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Summit Design Joins Open Core Protocol International PartnershipProvides Customers with Standard Infrastructure for SoC Plug and Play DesignPORTLAND, ORE. — December 15, 2003 — Open Core Protocol International Partnership (OCP-IP), the association providing a common standard for intellectual property core interfaces, or sockets, that facilitate “plug and play” SoC design, today announced that Summit Design has joined the organization. Joining OCP-IP allows Summit customers to have a standard infrastructure to plug and play different processors, bus architectures and peripherals. “As a company focused on SoC and Electronic System Level Design (ESL), the protocol and inner bus communication are an important part of the system,” said Guy Moshe, president and chief executive officer (CEO) at Summit Design. “There is tremendous value in using OCP as a standard protocol as it significantly simplifies design and verification, addressing a clear and present need for our customers. We believe that the standardization initiative around SoC design will dramatically facilitate the adoption of ESL.” OCP provides SystemC-based channels that will become part of Summit’s Visual Elite channel library so its customers can simply connect their bus, processor and peripheral through a standard channel. The Visual Elite ESC solution provides high-performance system modeling and a verification platform for target processors and will now have a unified communication interface that can be shared across the various architectures. “We are pleased to have Summit Design, a leader in system-level design, join the OCP-IP community,” said Ian Mackintosh, president of OCP-IP. “OCP’s SystemC-based channels are a natural fit for Summit’s Visual Elite channel library.”
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