Press Release

Open Core Protocol International Partnership Announces New OCP Compliant IP Library

New IP Library Listing on OCP-IP Web Site Creates No-Hassle Search for OCP Compliant Third Party IP

PORTLAND, ORE. — November 10, 2003 — Open Core Protocol International Partnership (OCP-IP) today announced the availability of an OCP Compliant IP Library listing through the group’s Web site. The library listing makes finding OCP compliant third party IP quick and easy.

Companies featuring products include: 3rdeye Technology, Advanced Architectures, Amphion Semiconductor, CAST, Denali Software, eInfochips, HDL Design House, Imagination Technologies, MIPS Technologies, Mentor Graphics, Prosilog, Sonics Inc. and Synergetic Computing Systems. The initial list currently contains over 200 pieces of IP listed with more to be added soon.

Also included is an OCP Compliant EDA products section with contributions from additional companies including: Beach Solutions, Cadence, NoBug, Prosilog, TNI-Valiosys, Verisity and YogiTech. The EDA products list contains a host of OCP compliant EDA tools from many industry-leading companies.

“OCP-IP is delivering a standardized socket for plugging IP cores into SoC designs, easing the IP integration process and shortening design times,” said Ian Mackintosh, president of OCP-IP. “In keeping with the mission of shortening design times, our OCP IP library listing provides engineers a quick and easy place to locate the OCP Compliant IP and EDA products they need. The many products listed show the strong support and adoption OCP has throughout the industry.”

Amphion Semiconductor:
“Semiconductor IP continues to grow in importance. OCP-IP is geared toward easy identification and adoption of IP,” remarked Ron Sailors, VP of marketing at Amphion Semiconductor.

CAST:
“OCP-IP and CAST share a common vision of high-quality, easy-to-integrate IP cores,” said Hal Barbour, president of CAST. “OCP compliance matters to CAST customers, and we’re happy to support OCP-IP’s efforts to make this even easier to find.”

Denali Software:
“The combination of cost, risk, time-to-market and ever-changing memory devices, makes memory system design a significant challenge for any high-performance SoC design,” said Denali CTO Mark Gogolewski. “Working with OCP-IP, we have demonstrated that our Databahn memory controller IP provides a solid, proven solution to these issues within the OCP-IP’s standard socket and development environment. We are glad that Denali products are part of the new IP library listing.”

eInfochips:
“We are pleased to offer the eInfochips OCP 2.0 eVC as a part of the OCP compliant IP library listing,” said Pratul Shroff, president and CEO of eInfochips Inc. “The OCP eVC provides scalability to the verification environment from block-level to system-level verification and can be used to verify any design incorporating OCP Master and/or OCP Slave functionality. Presence of our OCP2.0 eVC on the listing offers easy access to engineers looking for substantial reduction in the rising verification complexity of intricate SoC designs.”

Imagination Technologies:
John Metcalfe, VP business development (PowerVR), Imagination Technologies says: “We are impressed with the level of support already behind the OCP-IP standard. The OCP-IP Library enables our customers to find OCP Compliant IP very efficiently and acts as a valuable shop window for our IP, helping us to reach a valuable customer base.”

Mentor Graphics Corporation:
"We recognize the OCP-IP to be a good resource for the SoC design community with this announcement of its new OCP Compliant IP library," stated Michael Kaskowitz, general manager of Mentor Graphics IP division and president of the VSIA. "As the leader in standards-based, certified IP cores, Mentor Graphics supports this standard and this development to enable faster, more reliable IP integration."

Prosilog:
As an active member of the System-Level Design Working Group within OCP-IP, Prosilog has released its OCP solutions which include OCP Master and Slave bus wrappers for the AMBA and CoreConnect architectures. Together with the Prosilog "IP Creator" tool, which takes an IP block and "wraps" it to the OCP standard, system engineers have now a complete solution to import an IP and then connect it seamlessly either to the chosen bus or to another IP interface.

TNI-Valiosys:
"OCP provides enabling infrastructure for easier integration of IP into SoCs. Based on the standard OCP protocol, TNI-Valiosys delivers a push-button formal verification solution that is simple yet comprehensive," said Marc Frouin, president of TNI-Valiosys. "The combination of OCP and imPROVE-HPK is helping our customers to check protocol compliance on their design blocks early and without the need to write complex properties or assertions. With OCP and imPROVE-HPK, they get their designs done faster."

YogiTech:
"With the IP Library initiative, OCP-IP is providing OCP users a powerful tool to access tools and support surrounding this technology. YogiTech, a sponsor member of the Functional Verification Working Group of OCP-IP, now has more opportunities to provide its e-Verification Component (eVC) to those customers who want to speed up and empower the verification process. The OCP 2.0 eVC is already in use at many customers’ sites."

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. VSIA endorses the OCP socket, and OCP-IP is an Adoption Group of the VSI Alliance.

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