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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.
1304: 1299: 607:"Accellera Systems Initiative Acquires Open Core Protocol Standard and Infrastructure to Strengthen Interoperability in Electronic Standards Development" 453: 97: 191:, a language for describing registers in components. SPIRIT stood for "Structure for Packaging, Integrating and Re-using IP within Tool-flows". 748: 664: 287:) was an independent, non-profit semiconductor industry consortium formed to administer the support, promotion and enhancement of the 143:. The merger was completed in April 2010. SPIRIT stood for "Structure for Packaging, Integrating and Re-using IP within Tool-flows". 686: 675: 771: 606: 578: 556: 375: 489: 949: 919: 470: 415: 379: 303:
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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June 11, 2009 519: 517: 448:Standard Co-Emulation-Modeling Interface 164: 153:In October 2013, Accellera acquired the 318: 1292: 756: 461:(System Register Description Language) 730: 514: 490:Design Automation Standards Committee 374:Delay and Power Calculation System ( 197: 175:was a group of vendors and users of 691: 13: 471:Universal Verification Methodology 416:Universal Verification Methodology 380:Standard Parasitic Exchange Format 14: 1316: 706: 371:(SDF) or IEEE 1497 or IEC 61523-3 620:Schemas of The SPIRIT Consortium 22: 680: 669: 658: 647: 635: 388:(ALF) or IEEE 1603 or IEC 62265 350:(PSL) or IEEE 1850 or IEC 62531 348:Property Specification Language 624: 613: 599: 585: 571: 545: 531: 503: 1: 555:. 14 Apr 2010. 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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
STMicroelectronics

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