___ __ | D_|_ | DESIGN AND REUSE |_| &_|_ NEWS LETTER (Week 19, 2002) |_| R | info@design-reuse.com |__ |___| www.design-reuse.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Online Version : http://www.us.design-reuse.com/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?ID=23 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hello everybody, 1.Welcome to our new partners of the month ------------------------------------------ D&R is glad to see such a live and active community in the IP/SOC field. We wish you all a successful business. - Innovative Semiconductors, Inc. http://www.us.design-reuse.com/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?ID=138 - LogicVision, Inc. http://www.us.design-reuse.com/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?ID=147 - M2000 http://www.us.design-reuse.com/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?ID=146 - Ocean Logic Pty Ltd. http://www.us.design-reuse.com/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?ID=142 - RealFast http://www.us.design-reuse.com/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?ID=144 - Siliconcore Technology, Inc. http://www.us.design-reuse.com/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?ID=143 - SiWorks Inc. http://www.us.design-reuse.com/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?ID=148 - SuperH http://www.us.design-reuse.com/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?ID=145 - Telecom Italia Lab - System on Chip http://www.us.design-reuse.com/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?ID=140 - Virtual Silicon Technology http://www.us.design-reuse.com/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?ID=139 - Western Design Center http://www.us.design-reuse.com/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?ID=141 2. The "IP/SOC Market Watch for Q1 2002" is available. ------------------------------------------------------- This report analyzes the IP/SOC product offers and demands, especially the users' hot interest in specific IPs as well as the urgent market requests for certain IPs. All our partners should verify that this report is sent out to the appropriate contact persons in their corporation. If not please contact us at mktg@design-reuse.com. There is no limitation in the number of destination persons. Should your company not yet be a D&R partner and would like to receive these quarterly reports plus an annual summary, please join the <> whose members are interested in D&R activities in a broad sense and are willing to contribute in orientating its activities. To join it now, please contact us at mktg@design-reuse.com. 3. New D&R Action: Foundries Link Program ----------------------------------------- D&R is launching an aggressive action towards the foundries which are of course major players in the IP/SOC business. The IP rating delivered by the foundries will be indicated in the D&R IP/SOC catalog so that the user will see how far an IP has been successfully hardened. In addition D&R will deliver information about Foundry multi-chip runs. Thus the IP provider will be able to plan efficiently its IP hardening with his selected foundry and optimize its time to market. A Foundry Search/Find club will also allow an IP provider to post a demand for finding a foundry for its IP and receiving foundries offers. D&R is therefore completing its comprehensive set of information by covering a strategic part of the IP/SOC supply chain. 4. IP Catalog Hosting: A gateway for XML data export to intranet catalogs ---------------------------------------------------------------- We receive still many questions about this key service. So let us recall the motivation and functioning of this service. D&R believes that the IP business is still lacking well-established communication mechanism and technology that allow the IP provider to clearly describe its IP value and delivery content in an early discussion with a potential customer. Datasheet is rather an IP existence statement and product sheet may disseminate confidential information in a too early phase. Thus it makes sense to make available confidential data that are concise but still convincing enough. The next question is where to make these data available? First, IP providers cannot afford to disperse efforts for publicizing their products in various catalogs. Second, these data should reach the target customers, i.e., the large companies who commonly have put in place their internal XML tagged directories. These large customers by the way impose the data they wish to get. To cope with these needs D&R holds confidential catalogs for the providers on a dedicated server. Such a catalog is open for online upload for each provider with the fields that have been declared mandatory by the destination companies. D&R assists in filling these data, if required, by bridging from existing data or by extraction from the product sheet. D&R takes then the responsibility for updating the XML intranet catalog of the destination companies according to their wishes as well as enlarging the fields of these catalogs when new destination companies have to be served through this gateway. This process is somewhat under demo on our website for Alcatel. Call us if you find this mechanism is not obvious for you. Please hurry up and as a destination company or an IP provider declare yourself for using this gateway. From now to the end of DAC this June, D&R offers very advantageous conditions for this service. More info : http://www.us.design-reuse.com/encapsulation 5. IP Search/Find Club and Design Centers ----------------------------------------- D&R has gone through a deep analysis of the functioning of the "IP Search/Find Club" activities. Of course we focused on the dialogs that did not end up with a happy relation and here are some early conclusions. - A company posting such a request is in a hurry to find out if an IP which is usually not in the catalog can be provided quickly. We would state that their demand is often not precise enough. In general it could be stated that it is a next generation IP of a SOC that is made up of several IPs of today. - The providers often answer in a very vague term and never state clearly what they have and the precise delivery. In fact the issue of expressing clearly the packaging of the IP is not yet a solved problem and D&R could help in putting in place IP packaging or delivery description as an extension of the publishing efforts offered through its private catalogs. - Finally it should be noticed that the IP Search/Find club concerns in most cases next generation IPs and design centers are welcome to answer as they are the right players to answer these requests. We have today over 200 design centers listed on our website. You are invited to join our "Design Service Partner Program". Should you need help in packaging your design, D&R will assist you. More info : http://www.us.design-reuse.com/CLUB/request_section.html http://www.us.design-reuse.com/DESIGN_SERVICES 6. And next? ------------ The Embedded Software or Hardware Dependent Software Catalog is close to completion. It should open in May. Would you like to be sure to see your products in, please contact us. We will introduce your products right away. Would you like to sponsor this action and get a great visibility, please contact us(mktg@design-reuse.com). To learn more about the Hardware Dependent Software give a look to two presentations given at VSIA's recent General Meeting at the Embedded Systems Conference 2002 : - "Introduction to Hardware Dependent Software and Platform-Based Design" by Timothy J. O'Donnell, President - VSI Alliance http://www.us.design-reuse.com/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?ID=149 - "Its Software's Turm ... Software Reuse in SoC Design" by Michael Kaskowitz, General Manager, IP Division - Mentor Graphics http://www.us.design-reuse.com/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?ID=150 Hope to hear from you soon. 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