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Electronic Design Automation Consortium (EDAC)
As part of its leadership position in the EDA industry, CoWare plays an active
role in the EDA Consortium, the international association of companies developing
design tools and services that enable engineers to create the world's electronic
products. CoWare’s President & CEO, Alan Naumann, is Co-Chair of the EDA Consortium.
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India
Semiconductor Association
India Semiconductor Association ISA is the trade body representing the Indian semiconductor industry. ISA was established in 2004 and is headquartered at Bangalore, India. ISA has nearly 130 members from the semiconductor driven design ad manufacturing industry across India besides key players in the ecosystem like universities, venture capitalists and legal firms. ISA is committed towards building global awareness for the Indian semiconductor and electronics industry and creating productive interaction between the various stakeholders. This includes product and services companies, government, academia, venture capitalists and industry bodies. By fostering active collaboration between the government, industry and universities, ISA seeks to expand the existing excellent talent pool in India. It has strategic alliances with global industry body's viz. Global Semiconductor Alliance GSA, Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International SEMI, Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association TSIA. ISA played a pivotal role in the shaping of the Semicon Policy 2007 of the Government of India.
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Japan Automotive Software
Platform Architecture
Japan Automotive Software Platform Architecture, JasPar, strives to reduce technology
development costs and to promote technology development by encouraging Japanese
companies to collaboratively develop pre-competitive technologies such as automotive
LAN enabling technology, middleware and software platforms.
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Multiband OFDM Alliance
The mission of the Multiband OFDM Alliance is to develop the best overall solution for ultrawideband-based products in compliance with worldwide regulatory requirements, to ensure peaceful coexistence with current and future spectrum users, and to provide the most benefits to the broadest number of end consumers.
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OCP-IP
Consistent with its mission to make SoC design easier for their customers, CoWare
is a member of OCP-IP, an industry association dedicated to making a common
standard for intellectual property core interfaces, or sockets, that facilitate "plug
and play" SOC design.
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SPIRIT Consortium
To accelerate the design of large System-on-Chip (SoC) solutions, the semiconductor industry needs a standard mechanism for describing and handling IP that enables automated integration through plug-in tools. SPIRIT's founding companies are combining their experience in IP development, supply chains, integration and electronic design automation (EDA) to deliver such a mechanism. The consortium aims to establish a unified set of standards for importing complex IP bundles into SoC design tool sets, increasing integration efficiency.
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SystemC
CoWare is a founder and leader of the Open SystemC Initiative (OSCI). The Open
SystemC Initiative is an independent not-for-profit organization composed of
a broad range of companies and universities dedicated to supporting and advancing
IEEE 1666 SystemC as the industry standard language for system-level design
and transaction-level modeling. Patrick Sheridan, CoWare Director of Marketing,
serves on the OSCI Board of Directors and is its Executive Director.
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UWB Forum
Formed in 2004, the UWB Forum (The Forum) is comprised of members committed to making the UWB "future" now. These members, operating through the UWB Forum, support a UWB standard that is based on a DS-UWB approach in the marketplace and developing processes for ensuring UWB products from multiple vendors are fully interoperable, such as jointly developed standards and multi-vendor testing mechanisms.
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WiMAX Forum
The WiMAX Forum is working to facilitate the deployment of broadband wireless
networks based on the IEEE 802.16 standard by helping to ensure the compatibility
and inter-operability of broadband wireless access equipment. The organization
is a nonprofit association formed in June of 2001by equipment and component
suppliers to promote the adoption of IEEE 802.16 compliant equipment by operators
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