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</style><table class="infobox vcard"><caption class="infobox-title fn org">Accellera</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image logo"><span typeof="mw:File"></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Formation</th><td class="infobox-data note">2000<span style="display: none;">&nbsp;(<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">2000</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Purpose</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Standards_organization" title="Standards organization">Standards</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Official language </div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="English_language" title="English language">English</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.accellera.org/">accellera.org</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p><b>Accellera Systems Initiative</b> (Accellera) is a <a href="Standards_organization" title="Standards organization">standards organization</a> that supports a mix of user and vendor standards and open interfaces development in the area of <a href="Electronic_design_automation" title="Electronic design automation">electronic design automation</a> (EDA) and <a href="Integrated_circuit" title="Integrated circuit">integrated circuit</a> (IC) design and manufacturing. It is less constrained than the <a href="Institute_of_Electrical_and_Electronics_Engineers" title="Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers">Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers</a> (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.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div>
<p>In 2000, Accellera was founded from the merger of <a href="Open_Verilog_International" class="mw-redirect" title="Open Verilog International">Open Verilog International</a> (OVI) and <a href="VHDL_International" class="mw-redirect" title="VHDL International">VHDL International</a>, the developers of <a href="Verilog" title="Verilog">Verilog</a> and <a href="VHDL" title="VHDL">VHDL</a> respectively. Both were originally formed nine years earlier in 1991.
</p><p>In June 2009, a merger was announced between Accellera and <a href="SPIRIT_Consortium" class="mw-redirect" title="SPIRIT Consortium">The SPIRIT Consortium</a>, another major EDA standards organization focused on <a href="Intellectual_property" title="Intellectual property">IP</a> deployment and reuse.<sup id="cite_ref-merger_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-merger-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The SPIRIT Consortium obtained <a href="SystemRDL" title="SystemRDL">SystemRDL</a> from the SystemRDL Alliance<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and then developed <a href="IP-XACT" title="IP-XACT">IP-XACT</a>. The merger was completed in April 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> SPIRIT stood for "Structure for Packaging, Integrating and Re-using IP within Tool-flows".
</p><p>In December 2011, Accellera and the Open SystemC Initiative (OSCI) approved their merger, adopting the name Accellera Systems Initiative (Accellera) while continuing to develop <a href="SystemC" title="SystemC">SystemC</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>In October 2013, Accellera acquired the <a href="Open_Core_Protocol" title="Open Core Protocol">Open Core Protocol</a> (OCP) standard, the intellectual property of the <a href="Open_Core_Protocol_International_Partnership_Association" class="mw-redirect" title="Open Core Protocol International Partnership Association">OCP International Partnership</a> (OCP-IP).<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_SPIRIT_Consortium">The SPIRIT Consortium</h3></div>
<p><b>The</b> <b>SPIRIT Consortium</b> was a group of vendors and users of <a href="Electronic_design_automation" title="Electronic design automation">electronic design automation</a> (EDA) tools, defining standards for the exchange of <a href="System-on-a-chip" class="mw-redirect" title="System-on-a-chip">system-on-a-chip</a> (SoC) design information.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The standards defined included <a href="IP-XACT" title="IP-XACT">IP-XACT</a>, an XML schema for vendor-neutral descriptions of design components, and <a href="SystemRDL" title="SystemRDL">SystemRDL</a>, a language for describing registers in components.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> SPIRIT stood for "Structure for Packaging, Integrating and Re-using IP within Tool-flows".
</p><p>In June 2009 it was announced that SPIRIT would merge with Accellera.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="SPIRIT_membership">SPIRIT membership</h4></div>
<p>There were four levels of membership in the SPIRIT consortium. The <i>Board of Directors</i> (BoD) was the ruling body.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Members around the time of the merge were:
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<ul><li><a href="ARM_Holdings" class="mw-redirect" title="ARM Holdings">ARM Holdings</a></li>
<li><a href="Cadence_Design_Systems" title="Cadence Design Systems">Cadence Design Systems</a></li>
<li><a href="Freescale_Semiconductor" title="Freescale Semiconductor">Freescale Semiconductor</a></li>
<li><a href="LSI_Corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="LSI Corporation">LSI Corporation</a></li>
<li><a href="Mentor_Graphics" title="Mentor Graphics">Mentor Graphics</a></li>
<li><a href="NXP_Semiconductors" title="NXP Semiconductors">NXP Semiconductors</a></li>
<li><a href="STMicroelectronics" title="STMicroelectronics">STMicroelectronics</a></li>
<li><a href="Synopsys" title="Synopsys">Synopsys</a></li>
<li><a href="Texas_Instruments" title="Texas Instruments">Texas Instruments</a></li></ul>
<p><i>Contributing members</i> performed the standardization work and donate time and effort to the production of new specifications.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p><i>Reviewing member</i> status was a free membership for companies. These get early access to specifications to facilitate a deep review round of each proposal before it goes public.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p><i>Associate member</i> status was similar to a reviewing membership but for academics and other not-for-profit organizations.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Open_Core_Protocol_International_Partnership_Association">Open Core Protocol International Partnership Association</h3></div>
<p>The <i>Open Core Protocol International Partnership Association, Inc.</i> (<b>OCP-IP</b>) was an independent, non-profit semiconductor industry consortium formed to administer the support, promotion and enhancement of the <a href="Open_Core_Protocol" title="Open Core Protocol">Open Core Protocol</a> (OCP). OCP was the first fully supported, openly licensed, comprehensive, interface socket for semiconductor intellectual property (IP) cores. The mission of OCP-IP was to address problems relating to design, verification, and testing which are common to IP core reuse in "<a href="Plug_and_play" title="Plug and play">plug and play</a>" <a href="System_on_a_chip" title="System on a chip">system on a chip</a> (SoC) products. This initiative comprehensively fulfills system-level integration requirements by promoting <a href="IP_core" class="mw-redirect" title="IP core">IP core</a> reusability and reducing design time, risk and manufacturing costs for SoC designs. Design teams developing consumer, <a href="Data_processing" title="Data processing">data processing</a>, <a href="Telecommunication" class="mw-redirect" title="Telecommunication">telecom</a> (wireless or wired), <a href="Datacom" class="mw-redirect" title="Datacom">datacom</a> and mass storage applications can gain significant benefits from the OCP-IP solution.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Accellera_membership">Accellera membership</h2></div>
<p>Corporate members have a right to be eligible for election to the Board of Directors.
