OCP International Partnership (OCP-IP) is a non-profit semiconductor industry consortium formed to administer the support, promotion and enhancement of the Open Core Protocol (OCP) specification.  OCP is the only fully supported, openly licensed, complete interface socket for intellectual property (IP) cores.  OCP addresses design, verification and testing issues common to IP core reuse in "plug-and-play" system-on-chip (SOC) products.  Additional information is available at www.ocpip.org.