Press Release
CoWare Joins Open Core Protocol International
Partnership
PORTLAND, ORE. — September 2, 2003 — Open Core Protocol
International Partnership (OCP-IP) and CoWare® Inc. today announced that
CoWare has joined the organization. Membership in OCP-IP allows CoWare
customers to optimize design resources and shorten design cycles, lowering
design costs and bringing products to market faster.
CoWare realizes that wide availability of IP models is critical to a
system-level design flow. Such IP availability is enabled by standards for
both the models’ language and their interfaces. Hence, CoWare sees its
membership in OCP-IP as an important complement to its role as founder and
leader of SystemC.
"There is clear value in an industry standard socket that eases the process
of complex SoC design by promoting IP core reusability and reducing design
time," said Mark Milligan, CoWare’s vice president of marketing. "OCP-IP
offers the first truly open effort to make plug-and-play SoC design a
reality. We are pleased to support it."
Membership in OCP-IP allows CoWare to offer support for OCP-compliant IP,
from the ConvergenSC™ family of system-level design tools for SystemC™, to
its many systems house and semiconductor customers.
"We are proud to count CoWare among our members," said Ian Mackintosh,
president of OCP-IP. "In light of our SystemC OCP transactional offerings,
CoWare’s membership as a leader within the SystemC community further
illustrates the industry support we are seeing for OCP."
About CoWare
CoWare, the leading supplier of system-level electronic design automation
(EDA) software, is revolutionizing system on chip (SoC) and embedded
software development by enabling engineers to create design platforms
optimized for specific market requirements. Its software is employed today
by major systems, intellectual property (IP) and semiconductor companies
worldwide. For the second year, the San Jose Business Journal has recognized
CoWare as one of the fastest-growing private companies in Silicon Valley.
For more information, visit www.coware.com.
About OCP-IP
The OCP International Partnership Association, Inc. (OCP-IP) was announced
in December 2001 to promote and support the open core protocol (OCP) as the
complete socket standard that ensures rapid creation and integration of
interoperable virtual components. OCP-IP's Governing Steering Committee
participants are: Nokia [NYSE: NOK], Texas Instruments [NYSE: TXN],
STMicroelectronics [NYSE: STM], United Microelectronics Corporation [NYSE:
UMC], Sonics, and other industry leading companies. OCP-IP is a non-profit
corporation delivering the first fully supported, openly licensed
core-centric protocol that comprehensively fulfills system-level integration
requirements. The OCP facilitates IP core reusability and reduces design
time and risk, along with manufacturing costs for SoC designs. For
additional background and membership information, visit www.ocpip.org.
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