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VSIA Works With Hong Kong to Extend QIP Metric
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Donates Deliverables Checklist to VSIA
| Source: VSIA
WAKEFIELD, MA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- April 4, 2007 -- The VSI Alliance (VSIA), the leading IP
standards body for the electronics industry, today announced the Hong Kong
University of Science and Technology (HKUST) donated its Deliverables
Checklist to VSIA. The agreement was based on the organizations' common
interests in developing an international standard for evaluating
semiconductor IP (SIP). Together the VSIA and HKUST will further develop
the methodology and tools within the VSIA Quality IP (QIP) Metric with the
addition of the Deliverables Checklist. The two groups will also discuss
ongoing work on QIP and other VSIA standards and are collaborating on a
memorandum of understanding to extend this work to three universities in
Mainland China.
Over the next year, the HKUST Deliverables Checklist donation and future
enhancements will be integrated into the VSIA QIP Metric, enhancing the
portion of the metric that measures an IP provider's deliverables.
Deliverables include items such as: documentation, logic design, design for
test, functional verification and timing-and-power analysis deliverables.
In support of this integration, VSIA has invited HKUST into the IP Quality
Pillar as a voting member and both organizations have agreed to work
together to further development of the QIP Metric.
"We are impressed with VSIA's leadership in quantifying a metric for
evaluating IP and felt that we could add value to the QIP and to the
industry through the donation of our deliverables checklist," said Prof.
Philip Chan, Dean of Engineering and the principal investigator of the
project from HKUST. "Additionally, we look forward to supporting QIP in
China and we hope that we can work together on further development of QIP
and other VSIA initiatives."
HKUST developed the deliverables checklist as an SIP tool that will allow
third party providers to evaluate customers' IP by categorizing
deliverables using quality evaluation line items. It can be used to
automate the generation of objective evaluation data for the determination
of customers' SIP quality, ultimately easing the process of IP integration.
"HKUST has put in a great deal of time and effort into the successful
creation of the deliverables checklist and we are pleased that they
recognized the value of combining the efforts of both groups," said Kathy
Werner, VSIA President. "We look forward to the successful integration of
the checklist and to the benefit it will bring to the industry."
About VSIA QIP Metric
The VSIA QIP Metric is a tool that can aggressively reduce the time
typically required to make an IP purchase decision and to integrate the
core. The Metric helps the IP vendor and IP consumer communicate based on
an objective foundation. Besides setting up the basis for measuring a
core's characteristics against an industry-approved list of attributes, the
metric provides a view of the IP vendor's general approach to IP
development. This enables a continuous improvement mechanism, and in turn,
levels the playing field for vendors and allows an integrator to evaluate
similar cores from competing vendors. VSIA is currently working on the
development of the verification IP quality extension to the QIP Metric.
VSIA QIP Metric was released to the public in January 2006 and has seen
over 1000 downloads.
About VSIA
The VSI Alliance (VSIA) is an open, international organization that
includes representatives from all segments of the SoC industry: System
houses, Semiconductor vendors, Electronic Design Automation (EDA)
companies, and Intellectual Property (IP) providers. VSIA's mission is to
dramatically enhance the productivity of the SoC design community by
providing leading edge commercial and technical solutions and insight into
the development, integration and reuse of IP. VSIA has wide industry
participation with more than 70 member companies from around the world.
Membership is open to any company with an interest in the development and
promotion of business solutions and open standards used in the design of
System-on-Chip. For more information, visit the VSIA web site at
www.vsi.org, or e-mail to info@vsi.org.
About HKUST
HKUST is an internationally recognized research university with a unique
blend of education and research programs in science, engineering, business,
humanities and social science. Founded in1991, HKUST now has over 9000
students from 40 countries and about 450 faculty members. In fifteen years,
it has rapidly evolved into a world-class institution, ranked no.17
globally in the Times Higher Education Supplement 2006 league table of the
world's top 100 universities in technology. In the next fifteen years,
HKUST strives to continue its quest for excellence through building on its
existing strengths in the following five strategic areas: bioscience and
technology, nanoscience and technology, environmental science and
technology, and business management. For more information, visit the HKUST
website at www.ust.hk.