Editing Accellera (section)

===The SPIRIT Consortium===
'''The''' '''SPIRIT Consortium''' was a group of vendors and users of [[electronic design automation]] (EDA) tools, defining standards for the exchange of [[System-on-a-chip]] (SoC) design information.<ref>[http://www.spiritconsortium.org/XMLSchema/SPIRIT Schemas of The SPIRIT Consortium]</ref> The standards defined included [[IP-XACT]], an XML schema for vendor-neutral descriptions of design components, and [[SystemRDL]], a language for describing registers in components.<ref>[http://www.eetimes.com/news/design/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199700202 Register description format gets 'Spirit' of standardization, Richard Goering, EE Times (05/21/2007 6:00 AM EDT)]</ref> SPIRIT stood for "Structure for Packaging, Integrating and Re-using IP within Tool-flows".

In June 2009 it was announced that SPIRIT would merge with Accellera.<ref>[http://www.accellera.org/pressroom/2009/Accellera_SPIRIT_Merger061109_FINAL.pdf "EDA Standards Organizations Accellera and The SPIRIT Consortium Announce Plans to Merge"], press release, Accellera. June 11, 2009</ref>

==== SPIRIT membership ====
There were four levels of membership in the SPIRIT consortium. The ''Board of Directors'' (BoD) was the ruling body.<ref>[http://www.spiritconsortium.org/about/roster#board_of_directors Board of Directors]</ref> Members around the time of the merge were:
* [[ARM Holdings]]
* [[Cadence Design Systems]]
* [[Freescale Semiconductor]]
* [[LSI Corporation]]
* [[Mentor Graphics]]
* [[NXP Semiconductors]]
* [[STMicroelectronics]]
* [[Synopsys]]
* [[Texas Instruments]]

''Contributing members'' performed the standardization work and donate time and effort to the production of new specifications.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100426001830/http://www.spiritconsortium.org/about/roster#contributing Contributing Members]</ref>

''Reviewing member'' 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.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100426001830/http://www.spiritconsortium.org/about/roster#associate Associate Members]</ref>

''Associate member'' status was similar to a reviewing membership but for academics and other not-for-profit organizations.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100426001830/http://www.spiritconsortium.org/about/roster#reviewing Reviewing Members]</ref>