OCP-IP's Industry Associations Comparison Chart

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Name
Founded
Board Members Mission
Number of Members
Mix of Members
Classification
Deliverables
Accelera
September 2000 - from merger of OVI and VI
ARM, Cadence, Denali, Freescale, IBM, Intel, Magma, Mentor, Nokia, Novas, Qualcomm, Rockwell Collins, Sun, Synopsys, Texas Instruments
Accelera provides design and verification standards for quick availability and use in the electronics industry. The organization and its members cooperatively deliver much-needed EDA standards that lower the cost of designing commercial IC and EDA products. As a result of Accellera's partnership with the IEEE, Accellera standards are provided to the IEEE Standards Association for formalization and ongoing change control.
See Web site for latest membership list
EDA, Semiconductor, Electronic Systems
Non-profit
See Web site for latest Technical Activities
Design & Reuse 1997 Privately held company with CMP as minority share holder Hold a B2B portal dedicated to IP in Electronic Systems and provide the market with an Enterprise Platform for sharing information and design blocks D&R has a community of 35,000 registered users and 120 partners Industrial, Sponsor, Associate For Profit Web services - mainly lead services for IP providers
EDA Consortium
1989
Chairman: Walden C. Rhines, Chairman & CEO, Mentor Graphics

Vice-Chairman: Aart de Geus, Chairman & CEO, Synopsys, Inc. & Kathryn Kranen, President & CEO, Jasper Design Automation, Inc.

Directors: John Bourgoin, CEO & President, MIPS Technologies, Inc.; David Burow, President & CEO, Agility Design Solutions, Inc.; John Kibarian, CEO & President, PDF Solutions, Inc.; Rajeev Madhavan, Chairman & CEO, Magma Design Automation; Chris Rowen, President & CEO, Tensilica, Inc.; Sanjay Srivastava, President & CEO, Denali
To promote the health of the EDA, IP and DFM industry, and to increase awareness of the crucial role this technology plays in today's global economy.
See Web site for details on current members
Commercial, Analyst, Association, Academic, Research Organizations, Consultants
Non-profit 501(c)6
Publishes the Market Statistic Service (MSS) report, a quarterly revenue report covering EDA, IP and DFM

Influences industry initiatives such as anti-piracy, export control compliance, interoperability, and OS Roadmap measures through its various member committee efforts

Holds regular executive networking events, forums, and symposiums

Gives special member discounts on DAC and DATE exhibit space
European Electronic Chips and Systems design Initiative (ECSI) 1993 Synopsys, Cadence, Mentor, Nokia, Magillem To identify, develop and promote efficient methods for electronic systems design, with particular regards to the needs of the system-on-chip and to provide ECSI members with a competitive advantage in this domain for the benefit of the European industry 35 Industrial, Sponsor, Associate Non-Profit See Website for latest deliverables
GreenSocs
2005
None

Enable the ESL community to quickly develop models and tools that can be used together with independence of vendor

Semi's, IP providers, ESL tool vendors and growing
Large multi-national semi's, IP providers, ESL tool vendors
For Profit
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Nexus 5001
1998 Analog Devices, Delphi, dSPACE, ETAS, Freescale Semiconductor, General Motors, Green Hills Software, Infineon, Lauterbach, NEC Electronics Corporation, Samtec, Texas Instruments
To provide an open industry standard that provides a general purpose interface for the software development and debug of embedded processors. Standardization on this interface benefits customers' reuse of their Nexus 5001 compliant development tools on compliant processor architectures
24 - See Web site for latest membership list
Current members of the Nexus 5001 Forum represent all aspects of the technologies required for embedded control applications: embedded processor suppliers, independent tools providers, semiconductor and hardware development tool providers and software tool providers (emulators, compilers, simulators, debuggers, measurement & calibration, RTOS's, etc.)
Non-profit
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OCP International Partnership
2001 Nokia, Sonics, Inc., Synopsys, Texas Instruments, Toshiba Semiconductor Group (including Toshiba America TAEC)
OCP-IP's mission is to drive the OCP to become the most widely used and adopted socket interface for SoC design. OCP-IP provides the tools and services to its members that are necessary for convenient implementation, maintenance, and support of the standard soecket interface.
200 members - See Web site for latest membership list
Industry, Academic, Research Institutions
Non-profit
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Open SystemC Initiative
1999
ARM, Ltd., Cadence Design Systems, CoWare, Inc., Forte Design Systems, Intel Corporation, Mentor Graphics, NXP Semiconductors, STMicrolectronics, Synopsys, Virtutech
The Open SystemC Iniative (OSCI) is an independent, not-for-profit association composed of a broad range of organizations dedicated to defining and advancing SystemC as an open industry standard for system-level modeling, design and verification. SystemC is a language built on C++ that spans from concept to implementation in hardware.
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OSCI members represent a range of worldwide electronics organizations, ranging from SoC companies, tool vendors, intellectual property suppliers and embedded software developers
Non-profit
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SPIRIT
2006
ARM, Cadence, Freescale, LSI, Mentor Graphics, NXP Semiconductors, STMicroelectronics, Synopsys, Texas Instruments
To establish a set of IP and tool integration standards that enable proliferation of IP reuse through design automation
Over 100 members. See Web site for latest membership list
Commercial, Academic, Research Organizations
Non-profit
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