ASICS World Services, Atrenta, Celoxica, First Silicon Solutions, and Jeda Technologies Join OCP International Partnership
PORTLAND, Ore.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—May 31, 2005—
Open Core Protocol International Partnership (OCP-IP)
today announces that five new members are joining the organization,
including: ASICS World Services, Atrenta, Celoxica, First Silicon
Solutions (FS2) and Jeda Technologies. The new members represent a
wide variety of markets and product offerings, illustrating the
industry-wide acceptance and adoption of OCP.
ASICS World Services, LTD was founded in 1999, and immediately
started offering various IP Cores and design services. Since then
ASICS.ws has established a worldwide reputation for professional high
quality IP Cores with flexible licensing at a low cost. ASICS.ws
provides a broad line of general-purpose IP cores, including a variety
of USB related products, encryption (AES), error correction (Reed
Solomon), and many other functions.
Headquartered in San Jose, Ca, Atrenta Inc. is a provider of
Predictive Development solutions for the electronic systems industry.
Atrenta's 1Team Family of Predictive Development solutions enhances
the entire development cycle -- from architectural planning to
physical implementation, and from chips to systems to embedded
software.
Celoxica's suite of Electronic System Level (ESL) design solutions
cover C-based design and behavioral synthesis tools, FPGA boards and
programmable SoC development hardware, libraries of IP and system
level APIs for co-design modeling, verification and platform
abstraction. Utilized alongside partner technology for FPGA,
Structured ASIC and SoC design, Celoxica's products enable digital
electronics to be designed more quickly, with lower risk and at a
lower cost.
Founded in 1998, First Silicon Solutions (FS2) specializes in
hardware verification and debug technologies including OCI(R) (On-Chip
Instrumentation) custom silicon IP, development tools, and design
services for programming, testing and debug of embedded systems in
FPGA, SoC, SOPC, ASSP and ASIC designs. FS2 provides full system
solutions with IP blocks, hardware, and software tools deployed in
several stages of the development cycle from system design and
verification to software development and debug. FS2 products enable
silicon vendors and their customers to take their designs from "first
silicon" to production faster, with better understanding of the design
performance and overall operation.
Jeda Technologies, Inc. is a privately held electronic design
automation (EDA) company providing a hardware verification and
modeling platform to verify complex FPGA, ASIC and system-on-chip
(SoC) designs. Jeda delivers a comprehensive, standards-based
verification and modeling solution for hardware verification and
hardware/software co-design encompassing the entire design and
verification cycle -- including IP block, chip and system level.
OCP-IP members receive free training and support, free software
tools, and free documentation, enabling them to focus on the
challenges of SoC design. Leveraging OCP-IP's infrastructure
eliminates the need to internally design, document, train and evolve a
proprietary standard and support tools, freeing up critical resources
for the real design work and providing enormous cost savings.
"ASICS World Services, LTD is very pleased to join the OCP-IP
alliance," said Rudolf Usselmann, General Manager of ASICS.ws.
"Immediately after joining OCP-IP we started offering our most popular
IP Cores ready for integration in to OCP based systems. These IP Cores
include the very popular USB 2.0 OTG IP Core, USB 2.0 Device IP Core,
SD/SDIO/MMC Host IP Core, Serial ATA I/II IP core, and numerous other
IP cores."
According to Atrenta's chief technology officer, Bernard Murphy,
"Platform-based design is a rapidly growing trend as a means of
achieving significantly lower turnaround times in system development.
This trend aligns naturally with Atrenta's predictive development
solutions that enable fast turnaround times by turning the system
development flow into a predictable, precise and manageable process.
Atrenta sees OCP-IP as a leading enabler for platform-based design and
we look forward to working together to advance this common goal."
"With unrelenting pressures on design turnaround, productivity and
product differentiation there is clear value in an industry standard
socket that better supports the integration of custom IP with existing
core reuse," said Jeff Jussel, Celoxica vice president of marketing.
"OCP-IP provides open plug-and-play design effort that can integrate
with ESL design."
"First Silicon Solutions is pleased to announce its membership in
OCP-IP, in conjunction with development of our OCP Navigator bus level
debug products. OCP is an important component in increasingly
sophisticated systems in silicon and we look forward to working with
our OCP partners to provide IP and tools to facilitate the development
and debug of OCP based products," said Rick Leatherman, President of
First Silicon Solutions.
"Jeda is committed to supporting standards that enable us to
address the challenges of SOC design and verification," stated Glen
Jones, Director of Marketing at Jeda Technologies. "We see OCP as a
key element of the virtual component design paradigm, and will assist
customers that can benefit from its connectivity capabilities."
"This new group of members represents a diverse set of commercial
product offerings, and further highlights the broad OCP acceptance and
adoption across the industry," said Ian Mackintosh, president, OCP-IP.
"We are very proud to announce and welcome all of our new members, and
look forward to working with them in the future."
About OCP-IP
The OCP International Partnership Association, Inc. (OCP-IP),
formed in 2001, promotes and supports the Open Core Protocol (OCP) as
the complete socket standard ensuring 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), Toshiba Semiconductor Group
(including Toshiba America TAEC), and Sonics. OCP-IP is a non-profit
corporation delivering the first fully supported, openly licensed,
core-centric protocol comprehensively fulfilling system-level
integration requirements. The OCP facilitates IP core reusability and
reduces design time, risk, and manufacturing costs for SoC designs.
VSIA endorses the OCP socket, and OCP-IP is affiliated with VSIA. For
additional background and membership information, visit www.OCPIP.org.
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