1. The SPIRIT Consortium DAC 2006
September 18
The SPIRIT Consortium DAC 2006
Overview and Partner Demos

2. Structure of Session Overview of The Consortium Technical Overview
September 18
Structure of Session
Overview of The Consortium
Technical Overview
Roadmap and Futures
IEEE Standardization Process

3. The SPIRIT Consortium Vision (2003)
September 18
The SPIRIT Consortium Vision (2003)
The SPIRIT Consortium was announced at DAC 2003
The original Vision upon which the Consortium was formed:
Achieve an open standard for a development framework upon which an SoC development flow, from components to chip, can be built allowing distribution and use of IP from varied sources as well as the free choice of tools used in the SoC development

4. Completing to Our Vision
September 18
Completing to Our Vision
3 specifications publicly released
RTL support baseline : v1.0 Dec 2004
+ Timing Constraints: v1.1 June 2005
+ Hierarchy, Verification: v1.2 April 2006
Design-chain support started with v1.0
Multi-vendor validation of principles
Multi-vendor demonstrations with each release
Formal standardization of deliverables started
IEEE 1685 Working Group taking v1.2 Specification
Gaining industry recognition
Around 2000 downloads, hundreds of companies
Membership grown to over 54 members!
Representing US, Japan and the EU.

5. Statistics on Specification Downloads
September 18
Statistics on Specification Downloads
# Downloads / Month 50
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Spec 1.0
Spec 1.1
Spec 1.2
v1.2, complete for RTL

6. 54 members strong, and growing!
September 18
54 members strong, and growing!
Board of
Directors
Contributing
Members
Associate
Member
Welcoming new members:

7. Building The Consortium for the Future
September 18
Building The Consortium for the Future
Industry sees a strong role for The Consortium
Proven body for multi-vendor IP and flow integration
The Consortium is structuring for long term sustainability
Became a CA non-profit corporation (March 30th 2006)
Increase transparency on operational processes
Expand international operations
Formalize relations with other standards organizations
And carrying forward our key values
Clear technical focus and industry contribution
Membership differentiation based on engineering dedication
Keeping low cost approach
Able to cooperate with other organizations

8. New Vision for The Consortium
September 18
New Vision for The Consortium
To establish a set of IP and tool integration standards enabling proliferation of IP reuse through design automation
Built on our membership experience:
Clear technology vision that lowers design risk
Removing barriers to market through IP automation standards
Enabling best core technology and tools to support it
Fueling SoC innovation through design integration
Enabling fastest path to market for embedded systems design
Deliverables driven through to standardization:
All specifications will be pushed in batches through IEEE

9. With New Brands and Room for Growth
September 18
With New Brands and Room for Growth
IP-XACT: The Meta-Data Specifications
IP-XACT is the name for the meta-data specifications delivered by The Consortium
The Consortium may consider new specification families that promote our vision
The SPIRIT Consortium: The Organization
The Consortium has a new logo!

10. New Associate Member Class
September 18
New Associate Member Class
Associate Membership enables non-profit organizations to participate!
Rights of Reviewing Members to universities, research institutes and non-profit organizations
An Associate Member can engage their companies / members in early specification releases
Enables these institutes to feedback into the specs
Foundation for partnership with standards bodies
Driving IP-XACT standardization in Japan
STARC is the first Associate Member
Can collaborate with its member companies on early releases
STARC member companies include: Fujitsu, MEI, NEC, Oki, Renesas, ROHM, SANYO, Seiko Epson, SHARP, Sony and Toshiba.

11. The Consortium Membership Structure
September 18
The Consortium Membership Structure
President
Vice-President
Technical Director
Marketing Director
Treasurer
Secretary
Officers
Elected by BoD
Elected from and by
Contributing
Members
Currently set at 9 companies
Number set by BoD Approval
Board of Directors
Requires Contribution
Statement & BoD Approval Can provide candidates for
BoD position
Contributing Members
Consortium
Members
Associate Members
Non-Profit Organizations
and Institutes by BoD Approval
Free Membership
Only Companies
Reviewing Members

