MIPS Technologies Introduces MIPS-Verified(TM) Program to Authenticate Licensed MIPS-Based(TM) Products Worldwide
04 October 2006 - 2:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
Authenticated Intellectual Property Branded with Official
MIPS-Verified Mark; Company Ensures Integrity of MIPS(R) Products
and Ecosystem MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/
-- MIPS Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:MIPS), a leading provider of
industry-standard processor architectures and cores for digital
consumer, networking, personal entertainment, communications and
business applications, today introduced the MIPS-Verified(TM)
program to validate and authenticate MIPS Technologies'
architecture, cores and proprietary verification technology. Since
its founding in 1998, MIPS Technologies has been a leading IP
company licensing award-winning processor cores and architectures
to today's top semiconductor companies, ASIC developers and system
OEMs. "The MIPS-Verified program allows us to offer our licensees
and partners the gold standard in the processor IP community -- in
addition to stringently upholding the integrity of the MIPS brand
and Ecosystem," said John Bourgoin, president and CEO of MIPS
Technologies. "Although our verification process has long been an
ongoing part of our IP business model for years, we believe the
MIPS-Verified mark will elevate global awareness of the MIPS brand
as we continue to be synonymous with high-quality, dependability
and integrity." Today's designers are faced with the challenge of
building timely, differentiated products at highly competitive
consumer price points. Paramount to a design's success is an
established and robust software ecosystem of tools and software
available to support a design from inception to completion. Also
increasingly critical in complex semiconductor design is the use
and reuse of quality intellectual property. Without a robust design
environment and quality intellectual property, both SoC designers
as well as OEM system designers run the risk of missing critical
budget targets and market introductions -- potentially sentencing a
design to fail. The MIPS-Verified brand helps designers clearly
distinguish high-quality, dependable products and well-supported
solutions that are exclusively compatible with the MIPS(R)
Ecosystem. Core or architecture implementations marked by the
MIPS-Verified brand ensure that the intellectual property has been
rigorously tested -- leveraging years of proprietary verification
technology. This design verification technology is regularly
refined and enhanced by MIPS engineers to test every new release
and each new feature added to the MIPS(R) architecture. It
comprises hundreds of tests for validating individual functions of
a design, not only with architectural compliance, but also in
authenticating a product throughout the design cycle. "The
MIPS-Verified mark gives that added level of assurance that OEMs
and IC designers are working with first-rate intellectual property
-- further validated by a proprietary and mature suite of
verification programs," said Jack Browne, vice president of
marketing for MIPS Technologies. "Since cost, performance and
time-to-market considerations are the cornerstones to the success
of any design, this product validation translates into real
business benefits for our growing number of customers around the
globe." About the MIPS(R) Architecture Developed more than 20 years
ago at Stanford University, the MIPS architecture is an elegant,
streamlined, highly scalable RISC architecture. Its fundamental
characteristics -- such as the large number of registers, the
number and the character of the instructions, and the visible
pipeline delay slots -- enable the MIPS architecture to deliver the
highest performance per square millimeter and lowest energy
consumption in today's SoC designs. MIPS architecture products
include the MIPS32(R) and MIPS64(R) architectures which are
seamlessly compatible, and application-specific extensions (ASEs)
that boost the performance of specific types of applications. About
the MIPS(R) Ecosystem The MIPS Ecosystem provides the silicon
design community with one of the richest and most comprehensive
environments offered in today's embedded space. Between hundreds of
third-party tools and software, platform solutions, development
systems and system IP, SoC designers and OEMs working on MIPS-
Based(TM) applications can quickly deliver compelling and
competitive solutions. With 118 licensees leveraging the
competitive advantage of more than 180 licenses, MIPS Technologies
powers nearly 900 MIPS-Based designs worldwide. About MIPS
Technologies MIPS Technologies, Inc. is a leading provider of
industry-standard processor architectures and cores for digital
consumer, networking, personal entertainment, communications and
business applications. The company drives the broadest
architectural alliance that delivers 32- and 64-bit embedded RISC
solutions to the embedded market, and in combination with its
licensees, offers the widest range of robust, scalable processors
in standard, custom, semi-custom and application-specific products
worldwide. MIPS Technologies licenses its intellectual property
(IP) to today's leading semiconductor companies, ASIC developers
and system OEMs. Today, MIPS-Based designs are integrated in
millions of products around the world, including broadband devices
from Linksys, digital cameras from Canon, DTVs and entertainment
systems from Sony, DVD Recordable devices from Pioneer, digital
set-top boxes from Motorola, network routers from Cisco and laser
printers from Hewlett Packard. Founded in 1998, MIPS Technologies
is based in Mountain View, California, with offices worldwide. For
more information, please contact (650) 567-5000 or visit
http://www.mips.com/. For more information on MIPS-Verified, please
visit: http://www.mips.com/content/Corporate/MIPSVerified. MIPS,
MIPS-Based, MIPS32, MIPS64 and MIPS-Verified are trademarks or
registered trademarks of MIPS Technologies, Inc. in the United
States and other countries. All other trademarks referred to herein
are the property of their respective owners. DATASOURCE: MIPS
Technologies, Inc. CONTACT: Jodi Guilbault of MIPS Technologies,
+1-650-567-5035 or Web site: http://www.mips.com/
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