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Accellera Systems Initiative has released the tutorial “OCP: The Journey Continues” from the 2014 Design and Verification Conference. Now available online, the five-part tutorial presents the past, present and future of the Open Core Protocol IP interface socket standard, which was transferred to Accellera in 2013. The tutorial provides a basic introduction and then discusses a variety of topics crucial to the use of OCP in SoC designs: verification IP support, TLM 2.0 SystemC support and IP-XACT support. Presenters include Herve Alexanian of Sonics, Steve McMaster of Synopsys, Prashant Karandikar of Texas Instruments and me.

I am quite pleased to see this tutorial made freely available to design and verification engineers around the world. As the original author of the specification that became OCP, and as the CTO of Sonics, the company that is donating the core technology, it is exciting to see the continued adoption of the standard and the vision for plug and play reuse unfold.