12. The Consortium Officers & BoD
September 18
The Consortium Officers & BoD
Chairman
Ralph von Vignau
Philips
Vice-Chairman
Christopher Lennard
ARM
Treasurer
Pierre Bricaud
Synopsys
Technical Director
Gary Delp
LSI Logic
Marketing Director
Secretary
Lynn Horobin
Consortium Admin
Director
John Goodenough
Victor Berman
Cadence
Jean Bou-Farhat
Bill Chown
Mentor Graphics
Bart De Loore
Frank Ghenassia
STMicroelectronics
OPEN

13. Structure of Session Overview of The Consortium Technical Overview
September 18
Structure of Session
Overview of The Consortium
Technical Overview
Roadmap and Futures
IEEE Standardization Process

14. Key messages from The Consortium
September 18
Key messages from The Consortium
The SPIRIT Consortium is Delivering again
IP-XACT public release
Transfer of stable specification to IEEE
IP-XACT with ESL Extensions – Beta2
Available to Reviewing members of the SPIRIT Consortium
The technical Roadmap is long range
With regular deliverables
Extending our range
Descriptive meta data across the SOC design process
Principles of operation 
Language neutral
Progress by Contribution
Open source Examples
2 working implementations
Alpha, beta, release, IEEE

15. Technical Working Group Organization
September 18
Technical Working Group Organization
Technical Director
Maintain Alignment
Setup cooperation
& assistance
Track progress
Head of Family Meeting
Chair + 1 Rep. / WG
Chaired by Technical Director
Specification
Releases
Maintain Core Deliverables
Assist merge of branches
Add features
Schema
Working Group
Drop into
IEEE WG
EWG
ESL
VWG
Verification
DWG
Debug
… WG
[Roadmap]
Chair + Co-Chair
> 3 Companies
Working Groups develop topic-specific technical updates
Constant cooperation with S-WG
Merge with S-WG main stream following BETA validation
1 vote / company

16. IP-XACT Benefits Today (v1.2)
September 18
IP-XACT Benefits Today (v1.2)
Source: Philips, March 2006
Improvements create benefit for all
Top level interconnect
Automated verification
Development productivity increase
Overall TTM gain:
New Design – 25%
Derivative – ~ 50%
Flow scripting and documentation
Chip Composition
Enabled

17. The SPIRIT Consortium Technical Goals
September 18
The SPIRIT Consortium Technical Goals
Build on existing standards
XML (W3C)
Synchronize with IEEE, Eclipse, OSCI, Si2, VSIA…
Standardize one IP meta-data description
One way to describe IP to enable configuration and integration
Standardize one API for generator integration
Enable efficient and cost-effective integration of multi-sourced IP and point tools

18. Elements of SPIRIT Deliverables
September 18
Elements of SPIRIT Deliverables
Validated and consistent release package
Specification, Schema, XSLT converter, Open Source Examples
Schema includes
Component schema for cores, peripherals, buses, components
Design schema for systems, component instancing, connectivity
Bus definitions
Re-usable definitions for bus interface, integration reqs, defaults
Comprehensive set for common buses (first release in IP-XACT, The SPIRIT Consortium specification v1.2)
Generator Interfaces
Tight Generator Interface (first in IP-XACT with ESL Extensions, v1.4)
Access SPIRIT data-bases directly

19. ESL Working Group EWG Chair: Jean-Michel Fernandez, Cadence
September 18
ESL Working Group
EWG Chair: Jean-Michel Fernandez, Cadence
Active Member Companies
ARM, Cadence, CoWare, Infineon, LSI, Mentor Graphics, Philips Semiconductor, ST Microelectronics, Synopsys
EWG Activity: Develop IP-XACT with ESL Extensions, specification v1.4, to address
Include all IP-XACT features
TGI – Tight Generator Interface
Model TLM component (SystemC, SystemVerilog... but not only)
Model mix TLM and RTL component (different abstraction levels)
Model transactors (to bridge between 2 abstraction levels)
Distributed IP modeling (Cooperating IP views developed by 2 parties)
Centralized IP modeling (Cooperating IP views developed by 1 party)
Incremental IP modeling (IP undergo progressive refinement)
Model (sub) designs mixing TLM and RTL IP

