Press Release
Silistix Joins OCP-IP
PORTLAND, OR — February 13, 2006 — Open Core Protocol
International Partnership (OCP-IP) announces that Silistix has joined the
Organization. Leveraging the advantages of OCP, the industry standard
socket, Silistix intends to expand its product offering of revolutionary
self-timed Chip-Area INterconnect (CHAIN) tools.
Silistix is an EDA company developing software for the design and
synthesis of self-timed interconnect logic for System-on-Chip designs that
replace existing synchronous hierarchical bus structures, thereby reducing
power consumption and accelerating timing closure and reuse. Silistix is a
spin-out from the Amulet asynchronous-logic research group at the University
of Manchester in Manchester, England.
Silistix will develop OCP-compliant adaptors for initiators and targets
of generated self-timed interconnects. This will allow existing endpoints
such as processors, memory controllers, DMA controllers, and peripherals to
interface with CHAIN fabrics without modification, thereby significantly
reducing design time.
“Network on Chip addresses many demanding challenges resulting from huge
complexity of systems,” said Ian Mackintosh, president OCP-IP. “These
challenges make reuse more critical than ever. OCP enables reuse regardless
of chip architecture, interconnect approach or which processor cores are
featured. These capabilities are further enhanced by technical advances such
as Silistix’ CHAIN interconnect. We are delighted to have Silistix adopt and
endorse OCP and we look forward to working with them in the future.”
"The benefits of Silistix’ EDA approach to the looming interconnect
crisis, while simultaneously solving several of the largest issues designers
face today, make it a natural fit for OCP users,” said David Fritz, VP of
Marketing for Silistix. “We believe that by working with OCP-IP we can
significantly extend the reach of our products into critical areas of the
world market.”
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, which enables these 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 better dedicate their critical resources to
the design and delivery of products.
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
include: Nokia [NYSE: NOK], Texas Instruments [NYSE: TXN], 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. For
additional background and membership information, visit www.OCPIP.org.
About Silistix
Silistix is a venture-funded spin-out of the University of Manchester, UK.
The company's focus is on the development and deployment of EDA tools for
the design and synthesis of self-timed interconnect technology for complex
system-on-a-chip (SoC) communication. The company has offices in Manchester,
England, San Jose, California, and Tokyo, Japan. For more information call
408-573-6104 or visit www.silistix.com.
For additional background and membership information, visit
www.OCPIP.org.
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