Press Release
GreenSocs Wins Outstanding Contributor of
the Year Award
BEAVERTON, OR — January 2, 2008 — Open Core Protocol International
Partnership (OCP-IP) today announced that GreenSocs is the winner of the
annual Outstanding Contributor of the Year Award. The OCP-IP Governing
Steering Committee gives this award each year to a member that makes key
contributions to the further advancement of the OCP specification or
surrounding infrastructure.
The committee acknowledged GreenSocs for its leadership, commitment and
contribution to OCP-IP’s System Level Working Group (SLD WG) . The
company played a key role in the development of OCP-IP’s Transaction Level
Models (TLMs) version 2.2 as well as their ongoing maintenance.
GreenSocs is committed to playing a lead role in future enhancements to the
TLM specification.
"We appreciate OCP-IP’s acknowledgement of our contributions to the
industry and believe the SLD kit offered is one of the most advanced TLM
infrastructures available," said Mark Burton managing director of
GreenSocs. "The SLD WG is a pleasure to collaborate with, and I look
forward to working next year to move this excellent kit into a whole new
phase of TLM using the experience gained through our work here at
GreenSocs."
"OCP has a robust, thriving infrastructure of leading-edge products
and services like our TLM kits that help design engineers realize the
promise of IP reuse to shorten their design cycles," said Ian Mackintosh,
president of OCP-IP. "We are grateful for the tremendous leadership
and contributions provided by GreenSocs and thank them for their
efforts."
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], Sonics Inc., Synopsys [SNPS], Texas Instruments
[NYSE: TXN], and Toshiba Semiconductor Group (including Toshiba America
TAEC). 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. For additional background and membership information, visit
www.OCPIP.org.
About GreenSocs
Formed in 2005, GreenSocs is funded by a
number of leading systems companies, semiconductor manufacturers, and tool
vendors. GreenSocs provides
the open source SystemC and ESL community with infrastructure that focuses
on vendor neutrality and re-use, enabling both new and established users of
electronic system-level design (ESL). The company extends the use and
applicability of ESL by coordinating and promoting collaboratively developed
models, methods and utilities, prioritized by designers needs. The GreenSocs project includes
intellectual property (IP) from STMicroelectronics, and contributions from
universities and other organizations. For more information about GreenSocs, and the various
levels of membership possible, please visit http://www.greensocs.com/.
For additional background and membership information, visit www.ocpip.org.
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