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IP-XACT 1.4 in Action: Open Public Meeting of The SPIRIT Consortium

Monday, June 9, 2008
6:00pm - 9:00pm
Anaheim Hilton, California Ballroom A

The new IP-XACT 1.4 ESL-based specification from The SPIRIT Consortium expands the range of IP, enabling rapid, reliable deployment of IP into advanced design environments. The specification targets new applications, specifically those dealing with transactional modeling and advanced verification methodologies. Please join us for an update on the latest features included in this release that allow designers to automatically create many different expressions of a design in a consistent and correlated way. Attendees will hear the latest adoption stories, view vendor demos, and receive technical updates on practical approaches to more integrated design flows.

IP-XACT User Group Meeting

Tuesday, June 10, 2008
2:00pm-3:30pm
Anaheim Convention Center Room 201A

Please join us at the first meeting of the IP-XACT User Group at DAC 2008! The objective of the user group is to facilitate the exchange of the experience on IP-XACT usage by system companies, SoC integrators, IP providers and EDA companies.The group has also the ambition to contribute to the adoption of the standard by industry and to enable feedback gathering from the community to The SPIRIT Consortium.

Agenda:

  • The SPIRIT Consortium status presentation and discussion on latest achievements, roadmap and working group activities.
  • Users perspectives from IP providers, SoC companies, system companies and research.
  • Panel and discussion session.

Organizers:
Adam Morawiec, ECSI
Loic Le Toumelin, Texas Instruments
Pierre Bricaud, Synopsys
Wido Kruijtzer, NXP Semiconductors



Open Public Meeting

Wednesday, March 12, 2008
12:30pm - 2:30pm
Room 11, International Congress Center (ICM)

The IP-XACT Specification in Action: Open Public Meeting of The SPIRIT Consortium.  Learn how specifications from The Consortium can improve SoC design efficiency.  See the IP-XACT for RTL and ESL specifications in action on vendor tools and customer design flows.  Lunch will be served.

5th International System-on-Chip Conference

http://www.savantcompany.com/SoC5-Nov2007/agenda5.htm

 Thursday, November 8, 2007
3:45pm - 4:15pm

Design Flow Integration with IP-XACT from The SPIRIT Consortium

The IP-XACT specifications provide machine-readable descriptions of IP to enable automated IP and SoC configuration, integration and verification in multi-vendor design flows.  IP-XACT standardizes a meta-data format for IP description and assembly, in use to complete some of the industry's leading SoC devices. The applications of IP-XACT encompass the use of automated tools, generators and IP integration for synthesis, verification, documentation and other implementation flows, and span design configuration and integration requirements for RTL, ESL and advanced verification methodologies.

Presenter: Bill Chown, Mentor Graphics


ARM Developers Conference

http://www.rtcgroup.com/arm/2007/

Wednesday Oct 3, 2007
4:00 - 4:45pm

IP-XACT: An Industry Standard for Software to Hardware Design Flow Integration

This presentation highlights the ARM vision for systems-integration built around support of IP-XACT Metadata in the tools and IP supply chain. This multi-vendor integration eliminates error-prone transfers at various stages of the SoC development process. We present how ARM customers can leverage the benefits of IP-XACT.

Presenter:  Nizar Romdhane

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Tuesday Oct 2, 2007
9:00 - 10:45am

Automated Verification and Synthesis of ARM Cortex-M1 Designs Enabled by IP-XACT

Enabling rapid development of complex designs using FPGAs is a very effective development strategy only if the design being loaded into the FPGA works. Debugging complex designs on FPGAs can be challenging. For Cortex-M1 based designs, we can take advantage of a range of IP-XACT information from IP and tool providers to automate the processor subsystem design creation process including the automatic creation of the bus infrastructure; to automatically add protocol-based verification IP and map the design onto logic simulators for instant verification; and to map the same design directly into the FPGA through generators utilizing specialist FPGA synthesis tools and the FPGA verndors' P&R tools. This presentation shows how documenting the IP using the IP-XACT databook format, and encapsulating each design step using IP-XACT generators, enables a high level of automation for a very wide range of design, verification, and target FPGA options. For the designer, this means fast, high-quality, repeatable designs are created, ready for instant deployment onto the FPGA target.

