Press Release
SoC Technology Center of Industrial Technology
Research Institute Joins OCP-IP
(OCP-IP)
PORTLAND, ORE. — September 27, 2005 — Open Core Protocol
International Partnership (OCP-IP) announces that the SoC Technology Center
(STC) of the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), a leading
non-profit research and development organization in Taiwan, has joined the
organization. The addition of STC/ITRI to the membership roster illustrates
the tremendous momentum, support, and adoption OCP-IP is enjoying throughout
Asia.
ITRI’s mission includes applied research and technical services that
accelerate the industrial development of Taiwan, by creating key, compatible
and forward-looking technologies which meet industrial needs while
strengthening industrial competitiveness. Also, to disseminate research
results within the industrial sector in a timely and appropriate manner in
accordance with the principles of fairness and openness, and finally, to
foster the development of small and medium-sized businesses, which cultivate
industrial, technology and human resources for the benefit of the
nation.
“As one of the ITRI Labs working in concert with ITRI’s mission, STC
concentrates on its task to provide extensive assistance for promoting
Taiwan as a global SoC (System-on-a-Chip) design and service center,” said
Dr. Chein-Wei Jen, the General Director of STC/ITRI. “In order to respond to
increasing demands in developing IP's and various SoC designs, STC joined
OCP-IP to be part of a worldwide technical forum that enables the Taiwan
industry keep abreast of the global market.”
“We have seen tremendous support and adoption throughout all of Asia and
our collaboration with STC/ITRI further increases the tremendous momentum
OCP-IP has seen in the SoC Design Community,” said Ian Mackintosh, president
OCP-IP “The missions of both STC/ITRI and OCP-IP are strongly aligned and
form a powerful partnership.”
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.
About SoC Technology Center (STC)
With the mission of stimulating Taiwan’s semiconductor industry to
transform into a high value-added industry with innovative design, STC was
established on March 1, 2003 as a formal research center in ITRI, a leading
non-profit R&D organization. From the industrial perspectives, STC
focuses on DSP Core, Multimedia SoC, Low Power Design Technology, RF/Mixed
Signal IC, and IC Design and Test Service to provide the most advanced
technologies to meet domestic and international product development needs.
STC also aims to link up system applications and processing technology for
implementing the integration of SoC design and to help Taiwan become a
global SoC design and service center through the infusion of technology
R&D and industrial service. For more information about STC and ITRI,
please visit http://int.stc.itri.org.tw/ or www.itri.org.tw/eng/.
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. For additional background and membership information, visit www.OCPIP.org.
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