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The OCP International Partnership Association (OCP-IP) promotes and supports the open core protocol (OCP) as the complete socket standard that ensures rapid creation and integration of interoperable virtual components.

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EDA/IP Weekly Roundup – Apr 4th
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Dialog, TSMC, Open-Silicon, Analog Bits, Gartner, ABI, Synopsys, Analog Devices, Kilopass, CEVA, OCP-IP, NXP and MarketsandMarkets made the lineup today. See here for their news…

OCP-IP Outstanding Contributor of the Year Award for 2011
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OCP-IP recognizes Gabriele Zarri of Cadence for his leadership, commitment and contributions to OCP-IP’s Functional Verification Working Group…

OCP-IP Delivers Enhanced Transaction Generator Package
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Without models it is impossible to learn anything about a chips performance and high-level models can help get the architecture right from the start…

Introduction to and Regression Test for OCP SystemC Channel Models
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The Open Core Protocol"International Partnership Consortium has defined a high-performance and bus-independent interface protocol between IPs, usually referred to as the OCP Protocol, which provides a standard for a system designer such that the design time of the core interface can be greatly reduced and possible interface errors can be discovered at the early design stage.

The Importance of Sockets in SOC Design
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This paper introduces the Open Core Protocol (OCP) within the context of contemporary System-on-a-Chip (SoC) design issues. It explains why a standardized industry socket interface is essential to competitive SOC designs and it reveals how OCP fulfills the requirements for such an interface.

Shared, Switched, or Networked? The Uncharted Future of On-Chip Buses
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Scrambling to keep up the the spiraling bandwidth requirements of high-speed processing cores, SoC designers are looking at various on-chip bus options. Jack Shandle describes three bus flavors—shared, switched, and networked—and discusses how some major microprocessor core and silicon IP companies are addressing the problem of moving data on silicon.

Open Core Protocol (OCP)
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The Open Core Protocol (OCP) is a newly launched silicon-core protocol providing a bus-independent, high-performance, configurable interface between on-chip silicon cores and communication systems. The Open-Core Protocol white paper provides an OCP overview, along with the protocol's highlights, capabilities, advantages, and key features.

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