Design Automation Conference Meeting Offers Demonstrations
of Adoption of the IP-XACT Specification
SAN JOSE, Calif., May 21,
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 DAC. The meeting is being held on Monday, June 4,
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The public meeting will present
the latest adoption stories, vendor demos, and technical updates on practical
approaches to create more integrated design flows. Beyond the increased deployment into the RTL
and hardware implementation space, the upcoming releases of the IP-XACT
specification will enable the ESL to RTL flow with consistent language-neutral
architectural descriptions.
After the presentations,
attendees will be offered cocktails and given the opportunity to see live
demonstrations of the IP-XACT specification in action by twelve members of The
SPIRIT Consortium. These include the
following:
- ARM eliminates the
error-prone transfer of designs between tools by using IP-XACT™ to
automatically link its system-level design tools RealView® SoC
Designer and AMBA Designer into hardware implementation and debug
flows.
- Beach Solutions is
demonstrating a complete, commercially available System-on-Chip and system
integration acceleration flow using components and designs assured to conform
with The SPIRIT Consortium IP-XACT specification.
- Cadence’s demonstration generates IP-XACT assured descriptions for
existing IP directly from VHDL, Verilog, and SystemC. These descriptions are
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 is demonstrating
their SoC register management and IP packaging tools as part of the Socrates
SoC integration Framework. Socrates utilizes the IP-XACT specification to
enable an interoperable design flow for complex SoCs .
- Improv Systems is
demonstrating the use of IP-XACT to describe an instance of their DSP platform
optimized for media processing. The IP-XACT description is generated
automatically as part of the platform development process by Improv’s design
automation tools.
- SPI-PACK 3.3,
the IP-XACT packager from Magillem Design Services, is used by
several major companies as a reference platform for creating and validating
IP-XACT assured descriptions. This demonstration will perform
a one-click packaging of an SDRAM memory controller.
- MataiTech demonstrates auto
generation of documentation, C/C++ HAL, SystemC, IP-XACT linting, and semantic
checking. Attendees are invited to bring
IP-XACT files for informal, confidential lint during the demonstration session.
- Mentor Graphics will
demonstrate how the IP-XACT XML databook format can be used to automate the
construction of designs and transaction-level testbenches employing advanced
verification methodologies, including languages such as SystemC and SystemC
Verilog.
- NXP utilizes IP-XACT in
design flows today as well as contributing within The SPIRIT Consortium to the
upcoming IP-XACT with ESL Extension specifications. Their demonstration shows
automated XML creation, design composition, and implementation at RTL and ESL.
- Scarlet's Component Foundry
is a low-cost IP-XACT component creation tool, which will create IP-XACT
descriptions straight from legacy data. The intuitive GUI and semantic checker
offer easy and accurate editing.
- Synopsys is demonstrating 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 the public meeting.
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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