Presenter:  John Wilson

General Meeting - Members and Non-Members Welcome

Monday, June 4 2007

6:00pm-9:00pm

San Diego Convention Center. Room 26AB


The IP-XACT Specification in Action: Open Public Meeting of The SPIRIT Consortium, Members and Non-Members Welcome

How can you approach integrating multi-vendor flows? Do your tool suppliers and IP providers support IP-XACT? What is the most recent progress in this IP meta-data standard? The open, general meeting of The SPIRIT Consortium will present the latest adoption stories, vendor demos, and technical updates on practical approaches to more integrated design flows. Beyond extending usage into the RTL and hardware implementation space, the upcoming releases of the  specification will enable the ESL to RTL flow with consistent language-neutral architectural descriptions.

Following the presentations, you'll be able to see the specification in working demonstrations.  See Details

6:00-6:30     Hospitality
6:30-7:30     IP-XACT Adoption Presentations
7:30-9:00     IP-XACT Working Demonstrations; Refreshments Served

Additional DAC Activities for The SPIRIT Consortium


The SPIRIT Consortium will present during OSCI's Technical Symposium and lunch on June 4 from 12:00-2:00pm in 33 A-C, San Diego Convention Center.  Lunch will be provided.  At this event, a panel of experts will explore the issues that initiated their use of TLM to develop virtual platforms and ESL IP for exchange across the SoC design chain. IP suppliers, silicon providers, and OEMs using SystemC and transaction-level modeling will share experiences, successes, the difficulties they face, the improvements they want to see and the expectations from the upcoming OSCI TLM standard v2.0. OSCI and The SPIRIT Consortium are collaborating to help unify standards for ESL design. Objectives include defining common terminology for describing interface abstractions and validating the forthcoming IP-XACT Specification with ESL Extensions against the OSCI TLM interface specification. The SPIRIT Consortium will present an overview of the objectives and benefits of this collaboration.

General Meeting - Members and Non-Members Welcome

Tuesday, April 17 2007

6:00pm-9:00pm

Clio Room, The Acropolis

Learn how The SPIRIT Consortium standards can improve SoC design efficiency today.
See the IP-XACT specification in action on vendor tools and customer design-flows!

“Driving Innovation in Design-chain Integration: The SPIRIT Consortium
Standards and Partnership for Adoption”

6:00 – Social half hour. Refreshments will be served.
6:30 - Presentation
7:30 – Demos and networking session

President Ralph von Vignau will provide a general update on The SPIRIT Consortium, and Technical Director Gary Delp will present an overview of how the IP-XACT specification is being developed to further improve flow integration. There will also be an IP-XACT adoption story presented by Loic Le Toumelin from TI.

Following the presentations, you'll be able to see the specification in working demonstrations.  See Details

IP-XACT Special Session

Thursday, 25 January 2007, 17:15-17:45pm

Special Stage Presentation

Presenters:  Bill Chown & Michael Chen, Mentor Graphics, Members of The SPIRIT Consortium Technical Working Groups

Description:  "Achieving Multi-Vendor Tool and IP Integration Using IP-XACT from The SPIRIT Consortium"
Complex SoC design today needs support from tightly-integrated multi-vendor flows. IP-XACT(TM) from The SPIRIT Consortium is a standard format for describing IP for automated integration into design flows, and for exchanging architectural information between tools. This publicly available standard is becoming widely adopted into the industry. This presentation will introduce The SPIRIT Consortium, the IP-XACT specification and we will talk about the benefits designers can achieve today by adopting IP-XACT enabled technologies.

