OCP-IP Announces Release of OCP 2.0 Specification; Work Begins on OCP 2.1 With A Focus on Advanced Processor Support.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 17, 2003 Open Core Protocol International Partnership (OCP-IP), the association providing a common standard for intellectual property core interfaces, or sockets, that facilitate "plug and play" SoC design, today announced availability of the OCP (processor) OCP - Order Code Processor. 2.0 specification. The group also announced it has begun work on OCP 2.1 with a focus on advanced processor support for both DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive and embedded applications. OCP 2.0 was approved for release by the OCP Governing Steering Committee (GSC GSC gas-solid chromatography. ) after an extensive general member review, and now includes: A model for write transfers which provides for precise end-to-end-responses, an enhanced burst model that provides for both burst length and packet style transfers, support for specification of endianness, as well as support for user-defined in-band command data and response extensions which can be used to support features such as parity and Error Correcting Codes. The specification also makes provisions for lite-weight OCP interfaces with read only/write only/FIFO style IP cores, and support for lazy memory synchronization. OCP-IP believes a standard is only proven through real-world implementations and products. Many OCP-IP members, companies with world-class SoC design expertise in their own right, have adopted OCP and have used it in production SoC designs. OCP 2.0 utilizes the collective experience of many of these SoC designers and EDA providers and directly addresses their enhancement requests with the new specification. Work on OCP 2.0 is executed by members of the OCP-IP Specification Working Group including: Texas Instruments, Nokia, STMicroelectronics, MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second) The execution speed of a computer. For example, .5 MIPS is 500,000 instructions per second; 100 MIPS is a hundred million instructions per second. , and other industry leading companies. "The partnership's working groups are extremely active and have done a tremendous job rapidly evolving the specification," said Ian Mackintosh, president of OCP-IP. "Adoption of OCP has been quite dramatic and we now have a large number of EDA vendors and IP suppliers offering OCP conforming tools and products. We are excited to begin work on OCP 2.1." Copies of the OCP 2.0 specification and a schedule of OCP 2.0 deliverables and collateral are also available at www.ocpip.org 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), 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), 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. VSIA VSIA Virtual Socket Interface Alliance endorses the OCP socket, and OCP-IP is an Adoption Group of the VSI Alliance. For additional background and membership information, visit www.OCPIP.org. |
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