20. ESL WG Roadmap feedback@spiritconsortium.org EWG roadmap
September 18
ESL WG Roadmap
EWG roadmap
DAC 2006: Release IP-XACT v1.4 alpha2 to reviewing members
End December: Public Release of IP-XACT v1.4 and drop into IEEE
Current solution in place
New requirements will be part of future releases
EWG future work (in the next 6 months)
Validate IP-XACT v1.4 by developing IP and tools
Contributions invited on
Validation of IP-XACT v1.4 for Verification IP (VIP) at TLM
Validation of IP-XACT v1.4 for TLM and RTL Implementation IP
Development of IP-XACT v1.4 Semantic rule checker
TGI validation (write generator examples)

21. Verification Working Group
September 18
Verification Working Group
VWG Chair: John Swanson, Synopsys
Active Member Companies
ARM, Cadence, LSI, Mentor Graphics, Phillips, ST, Synopsys
VWG Activity: Made 1.2 Schema enhancements needed for RTL Verification including
Assertions
Monitors
Passive interfaces
Verification file sets
Mixed language verification
Testbench generation (RTL)

22. VWG Roadmap VWG roadmap VWG future work (in the next 6 months)
September 18
VWG Roadmap
VWG roadmap
DAC 2006: Release IP-XACT v1.4 alpha2 to reviewing members
VWG future work (in the next 6 months)
Validation of IP-XACT 1.4 for mixed abstraction verification
Mixed abstraction testbench generation
Unit test migration into system environment
TL VIP packaging
Contributions invited on:
Validation of IP-XACT v1.4 for Verification IP (VIP) at TLM
Validation of IP-XACT v1.4 for TLM and RTL verification
TGI validation (write generator examples)
Invitation to new contributors to bring new ideas into VWG!

23. Approved New Working Group Call for participation!
September 18
Approved New Working Group Call for participation!
Debug Working Group: Anthony Berent, ARM, chair
Charter
Energize major debug tools vendors to become Contributing Members of The Consortium in this work group
Create technical exchange with the Eclipse DSDP group
Define requirements for describing HW targets to SW debuggers
Identify extensions, clarifications and semantic rules required to ensure IP-XACT meets the additional requirements
Demonstrate that IP-XACT can be generated by design tools and used by a variety of debug tools
Scope
Ensure use of IP-XACT to describe IP to debug tools
Extension of IP-XACT technical capabilities to cover at least
The additional information required by debug tools about registers and memory
The description of debugger access (e.g. JTAG)
The identification of processor architectures and versions

24. Approved New Technical Sub-Group Call for participation!
September 18
Approved New Technical Sub-Group Call for participation!
Subteam in the SWG: Data Model Examination
Alex Zamfirescu, Denali Software, chair
Charter
Examine various system description languages
Evaluate data model to ensure IP-XACT can contain the description
Make recommendations to the SWG for inclusion into IP-XACT
Scope
SystemRDL – contributor present
Debug – cooperation from Debug WG
Additional – Call for participation!

25. The SPIRIT Consortium : Summary
September 18
The SPIRIT Consortium : Summary
International standardization organization
Initially formed June 2003 (DAC Conference)
CA non-profit organization launch: July 2006 (DAC)
Supported in products from multiple vendors today
The Consortium Deliverables
IP-XACT for RTL design (v1.2): Current Release
IP-XACT IEEE Standardization (P1685): May 06 start
Language-independent generator interface: Q4 2006
Schema extensions for ESL design: Q4 2006
New developments are in the pipe!
IP-XACT data-model, IP-XACT for debug starting
And there’s more on the roadmap …

26. Structure of Session Overview of The Consortium Technical Overview
September 18
Structure of Session
Overview of The Consortium
Technical Overview
Roadmap and Futures
IEEE Standardization Process

27. Roadmap Strategy Driven by Market Requirements Technology Directions
September 18
Roadmap Strategy
Driven by
Market Requirements
Technology Directions
Relationships and Partnerships
Vision for 2-3 years
Commitments for the immediate future

