Denali joins Open Core Protocol Partnership - Core Concepts - Brief Article

Electronic News, June 17, 2002 by Peter Brown

DENALI SOFTWARE, A MEMORY SYSTEM IP company, has joined the Open Core Protocol International Partnership (OCP-IP), enabling the company to offer its memory controller cores for the SOC marketplace.

The OCP-IP consists of a number of OEMs and chip companies whose purpose it is to promote and support the open core protocol as a complete socket standard for the creation and integration of interoperable virtual components. The companies include Sonics, Nokia, TI, MIPS Technologies and UMC.

"We are pleased to have Denali adopt and endorse OCP as a standard socket," said Ian Mackintosh, president of OCP-IP. "The addition of Denali to the membership roster shows the strong support throughout the industry for a complete socket standard that everyone can use, no matter what their on-chip architecture is, or whose processor cores they're using."