IP-XACT Technical Awareness Session by The SPIRIT Consortium

Friday, 26 January 2007, 10:30-11:15am

Lecture Theater Room E205

Speaker:  John Swanson, Chair of The SPIRIT Consortium Verification Working Group

Description:  "Effective Design-Flow Integration Using IP-XACT from The SPIRIT Consortium"
The IP-XACT specification makes IP re-use in multi-vendor tool flows practical. This presentation will interest engineers and managers who are responsible for design-flow integration. It will describe the architecture of the IP-XACT specification and show how it applies SoC design exchange between tools. The session will summarize technology under development including the IP-XACT ESL Extensions for mixed-level design abstraction and the Tight Generator Interface for integration of point tools and IP generators. Attendees of this session will understand how the membership of   The SPIRIT Consortium is driving critical technology alignment for more efficient SoC design today.



20th International Conference on VLSI Design
January 8-10, 2007
Bangalore, India

IP Standardization & Reuse Panel

Monday, 8 January, 1700h-1830h

 
Moderated by Gabriele Saucier, Ph.D., CEO of Design & Reuse
 
Panelists:
  • Srini Rajam, CEO of Ittiam Systems
  • Jean-Michel Fernandez, Sr. Technology Engineer, Cadence
  • Jean-Bou-Farhat, VP of IP Solutions, LSI Logic
Description: 

As companies race to fight ever shortening market windows, and as more and more functionality crowds onto single chips, the imperative for IP sharing and IP reuse is greater than ever before. What is high-end functionality today is commodity within 12-4 months.  This sets the scenario for common standards for IP and to promote standardization of IP interfaces and specifications, such that industry-wide terms of reference emerge. These standards will also help IP consumers to better predict the quality and reliability of the IP.  However, these standards inevitably originate in the western world, or are formulated by academic bodies that are far removed from the markets in which products that will deploy these standards sell. They also stifle creativity and thus inhibit smaller companies from ever having a chance to play in this space.  Finally, there is also need for a market place in which IPs can be fairly valued and sold/ exchanged/bartered amongst companies that create them -- as well as design products that need other IPs as well. This panel will examine these issues from  both the technical and commercial angle.

IP-SOC Conference & Exhibition
December 6 & 7, 2006
Grenoble, France

IP-XACT Technical Awareness Session by The SPIRIT Consortium

Tuesday 5 December 2006, 14h00 - 16h00


Speakers
  • Chris Lennard, ARM, Vice-Chair of The SPIRIT Consortium
  • Gary Delp, LSI Logic, Technical Director of The SPIRIT Consortium
  • Jean-Michel Fernandez, Cadence, Chair of The SPIRIT Consortium ESL Working Group
  • John Wilson, Mentor Graphics, Member of The SPIRIT Consortium Technical Working Group 
Description

The IP-XACT Technical Awareness Session presented by The SPIRIT Consortium will provide a detailed technical overview of the IP-XACT specifications. This session will be of interest to engineers and engineering managers who are considering design-flow integration and IP encapsulation using IP-XACT. Attendees will gain a knowledge of the motivations, structures and methods of application for the IP-XACT specification in multi-vendor SoC design flows. The introduction of this session will outline the on-line facilities provided by The SPIRIT Consortium for the general community, reviewing members and contributing members to allow them to get engaged in the standard's deployment and development process. It will then walk through the architecture and key elements of the publically released IP-XACT specification and show how this can be applied to example design and verification IP. This will be followed by an update on the IP-XACT ESL extensions that are under development, including both interface abstraction and mixed-level simulation. This will include an overview of the Tight Generator Interface for environment-neutral generator creation. The audience will be given time to ask questions of the speakers at the end of the session.  Register Here

Panel Session

Thursday 7 December 2006, 10:15am to 11:15am

Design Flow Integration with IP-XACT from The SPIRIT Consortium: From Proof Point to Industrial Adoption

