Freescale Semiconductor Completes
The SPIRIT Consortium Board of Directors
SAN JOSE, Nov. 13, 2007 – The
SPIRIT Consortium, a global organization focused on establishing multi-faceted
IP/tool integration standards that drive sustainable growth in electronic
design, today announced that Freescale Semiconductor has been accepted as the
final member of its Board of Directors. Freescale
joins the original six steering committee members, ARM, Cadence, Mentor
Graphics, NXP Semiconductors, ST Microelectronics, and Synopsys and together
with LSI and Texas Instruments, completes the organization’s nine-member Board.
The Board of Directors effectively
drives the creation and adoption of standards for configuring, integrating, and
verifying IP. Board members vote on all
decisions affecting the direction and provision of deliverables from The SPIRIT
Consortium. All Consortium members are
committed to making their IP and IP tools interoperable through the adoption
and integration of The SPIRIT Consortium specifications.
The membership of The
SPIRIT Consortium includes more than 90 industry-leading EDA, IP providers and
systems integrators. New Reviewing
Members include Barbay Consulting, Future Wireless Technologies, Gary Stringham
& Associates, Jasper Design Automation, Savant Company, Synfora, Thales
Communications S.A., and Think Silicon Ltd.
Freescale Nominates Luke
Smithwick to Board
Freescale has appointed
Luke Smithwick, director of Solution and Software Technologies, as its
representative to the Board. Mr. Smithwick has extensive management and
technical experience as an executive at Freescale, Aware, and Globespan
Semiconductor, among others. In his current position he is responsible for the
definition/implementation of platform-based solutions and establishing a
consistent framework, architecture, and methodology for solutions. Mr.
Smithwick is in the unique position within Freescale of working closely with
the business groups and with the other corporate technology teams to help drive
the enhancement of The Consortium’s IP-XACT™ specification to meet various
market requirements as well as the internal adoption and alignment of the
specification with Freescale methodologies.
“Freescale has activities
covering every step of the IP design, integration, production, and application
development process using multiple process architectures. This puts Freescale
in a unique position to drive, contribute to, and validate specifications
against an end-to-end tool flow,” said Ralph von Vignau, president of The
SPIRIT Consortium. “Freescale has been
an active Contributing member in several working groups to date, and we look
forward to their further contributions.”
Freescale is a strong
supporter of industry standards. The company participates in a number of
standards activities related to development, integration and reuse of
semiconductor IP as well as software development and debugging tools. As a Contributing
Member of The SPIRIT Consortium, Freescale has already participated in the
debug and register debug working groups, as well as the planning of the
proposed documentation working group.
"Freescale is committed to driving and utilizing standards
that support and enhance our business,” said Luke Smithwick, director of Solution
and Software Technologies, Freescale. “The IP-XACT specification provides
a framework for IP integration and exchange resulting in higher productivity
and quality across the industry. We look forward to the opportunity to
strengthen our relationship with The SPIRIT Consortium by contributing to and
promoting this effort."
About Freescale
Freescale Semiconductor is
a global leader in the design and manufacture of embedded semiconductors for
the automotive, consumer, industrial, networking and wireless markets. The
privately held company is based in
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 companies dedicated to the
adoption of a unified set of specifications for configuring, integrating, and
verifying IP in advanced SoC design tool sets.
The Consortium is comprised of leading EDA, IP, system integration, and
semiconductor companies. For more
information on The SPIRIT Consortium and its goals, please visit www.spiritconsortium.org or contact
Jayne Scheckla at 503-685-4833 or jayne_scheckla@mentor.com.
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