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TITLE: Virtual Component Websites and Software
Virtual Component Exchange (VCX) is a web-based, regulated
trading exchange for semiconductor virtual components or
intellectual property (IP). The exchange was established as an
outgrowth of the Alba Centre which was launched in 1997 by an
economic development agency of the Scottish government. The main
elements of the Alba Centre initiative were the Virtual Component
Exchange, the Institute for System Level Integration and the
development of the Alba Campus, the physical embodiment of the
Alba vision. The Virtual Component Exchange has been acquired by
Beach Solutions which continues to operate the website and to
sell database solutions to both IP buyers and sellers. For
additional information, access: VCX
A similar effort that was launched in France is the Design &
Reuse (D&R) web portal which provides a secure catalog of 15,000
IP products from 150 suppliers with 37,000 registered users
making 100,000 page views per month. D&R also sells a
comprehensive intranet reuse infrastructure that provides an IP
supply chain delivering external IPs as well as internal IPs from
the designer site to the user site under the control of an IP
management system hosting the corporate IP directory. For
additional information, access: D&R
SIPAC, System Integration & Intellectual Property Authoring
Center, is a non-profit organization located in South Korea that
has an IP trading system providing a variety of IP related
services. SIPAC has developed IP related guidelines for HDL
coding and AMS design. It has also produced a web-based IP
verification and evaluation system. For additional information,
access: SIPAC
Taiwan SoC Consortium (formerly named the Silicon IP Consortium)
is a non-profit organization. Member companies include fabless
design houses, integrated devices manufacturers, system vendors,
foundries, EDA companies, design service companies and
semiconductor research organizations. Its primary mission is to
facilitate IP information sharing and IP exchange, especially for
the companies in Taiwan. For additional information, access:
TaiwanSoC
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Virtual Component Websites Software
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DATE: June 2005
TITLE: Virtual Component Websites and Software
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