IP-XACT

IP-XACT defines and describes electronic components and their designs. IP-XACT was created by The SPIRIT Consortium as a standard for describing and handling intellectual property that enables automated configuration and integration through tools. [ [http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/dd/ipxact/toc.html IP-XACT Editor User Guide - TOC] ]

Goals

*Ensure delivery of compatible intellectual property descriptions from multiple intellectual property vendors
*Better enable importing and exporting complex intellectual property bundles to, from and between Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools for SoC design (design environments)
*Better express configurable intellectual property using intellectual metadata
*Better enable provision of EDA vendor-neutral intellectual property creation and configuration scripts (generators / configurators)

Members List

* [http://www.spiritconsortium.org/about/roster#board_of_directors Board of Directors]
** ARM
** Cadence
** Freescale
** LSI
** Mentor Graphics
** NXP Semiconductors
** ST Microelectronics
** Synopsys
** Texas Instruments
* [http://www.spiritconsortium.org/about/roster#contributing Contributing Members]
** ARM
** Cadence
** Cisco Systems
** Coware
** Denali
** Freescale
** Infineon
** LSI
** Magillem Design Services
** Mentor Graphics
** MIPS
** NXP Semiconductors
** SONICS
** ST Microelectronics
** Synopsys
** Texas Instruments
* [http://www.spiritconsortium.org/about/roster#associate Associate Members]
* [http://www.spiritconsortium.org/about/roster#reviewing Reviewing Members]
** Altera
** Cisco
** PDTi
** Xilinx

References

External links

* [http://www.spiritconsortium.org/XMLSchema/SPIRIT Schemas of The SPIRIT Consortium]
* [http://www.spiritconsortium.org/BusDefs The SPIRIT Consortium - Reference BusDefs]
* [http://www.arm.com/products/solutions/amba_spirit_spec.html SPIRIT IP-XACT Bus Definitions for AMBA]
* [http://www.edatechforum.com/journal/sept2006/spirit_intro.cfm SPIRIT achieves maturity with IP-XACT specifications, ED Tech Forum, September, 2006]
* [http://www.eetimes.com/news/design/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199700202 Register description format gets 'Spirit' of standardization, Richard Goering, EE Times (05/21/2007 6:00 AM EDT)]
* [http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?tp=&arnumber=1683721&isnumber=35449 Standards: The P1685 IP-XACT IP Metadata Standard, Berman, V. This paper appears in: Design & Test of Computers, IEEE, April 2006, Volume: 23, Issue: 4, On page(s): 316- 317]