Calendar of Events

GSA IP Conference

IP Standards Session
Thursday, September, 25, 2008
Guest Speaker: Dennis Brophy, Vice Chairman of Accellera
Topic: Do We Need Unified IP Standards?

Mr. Brophy’s talk will explore various aspects of IP for design and verification and how they affect usage and project success. A historical perspective will focus on how language standards and interfaces have evolved to support growing IP demands. As a motivating reason why industry should continue to push for IP standards on top of language standards and pursue adoption by the IP customers and conformance to the standards by IP providers, a success story that follows technology from development to IP deployment will be shared. A short review of ongoing work within the EDA standards setting organizations such as Accellera, The SPIRIT Consortium, Open SystemC Initiative, Open Source and the IEEE will also be presented.

Do all these groups have customers confused? What should customers seek? Do we need unified standards? What is reasonable to expect? The knowledgeable consumer should gain a better perspective of the role of standards to determine if they help an IP ecosystem or harm it.

The Design & Verification Conference

February 24-29, 2009

San Jose, California

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