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Training on IP Delivery Best Practice

Date: Tuesday - December 6, 2005

Location: Grenoble's World Trade Center Congress Area
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Goal

This training focuses on the best practice for packaging IP files and delivering them to a consumer based on the usage of XML (eXtensible Markup Language). It shows the benefit of using appropriately XML through its various flavours and will include the tagging of meta data in IP catalogs, tagging the files of an IP version for multiple goals such as storing in a repository, delivering to IP consumers, exchanging among designers and extracting integration data. This course will give some highlight on the IP content specification and will mainly focus on the delivery mechanism of information and files. The goal being to define a worldwide accepted Best practice recommendation for this delivery. Note that this course will not focus on IP quality neither on delivery completeness which is left to the IP provider/consumer appreciation even if examples will be given. Note also that the best Practice proposed is independent of any design environment.

A second part is focusing on a critical issue which is data delivery for IP integration addressing the following question; Is it possible in a close future to envision any standardisation for IP data for integration in systems? Here information will be given on 2 attempts to wrap IPs so that integration platform can assemble them is a straightforward manner.

Spirit imitative will taken as a first example and the key point discussed in this course is the usage of XML schemes as a specification support for building such wrappers. How far is this model applicable and understandable for designers and users? And what could help to create such a layer.

The second example summarizes the experiences of the OCP IP bus proposal. The principles of the generic OCP IP bus will be recalled and the possibility of tagging the OCP IP signals for introducing XML modelling will be discussed.

Target Audience

This training is devoted to IP designers, design centres, Asic designers, IP consumers. As soon as you are registered a bibliography about XML will be sent to you and it is recommended to become familiar with XML basis prior to this training.

Teachers

Training teachers are specialized in IP management and come from D&R, Dolphin integration as a IP provider, Metasymbiose a company specialized in IP abstract modelling and verification.

Agenda

SECTION 1: Fundamentals
1. XML for catalog generation and management
_ XML catalog definition
_ Format expressed by XML DTD; Leaf typing
_ Catalog life cycle support
_ XML benefit for Data upload; Bulk upload; import/export mechanism
_ XML layer on SQL Data base for efficient management
08h30 - 09h30
Break 09h30 - 09h45
2. XML for IP file Packaging
_ XML tagging of IP versions for improving delivery.
_ Version support and straightforward connection to design data management environments. Benefit in collaborative design.
_ XML tagged IP Delivery via a catalog; Mirroring in client environment; Improving customer support.
09h45 - 10h45
Break 10h45 - 11h00
3. Conclusion on IP Delivery Best practice
_ Based on the various points, D&R will make a proposal in terms of minimal requirements and best practice based on XML for making IP reuse happen.
11h00 - 11h30
LUNCH 12h00 - 13h00
SECTION 2: IP integration; Pre-standard and standard proposal
1. XML Data for IP integration: Spirit Proposal (D&R,Dolphin)
_ Formal model through a XML scheme
_ IP SoC platform for Spirit compliant IPs
_ Creating XML wrapper
13h00 - 14h00
Break 14h00 - 14h30
2. OCP IP proposal (Meta Symbiose)
_ Overview of OCP-IP Specification
_ OCP-IP TLM
_ OCP-IP Design and Compliance
_ Mapping of OCP Interface signals to Spirit standard
14h30 - 17h30
3. Questions and conclusion 17h30 - 18h00

Please register now as the audiance will be limited in terms of participants.

Price:

  • Full Day: 500 euros (tax included)
  • Half Day (Morning Only / Afternoon Only) : 250 euros (tax included)