___ __ | D_|_ | DESIGN AND REUSE |_| &_|_ NEWS LETTER (Week 29, 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 to all partners of the IP/SOC community 1. Welcome to our new partners of the month **************************************** - Actel Corp. http://www.us.design-reuse.com/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?ID=164 - Ericsson Technology Licensing AB http://www.us.design-reuse.com/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?ID=162 - IC Nexus Co., Ltd. http://www.us.design-reuse.com/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?ID=163 - NemeriX S.A. http://www.us.design-reuse.com/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?ID=161 - Prosilog S.A. http://www.us.design-reuse.com/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?ID=166 - Qualis Design Corp. http://www.us.design-reuse.com/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?ID=165 - True Circuits, Inc. http://www.us.design-reuse.com/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?ID=160 We wish them a very fruitful business. 2. IP/SoC Market Watch ******************* Good News: the new IP/SoC Market Watch issue for the second quarter of 2002 is available now. (The D&R Partners will receive it in a separate email) This report contains all relevant data about the IP/SoC market activity "observed from" the D&R website. The IP/SoC products that attracted most attention are listed and the B2B matchings processed within the D&R IP Search/Find Club are analyzed. As a general trend we notice a significant "ramp up" in the US participation and a noticeable slow down from Europe, Asia staying in the middle. It could mean that a market restart in this sector may come from the US and hopefully will trigger European activity in the next quarter. Note also that we can now state the opening of the Design Services Marketplace has been quite a success. The "View "number of the leading service center ( Accent) gets a number of views close to one fifth of the IP provider leader (Mentor Graphics) and of the SoC product provider leader (Infineon) on our web site (http://www.us.design-reuse.com/USERS/pr1.html). As these activities are quite new, these numbers are very encouraging. The Verification IP section opened recently also is a true success as the leader (Synopsys) gets a high number of views equal to one fourth of the IP provider leader. So overall the new activities proposed by D&R show a significant success and this hopefully means that they correspond to the actual market needs. Please remember that this report is automatically sent to D&R partners. So contact us to join the D&R partner programs now. Should this report be of interest for you while our partner program is not relevant for your activity, just join the D&R user group and you will get it each quarter. 3. And next: Foundries Corner and Software IP Catalog ************************************************** Foundries Corner and Software IP Corner are now opened for the public. As announced before DAC, our two new important sections definitively open today: The software IP corner opens and will certainly get an importance and a value equal to D&R unique Silicon IP activity promptly. --> See: http://www.us.design-reuse.com/hds The Silicon Foundries Corner is an obvious extension as IPs need to be proven on silicon to get quality proof and market value. Thus D&R is committed to give to all designers and IP providers information about the best resources available for hardening their IPs. --> See: http://www.us.design-reuse.com/foundries Of course the more you participate to these new forums, the more benefit all of us will get (mktg@design-reuse.com). 4. IP Provider XML Private Catalogs ******************************** This activity is slowly growing. As announced in our post DAC press release (http://www.us.design-reuse.com/news/news3471.html), Mentor Graphics joined this service recently. (http://www.us.design-reuse.com/USERS/pr2.html) All IP providers listed on the D&R web portal should know that their private XML catalog is made available for them on D&R private gateway with the content being initiated by the content of their catalog on the D&R public web site. Should you be interested, contact us and you be able to look at it. Major benefits can be raised from such a catalog : - It can be used as an import gateway for any large company's intranet catalog and you can put in any field you wish or need (http://www.us.design-reuse.com/USERS/pr3.html). - It can be used for your customers as an efficient information source which may be "intermediate" between data sheet and product sheet. - You can become familiar with XML technology and use it later on as the central module of an IP management or delivery infrastructure. 5. IP Exchange: Is a standard or at least the best practice coming? **************************************************************** A serious hope in this area is coming from Europe this time. The Medea European project (Toolip) is quickly progressing for proposing IP Transfer standards, exchange platforms and best practice. Very encouraging work especially with Phillips and sci-worx contributions is done for making a design environment "independent" to allow its reuse. D&R is glad to see the consortium using its exchange platform to prove the IP exchange concept. We will do our best to keep you informed about the progresses of this work (http://www.us.design-reuse.com/USERS/pr4.html) 6. IFIP International Workshop'02 on IP Based SoC Design ***************************************************** (Oct.30-31, 2002, in Grenoble, France) This event is organized in cooperation with CMP Media, Inc. and will obviously be the hot IP/SoC event worldwide. Please pay attention to the dates that have been modified and hurry up for booking your exhibit space as well as submitting your contribution summary. (URL: http://www.us.design-reuse.com/WORKSHOP/IP_design02.html) We are excited to have a chance to see most of you very soon in Grenoble. Best regards, Gabriele Saucier Philippe Coeurdevey ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ AROUND WWW.DESIGN-REUSE.COM ---------------------------- * SPONSOR MESSAGE : Fast, Easy SOC Design with MIPS(R) Cores & Synopsys DesignWare(R) http://www.us.design-reuse.com/redirect/dolinsky@gsu.by SOC design *can* be easy -- using MIPS32(TM) 4KE(TM) high-performance microprocessors in Synopsys' DesignWare-! 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