Bill,
1. Welcome
to our new Partners
Time maybe to remind to all our community what a D&R partner is. A
D&R partner is expected to share a common vision on the importance
of Intellectual property in a broad sense in an a Electronic
System. The partners can be IP provider, ASIC or System
designers, ASIC or ASSP vendors, IDMs, Foundries, System houses, EDA
vendors all sharing a common interest in IP based design.
A large proportion of D&R partners are willing to see their
products or services published on D&R portal and to get business
out of it while some others are interested only in
publishing some items within their intranet and install
Intellectual Property saving and sharing within their companies
Based on this broad vision D&R is glad to expand and consolidate
this community around the "Intellectual property in Electronic
design"
This month we would in particular welcome our Preferred Partner of the
month: Synopsys
Inc.
A D&R Preferred Partner is a partner for whom D&R holds a
private resource catalog holding at any time provider controlled data
and creating the best communication channels with the
customers. Such catalogs can be hosted in client intranet. It
may hold confidential data and can be extended to support
intranet file delivery.
Congratulations to Synopsys
Inc.
Welcome to our new partners :
Welcome to our loyal partners who renewed their partnership agreement:
2. Hot
actions on System and Platform
Level
D&R attention on a system level view in the IP/SoC is hot and two
main actions can be out pointed.
 First
the ESL hot corner
focusing on Electronic System Level is
maintaining hot attention on high level specification in the SoC field
and D&R joins its efforts with Coware for promoting the ESL Now
campaign.
Second D&R is putting more and more efforts in publishing on its
website IP based solutions and not individual IPs only. This is
important for all of you who are Solution vendor, whatever you
are technology captive or not. After having focused on IP based
technology centric solution (Structured ASIC, Asic and ASSP as
well as programmable device), we will now put more efforts in
publicizing fabless solutions and new hot corners will certainly become
active soon. Please give a look to the Design platform
section and help us to
improve over time.
All your inputs are welcome.
3. The
Spirit initiative
It is part of D&R mission to give attention and forward information
about standard initiative in the IP/SoC world. Similarly to VSIA
initiatives, D&R follows now carefully the Spirit initiative.
D&R offers its assistance and technology for adding in catalogs and
reuse stations the Spirit interface model. For those who are not aware,
the Spirit standard proposal intends to propose an IP interface
model (XML scheme) which enables automated IP integration using the IP
based platforms of the 3 main EDA vendors (Synopys Mentor and Cadence).
D&R offers you to add this model in your catalog without pain, to
modify and update it. Contact
us if your wish to study, and
support such an extension in your IP catalog.
4. IP/SoC
05 - December 7-8, 2005 - Grenoble, France
This event is perceived as really the unique event focusing
specifically on the IP based design paradigm. Attendees enjoyed a
lively, exciting exchange forum where you really have a chance to
meet the providers and the users for addressing the key
issues in this field. The audience is perfectly balanced over the
continents. The panels are real panels where ideas and perspectives are
shared among a highly valuable audience :You have to join..
Keynote talks are already announced from major players ranging from the
foundry contribution to Star IPs providers and hot panels under
preparation. If you
wish to propose a panel or participate to one
please react now…
And last but not least the exhibition is close to be booked. So if not
done, book
your slot now…
Best regards
Gabriele Saucier
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