasks such as sub-system functional verification and validation. Over the last 10 years Socrates has been used for over 100 successful tape-outs,” said ARM in the press release.
ARM pegs Duolog, which was valued at over €20 million, as a leader in design configuration and integration technology. Sandyford-headquartered Duolog with offices in Texas and Silicon Valley was co-founded in 1999 by ex-S3 executive Ray Bulger and Mark O’Donovan, director of corporate finance advisers Raglan Capital.
Ray Bulger, chief executive of Duolog, said that Duolog has “30 users of its Socrates IP integration tools, including ARM, Texas Instruments, and seven of the top 10 chip companies.” Duolog, which employs around 78 people, in development centers in Dublin and Budapest, has generated about $10 million of revenue last year, with 60 percent of it from licensing Socrates tools
The deal is expected to close in the third quarter of 2014 and the companies are yet to disclose the financial details.
