Prosilog SA Wins OCP-IP's Outstanding Contributor of the Year Award for 2004
PORTLAND, Ore.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—July 6, 2004—
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 that Prosilog SA, a leading provider of
innovative solutions for SoC design and verification, has won the
Outstanding Contributor of the Year award for 2004.
Prosilog was a key contributor to the development of OCP 2.0
compliant transactional models implemented in SystemC. The models
standardize the way OCP-based communication is modeled at various
abstraction levels, and their availability ensures increased model
interoperability and reusability. Work on the project was spearheaded
by Nokia, with key contributions from Prosilog, Sonics Inc. and
Synopsys. The models provide an OCP point-to-point channel model for
SystemC, which can be used to connect SystemC behavioral models with
each other, as well as to complex interconnect models. The latest
version of the OCP 2.0 compliant SystemC transaction model library now
contains an easy-to-use OCP API.
The channel model is based on a generic communication channel
released by the OCP-IP working group to the Open SystemC Initiative
(OSCI), and is user customizable. The data interface models are now
available to members and non-members alike through the OCP-IP Web site
at www.ocpip.org/socket/systemc. The excellent work by the System
Level Design Group has led to an agreement between OCP-IP and OSCI to
develop future generations of TLMs that are truly shared and common
within the industry.
"OCP has a robust, thriving infrastructure driven by many
independent companies providing leading-edge services and products,"
said Ian Mackintosh. "We are proud of the tremendous work completed by
Prosilog and our System-Level Design Working Group. We are pleased to
present Prosilog with the Outstanding Contributor Award for 2004 and
look forward to continued collaboration in the future."
"The new transactional channel brings us even greater system-level
model interoperability and reusability as a part of the OCP socket;
Prosilog's contribution was key to the development of the
transactional models," said Anssi Haverinen, senior specialist at
Nokia Technology Platforms. "It was a pleasure leading the
collaboration between such productive members of OCP-IP's System-Level
Design Working Group."
"It is a great honor for Prosilog to receive this award from
OCP-IP," says Yann Bajot, Project Manager for the OCP developments at
Prosilog. "It is a major recognition from the SoC design community, of
the technical expertise that has been built within our company. We are
looking forward to contributing actively in addressing some of the new
challenges which are being raised with the emerging System Level
Design methodologies."
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: NOK),
Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN), STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), United
Microelectronics Corporation (NYSE: UMC), Toshiba Semiconductor Group
(including Toshiba America TAEC), 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 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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Contact:
OCP-IP
Ian Mackintosh, 650-938-2500 ext 106
ian@ocpip.org
or
VitalCom
Joe Basques, 650-366-8212 ext 202
joe@vitalcompr.com
