Coreworks® S.A. is a leading provider of Semiconductor Intellectual Property (SIP) for multi-standard multimedia and communications applications, such as DTV, IPTV, portable audio players, mobile internet devices, software defined radio, and more. Our products have been implemented in a wide variety of technologies, for more than 30 customers worldwide.

Our products include digital audio encoders and decoders such as Dolby Digital, Dolby E, Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby Pulse, Advanced Audio Coding (AAC and AAC+), MPEG1/2 Layers 1/2, digital audio interfaces such as SPDIF/AES-EBU, TDM, I2S, and asynchronous sample rate converters. We also provide area and power efficient mixed-radix FFT cores.

Coreworks' products rely on the SideWorks™ patent pending technology for automatically creating pre-silicon configurable and post-silicon reconfigurable hardware accelerators. Coreworks' products also benefit from the FaceWorks™ patented technology for prototyping SIP using an FPGA board connected to a user workstation via a high bandwidth local area network. Our solutions achieve three to five times more efficiency in terms of silicon area and power consumption, compared to the competition.

Coreworks was founded in 2001 by two professors of the Technical University of Lisbon (IST), who managed a Reconfigurable Computing research group on  at the Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering R&D (INESC-ID). The company received an A-series investment round from Espírito Santo Ventures in 2006. Since then Coreworks has been a recipient of three R&D grants from the Portuguese government.

Multimedia and communications applications will become even more pervasive, demanding IP cores with the highest performance, smallest area and lowest power consumption.

To provide our customers with the best DSP acceleration solution and many accessory IP cores, while maintaining the lowest power consumption and smallest die area.