Company

Industry Affiliations

	Accellera's mission is to drive worldwide development and use of standards required by systems, semiconductor and design tools companies, which enhance a language-based design automation process. Its Board of Directors guides all the operations and activities of the organization and is comprised of representatives from ASIC manufacturers, systems companies and design tool vendors. For more information please visit http://www.accellera.org/home/.
	ARM Connected Community - The ARM Connected Community is a global network of companies aligned to provide a complete solution, from design to manufacture and end use, for products based on the ARM architecture. ARM offers a variety of resources to Community members, including promotional programs and peer-networking opportunities that enable a variety of ARM Partners to come together to provide end-to-end customer solutions. For more information, please visit http://www.arm.com/community .
	The Electronic Design Automation Consortium (EDAC) is the international association of companies developing EDA tools and services that enable engineers to create the world's electronic products. The EDA Industry provides the critical technology to design electronics that enable the Information Age, including communications, computers, space technology, medical and industrial equipment and consumer electronics. EDAC's mission is to promote the health of the EDA industry, and to increase awareness of the crucial role EDA plays in today's global economy. For more information visit http://www.edac.org.
	EASii IC is a consulting company and a design center in Electronics, Embedded and Real Time software and Microelectronics. EASii IC intervenes in different ways: technical assistance, expertise or package.For more information, please visit http://www.easii-ic.com.
	Mentor Graphics® is a leader in electronic design automation enabling companies to develop better electronic products faster and more cost-effectively. Their innovative products and solutions help engineers conquer design challenges in the increasingly complex worlds of board and chip design.
	OCP-IP is dedicated to proliferating a common standard for intellectual property (IP) core interfaces, or sockets, that facilitate "plug and play" System-on-Chip (SoC) design. Making complex SoC design more efficient for the widest audience, the industry strongly supports the Open Core Protocol as the universal complete socket standard, regardless of on chip architecture or which processor cores are featured. For more information, please visit http://www.ocpip.org .
	To accelerate the design of large System-on-Chip (SoC) solutions, the semiconductor industry needs a standard mechanism for describing and handling multi-sourced IP that enables automated design integration and configuration within multi-vendor tool flows. The SPIRIT Consortium's founding companies are combining their long experience in IP development, supply, integration and electronic design automation (EDA) to deliver such a mechanism. The Consortium provides a unified set of specifications based on IP meta-data, the IP-XACT specifications, for importing complex IP bundles into SoC design tool sets, and exchanging design descriptions between tools. For more information please visit http://www.spiritconsortium.org.
	SpringSoft's unique automation technologies save engineers time at key pain points in the design and verification of complex digital, analog and mixed-signal ICs, ASICs, microprocessors, and SoCs. Our products comprise two distinct lines: The Novas line of verification enhancement solutions, and the Laker line of custom IC design solutions. These solutions share the common characteristic that they automate tedious, time consuming tasks to allow engineers to focus on activities that add value. The SpringSoft community brings together over 10,000 users and more than 50 third-party technology and service providers across the globe. Our community fosters collaboration and the open exchange of ideas and best practices in verification. For more information please visit http://www.springsoft.com/Partners/partners-1-1.aspx?id=851783FDC7F8930E.
	Synopsys is a world leader in electronic design automation (EDA), supplying the global electronics market with the software, IP and services used in semiconductor design and manufacturing. Synopsys' comprehensive, integrated portfolio of implementation, verification, IP, manufacturing and FPGA solutions helps address the key challenges designers and manufacturers face today, such as power and yield management, system-to-silicon verification and time-to-results. These technology-leading solutions help give Synopsys customers a competitive edge in bringing the best products to market quickly while reducing costs and schedule risk. For more information please visit http://www.synopsys.com
University Program
	Portland State University http://www.pdx.edu Professor Fei Xie
	UFMG, Brazil http://www.ufmg.br/english Professor Antonio Otavio Fernandes - otavio@dcc.ufmg.br
	Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden http://www.chalmers.se Professor Mary Sheeran and Koen Claessen