D&R confirms the opening of it's Internet IP Trading Centre

Santa Clara (DesignCON 2000) - February 1, 2000 **  After a  first announcement at the December International Workshop on IP  Based Design (EE Times, Peter Clarke, January 3 2000) ,  D&R confirms the opening of the first Internet IP Trading Centre.  Through this initiative, D&R strengthens its catalyst role in IP  Business both in the IP Provider and consumer perspectives.

D&R will follow a twofold strategy  pushed respectively by the  market demand and by the IP provider offers.
Driven by the market demand D&R will extend the successful IP  Search/Find Club  by following up the strategic "Wanted IPs" demand displayed daily on  D&R web site. D&R will identify corresponding IP offers from IP  providers  and help trigger the actual business deal.
On the other hand IP providers are welcome to co-operate in listing  their products in a comprehensive e business catalogue to enable D&R  to promote  more deeply their IPs. The leads arising out of this  listing  will be  qualified by D&R and  followed up to help trigger  the business deal.

Such an initiative will definitively leverage the IP business by  shortening the business decision delay. D&R has thus given, priority  to  the business assistance with respect to  a broker role that may  only be reconsidered in a next step.

In addition  D&R goes further in business assistance by contributing  to a major market need namely IP quality assessment. For IP quality  assessment, D&R is proposing a comprehensive set of services ranging  from OpenMORE rating, test coverage evaluation, hardware prototyping  to formal verification. Priority will be given to FPGA mapping and  validation on hardware platform. Both test coverage enhancement and  property checking possibly in  a remote way through the internet are  the highest priority.

"We are very glad to get more and more business support from D&R and  we are eager to use these new trading facilities " said Thomas  Oberthuer  Product Manager IP of SICAN GmbH.

On the quality assessment side various players offer co-operation to  make this  initiative as broad and successful as possible to fulfil  the market demand

"As an early D&R partner, APTIX is very supportive of this effort  and is willing to offer its platform capabilities to contribute to  IP validation market needs" added AMR Mohsen CEO of APTIX .

"We are more than happy to join this unique effort in IP Qualification.  Jointly with D&R we will offer  advanced techniques such as model  checking as well as efficient Logic Equivalence checking services.  This should lead to "Trusted IP's" and open a new ERA in IP business."  said Huy Nam Nguyen CEO of Metasymbiose SA.

Obviously ,in this second step, D&R is willing to demonstrate aggressively  its IP Business catalyst role by broadening its offer; "Actual trading  based on internet forums together with quality assessment should made  our IP catalyst role more and more useful to the world wide SOC community" claimed Prof.Gabriele Saucier founder of D&R .

About D&R
D&R is a corporation founded in September 1997 with 19% shareholding  of CMP Media, Inc.. Today D&R is the web portal for IP's and SOC and  in Q1 2000 the first internet IP trading centre. D&R provides IP  exchange internet/intranet exchange technology and validation service.  D&R  can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.design-reuse.com.

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