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.

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. The SPIRIT Consortium obtained SystemRDL from the SystemRDL Alliance and then developed IP-XACT. The merger was completed in April 2010. 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.

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

Membership

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

• Advanced Micro Devices
• ARM Ltd.
• Cadence Design Systems
• Ericsson
• Freescale Semiconductor
• Intel Corporation
• Mentor Graphics
• NXP Semiconductors
• Qualcomm
• Sonics Inc.
• STMicroelectronics
• Synopsys Inc.
• Texas Instruments

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:

• Atrenta Inc.
• Cypress Semiconductor
• Jasper Design Automation
• Oracle Corporation
• Paradigm Works, Inc.
• Renesas Electronics
• SpringSoft, Inc.
• ST-Ericsson
• Verilab

Standards

The following EDA standards developed by Accellera were ratified by IEEE by 2010:

• 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)

See also

• Design Automation Standards Committee (DASC)

External links

• Official website