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News Release from: Virage Logic
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Team on 14 October 2003
Partner programme smoothes IP adoption
Virage Logic has broadened and renamed its partner programme and has added 16 new members.
Virage Logic has broadened and renamed its partner programme and has added 16 new members The Virage Logic IP (VIP) Partner programme replaces the Memory Alliance Programme (MAP), originally established in March 2001, to better support the needs of Virage Logic's growing list of semiconductor IP platform customers
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 22 Oct 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Through well-established technology alliances with more than 50 partner companies, Virage Logic's VIP partners provide complementary solutions that span several different key categories including design services, EDA and test, foundry, and intellectual property (IP).
"Our customers have come to rely on us as a single source provider of silicon-proven IP.
By partnering with over 50 enabling technology providers, our mutual customers benefit with access to complete solutions, accelerated design time and improved manufacturability", said Greer Person, Vice President of Business Development for Virage Logic.
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"System-on-chip (SoC) design encompasses many decisions and activities beginning with system level conceptual design and ending with the shipment of packaged, tested parts.
Our objective is to ensure that our customers move through this process as efficiently and reliably as possible".
For customers choosing to augment their design teams or to outsource their entire chip design and production to a design services provider, the VIP Partner programme ensures the availability of complementary design experts who have experience with Virage Logic IP and understand how to leverage that IP to the customer's benefit.
New VIP design services partners Alchip Technologies, Manhattan Routing, Oceanstream and SiGlobe join existing partners Arcadia Design Systems, Cadence Design Systems, CMOSChips, eSilicon Corp, Faraday Technology, Flextronics, Infinite Technology, Intrinsix, Mosis, Quantum Think Group (Qthink) and Synopsys Professional Services.
By working closely with EDA companies to ensure that their tools work optimally with Virage Logic's semiconductor IP platforms, the programme enable customers to take full advantage of the benefits that highly optimised IP provides such as accelerated design time.
Close collaboration with design-for-test (DFT) and test houses also improves manufacturability of large-scale designs, enhances flexibility in datapath planning and accelerates physical implementation.
New VIP EDA and test partners AmmoCore, Apache Design, Inovys, Synplicity and Senasis join existing partners Artest, Cadence Design Systems, Credence, HPL Technologies, InTime Software, Logic Vision, Magma Design, Mentor Graphics, Nassda, Sequence Design, Sonics and Synopsys.
Virage Logic's foundry partnerships ensure access to silicon-proven IP on advanced semiconductor processes at competitive prices from multiple sources.
New VIP foundry partners Silterra and SMIC join existing partners Chartered Semiconductor, Tower, TSMC and UMC.
By working in partnership with other leading IP suppliers to test silicon and provide reference designs, the VIP Partner programme enables customers to access the true functionality of the IP prior to committing it to their design.
New VIP IP partners ARM, Clearspeed, Denali, Imagination Technologies, and Morpho Technologies join existing partners 3DSP, Improv Systems, MIPS Technologies, QualCore Logic, QuickSilver Technology, Sarnoff, and Tensilica.
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