Changeset 307 for anr/section-etat-de-art.tex

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Jan 13, 2011, 7:14:58 PM (13 years ago)

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coach

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Modifications EV: inputs MDS

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 an active research subject.
 
+\subsubsection{SoC design flow automation using IP-XACT}
+
+IP-XACT is an XML based open standard defined by the Accellera consortium. 
+This non-profit organisation provides a unified set of high quality IP-XACT 
+specifications for documenting IP using meta-data. This meta-data will be 
+used for configuring, integrating, and verifying IP in advanced SoC design 
+and interfacing tools using TGI (Tight Generator Interface is a software API)
+that can be used to access design meta-data descriptions of complete system designs. 
+The specification for the schema is tailored to the requirements of the industry,
+and focused on enabling technologies for the efficient design of electronic 
+systems from concept to production. The last IEEE 1685 release of IP-XACT incorporates 
+both RTL and TLM (transaction level modelling) capabilities. Thus it can be used to
+package IP portfolios and describe their assembly in complex hardware architectures. 
+These description files are the basis for tool interoperability and data exchange 
+through a common structured data management. Today more than two hundred companies 
+are members of the consortium and the board is incorporating top actors 
+(STM, NXP, TI, ARM, FREESCALE, LSI, Mentor, Synopsys and Cadence), ensuring the 
+wide adoption by industry. Initiatives have already work for extending this standard
+to AMS IPs packaging domain (MEDEA+ Beyond Dreams Project) and to Hardware Dependent 
+Software layers (MEDEA+ SoftSoc project) and Accellera is reusing these results for 
+further releases.
+
+In IP-XACT the flow automation and data constistency is ensured by generators, which 
+are program modules that process IP-XACT XML data into something useful 
+for the design. They are key portable mechanism for encapsulating specialist design
+knowledge and enable designers to deploy specialist knowledge in their design. It is
+always possible to create generators in order to link several design or analysis tools
+around a centric representation of metadata in IP-XACT. This kind of XML schema for
+metadata management is a good solution for the federation of heterogeneous design domains
+(models, tools, languages, methodologies, etc.).
+
 %\subsubsection{High Performance Computing}
 %Accelerating high-performance computing (HPC) applications with field-programmable