CoWare Joins Open Core Protocol International Partnership.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 2, 2003 Open Core Protocol International Partnership (OCP-IP) and CoWare(R) Inc. today announced that CoWare has joined the organization. Membership in OCP-IP allows CoWare customers to optimize design resources and shorten design cycles, lowering design costs and bringing products to market faster. CoWare realizes that wide availability of IP models is critical to a system-level design flow. Such IP availability is enabled by standards for both the models' language and their interfaces. Hence, CoWare sees its membership in OCP-IP as an important complement to its role as founder and leader of SystemC. "There is clear value in an industry standard socket that eases the process of complex SoC design by promoting IP core reusability and reducing design time," said Mark Milligan, CoWare's vice president of marketing. "OCP-IP offers the first truly open effort to make plug-and-play SoC design a reality. We are pleased to support it." Membership in OCP-IP allows CoWare to offer support for OCP-compliant IP, in the ConvergenSC(TM) family of system-level design tools for SystemC(TM), to its many systems house and semiconductor customers. "We are proud to count CoWare among our members," said Ian Mackintosh, president of OCP-IP. "In light of our SystemC OCP (processor) OCP - Order Code Processor. transactional model offerings, CoWare's membership as a leader within the SystemC community further illustrates the industry support we are seeing for OCP." About CoWare CoWare, the leading supplier of system-level electronic design automation (EDA (1) (Electronic Design Automation) Using the computer to design, lay out, verify and simulate the performance of electronic circuits on a chip or printed circuit board. ) software, is revolutionizing system on chip (SoC) and embedded software development by enabling engineers to create design platforms optimized for specific market requirements. Its software is employed today by major systems, intellectual property (IP) and semiconductor companies worldwide. For the second year, the San Jose Business Journal has recognized CoWare as one of the fastest-growing private companies in Silicon Valley. For more information, visit: http://www.coware.com. About OCP-IP The OCP International Partnership Association, Inc. (OCP-IP) was announced in December 2001 to promote and support the open core protocol (OCP) as the complete socket standard that ensures rapid creation and integration of interoperable virtual components. OCP-IP's Governing Steering Committee participants are: Nokia (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :NOK NOK In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Norwegian Krone. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. ,), Texas Instruments (NYSE:TXN TXN Texas Instruments (stock symbol) TXN Transaction (databases) TXN Tunxi, China (Airport Code) TXN Tarxien (postal locality, Malta) ), STMicroelectronics (NYSE:STM (Scanning Tunneling Microscope) A microscope that can image down to the atomic level. An STM uses a piezoelectric tube with a tiny sharp tip at the end that is moved within nanometers of the object being sampled. ), United Microelectronics Corporation UMC (United Microelectronics Corporation) was founded as Taiwan's first semiconductor company in 1980 as a spin-off of the government-sponsored institute ITRI. Today, UMC is best known for its merchant foundry business, manufacturing integrated circuits wafers for fabless (NYSE:UMC UMC United Methodist Church UMC United Microelectronics Corporation UMC University Medical Center UMC United Microelectronics Corp (Republic of China) UMC University of Missouri-Columbia ), Sonics, and other industry leading companies. OCP-IP is a non-profit corporation delivering the first fully supported, openly licensed core-centric protocol that comprehensively fulfills system-level integration requirements. The OCP facilitates IP core reusability and reduces design time and risk, along with manufacturing costs for SoC designs. For additional background and membership information, visit www.OCPIP OCPIP Open Core Protocol International Partnership (Beaverton, OR) .org. |
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