Associate member companies have voting rights in all of Accellera's Technical Working Groups.<sup id="cite_ref-mem_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mem-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Standards">Standards</h2></div>
<p>The following EDA standards developed by Accellera were ratified by IEEE by 2019:<sup id="cite_ref-merger_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-merger-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<ul><li><a href="Verilog" title="Verilog">Verilog</a> or IEEE 1364 or IEC 61691-4</li>
<li><a href="VHDL" title="VHDL">VHDL</a> or IEEE 1076 or IEC 61691-1-1</li>
<li><a href="Property_Specification_Language" title="Property Specification Language">Property Specification Language</a> (PSL) or IEEE 1850 or IEC 62531</li>
<li><a href="SystemC" title="SystemC">SystemC</a> or IEEE 1666</li>
<li>SystemC Analog/Mixed-Signal extensions or IEEE 1666.1</li>
<li><a href="SystemVerilog" title="SystemVerilog">SystemVerilog</a> or IEEE 1800</li>
<li><a href="Standard_Delay_Format" title="Standard Delay Format">Standard Delay Format</a> (SDF) or IEEE 1497 or IEC 61523-3</li>
<li>Delay and Power Calculation System (DPCS/OLA; see <a href="Standard_Parasitic_Exchange_Format" title="Standard Parasitic Exchange Format">Standard Parasitic Exchange Format</a>) or IEEE 1481</li>
<li><a href="Advanced_Library_Format" title="Advanced Library Format">Advanced Library Format</a> (ALF) or IEEE 1603 or IEC 62265</li>
<li>Open Compression Interface (OCI) or IEEE 1450.6.1</li>
<li><a href="Unified_Power_Format" title="Unified Power Format">Unified Power Format</a> (UPF) or IEEE 1801</li>
<li>Open Model Interface (OMI) or IEEE 1499</li>
<li><a href="IP-XACT" title="IP-XACT">IP-XACT</a> or IEEE 1685</li>
<li><a href="Universal_Verification_Methodology" title="Universal Verification Methodology">Universal Verification Methodology</a> (UVM) or IEEE 1800.2</li></ul>
<p>The following EDA initiatives were developed by Accellera:
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<ul><li><a href="Open_Core_Protocol" title="Open Core Protocol">Open Core Protocol</a> (OCP)</li>
<li>Open Verification Language (OVL)</li>
<li><a href="Open_Verification_Library" title="Open Verification Library">Open Verification Library</a> (OVL)</li>
<li>Portable Test &amp; Stimulus Standard (PSS)</li>
<li>Standard Co-Emulation-Modeling Interface (SCE-MI)</li>
<li>Soft IP Tagging</li>
<li><a href="SystemRDL" title="SystemRDL">SystemRDL</a> (System Register Description Language)</li>
<li>Unified Coverage Interoperability Standard (UCIS)</li>
<li><a href="Universal_Verification_Methodology" title="Universal Verification Methodology">Universal Verification Methodology</a> (UVM)</li>
<li><a href="Verilog-AMS" title="Verilog-AMS">Verilog-AMS</a> (Analog Mixed-Signal)</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div>
<ul><li><a href="Design_Automation_Standards_Committee" title="Design Automation Standards Committee">Design Automation Standards Committee</a> (DASC)</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2></div>
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<li><a href="LatticeMico8" title="LatticeMico8">LatticeMico8</a></li>
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<li><a href="PicoBlaze" title="PicoBlaze">PicoBlaze</a></li>
<li><a href="Nios_embedded_processor" title="Nios embedded processor">Nios</a></li>
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<ul><li><a href="Java_Optimized_Processor" title="Java Optimized Processor">JOP</a></li>
<li><a href="LatticeMico32" title="LatticeMico32">LatticeMico32</a></li>
<li><a href="OpenCores" title="OpenCores">OpenCores</a></li>
<li><a href="OpenRISC" title="OpenRISC">OpenRISC</a>
<ul><li><a href="OpenRISC_1200" title="OpenRISC 1200">1200</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Power_ISA" title="Power ISA">Power ISA</a>
<ul><li><a href="Libre-SOC" title="Libre-SOC">Libre-SOC</a></li>
<li><a href="OpenPOWER_Microwatt" title="OpenPOWER Microwatt">Microwatt</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="RISC-V" title="RISC-V">RISC-V</a></li></ul>
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