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732: 35: 302:(OCP). OCP was the first fully supported, openly licensed, comprehensive, interface socket for semiconductor intellectual property (IP) cores. The mission of OCP-IP was to address problems relating to design, verification, and testing which are common to IP core reuse in " 169: 334:
Corporate members have a right to be eligible for election to the Board of Directors. Associate member companies have voting rights in all of Accellera's Technical Working Groups.
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In December 2011, Accellera and the Open SystemC Initiative (OSCI) approved their merger, adopting the name Accellera Systems Initiative (Accellera) while continuing to develop
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status was a free membership for companies. These get early access to specifications to facilitate a deep review round of each proposal before it goes public.
759: 618:"Accellera Systems Initiative Acquires Open Core Protocol Standard and Infrastructure to Strengthen Interoperability in Electronic Standards Development" 782: 202:, a language for describing registers in components. SPIRIT stood for "Structure for Packaging, Integrating and Re-using IP within Tool-flows". 500: 960: 930: 675: 481: 426: 390: 298:) was an independent, non-profit semiconductor industry consortium formed to administer the support, promotion and enhancement of the 154:. The merger was completed in April 2010. SPIRIT stood for "Structure for Packaging, Integrating and Re-using IP within Tool-flows". 804: 697: 686: 752: 617: 589: 567: 475: 945: 358: 458: 990: 871: 792: 187: 100: 985: 745: 314:
reusability and reducing design time, risk and manufacturing costs for SoC designs. Design teams developing consumer,
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Register description format gets 'Spirit' of standardization, Richard Goering, EE Times (05/21/2007 6:00 AM EDT)
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status was similar to a reviewing membership but for academics and other not-for-profit organizations.
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performed the standardization work and donate time and effort to the production of new specifications.
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that supports a mix of user and vendor standards and open interfaces development in the area of
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and mass storage applications can gain significant benefits from the OCP-IP solution.
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The following EDA standards developed by Accellera were ratified by IEEE by 2019:
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In June 2009 it was announced that SPIRIT would merge with Accellera.
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respectively. Both were originally formed nine years earlier in 1991.
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There were four levels of membership in the SPIRIT consortium. The
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Open Core Protocol International Partnership Association, Inc.
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The following EDA initiatives were developed by Accellera:
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In June 2009, a merger was announced between Accellera and
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Open Core Protocol International Partnership Association
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SystemC Analog/Mixed-Signal extensions or IEEE 1666.1
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deployment and reuse. The SPIRIT Consortium obtained
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Index

SPIRIT Consortium

Standards
English
accellera.org
standards organization
electronic design automation
integrated circuit
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Open Verilog International
VHDL International
Verilog
VHDL
The SPIRIT Consortium
IP
SystemRDL
IP-XACT
SystemC
Open Core Protocol
OCP International Partnership
electronic design automation
System-on-a-chip
IP-XACT
SystemRDL
ARM Holdings
Cadence Design Systems
Freescale Semiconductor
LSI Corporation
Mentor Graphics
NXP Semiconductors

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