SPIRIT Consortium
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. The SPIRIT Consortium is a group of vendors and users of electronic design automation (EDA) tools, defining standards for the exchange of System-on-a-chip (SoC) design information.[1] The standards defined so far are IP-XACT, an XML schema for vendor-neutral descriptions of design components, and SystemRDL, a language for describing registers in components.[2]
In June 2009 it was announced that SPIRIT would merge with another EDA standards organization, Accellera.[3] SPIRIT stood for "Structure for Packaging, Integrating and Re-using IP within Tool-flows".
Membership
There are four levels of membership in the SPIRIT consortium. The Board of Directors (BoD) is the ruling body.[4] Current members are:
- ARM Holdings
- Cadence Design Systems
- Freescale Semiconductor
- LSI Corporation
- Mentor Graphics
- NXP Semiconductors
- STMicroelectronics
- Synopsys
- Texas Instruments
Contributing members perform the standardization work and donate time and effort to the production of new specifications.[5]
Reviewing member status is a free membership for companies. These get early access to specifications to facilitate a deep review round of each proposal before it goes public.[6]
Associate member status is similar to a reviewing membership but for academics and other not-for-profit organizations.[7]
References
- ↑ Schemas of The SPIRIT Consortium
- ↑ Register description format gets 'Spirit' of standardization, Richard Goering, EE Times (05/21/2007 6:00 AM EDT)
- ↑ "EDA Standards Organizations Accellera and The SPIRIT Consortium Announce Plans to Merge", press release, Accellera. June 11, 2009
- ↑ Board of Directors
- ↑ Contributing Members
- ↑ Associate Members
- ↑ Reviewing Members
External links
- Spiritconsortium.org, the Spirit Consortium website
