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Recently, I got to speak with Ian Mackintosh who wanted to bring me up to date with everything that has been happening at OCP recently. So let’s start with who they are and what they do, that way everyone is on the same page. OCP standards for Open Core Protocol and enables intellectual property (IP) blocks to be delivered that conforms to this interconnect protocol. OCP-IP (the IP here standards for International Partnership) is an industry association providing a common standard for IP core interfaces, or sockets, that facilitate "plug and play" System-on-Chip (SoC) design. Now be careful that you don’t read socket and think bus interface, because any number of bus interfaces can be used with this socket. OCP separates the computational IP core from its communications activity. Ian Mackintosh is the president and chairman of OCP-IP.

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