Design Automation Standards: The IP Providers Perspective

Summary form only given. Design chain standards are all ultimately aimed to make the task of the design integration and manufacture of system on chip products more efficient, improving turn around time, and effective improving quality and yield. Dr Goodenough outlined the standardization activities in which ARM is currently involved {including those managed by Si2 Accellera, SPIRIT, JEDEC, Eclipse, OpenMax OpenGL} and their relevance to the issues of the IP supply chain. He discussed types of standards an their impact on IP. The presentation will also focus on some of the challenges in managing viable standards to broad market acceptance and the consequent need for an integrated roadmap between various standardization activities to give maximum benefit and leverage to the final end customers.