EDA Consortium & VSI Alliance Expand Semiconductor Intellectual Property Revenue Reporting
SAN JOSE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—April 13, 2004—
The EDA Consortium and the VSI Alliance (VSIA) today
announced that the organizations have worked together to expand the
EDA Consortium's Market Statistics Service's (MSS) Semiconductor
Intellectual Property (SIP) revenue reporting. As a result, the Q1
2004 industry revenue report, to be published at the end of June, will
add over 40 new categories based on the VSIA's Virtual Component
Transfer (VCT) product classification.
The EDA Consortium's MSS report is the most timely EDA revenue
report in the electronics industry and VSIA's VCT is the industry
standard for SIP product classification.
"The EDA Consortium is addressing a strong need in the industry
for accurate and timely SIP revenue reporting," said Michael
Kaskowitz, VSIA President. "In support of these efforts, we are
providing the Consortium with the broadly-adopted VSIA VCT standard
that defines SIP categories for consistent reporting."
"The cooperative effort between VSIA and the EDA Consortium makes
the MSS report a more comprehensive document, which will benefit both
the IP industry and current Consortium members," said Walden C.
Rhines, chairman of the EDA Consortium and chairman and CEO of Mentor
Graphics Corporation. "The increased granularity provides accessible
in-depth data which we anticipate will receive widespread use."
New SIP Categories
The EDA Consortium SIP reporting categories will increase to over
40 from six. Some of the new macrocells and core categories include:
physical libraries; memory; arithmetic, mathematic and logic
functions; interface and peripheral cores; CODEC and encryption cores;
graphics, image and audio cores and processor and DSP cores. To see
the full list of MSS product categories go to:
http://www.edac.org/stats_mss.jsp#categories.
About the MSS
The EDA Consortium's Market Statistics Service reports EDA
industry revenue data quarterly and is available by annual
subscription. Each report is published approximately three months
after quarter close. Individual company data is collected by
PriceWaterhouseCoopers under non-disclosure.
MSS report data is segmented as follows: revenue type (product
licenses and maintenance, services, and SIP), application (CAE,
PCB/MCM Layout, and IC Physical Design and Verification), operating
system (UNIX vs. Windows), and region (North America, Western Europe,
Japan, and Rest of World), with many subcategories of detail provided.
The report also tracks total employment of the reporting companies. To
subscribe to the Service, please contact Karla Haley at karla@edac.org
or 408-857-3903.
About the EDA Consortium
The EDA Consortium is the international association of companies
that provide tools and services that enable engineers to create the
world's electronic products. EDA is the critical technology used to
design electronics for the communications, computer, space technology,
medical and industrial equipment and consumer electronics markets,
among others.
For more information about the EDA Consortium, contact EDA
Consortium, 111 West Saint John Street, Suite 220, San Jose, Calif.
95113, USA, office 408-287-3322, fax 408-283-5283 or visit
www.edac.org.
About VSIA
The VSI Alliance (VSIA) is an open, international organization
that includes representatives from all segments of the SoC industry:
System houses, Semiconductor vendors, Electronic Design Automation
(EDA) companies, and Intellectual Property (IP) providers. VSIA's
vision is to dramatically improve the productivity of SoC development
by specifying open standards and specifications that facilitate the
integration of software and hardware Virtual Components from multiple
sources. Many companies have adopted the use of VSIA specifications,
standards and documents. VSIA has wide industry participation with
more than 100 member companies from around the world. Membership is
open to any company with an interest in the development and promotion
of open standards used in the design of System-on-Chip. For more
information, visit the VSIA web site at www.vsi.org, or e-mail to
info@vsi.org.
VSI Alliance is a trademark of the Virtual Socket Interface
Alliance, Inc. All other brands or trademarks are the property of
their respective holders and should be treated as such.
The information supplied by the EDA Consortium is believed to be
accurate and reliable, but the Consortium assumes no responsibility
for any errors that may appear in this document. All trademarks and
registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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