Accellera

Accellera
Accellera logo.
Formation	2000 (2000)
Purpose	Standards
Official language	English
Website	www.accellera.org

Accellera Systems Initiative is a standards organization that supports a mix of user and vendor standards and open interfaces development in the area of electronic design automation (EDA) and integrated circuit (IC) design and manufacturing. It is less constrained than the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and is therefore the starting place for many standards. Once mature and adopted by the broader community, the standards are usually transferred to the IEEE.^[1]

History

In 2000, Accellera was founded from the merger of Open Verilog International (OVI) and VHDL International, the developers of Verilog and VHDL respectively. Both were originally formed nine years earlier in 1991.

In June 2009, a merger was announced of Accellera and the SPIRIT Consortium, another major EDA standards organization focused on IP deployment and reuse.^[2] The SPIRIT Consortium obtained SystemRDL from the SystemRDL Alliance^[3] and then developed IP-XACT. The merger was completed in April 2010.^[4] SPIRIT stood for "Structure for Packaging, Integrating and Re-using IP within Tool-flows".

In December 2011, Accellera and Open SystemC Initiative (OSCI) approved their merger, adopting the name Accellera Systems Initiative (ASI) while continuing to develop SystemC.^[5]^[6]

In October 2013, Accellera acquired Open Core Protocol (OCP), the intellectual property of the OCP International Partnership (OCP-IP).^[7]

Membership^[8]

Corporate members have a right to be eligible for election to the Board of Directors. Corporate members (as of November 2015) include:

Associate member companies have voting rights in all of Accellera's Technical Committees. Associate members (as of November 2015) include:

Agnisys Inc.
Aldec
Altera
AMIQ
Analog Devices
ASTC Design
Boeing
Bosch GmbH
Breker Systems
Broadcom
Cavium
Cisco Systems
CVC Pvt.Ltd.
Dialog Semiconductor
Doulos
Encore Semi
IBM
Imagination Technologies
Infineon Technologies
Magillem SA
National Instruments
NEC
Nvidia
OFFIS
OneSpin Solutions
Semifore, Inc.
Vayavya Labs
Vtool
Xilinx
Xtreme EDA

Previous members:

Standards

The following EDA standards developed by Accellera were ratified by IEEE by 2010:^[2]

Verilog or IEEE 1364 or IEC 61691-4
VHDL or IEEE 1076 or IEC 61691-1-1
Property Specification Language (PSL) or IEEE 1850 or IEC 62531
SystemC or IEEE 1666
SystemVerilog or IEEE 1800
Standard Delay Format (SDF) or IEEE 1497 or IEC 61523-3
Delay and Power Calculation System (DPCS/OLA; see Standard Parasitic Exchange Format) or IEEE 1481
Advanced Library Format (ALF) or IEEE 1603 or IEC 62265
Open Compression Interface (OCI) or IEEE 1450.6.1
Unified Power Format (UPF) or IEEE 1801
Open Model Interface (OMI) or IEEE 1499
IP-XACT or IEEE 1685

The following EDA initiatives were developed by Accellera:

Open Core Protocol (OCP)
Open Verification Language (OVL)
Standard Co-Emulation-Modeling Interface (SCE-MI)
Soft IP Tagging
SystemRDL (System Register Description Language)
Unified Coverage Interoperability Standard (UCIS)
Universal Verification Methodology (UVM)
Verilog-AMS (Analog Mixed-Signal)

References

External links

Official website

Programmable logic

Concepts

Languages

Companies

Products

Hardware

Software

Proprietary	ARC LEON LatticeMico32 MicroBlaze PicoBlaze Nios Nios II

Open-source	LatticeMico8 OpenCores OpenRISC 1200 RISC-V JOP

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