»IP-XACT is an XML Schema for IP Block Documentation standardised as IEEE 1685. »Wikipedia
Created by an industrial working party, the SPIRIT Consortium, as a standard for automated configuration and integration of IP blocks.
IP-XACT is an IEEE standard for describing IP blocks and for automated configuration and integration of assemblies of IP blocks.
It describes interfaces and attributes of a block (e.g. terminal and function names, register layouts and non-functional attributes).
It includes separate RTL and ESL/TLM descriptions (future work to integrate these).
It aims to provide all the front-end infrastructure for rapid SoC assembly from diverse IP supplies, support for assertions and and perhaps even some glue logic synthesis.
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