The SPIRIT Consortium DAC 2006

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The SPIRIT ConsortiumDAC 2006

• Overview and Partner Demos

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Structure of Session

• Overview of The Consortium
• Technical Overview
• Roadmap and Futures
• IEEE Standardization Process

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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
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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.

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Statistics on Specification Downloads
v1.2, complete for RTL
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54 members strong, and growing!
Board of Directors
Associate Member
Contributing Members
Welcoming new members www.spiritconsortium.org
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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

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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

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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!

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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.

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The Consortium Membership Structure
President Vice-President Technical
Director Marketing Director Treasurer Secretary
Officers Elected by BoD
Elected fromand by Contributing Members
Currently set at 9 companies Number set by BoD
Approval
Board of Directors
Requires Contribution Statement BoD
ApprovalCan 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
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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 Christopher Lennard ARM
Secretary Lynn Horobin Consortium Admin
Director John Goodenough ARM
Director Victor Berman Cadence
Director Jean Bou-Farhat LSI Logic
Director Bill Chown Mentor Graphics
Director Bart De Loore Philips
Director Frank Ghenassia STMicroelectronics
Director Pierre Bricaud Synopsys
Director OPEN
Director OPEN
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Structure of Session

• Overview of The Consortium
• Technical Overview
• Roadmap and Futures
• IEEE Standardization Process

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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

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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
WG Roadmap
VWG Verification
DWG Debug
Chair Co-Chair gt 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
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IP-XACT Benefits Today (v1.2)
Source Philips, March 2006
Top levelinterconnect
Improvements createbenefit for all
Automated verification
Development productivityincrease
Overall TTM gain New Design 25 Derivative
50
Flow scripting and documentation
Chip Composition
Enabled
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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

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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

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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

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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)
• feedback_at_spiritconsortium.org

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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)

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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!
• contribute_at_spiritconsortium.org

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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

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Approved New Technical Sub-GroupCall 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!

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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 theres more on the roadmap

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Structure of Session

• Overview of The Consortium
• Technical Overview
• Roadmap and Futures
• IEEE Standardization Process

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Roadmap Strategy

• Driven by
• Market Requirements
• Technology Directions
• Relationships and Partnerships
• Vision for 2-3 years
• Commitments for the immediate future

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Roadmap Topics
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ESL 1.4 (with OSCI)
ESL Abstraction Support(with OSCI)
System Verification
Integration Verification
Verification Definition
Design Constraints(with Si2)
Ongoing Schema support
IP-XACT Schema 1.2
New Partnership
SoC Debug(with Eclipse)
New WG
Documentation(with DITA, ECIX)
Data Model Capture(with SystemRDL)
New sub-group
IP Transport

• Futures
• Embedded Software
• Analog Mixed-Signal
• Languages

done
current
next
future
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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

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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!

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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

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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!

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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!

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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
• participate_at_spiritconsortium.org

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Structure of Session

• Overview of The Consortium
• Technical Overview
• Roadmap and Futures
• IEEE Standardization Process

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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
• vberman_at_cadence.com
• 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 200pm 400pm Room
  218
• H1 2007 Ratify specification in the IEEE

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IEEE P1685

• Organization
• Entity based WG one company one vote
• Self funded through member dues on sliding scale
• gt 1B pay 10K gt 1M pay 5K lt 1M pay
  1K
• Current Membership
• ARM, Cadence, CoWare, Denali, Freescale, LSI,
  Mentor, Philips, Sonics, ST, Synopsys
• Current Web Site http//www.eda.org/spirit-p1685/
• 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