What IPrium does

IPrium LLC is a privately held Italian company headquartered in Ischitella (Foggia province), Italy, founded in September 2006. The company specializes in FPGA intellectual property (IP) cores for digital signal processing in wireless and wireline communication systems, organized into three product categories: demodulators, modulators, and forward error correction (FEC) codecs. Its portfolio comprises 41 IP cores that cover major international communications standards including DVB (S/S2/S2X, T/T2, C/C2), CCSDS space data, IEEE 802.11 WiFi, ITU-T G.709/G.975/G.975.1 optical transport, and IRIG 106-22 aerospace telemetry. Revenue is generated primarily through one-time perpetual licenses with royalty-free worldwide terms, delivered as synthesizable Verilog or optimized netlist for Xilinx, Intel/Altera, Lattice, and Microsemi/Actel FPGA platforms; hardware evaluation via the ModemKit program (Xilinx Zynq-7000 plus Analog Devices AD9361) and direct enterprise sales on a quote basis round out the go-to-market.

The technical platform emphasizes silicon-proven designs with verified throughput levels — including 100 Gbps Polar encoding for 3GPP 5G-customizable applications, 500 MBytes/s BCH, 200 MSymbols/s DVB-S demodulation, and 200 Mbit/s IEEE 802.11 LDPC — and native ADC/DAC integration through JESD204B interfaces and Analog Devices transceivers (AD9361/AD9371 families). The portfolio has steadily broadened over twenty years of operation to include FEC codecs for OTU2/OTU3 DWDM submarine systems (BCH I.3/I.9, LDPC I.6 at 10G and 40G speeds), E-band 70-80 GHz multi-gigabit microwave modems, and most recently a LunaNet-compliant LDPC for lunar augmented navigation services.

Customers and end-markets span satellite telecommunications, aerospace and telemetry, digital TV broadcasting, optical fiber/DWDM transport, and wireless microwave backhaul. Named engagements include a 1 GSPS 64-channel synchronous data acquisition system developed jointly with Keysight Technologies (formerly Agilent) for an unnamed enterprise satellite telecom customer, alongside deployments with aerospace telemetry operators, DVB satellite broadcasters, and DWDM fiber optic system operators. IPrium is founder-led, privately held without disclosed external funding, operates with a single Italian headquarters, and has remained under Danil Shendrik's direction since inception.

Name

IPrium

Legal name

IPrium

Website

https://iprium.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2006

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

IPrium is an Italian privately held provider of 41 FPGA IP cores for digital signal processing in wireless and wireline communications, serving equipment designers across satellite, aerospace, optical transport, and digital TV broadcasting via perpetual licensing.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

FPGA Intellectual Property Cores

NAICS

Semiconductor and Related Device Manufacturing (334413), Other Communications Equipment Manufacturing (33429), Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing (334220)

SIC

Communications Equipment, Nec (3669), Radio & Tv Broadcasting & Communications Equipment (3663), Semiconductors & Related Devices (3674)

akta.pro primary industry

Hardware/Chip Design IP Cores (Processor, Interface, Analog, Security) (HDAHAFAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

Programmable Logic (FPGAs/CPLDs) (HDAHAJAG), IP Enablement, Characterization & Porting Services (HDAHAFAI)

Keywords

• FPGA IP cores
• Wireless modem IP
• Forward error correction
• Digital signal processing
• Satellite communication IP

Headquarters

HQ city

Ischitella

HQ country

Italy

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. IP Core Licensing: One-time perpetual license fees for FPGA IP Cores delivered as synthesizable Verilog or optimized netlist format, with royalty-free worldwide licensing
2. ModemKit Hardware Evaluation: Loan-only basis for 30-day evaluation periods for the ModemKit hardware platform containing FPGA/RF boards and IP Cores
3. Evaluation Boards: Sale of modem evaluation boards including Altera Cyclone II and Xilinx Spartan-3A DSP platforms
4. Technical Support: Free remote technical support for 1 year included with license, extended support likely available for purchase

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

IPrium designs and licenses FPGA intellectual property (IP) cores for digital signal processing in wireless and wireline communication systems. Its portfolio of 41 IP cores includes modulators, demodulators, and forward error correction (FEC) codecs compliant with international standards such as DVB, CCSDS, ETSI, ITU-T G.709/G.975.1, IEEE 802.11, and IRIG 106. The company also offers the ModemKit hardware evaluation platform combining Xilinx Zynq-7000 FPGA boards with Analog Devices RF transceivers for rapid prototyping.

