Members of The SPIRIT Consortium Demonstrate Adoption of IP-XACT Specification at DATE Conference
SAN JOSE, Calif., March 22,
2007 – The SPIRIT Consortium™, a global non-profit organization focused on establishing
multi-faceted IP/tool integration standards that drive sustainable growth in
electronic design, will hold a general meeting and adoption exhibition at DATE. The meeting is being held on Tuesday, April
17, from
The open general meeting of
The SPIRIT Consortium will provide an overview of the status of The
Consortium’s developments presented by President Ralph von Vignau, NXP, and
Technical Director Gary Delp, LSI Logic.
This will be followed by a presentation by Loic Le Toumelin, Texas
Instruments, on how adoption of the IP-XACT™ specification can enhance SoC
design flows.
After the presentations,
attendees will be offered cocktails and given the opportunity to see live
demonstrations of the IP-XACT specification in action by eight members of The
SPIRIT Consortium. These include the
following:
Tired of transferring designs between tools by hand? ARM uses
the IP-XACT specification to automatically link system-level
design tools RealView® SoC Designer and AMBA Designer into hardware
implementation and debug flows.
Cadence will demonstrate generating IP-XACT assured descriptions
for existing IP directly from VHDL, Verilog, and SystemC. These descriptions
will be assembled and configured using IP-XACT designs and configurations. The
resulting platform will be generated and simulated using the Incisive
Enterprise Simulator.
Denali’s demonstration will feature its Blueprint SystemRDL™
compiler product and real-world examples for consuming and producing IP-XACT
assured XML to facilitate system level design, verification, and
documentation.
Duolog will be demonstrating their SoC register management tool
called Bitwise. Bitwise is a component of Socrates, Duolog’s Eclipse-based SoC
integration framework. Socrates complies with the IP-XACT specifications
provided by The SPIRIT Consortium.
Esterel Studio provides an automated ESL to RTL flow starting from
a formally verified IP executable specification. The demo will illustrate
the benefits of this methodology by generating SystemC/IP-XACT models for ARM
RealView SoC Designer and VHDL/Verilog/IP-XACT designs for Synopsys®
coreAssembler.
Mentor Graphics and ARM will demonstrate how sophisticated IP,
documented using the IP-XACT XML databook format and Platform Express™ design environment,
can be automatically integrated into a design and targeted at FPGA prototypes
at the push of a button.
NXP utilizes IP-XACT v1.2 today and contributes to the further
development of the specification within The SPIRIT Consortium to better target
ESL design. The demonstration will illustrate automated XML creation, design
composition, and implementation at RTL and ESL.
Synopsys will demonstrate IP-XACT tools and IP for the creation of
IP-based subsystems with the DesignWare® Digital Cores and verification with
AMBA® 3 Assured AXI™ Verification IP using coreAssembler.
Members of the press are encouraged to attend.
About The Consortium
The SPIRIT Consortium is a
global organization focused on establishing multi-faceted IP/tool integration
standards that drive sustainable growth in electronic design. It is comprised of leading EDA, IP, system
integration, and semiconductor companies dedicated to the adoption of a unified
set of specifications for configuring, integrating, and verifying IP in advanced
SoC design tool sets. For more
information on The SPIRIT Consortium and its goals, please visit
www.spiritconsortium.org.
For more information regarding
this announcement, please contact Jayne Scheckla at 503-685-4833 or jayne_scheckla@mentor.com.
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