Denali Collaboration to Align SystemRDL and IP-XACT
Denali to Work with The SPIRIT Consortium on Effort to Address Control Registers
Will help ensure alignment between SystemRDL Language
and
IP XACT™ from The SPIRIT Consortium
PALO ALTO, Calif., July 26, 2006 –– Denali
Software today announced its intent to work with The SPIRIT Consortium on
further development of IP XACT™ to ensure that The Consortium data model is
aligned with SystemRDL™, the system description language for system-on-chip
(SoC) design registers.
Alignment of SystemRDL with IP-XACT enables consistent specification and
management of the control register space in chip designs and IP
blocks. It ensures that designers can use tools that conform to The
SPIRIT Consortium specification to speed IP integration and increase design
efficiency for large SoC designs.
SystemRDL is used by design, verification, software and firmware engineers
to specify and describe control registers, pervasive and ubiquitous elements
of intellectual property (IP) and SoC designs. Control registers exist
in all semiconductor chips and IP products, often numbering in the
thousands. These registers store key data that define the chip’s
operation and usually represent the largest portion of the IP specification
or programmers guide.
The IP-XACT specification describes an XML metadata schema for describing
IP design blocks and an application programming interface (API) to provide
tool access to the schema. The schema provides a standard way to make
IP compatible with automated integration techniques and enables tools to
automatically interpret, configure, integrate and manipulate IP blocks
delivered with metadata that conforms to the standard.
“Denali’s help in aligning SystemRDL and IP-XACT will bring unique value to
the both organizations,” says Ralph von Vignau, chairman of The SPIRIT
Consortium. “Our goal is to deploy IP and tool standards to enable
more efficient SoC design. Alignment with related languages such as
SystemRDL makes it easier for developers to embrace IP-XACT gains in
productivity for complex SoC design.”
“The SPIRIT Consortium is making a valuable contribution to IP reuse
through the IP-XACT specification,” adds Mark Gogolewski, chief technology
officer for Denali. “We look forward to working with the SPIRIT
Consortium and view this as an important first step towards converging
SystemRDL roadmap with IP-XACT. We are also committed to providing
customers with the ability to use our Blueprint SystemRDL compiler to read
and write XML that conforms to the IP-XACT specification, and automatically
generate the various views for design, verification, and software
development.”
About Denali Blueprint
Blueprint™ is an ESL tool in use by design, verification, software and
firmware engineers to automate the creation and management of control
registers and all associated models, design views and documentation.
From a SystemRDL or The SPIRIT Consortium IP-XACT input, Blueprint generates
various outputs for hardware design, software development, verification and
documentation.
For design, Blueprint produces synthesizable Verilog, SystemVerilog or VHDL
code for control registers and also generates Open Verification Library
(OVL) assertions that ensure the correct operation of the register and
generated logic. For functional verification, Blueprint outputs models
of the registers for use in C/C++, SystemC, OpenVERA, ‘e’, Verilog, and
SystemVerilog. For software, Blueprint generates headers, classes with
access methods and a complete Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) to enable
software developers to be productive as soon as the architecture is defined
and isolate them from low-level design changes.
Additionally, Blueprint generates test cases for pre- and post-silicon
validation of the generated logic. For documentation, Blueprint
outputs files compatible with user templates for Framemaker, MS-Word, HTML,
XML or SGML based documentation. More information on Blueprint is available
online at: http://www.denali.com/blueprint.
About Denali
Denali Software Inc. is the world’s leading provider of Electronic Design
Automation (EDA) and Intellectual Property (IP) products for design and
verification of semiconductor chip interfaces. Denali’s Databahn™
products provide optimal control and data throughput for external DRAM, PCI
Express and NAND Flash memory devices.
Spectra™ is a fully featured flash file system for NAND memory systems.
PureSpec™ and MMAV™ verification IP products support all standard
interfaces, including DRAM, Flash, PCI Express, AMBA, USB, Ethernet, Serial
ATA, and CE-ATA. Denali’s Blueprint™ SystemRDL compiler provides a complete
solution for on-chip register specification and management. For more
information, visit Denali at http://www.denali.com , call (650) 461-7200 or
email info@denali.com.
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