Press Release
IPTC Joins OCP-IP
PORTLAND, ORE. — May 8, 2006 — Open Core Protocol
International Partnership (OCP-IP) announces that IPTC Japan has joined the
Organization. Promoting the advantages of OCP, IPTC will establish efficient
IP reuse and trading throughout Japan.
Founded in May of 2000 with investment from Toshiba Corp., Mitsubishi
Corp., and Nikkei BP Inc., IPTC is establishing secure, fair, and efficient
IP trading in Japan. To this end, IPTC provides its members with complete
services for IP distribution; from IP evaluation to post-purchase technical
support. IPTC is also provides infrastructure for IP marketing in
cooperation with IP distributors and vendors. These efforts fuel growth and
rapid expansion of the Japanese electronics industry.
In addition to becoming an OCP-IP member, IPTC announced it will host an
OCP seminar on May 9th at the Yokohma Media and Communications Center in
Yokohama Japan. The seminar will focus on the latest technology and recent
trends of IP core interface issues. Presenters include: Opening Keynote from
University of Tokyo, TransEDA, Toshiba, Texas Instruments, Sonics Inc, and
more.
“The only way to true IP reuse is through the use of a standard socket
interface like OCP,” said Ian Mackintosh, president OCP-IP. “Similar to
OCP-IP’s mission to drive OCP to become the most widely used and adopted
socket interface for SoC design, IPTC’s mission is to ensure highly
productive IP re-use and training throughout Japan; this makes for a natural
partnership between the two groups. We are pleased to see them adopt and
endorse OCP and we look forward to working with them in the future.”
OCP-IP members receive free training, support, software tools, and
documentation. This infrastructure allows IP and EDA vendors and SoC
integrators, to eliminate the need to internally design, document, train and
evolve a proprietary standard and set of support tools, which ensures their
efforts and resources are focused upon 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 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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