CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
10 April 2007
Product News
OCP-IP Standardizes on Synopsys' DesignWare Verification IP for OCP-IP's CoreCreator Verification Toolset
Synopsys, Inc. and Open Core Protocol International Partnership (OCP-IP), an independent non-profit semiconductor industry consortium, announced that they are collaborating to provide Synopsys' DesignWare(R) Verification IP (VIP) as part of OCP-IP's CoreCreator verification toolset. DesignWare VIP for OCP, part of Synopsys' portfolio of standards-based verification IP, will become the OCP-IP endorsed verification IP solution and will replace the OCP Bus Functional Models (BFM) currently provided with OCP's CoreCreator tool. The new, combined solution, which includes DesignWare VIP and CoreCreator's performance analysis, protocol checking, and transaction disassembly, gives OCP-IP members a common verification toolset, enabling maximum consistency and interoperability across OCP implementations.
"The inclusion of Synopsys' DesignWare VIP into CoreCreator is a natural extension of the significant contributions already made by Synopsys to OCP- IP," said Ian Mackintosh, president of OCP-IP. "DesignWare VIP for OCP enables us to provide our members with a best-in-class verification solution that is current with latest versions of the standard, together with support for the latest verification methodologies."
The Synopsys DesignWare VIP for OCP will be available to OCP-IP members on request from the OCP-IP website as part of their subscription entitlement. Each release of the DesignWare VIP will be verified by OCP-IP for compliance to the latest version of the OCP standard. Synopsys' DesignWare VIP for OCP includes 100 percent coverage of the functional coverage groups defined in section 4 of the OCP-IP compliance check document.
Synopsys' DesignWare VIP for OCP supports Verilog, VHDL, and SystemVerilog testbenches and is fully compliant with the "Verification Methodology Manual" (VMM) guidelines for coverage-driven, constrained-random verification environments. It also supports the generation of trace files used by CoreCreator's OCP performance analysis, checker, and disassembly tools.
"When integrating IP in system-on-chip designs, one of the biggest challenges facing designers today is conformance to on-chip bus standards," said Ed Bard, senior director of IP marketing at Synopsys. "Verification IP plays an extremely important role in minimizing integration challenges by allowing designers to verify compliance of their interfaces. DesignWare VIP provides a consistent verification solution to the entire OCP-IP community, leading to maximized interoperability between OCP-IP member designs."
Availability
DesignWare Verification IP for OCP is available today and can be downloaded from the Synopsys IP directory: http://synopsys.com/products/designware/vip_solutions.html . OCP-IP members will be able to obtain licenses of the DesignWare Verification IP for OCP within the second quarter of 2007 as part of their OCP-IP subscription. A separate announcement will be broadcast to OCP-IP members at that time.
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