| IP-XACT, a standard progressed by the SPIRIT consortium, defines a standard way for describing and handling multi-sourced IP components. This can enable automated design integration and configuration within multi-vendor design flows. The standardization effort in the SPIRIT consortium is driven by a coalition of leading semiconductor and EDA companies including Texas Instruments, ST, LSI, Freescale, NXP, Infineon, Cisco, Cadence, Synopsys and Mentor Graphics. |
The IP-XACT standard defines an IP meta-data description in the form of an XML schema. This provides a common and language-neutral way to describe IP that is compatible with automated integration techniques and IP-XACT enabled tools.
Duolog is a contibuting member of the SPIRIT consortium and has contributed feedback and recommendations since SPIRIT 1.0. Duolog recognises the immense benefits that a standard such as IP-XACT can bring to SoC developers and IP providers and is fully committed to the IP-XACT project. Duolog has recently completed working on IP-XACT 1.5 definition and validation.
In addition to being a contributing member, Duolog is also a strong supporter of the IP-XACT Users Group and is a regular presenter to the IP-XACT user community.
- IP-XACT UG Presentation,DAC08: Using IP-XACT in Complex SoC I/O Integration and Register Management
- IP-XACT UG Presentation, IP D&R 08: Automated IP-XACT migration
- In the news ... Duolog and Arteris streamling SoC integration with IP-XACT
- Using IP standards to speed path to executable specifications
All of the tools in the Socrates tool suite support IP-XACT import and export, thus providing a standardized interface between the Socrates tools and other third-party tools and flows.