28. Roadmap Topics Design Constraints (with Si2) SoC Debug (with Eclipse)
September 18
Roadmap Topics t
ESL 1.4
(with OSCI)
ESL Abstraction Support (with OSCI)
Verification Definition
Integration Verification
System Verification
IP-XACT Schema 1.2
Ongoing Schema
support
Design Constraints (with Si2)
New
Partnership
SoC Debug (with Eclipse)
New WG
Documentation (with DITA, ECIX)
Proposed roadmap
Priorities
Some continuation tasks
Representative associations with organizations already active
Data Model Capture (with SystemRDL)
New
sub-group
IP Transport
Futures:
Embedded Software
Analog Mixed-Signal
Languages
done
current
next
future

29. The Consortium Deliverables
September 18
The Consortium Deliverables
IP-XACT for RTL design (v1.2): Current Release
IP-XACT IEEE Standardization (P1685): May 06 start
Language-independent generator interface: Q4 2006
IP-XACT with ESL Extensions (v1.4) Q4 2006
Plan for 2007 release Q3 2006
Anticipated new content from:
SoC Debug
Design Constraints
Documentation

30. Technical Working Group Proposals
September 18
Technical Working Group Proposals
Currently Active Groups
Schema Working Group
ESL Working Group
Verification Working Group
Debug Working Group
Proposed
Design Constraints Working Group
Documentation Working Group
Join a Working Group and have your say!

31. Roadmaps & WG Setup Roadmaps are driven by the BoD membership
September 18
Roadmaps & WG Setup
Roadmaps are driven by the BoD membership
Required developments assessed every two quarters
Priorities set at BoD, including operational strategy
Companies can apply with contributing statement
New WG Setup proposals aligned with Roadmap
Proposal requires min. 3 companies committed
1 provisional Chair
Chair to define Charter, Scope and Roadmap Goals
Open, ongoing
We have found that 3 companies works

32. Proposed WG: Design Constraints
September 18
Proposed WG: Design Constraints
Value: Consistent standards to guide throughout design
Group is in formation process
Activity sequencing depends upon resource
Plans for collaboration with Si2
Scope: Domain Based Properties
Clocks, resets, power, frequency, security, simulation, etc
Scope: Parameterization of Constraints
Generic structure defined for Parameterization
Scope: Chip level constraint inputs
interface timing
extend the application of meta-data into the front and back-end flows
develop any necessary schema extensions for back-end integration
Join this Working Group and have your say!

33. Proposed WG: Documentation
September 18
Proposed WG: Documentation
Value: consistent, up to date documentation automatically
Scope:
Documentation should be able to be extracted that describes the status of the system accurately at any time.
Types of automated documentation that would benefit are technical data sheets, integration manuals, user documents, functional descriptions ...
Requirements defining the types of content and their usage in documents - to be done in cooperation with current document standards groups  e.g. DITA, IEC 61360, OASIS, Si2 ...
Specification of the XML schema requirements and definition of the schema for support of automated documentation
Join this Working Group and have your say!

34. Invitation to Participate!
September 18
Invitation to Participate!
Join the Current Working Groups
Schema
ESL
Verification
SoC Debug
Help form these proposed WGs
Design Constraints
Documentation
Propose New Working Groups

35. Structure of Session Overview of The Consortium Technical Overview
September 18
Structure of Session
Overview of The Consortium
Technical Overview
Roadmap and Futures
IEEE Standardization Process

36. IEEE Standards Process (P1685)
September 18
IEEE Standards Process (P1685)
SPIRIT Technical deliverables:
Initial technical drop is based on IP-XACT, v1.2
Final drop: IP-XACT w/ ESL Extensions, Q4 2006
Chair: Victor Berman
Meeting Schedule:
First meeting, May 06:   Operational policies, PAR scope       
Second Meeting, June 06: Roadmap
Third Meeting, July (DAC) 06: General participation invited
Thursday, July 27th :00pm – 4:00pm Room #218
H1 2007: Ratify specification in the IEEE

37. IEEE P1685 Organization Current Membership
September 18
IEEE P1685
Organization
Entity based WG – one company one vote
Self funded through member dues on sliding scale
> $1B pay $10K > $1M pay $ 5K < $1M pay $ 1K
Current Membership
ARM, Cadence, CoWare, Denali, Freescale, LSI, Mentor, Philips, Sonics, ST, Synopsys
Current Web Site
Tracking to an expedited schedule
Will use IEEE funded services to expedite ballot and publication
Will use professional technical editor for final documents
Will provide hosting of XML schema for free use