As a standard SoC design point, it serves as the foundation of IBM or non-IBM devices.
CoreConnect has bridging capabilities to the competing AMBA bus architecture, allowing reuse of existing SoC-components.
IBM makes the CoreConnect bus available as a no-fee, no-royalty architecture to tool-vendors, core IP-companies, and chip-development companies.
As such it is licensed by over 1500 electronics companies such as Cadence, Ericsson, Lucent, Nokia, Siemens and Synopsys.
The CoreConnect is an integral part of IBM's embedded offerings and is used extensively in their PowerPC 4x0 based designs.