Product overview

IPrium offers a comprehensive portfolio of FPGA IP Cores for digital signal processing in wireless and wireline communication systems. The product portfolio consists of three main categories of IP Cores: Demodulators (including QAM, PSK, DVB-S/S2/S2X, SOQPSK-TG, DVB-CID, Wideband DDC, OFDM, RS-QPSK, Multi-gigabit, and Burst BPSK), Forward Error Correction (FEC) codecs (including Reed-Solomon, Viterbi, LDPC for multiple standards including CCSDS and IEEE 802.11, BCH, Polar, and G.709), and Modulators (including QAM, DVB-T/T2, DVB-S/S2/S2X, DVB-C/C2, ATSC 8VSB, J.83B, DVB-CID, CCSDS SCCC, and SOQPSK-TG LDPC). IPrium also offers the ModemKit as a hardware evaluation platform that enables customers to rapidly deploy and evaluate IP Cores using Xilinx Zynq-7000 boards and Analog Devices RF transceivers. The IP Cores are delivered as synthesizable Verilog or optimized netlist format with synthesis scripts and test benches. The company was founded in September 2006 and is headquartered in Foggia, Italy.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• ModemKit: A complete set of FPGA/DSP/RF boards, IPrium's IP Cores, and PC software for effective evaluation of wireless communication systems. Includes Xilinx Zynq-7000 FPGA/SoC board, Analog Devices AD9361 RF Agile Transceiver board, USB/Ethernet connectivity, and 10 hours of remote technical support.

Products and services

• LunaNet AFS LDPC Encoder and Decoder LDPC FEC IP core for Lunar Augmented Navigation Services, compliant with LunaNet Interoperability Specification (LNIS) Version 1, supporting all Navigation Message subframe types for autonomous satellite systems.
• SOQPSK-TG Demodulator Complete digital SOQPSK-TG demodulator supporting SOQPSK-TG, SOQPSK-MIL, SOQPSK-A, and SOQPSK-B variants, compliant with IRIG 106-22 Telemetry Standard with LLR soft decision for LDPC and Turbo FEC, optimized for non-linear amplifiers.
• BCH Encoder and Decoder BCH encoder/decoder IP core customizable to any standard including NAND Flash and DVB, with throughput up to 500 MBytes/s, code block length up to 8191 bytes, and high error correction performance.
• SOQPSK-TG LDPC Modulator SOQPSK-TG modulator with integrated AR4JA LDPC encoder, compliant with IRIG 106-22 Telemetry Standard, supporting SOQPSK-TG, SOQPSK-MIL, SOQPSK-A and SOQPSK-B variants for non-linear amplifier applications.
• 100 Gbps Polar Encoder and Decoder Polar Code encoder/decoder using Successive-Cancellation algorithm with throughput up to 100 Gbit/s, customizable to standards including 3GPP 5G, with code block length of 1024 bits.
• CCSDS AR4JA LDPC Encoder and Decoder CCSDS 131.0-B-4 AR4JA LDPC encoder/decoder supporting all 9 encoding schemes with rates 1/2, 2/3, 4/5 and block sizes 1K, 4K, 16K, with encoding rate up to 100 Mbit/s.
• IEEE 802.11 WLAN WiFi LDPC Encoder and Decoder IEEE 802.11n/ac/ax WLAN WiFi LDPC encoder/decoder compliant with IEEE 802.11n-2009 specification, supporting encoding rates up to 200 Mbit/s and decoding rates up to 120 Mbit/s with layered Min-Sum-Offset decoding.
• CCSDS SCCC Modulator and Turbo Encoder CCSDS 131.2-B-1 SCCC Modulator and Turbo Encoder compliant with Flexible Advanced Coding and Modulation Scheme for High Rate Telemetry, supporting all 27 mandatory encoding and modulation mechanisms from QPSK to 64-APSK.
• CCSDS 231.0 LDPC Encoder and Decoder CCSDS 231.0-B-4 LDPC encoder/decoder for TC synchronization and channel coding, supporting (128,64) and (512,256) encoding schemes for telecommand communication systems.
• 4-channel ATSC 8VSB Modulator 4-channel 8VSB modulator for USA digital terrestrial television with AD9789 DAC support, including RS Encoder, Scrambler, Trellis Encoder, digital modulator and upconverter.
• 32-channel J.83B Modulator 32-channel J.83 Annex B modulator for USA digital cable television, including RS Encoder, Interleaver, Randomizer, Trellis Encoder, Mapper and Pulse Shaping Filter, supporting MAX5861 and MAX5862 DAC.
• 32-channel DVB-C Modulator 32-channel DVB-C modulator IP core for cable digital TV broadcasting with support for MAX5861 and MAX5862 DAC.
• 200 MSymbols/s DVB-S Demodulator Complete QPSK tuner with integrated DVB-S FEC decoder including Viterbi decoder, deinterleaver, Reed-Solomon decoder, descrambler and TS stream output FIFO.
• J.83 Annex B Cable Modulator J.83 Annex B modulator for USA cable TV broadcasting, including RS Encoder, Interleaver, Randomizer, Trellis Encoder, Mapper and Pulse Shaping Filter, compliant with ITU-T J.83 Annex B standard.
• ATSC 8VSB Modulator 8VSB modulator for USA digital terrestrial television, including RS Encoder, Scrambler, Trellis Encoder, digital modulator and upconverter, compliant with ATSC A/53 Part 2 standard.
• ModemKit Complete evaluation kit for wireless IP Cores combining Xilinx Zynq-7000 FPGA/SoC board, Analog Devices AD9361 RF Agile Transceiver board, USB/Ethernet drivers, Linux/Windows support, Quick Start guide, and 10 hours of remote desktop technical support, available for free 30-day loan.
• 40G I.6 LDPC Codec I.6 LDPC super FEC code for ITU-T G.975.1 recommendation, optimized for linear OTN OTU3 flow speed 43.01 Gbps fiber optic communications with net coding gain of 8.02 dB.
• 40G I.3 BCH Codec I.3 Concatenated BCH super FEC code for ITU-T G.975.1 recommendation, optimized for linear OTN OTU3 flow speed 43.01 Gbps fiber optic communications with net coding gain of 9.26 dB.
• Burst BPSK Modem Complete burst digital BPSK modem optimized for microwave communication systems in half-duplex packet mode with preamble length of 32 bits and payload of 1-256 bytes.
• E-band Wireless Multi-gigabit Modem Complete BPSK/QPSK wireless modem for E-Band 70-80 GHz millimeter wave microwave point-to-point communication systems with integrated Reed-Solomon FEC.
• DVB-S2X Modulator DVB-S2X modulator with 5%-35% roll-off and BPSK, QPSK, 8-PSK, 16-APSK to 256-APSK constellation support and all VL-SNR modes, including BCH/LDPC Encoder.
• 10G/40G/100G G.709 Codec Reed-Solomon (255,239) codec for ITU-T G.709 Optical Transport Network recommendation, supporting continuous and burst modes for OTU2 10.7 Gbps fiber optic communications.
• Reed-Solomon Encoder and Decoder Reed-Solomon error-correcting codec compatible with DVB, CCSDS, WiMAX and WiGig standards with 300 MB/s throughput, supporting DVB RS (204,188) and CCSDS RS (255,223) and (255,239) configurations.

