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Welcome to The SPIRIT Consortium
The SPIRIT Consortium officially incorporated as an open, independent, California non-profit organization in July 2006 toenable rapid, reliable deployment of IP into advanced design environments.
The SPIRIT Consortium’s ESL-based IP-XACT 1.5 specification expands the range of IP that can be used in an IP-XACT Design Environment and targets new applications, specifically those dealing with transactional modeling and advanced verification methodologies. By using an IP-XACT Design Environment, designers can automatically create many different expressions of a design in a consistent and correlated way. IP-XACT 1.5 was handed off to the IEEE P1685 Working Group in late June 2009.
EDA Standards Organizations Accellera and The SPIRIT Consortium Complete Merger!
Organization takes on Accellera name, Plans to continue IP and design language-based standards efforts of benefit to the electronics community
Electronic Design Automation (EDA) industry organizations, Accellera and The SPIRIT Consortium, announced today that the organizations have completed their merger (revealed in June of last year). The new organization takes on the Accellera name and will continue to develop electronic design language-based and Intellectual Property (IP) standards of benefit to the electronics industry.
SystemRDL Interoperates with IP-XACT™ to Enhance the Management and Creation of Registers in Complex Designs
The SPIRIT Consortium has approved for public release the standard SystemRDL™ 1.0, a language for the design and delivery of registers to be used in IP blocks within electronic designs. The SystemRDL semantics support the entire life-cycle of registers from specification, model generation, and design verification to maintenance and documentation. Registers are not just limited to traditional configuration registers, but can also refer to register arrays and memories.
Benefits of SystemRDL include:
Increased productivity, quality, and reuse during the design and development of complex digital systems.
Enabled sharing of IP within and between groups, companies, and consortiums by specifying a single source for the register description from which all views, software, hardware, and documentation can be automatically generated, ensuring consistency between multiple views.
oA view is any output generated from the SystemRDL description, e.g., RTL code or documentation.
oViews include the production of IP-XACT descriptions.
SystemRDL is used by many teams to succinctly capture a human readable and writable description from which the rest of the deliverables are produced.
For a more comprehensive overview of the technical features, updates, and benefits of the SystemRDL specification, view the webcast at: www.denali.com/webcast/systemrdl
"Enabling Rapid, Reliable Deployment of IP into System Designs"
Join The SPIRIT Consortium today to participate in the ongoing development of IP-XACT and get access to the proposed specifications up to six months earlier than the public release date!
