EETimes.com - IEEE catches the Spirit of IP reuse

EETimes.com - IEEE catches the Spirit of IP reuse: "There's more to Spirit than what first meets the eye, said Gary Smith, chief EDA analyst at Gartner Dataquest. 'Spirit has grown from a fairly boring standards effort to an extremely exciting effort over the past few years,' he said.

Beyond IP metadata, Smith said, the technical community is looking at Spirit as a way to embed constraints from the behavioral level down to RTL implementation. Some, he said, are looking at Spirit as a way of developing the 'intention layer' needed to imply parallelization for C-language code. That means Spirit could be an important part of what Smith calls the 'concurrent software compiler,' a future development that will be important for large-scale multiprocessor SoC design."