Named customers4 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration22 records

Feature8 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Keysight Technologies (formerly Agilent)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 14 July 2015IPrium and Keysight Technologies (Agilent) developed a 1 GSPS 64-channel synchronous data acquisition system composed of IPrium's Wideband DDC IP Core and eight M9703A AXIe 12-bit high-speed digitizers/wideband digital receivers. The system was developed for an enterprise leader in satellite telecommunication systems with requirements for multichannel synchronization and FPGA programming capability.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Synopsys, Inc. Synopsys is a broad EDA and semiconductor IP giant whose DesignWare IP portfolio includes communication controllers, FEC and interface IP. It is a much larger incumbent that competes with IPrium at the high end of the FPGA IP market and offers bundled EDA tooling.
• Imagination Technologies: Imagination Technologies licenses processor, graphics, and connectivity IP cores for semiconductor and FPGA platforms. Its communications IP offerings and established customer relationships overlap with parts of IPrium's addressable market.
• Cadence Design Systems: Cadence provides a broad portfolio of design IP including interface, memory, and DSP IP for FPGA and ASIC. As a broad incumbent it competes with IPrium at the high end and has substantially more R&D resources.
• CEVA, Inc. CEVA licenses DSP, wireless platform, and connectivity IP cores for communications and IoT. It is a broader incumbent that competes in the wireless modem IP segment where IPrium also operates.

Direct peers

• CAST, Inc. CAST is a long-standing independent provider of semiconductor IP cores, including FPGA-targeted IP for communications, imaging, and processing. It is one of the most direct competitors to IPrium in the third-party FPGA IP market.
• Eureka Technology Inc. Eureka Technology offers a broad catalog of FPGA/ASIC IP cores including communications, video and interface IP. It is a comparable third-party IP vendor competing for the same design-in opportunities as IPrium.
• Creonic GmbH: Creonic specialises in IP cores for forward error correction (LDPC, Turbo, Polar, BCH) and modulation for satellite, optical and wireless applications, making it a closely comparable niche competitor to IPrium.
• MorethanIP: MorethanIP provides FPGA/ASIC IP for communications, Ethernet, and time-sensitive networking. It competes with IPrium in the communications IP segment targeting telecom and aerospace customers.
• Comcores ApS: Denmark-based Comcores supplies FPGA IP cores for wireless backhaul, satellite communications, OTN and 5G, including LDPC, FEC, and modem IP that competes head-on with IPrium's communications IP portfolio.
• Barco Silex: Barco Silex (part of Barco) sells FPGA and ASIC IP cores for video, communications and security, with a similar focus on standards-based codecs and modulators for broadcast and pro-AV markets directly overlapping IPrium's portfolio.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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