Semiconductor pioneer acquired

A Beach Solutions product story

Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Nov 10, 2004

Beach Solutions has announced it has acquired VCX Software, a pioneer in semiconductor intellectual property (IP) management, profiling, delivery and IP portals.

Beach Solutions, an innovator in the emerging electronic system level (ESL) market segment within the EDA industry, today announced it has acquired VCX Software, a pioneer in semiconductor intellectual property (IP) management, profiling, delivery and IP portals.

VCX Software runs the world-renowned IP portal: www.theVCX.com.

Beach is committed to enhancing theVCX.com portal and supporting the numerous commercial and informational websites that utilise the VCX Gateway search engine.

This acquisition further enhances Beach's design environment by adding the robust and scaleable VCX database and its proven IP management infrastructure.

The Beach tool set is now used by hardware, software and verification teams for productivity gains in producing IP, subsystems and configurable platforms and their deliverables.

Beach users will benefit from this integration of ESL productivity with the numerous robust and extensive IP management scenarios.

The combined entities deliver platform-based ESL design environment combining the EASI-Suite tools for IP and system interface creation and reuse with advanced IP management, delivery and version control; a "correct-by-design" process methodology that significantly reduces time-to-market and verification costs; Internal and external IP management supply chain infrastructure that improves delivery, visibility and quality; access to over 300 currently listed IP providers that will have access to Beach's advanced IP capture and quality-checking utilities.

Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

The VCX staff, technology and IP are transferring to Beach.

The combined company solution addresses the growing need for platform-focused methodologies that improve productivity, and can realise the time-to-market benefits of enterprise wide IP reuse.

Beach Solutions' technology eliminates mismatches in hardware/software design specification, and combined with VCX IP management technology further enables the true potential of IP based platform design on a corporate wide basis.