Moderated by Pierre Bricaud

Panelists:
  • Loic Le-Toumelin, SoC Development Methodology , Wireless Cellular Systems , TI
  • Gabriele Saucier, Design And Reuse
  • Wolfgang Ecker, Principal Engineer, Infineon
  • Xavier Caron, Design Flow Engineer, ATMEL


The 4th International System-on-Chip (SoC) Conference & Exhibit
November 1 & 2, 2006
Radisson Hotel Newport Beach
The 4th International System-on-Chip (SoC) Conference & Exhibit is the year's most important, most informative technical conference for the chip design community.  In collaboration with major industry enablers and top academic experts, it addresses the latest technologies and products from vendors in semiconductor, EDA, IP, CPUs/DSPs, Memories, NoC, Multi-core, etc.
Wednesday, November 1, 2006: Board member Bill Chown will participate on a panel entitled "Architectural- and Performance-related Challenges for Complex SoCs"

ARM Developers Conference
October 3 - 5, 2006
Santa Clara Convention Center

43rd Annual Design Automation Conference, July 24-28, 2006 - San Francisco, CA



Monday, July 24, 6-8 pm, Salons 1,2,3, San Francisco Marriott Hotel

General Meeting. Members and Non-Members Welcome


6-7pm: Presentations on released specifications, proposed IEEE standard, and The Consortium roadmap plans
7-8pm: Demonstration of the specifications in use in the industry today! A Chance to share ideas and discuss topics with industry experts over cocktails and appetizers. View descriptions of the partner demonstrations here.

Thursday July 27, 2006, 2:00pm-4:00pm, Moscone Center

IEEE P1685 Working Group Meeting


The SPIRIT Consortium has completed its IP-XACT specification for RTL design and verification. The IEEE P1685 Working Group has been formed to develop this specification for standardization by the IEEE-SA under its corporate program, http://standards.ieee.org/corpforum/index.html. The Working Group recently held meetings in May and June to develop and adopt Policies and Procedures (P&P) for the WG and to define PAR, which defines the scope and purpose for the WG. The P1685 WG is an entity-based working group under the rules and charter of the IEEE-SA (for more information about the IEEE-SA, see http://standards.ieee.org. Voting rights in the working group are granted to entities who are members of IEEE-SA and who are also members of the working group


EDSFair 2006, January 26-27, 2006 - Yokohama, Japan




The SPIRIT Consortium Training Day


DesignCon 2006, February 6-9, 2006 - Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, California, USA


Panel discussion: SPIRIT adoption and what adoption means to the semiconductor industry

Monday February 6th, 1:30-5:00 pm, Room 209-210, Santa Clara Convention Center

"Creating System Databooks using SPIRIT Consortium Specifications" introduces the concept of tool, design-language, and generic IP XML descriptions for systems design. The specifications of The SPIRIT Consortium provide a standard machine-interpretable way to express design configuration. Linked to design filesets, this meta-data can describe IP interfaces, component instantiation and connectivity, synthesis design constraints, register maps, and memory maps.



Date 06 Conference & Exhibition, 6-10 March 2006 ICM. Messe Munich, Germany


The SPIRIT Consortium HOT TOPIC Session

Thursday, March 9, 8:30 - 10:00 am, Room 04, ICM

The SPIRIT Consortium invites you to attend their HOT TOPIC session on adoption of The Consortium specifications at DATE 2006, entitled "Industrially Proving The SPIRIT Consortium specifications for Design Chain Integration."

There has traditionally been significant engineering overhead required to integrate multi-vendor tool and IP design methodologies. Making design-chain integration efficient is the key objective of The SPIRIT Consortium. This special session provides an "in-practice" perspective on the specifications provided by The SPIRIT Consortium. We present three production design-flow stories showing improved efficiency through the adoption of The Spirit Consortium specifications. These include an integrated tool flow for hierarchical VLIW processor design, a methodology to support system-design for a CMOS 65 nm process, and a platform to support full hardware/software SoC design and IP integration.