Press Release
COWARE AND MIPS TECHNOLOGIES WIN OCP-IP OUTSTANDING
CONTRIBUTOR OF THE YEAR AWARDS FOR 2005
PORTLAND, ORE. — September 21, 2005 — Open Core Protocol
International Partnership (OCP-IP), today announced that CoWare and MIPS
Technologies, Inc. are joint winners of the Outstanding Contributor of the
Year Award for 2005. The Award is given each year by the OCP-IP Governing
Steering Committee to a member or members who have made key contributions to
the further advancement of the OCP specification or surrounding
infrastructure.
CoWare was acknowledged for contributions in the OCP-IP System Level Design
Working Group. The Company made key contributions to the development of the
SystemC Transaction Level Modeling (TLM) Channel version 2.1.1 and the
methodology white paper, "OCP TLM for Architectural Modeling.” The new
features in version 2.1.1 improve model interoperability, resulting in
better productivity in system level modeling.
The white paper is an influential methodology contribution to transaction
level modeling. It outlines the use of the OCP TLM in the same flow with the
OSCI TLM, and introduces a newly defined modeling use case, Architects View,
using OCP TL2 or TL3 abstraction level for interface modeling. The white
paper is accompanied with a package of SystemC code that has extensive
examples for modeling in different abstraction levels, and for making models
of different abstractions interoperable.
“The new transactional channel brings us even greater system-level model
interoperability and reusability as a part of the OCP socket; CoWare’s
contribution was key to the development of the transactional models,” said
Anssi Haverinen, senior specialist at Nokia Technology Platforms. “It was a
pleasure leading the collaboration between such productive members of
OCP-IP’s System-Level Design Working Group.”
“We see OCP-IP's work gaining momentum with our customers, driven by the
need for interoperability based on a truly open communications protocol,"
said A.K. Kalekos, vice president of marketing and business development at
CoWare. "The leading-edge work of OCP's System-Level Design Working Group is
complimented by OSCI's work on TLM, and we were happy to contribute our
expertise to keep them in sync. We're delighted to be recognized for our
efforts, with this award from OCP-IP.”
MIPS Technologies is recognized for its work in the OCP-IP Specification
Working Group, in particular for its contributions in the area of
out-of-order tagging. Tagging provides the ability for interconnect and
targets to re-order transactions for non-conflicting memory addresses within
a single thread. Unlike threads, which enforce no ordering restrictions,
tagged transactions ensure that read/write hazards are respected by the
system. Tagged transactions are particularly attractive for advanced
embedded CPU architectures, like the MIPS32® 24K® processor core family,
which can exploit the parallelism offered by out-of-order transaction
processing, but require consistent memory ordering.
“We appreciate OCP-IP’s acknowledgement of our contributions to the
industry. Our collaboration has enabled designers to more easily bring
complex SoC designs to market quickly and efficiently,” said Russ Bell, vice
president of marketing at MIPS Technologies. “MIPS Technologies looks
forward to future innovation with OCP-IP for improving standard interfaces
and buses for the embedded market.”
“OCP has a robust, thriving infrastructure driven by many independent
companies providing leading-edge services and products,” said Ian
Mackintosh, president of OCP-IP. “We are proud of the tremendous work
completed by the joint winners CoWare and MIPS, and are pleased to present
them with the Outstanding Contributor Awards for 2005. We look forward to
continued collaboration in the future.”
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