Engineering professionals association IEEE has announced the launch of Get IEEE 1685, a website where users can download the current version of the standard for automated design environments, free of charge. IEEE 1685 is projected as the first standard description of Intellectual Property blocks in highly automated design environments. It is seen to provide the electronics industry with a way to make use of IP blocks in a manner that is both easier and more affordable.
The standard is based on material originally developed by The SPIRIT Consortium, now part of Accellera, which transferred its copyright to the IEEE to facilitate the completion of a standard that would be widely accepted by industry.
IEEE 1685, 'Standard for IP-XACT, Standard Structure for Packaging, Integrating and Re-Using IP Within Tool-Flows,' describes an XML Schema for meta-data documenting Intellectual Property (IP) used in the development, implementation and verification of electronic systems and an Application Programming Interface (API) to provide tool access to the meta-data.
Get IEEE 1685 provides free access to the current, active version of the standard in PDF form at no cost to end-users. IEEE retains the copyright on the standard.
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