Drew E. Wingard

Sonics, Inc. provides system Internet protocol services. It offers SonicsLX (SLX), a NoC that provides systems-on-chip designers with the connectivity needed for CPUs and other processing engines to memory. The firm provides system Internet protocol solutions, which include security, power, and memory subsystems; development tools; performance analysis solutions and topology structures for the network design. The company was founded by Drew E. Wingard, Grant A. Pierce, and Geert Rosseel in September 1996 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

OCP International Partnership Association Inc (OCP-IP) is dedicated to proliferating a common standard for intellectual property (IP) core interfaces, or sockets that facilitate "plug and play" System-on-Chip (SoC) design. Making complex SoC design more efficient for the widest audience, the industry strongly supports the Open Core Protocol as the universal complete socket standard, regardless of on chip architecture or which processor cores are featured. The benefits of a standard socket for SoC design are numerous. OCP-IP provides the tools and services to its members that are necessary for convenient implementation, maintenance and support of the standard socket interface. Their focus is strictly on adoption and implementation of the OCP socket and plug and play SoC design methodology. They believe a standard is only proven through real-world implementations. Many of their founding members, companies with world-class SoC design expertise in their own right, have already adopted OCP and have used it in production SoC designs. OCP-IP has much to offer its members. They give their customers the tools, training and technical support necessary to quickly begin making their IP cores OCP-compliant and ready for rapid SoC integration with other compliant third-party IP. They save their clients significant time and R&D investment that would otherwise be required to maintain their clients own socket specification and tools.

MicroUnity Systems Engineering, Inc. develops software solutions for processing multimedia data in real time on general purpose processors. The firm offers BroadMX, a software-upgradeable broadband microprocessor technology for processing 3D graphics, high-definition video, radio frequency data streams, 4G wireless, and other software-based broadband applications in real time using software rather than special-purpose hardware. The company was founded by John Moussouris in August 1988 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.