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News Release from: Mentor Graphics UK
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 14 September 2001
Mentor joins Common Licence Consortium
Mentor Graphics has joined the Common Licence Consortium (CLC).
Mentor Graphics has joined the Common Licence Consortium (CLC) Created in conjunction with Xilinx and 21 members of the Xilinx AllianceCORE third-party IP provider programme, the CLC is the IP industry's first organisation solely focused on removing the barriers associated with licensing programmable logic IP from multiple vendors
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 21 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Designers who agree to the terms of the license also gain access to 450 FPGA-based IP cores including industry-leading USB 1.1, USB 2.0, T1/E1 and M8051EW IP cores from Mentor Graphics Inventra, without having to waste design time renegotiating additional licenses from members of the consortium.
By working together with IP standards organisations like the Virtual Socket Interface Alliance (VSIA), OpenMORE (recently donated to the VSIA) and VCX, Mentor Graphics has consistently focused on developing solutions that help the entire IP industry remove barriers to broad IP adoption and increased IP productivity.
Membership in the CLC further demonstrates the Mentor Graphics commitment to IP standards.
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