Press Release
VLSI Design and Education Center Joins
OCP-IP
PORTLAND, ORE. — May 17, 2005 — Open Core Protocol
International Partnership (OCP-IP) today announced that the VLSI Design and
Education Center (VDEC), has joined the organization. VDEC, established in
1996, is headquartered in the University of Tokyo and serves academia
throughout Japan.
As an intellectual education and research center on VLSI (Very Large Scale
Integration) technology, VDEC’s mission is to educate students and provide
support on VLSI chip fabrication for all academic organizations throughout
Japan.
VDEC performs various kinds of activities including exchange of VLSI design
information as IPs, and provision of CAD software and licenses supporting
chip design and fabrication.
Several different VLSI fabrication technologies, various popular CAD
software supporting Verilog /HDL/VHDL/C simulation, synthesis, layout design
and verification for digital/analog VLSIs, and measurement and testing
facilities are provided through VDEC. Over 450 research groups from over 150
universities in Japan are utilizing the services and support of VDEC. Many
software licenses are issued through VDEC via nine branches in Japan.
The addition of VDEC to the membership roster adds to the tremendous
support that OCP-IP has already enjoyed throughout Japan and the rest of
Asia. Other Japanese OCP-IP members include: Semiconductor Technology
Academic Research Center (STARC), FueTrek, Yamaha, Kawasaki, Zuken, SIPAC,
Governing Steering Committee member, Toshiba, and several leading
universities.
"We are very excited to participate in OCP-IP. As hundreds of chips are
fabricated each year at VDEC, it is extremely important that we have a
standardized on-chip bus interface. It makes it much easier to realize IP
macro exchange among various VDEC users,” said Masahiro Fujita Professor,
VLSI Design and Education Center .
OCP-IP members receive free training, support, software tools, and
documentation. This infrastructure allows IP and EDA vendors to eliminate
the need to internally design, document, train and evolve a proprietary
standard and set of support tools. This enables IP and EDA vendors to focus
their efforts and resources on the challenges of developing IP that can be
quickly integrated and easily verified in a wide variety of SoC designs. As
a result, IC design teams can dedicate their critical resources to the
design and delivery of products.
“We have seen tremendous support throughout Japan,” said Ian Mackintosh,
president OCP-IP. “Our relationship with VDEC will facilitate further
collaboration with the country’s universities, and help us communicate to
our membership to better serve industry interests.”
About OCP-IP
The OCP International Partnership Association, Inc. (OCP-IP) formed in
2001, promotes and supports the Open Core Protocol (OCP) as the complete
socket standard ensuring 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], Toshiba Semiconductor Group (including Toshiba America TAEC), and
Sonics. OCP-IP is a non-profit corporation delivering the first fully
supported, openly licensed, core-centric protocol comprehensively fulfilling
system-level integration requirements. The OCP facilitates IP core
reusability and reduces design time, risk, and manufacturing costs for SoC
designs. VSIA endorses the OCP socket, and OCP-IP is affiliated with the VSI
Alliance.
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