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Restructured VSI Alliance to Accelerate Development of SoC and IP Standards, Specifications and Technical Documents
Updated Website Has a SoC Sounding Board;
New Board of Directors in Place to Support Pillars
WAKEFIELD, Mass.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Oct. 4, 2004—
The VSI Alliance (VSIA) announced today it has completed the
restructuring of the organization around new working groups, called
Pillars, which will address the full spectrum of system chip technical
and commercial intellectual property issues. The restructuring caps
months of work that will enable VSIA to accelerate development and
adoption of commercially viable SoC and IP standards, specifications
and technical documents.
The VSIA Board identified four critical issues that the Group
could effectively address instead of the nine working groups under the
previous structure. The IP Quality, IP Protection, IP Infrastructure
and the R&D Pillars were formed with a minimum of four or more large
companies as founding members. Other companies that can demonstrate
expertise to help create standards and documents needed by the
industry also are eligible to participate in Pillars. The VSIA Board
believes that by identifying large corporate participants, the
Organization will be more likely to produce work that reflects the
broad needs of the industry and that the work will therefore be
quickly adopted. This has indeed been the case with the Quality IP
Metric from the IP Quality Pillar.
"Our new structure makes the Pillars autonomous and empowers the
Pillar members to complete the technical work, document review and
marketing in record time," said VSIA President, Michael Kaskowitz of
Mentor Graphics. "Because the work is the result of the collective
efforts of representatives from some of the largest SoC and IP
companies in the world, we believe it accurately reflects the needs of
the industry and should result in standards that are readily
accepted."
Other changes to VSIA include a revised, easier to navigate
website. Members and non-members are invited to participate in the new
SoC Sounding Board (http://www.vsi.org/vsiConf/).
Additionally, VSIA recently completed board of directors
elections. The new board includes representatives from Agere Systems,
ARM, Cadence Design Systems, Freescale Semiconductor, IBM Corporation,
Infineon Technologies, LSI Logic, Mentor Graphics, Sonics,
STMicroelectronics, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company
Ltd. (TSMC).
Recent Document Releases
VSIA recently announced the release of the Hard IP Tagging
Standard 1 2.0 to the membership. The Soft IP Tagging Standard will be
released to the VSIA membership within the next quarter. The Quality
IP (QIP) Metric is currently being revised with the addition of the
analog IP worksheet, software IP worksheet and updates to the user's
guide, vendor assessment worksheet and IP maturity worksheet.
Additionally, the FSA and VSIA are working together to produce the
Hard IP attributes, and together, these groups will market the entire
QIP Metric.
For more information on the VSIA, the Pillars and standards, go to
www.vsi.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
mission is to dramatically enhance the productivity of the SoC design
community by providing leading edge commercial and technical solutions
and insight into the development, integration and reuse of IP. VSIA
has wide industry participation with more than 70 member companies
from around the world. Membership is open to any company with an
interest in the development and promotion of business solutions and
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.
The VSI Alliance is a trademark of the Virtual Socket Interface
Alliance. All other brands or trademarks are the property of their
respective holders and should be treated as such.
Contact:
VSI Alliance
Susan Cain, 831-662-6092
scain@caincom.com
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