Arteris Brand Guidelines: FlexNoC, Network-on-Chip IP & a Campbell Base

A company built around how data moves inside a chip.

Arteris makes the wiring plan of other companies’ chips. Its products are network-on-chip (NoC) interconnect IP: designs that chipmakers license to move data between the processors, memory controllers and other blocks on a system-on-chip. The company says it pioneered the network-on-chip concept, and that its IP is used for connecting blocks “across SoCs and chiplets.”

Its founding date differs between sources. The company’s own website says Arteris was founded in 2004, and its website footer runs from 2004; Renaissance Capital, reporting on its stock-market filing on 1 October 2021, described Arteris as founded in 2003. English Wikipedia gives 2004 and names Philippe Boucard and two other engineering executives, who had worked together at the start-up T.Sqware, as its founders.

According to English Wikipedia, the founders wanted to replace the shared buses and crossbar switches that had long linked blocks on a chip, which were causing wiring congestion, heat and timing problems as chips grew. A network-on-chip instead uses “packetization and a distributed network of small interconnect elements,” in Wikipedia’s words, sending data around the chip in packets, much as a computer network does. Wikipedia lists early investors including ARM Holdings, Qualcomm and Synopsys, and says Arteris released its first product, NoC Solution, in 2006 and FlexNoC in 2009.

Licensing FlexNoC, and selling its technology to a customer.

The defining event of Arteris’s first decade came in 2013. On 31 October 2013, in a release datelined Sunnyvale, Arteris announced that Qualcomm Technologies, a subsidiary of Qualcomm, had acquired certain technology assets from it and hired personnel formerly employed by Arteris; the trade site Evertiq reported the deal the next day. Terms were not disclosed. The unusual part was the licence-back: Arteris kept the right to license, support and maintain its existing FlexNoC and FlexLLI product lines, and Qualcomm agreed to make certain FlexNoC updates available to Arteris on an agreed schedule. Its president and chief executive, K. Charles Janac, called the deal “a validation” of its network-on-chip technology. At that point Arteris said it had more than 50 licensees, who had used FlexNoC on nearly 200 chip, FPGA and IP-subsystem projects, many of them for mobile phones. English Wikipedia says that by 2012 its customers had included Qualcomm, Samsung, Texas Instruments, Toshiba and LG Electronics, Qualcomm among them.

The product range then grew. English Wikipedia records a Resilience Package for FlexNoC in September 2014, adding functional-safety mechanisms for use with the ISO 26262 and IEC 61508 standards, and the first version of Ncore, a cache-coherent interconnect, in May 2016. In 2020 Arteris bought Magillem Design Services, adding software based on the IEEE 1685 IP-XACT standard for assembling chips from blocks and generating their documentation.

The company then went public. On 1 October 2021, Renaissance Capital reported, the Campbell, California-based Arteris filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering, having filed confidentially in June, and planned to list on Nasdaq under the symbol AIP. It described itself in that filing as a provider of interconnect IP and IP deployment software for system-on-chip designs. The listing went ahead later in 2021, according to English Wikipedia.

How chip-design companies present themselves.

Chip-design software and semiconductor IP are hard things to picture. The products are programs, licences and blocks of circuitry that customers place inside their own chips, so the companies that sell them have to borrow images from the work itself. The most common is the chip floor-plan: a die seen from above, its functional blocks lit in bright colour, or the stacked metal routing layers of a layout drawn as glowing lines on a dark ground.

Abstract circuit lines do much of the remaining work. Thin traces, right-angled paths and grids of contact points stand in for a product that no one can hold, and they travel easily from a website banner to a trade-show wall. Alongside them come pictures of people at work: engineers in front of multi-monitor layouts, waveforms and schematics on the screens, the design shown in progress rather than finished.

The trade has its own stages. The Design Automation Conference is where, according to English Wikipedia, Mentor Graphics introduced its first product in 1982, and booths there and at the RISC-V Summit carry the same chip renders, circuit patterns and demonstration screens. Keynote stages follow a familiar pattern too: a chief executive in front of a roadmap slide, with process nodes, product generations and partner names set out across the screen.

This guide looks past those shared images to what can be checked about each company: who founded it, who owns it now, which tools or IP it is known for, and which events in its history — mergers, takeovers, export-control cases — shaped the name it trades under. Where a claim rests only on a company’s own word, we say so.

From interconnect to security.

Since the listing Arteris has added companies and products. English Wikipedia records the purchase of Semifore, a hardware-software interface specialist, in 2023, the same year as FlexNoC 5, a physically aware version of its interconnect, and the launch of FlexGen, a “smart” network-on-chip IP, in 2025. In January 2026 Arteris closed its previously announced acquisition of Cycuity, a hardware security assurance company, Pulse 2.0 reported on 19 January 2026; Arteris said the deal added tools for finding vulnerabilities in chips during design. English Wikipedia lists those tools as the Cycuity Radix-S, Radix-M and Radix-ST.

Today Arteris describes three lines of business: network-on-chip interconnect IP, software for system-on-chip integration automation, and hardware security assurance. Its headquarters are in Campbell, California, and it says its technology works with Arm, RISC-V and x86 processor architectures. English Wikipedia notes that the 2024 release of Ncore was designed to work with RISC-V processor IP and with Arm’s Armv9 Cortex cores. The company names its main markets as automotive, communications, consumer electronics, enterprise computing and industrial, and says it also offers products to meet functional-safety, reliability and hardware-security requirements; the safety packages for FlexNoC and Ncore remain part of the range. English Wikipedia, citing the company, says its technology had shipped in more than four billion units by February 2026, and lists licensees including Samsung Electronics, NXP, Texas Instruments and Renesas Electronics.

Arteris licenses designs to chipmakers rather than selling to the public. Its product names — FlexNoC, FlexGen, FlexWay and Ncore, among others listed by English Wikipedia — carry much of its identity in the trade.

For a design guide, Arteris shows a company whose brand is the plumbing of other companies’ products, with a name customers rarely see. Compare Qualcomm, which bought its FlexNoC technology assets in 2013, and Alphawave, another connectivity IP licensor. For this guide we use a deep teal and a trace amber with a sans, an unofficial interpretation; no product or logo is reproduced.

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