VSI Standards, Current Status and Future Work

Abstract

The VSI alliance has been involved in SoC standards and documents for 11 years and laid the groundwork for the IP industry addressing the issues associated with reusing IP, both from the technical as well as the business perspectives. VSIA brought together the EDA, electronics and semiconductor industries to enable a dramatic design paradigm shift. The increasing proliferation of SoCs and virtual platforms in 2007 is testimony that VSIA has succeeded in making that paradigm shift. Additionally, much of the work and documents created are the basis for the great work happening in other groups today. With the planned closing of the organization, the presentation will discuss the status and disposition of VSI's work.