IP re-use to further Open Core Protocol

Beach Solutions has joined the OCP International Partnership Association (OCP-IP).

Beach Solutions has joined the OCP International Partnership Association (OCP-IP), the independent, nonprofit semiconductor industry trade organisation providing support, promotion and enhancement of the Open Core Protocol (OCP).

In joining the partnership, Beach will participate in the further development of infrastructure around a de facto industry standard for connectivity, smoothing the path towards effective design re-use.

OCP-IP is solving problems relating to design, verification and testing which are common to IP core reuse in "plug and play" SoC products.

The initiative comprehensively fulfils system-level integration requirements by promoting IP core reusability and reducing design time, risk and manufacturing costs for SoC designs.

To support the drive towards interoperability, Beach is adding OCP compliance to its Easi-Studio product.

Easi-Studio, which is a member the company's Easi-Tools family, contains a comprehensive suite of tools to capture and check IP block interfaces.

Design data and documentation required for SoC integration is then automatically generated from this information to be compliant with company and industry standards.

Crucially, Easi-Studio automatically generates design files that are now also compliant with the OCP socket standard.

Therefore, by employing Beach's technology, designers can easily migrate from proprietary interconnects to OCP compliant interconnect schemes.

Such ease of migration provides a key benefit for designers who up until now have not been afforded such a means to easily migrate their designs between different architectures.

"Beach's capabilities in IP packaging and re-use is highly synergistic with the OCP-IP approach for interoperability and industry standards are essential for the successful implementation of re-use strategies", comments Riffat Amin, VP Sales and Marketing at Beach Solutions.

"Customers adopting the OCP standard for the integration and re-use of their IP can now be assured of support from Beach Solutions in the drive towards interoperability", Amin concludes.

Ian Mackintosh, president of OCP-IP commented: "Having Beach Solutions sharing their expertise in development tools for promoting IP re-use is a valuable contribution to our consortium.

We are pleased to have them join us".

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