Press Release
OCP-IP Announces Six New MembersPORTLAND, OR — September 28, 2006 — Open Core Protocol International Partnership (OCP-IP) today announced six new members: Bluespec, Digital Dynamics Corporation (Digimics), DMP (Digital Media Professionals) Inc., Georgia Institute of Technology, Sci-worx, and TrustIC. The breadth of technologies represented by the new members illustrates the combined industry-wide acceptance and adoption of the OCP standard. Bluespec, Inc. provides advanced Electronic Design Automation (EDA)
solutions for the design of complex semiconductor chips. Bluespec’s
Electronic System Level (ESL) Synthesis toolsets for control logic and
complex datapaths significantly accelerate hardware design & modeling
and substantially reduce verification costs. Digital Dynamics Corporation is an EDA/ESL company focusing on creation
of utility tools and services for electronic design. The advent of ESL and
role of SystemC in this technology has provided a new direction in
presenting tools and services based on this standard and other HDL’s. At the front end of all Digital Dynamic Corporation’s tools is ROSTA
(Reconfigurable Open System Tools and Applications). This uniform integrated
environment provides a unique convenient platform for invocation and
utilization of the Company’s ESL tools. Tools include SystemC to
VHDL/Verilog translator, VHDL/Verilog to SystemC translator, testbench
generators (with SystemC features), waveform editors, and other EDA/ESL
design utilities. DMP (Digital Media Professionals) Inc. develops sophisticated technology
for modeling various computer graphics algorithms that can subsequently be
installed as hardware in advanced graphics solutions. DMP MAESTRO-2G
technology is contributing to the ability to create drawings with even
higher resolutions by reducing the contents and memory bandwidth sizes, and
cutting down energy consumption at the system level. Georgia Institute of Technology is one of the top U.S. research
universities, distinguished by its commitment to improving the human
condition through advanced science and technology. Georgia Tech's campus
occupies 400 acres in the heart of the city of Atlanta, where almost 18,000
undergraduate and graduate students receive a focused, technologically based
education. The Institute offers many nationally recognized, top-ranked programs,
consistently ranking among U.S. News & World Report's top ten public
universities in the United States. Georgia Tech, specifically the Center for Research on Embedded Systems
and Technology (CREST), has joined the OCP-IP University Community. As a
member of this community, CREST, a research center based in the School of
Electrical and Computer Engineering, will receive free software tools,
technical support and training that is packaged and ready for incorporation
into a course or immediate independent use by students. Materials are ideal
for undergraduate training and helping faculty augment graduate programs and
classes in embedded systems. By providing numerous free benefits, this
low-cost program avoids the budget constraints experienced by
universities. Sci-worx (formerly: Sican) was founded in 1990 as a microelectronics
service provider and is Europe's leading independent IP and Design Service
provider. In addition to its headquarters in Hannover, sci-worx has branches
in Braunschweig and Hamburg. With 200 employees, sci-worx is one of the world's leading technology
licensing and design companies specializing in communications, multimedia
and networking applications. Sci-worx combines state-of-the-art design
methodology with highly optimized core technology to provide its customers
with premier design solutions. DesignObjects, sci-worx's synthesizable ASIC
cores, reduce time-to-market and risk for new IC products and applications
by offering off-the-shelf solutions that can easily be integrated into
larger designs. Sci-worx's core verification program ensures high quality
and performance of all DesignObjects. DesignObjects is complemented by a
comprehensive suite of design services including analog and digital ASIC
design, system integration and software development. TrustIC was founded in June 2005 by a team of ASIC front-end consultants.
The team is a group of very experienced and talented digital design
engineers with a long and very valuable record of achievements in helping
organizations achieve competitive advantages by focusing on time-to-market,
effectiveness and design quality.
The TrustIC team has built its
experience working with several wireless network platforms like OMAP from
Texas Instruments. Working on such platforms exposed the Company’s engineers
to cutting edge design & verification technology and tools. TrustIC’s
engineers are experts in SoC interconnect, power management and image
processing. Utilizing OCP allows TrustIC to shorten design time and bring
products to market more quickly. OCP-IP members receive free training and support, software tools, and
documentation, enabling them to focus on the challenges of SoC design.
Leveraging OCP-IP’s infrastructure eliminates the need to internally design,
document, train and evolve a proprietary standard and support tools, freeing
up critical resources for the real design work and providing enormous cost
savings. “This new group of members represents a diverse set of product offerings,
and prestigious university programs, and further highlights the broad OCP
acceptance and adoption across many markets,” said Ian Mackintosh, president
OCP-IP. “We are very proud to announce and welcome all of our new members,
and look forward to working with them in the future.” 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. All trademarks product names and logos are property of their respective owners. |
