The SPIRIT Consortium to Participate in Upcoming SoC Conference

SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 16, 2006 – The SPIRIT Consortium™, a global non-profit organization focused on establishing multi-faceted IP/tool integration standards that drive sustainable growth in electronic design, today announced its participation at the 4th International System-on-Chip (SoC) Conference & Exhibit, being held at the Radisson Hotel Newport Beach, California, on November 1 and 2.

Representing The Consortium will be Bill Chown, Product Group Manager for Mentor Graphics’ System-level Engineering Division and Board Member for The Consortium. Chown will participate on a panel entitled “Architectural- and Performance-related Challenges for Complex SoCs.” The panel session begins at 5:15pm on Nov. 1.

The SPIRIT Consortium is focused on eliminating the limitations of design flow integration. To that end, its IP-XACT™ specifications provide machine-readable descriptions of IP that enable automated SoC configuration, integration, and verification in multi-vendor design flows.

The SoC Conference is an informative technical conference for the chip design community. In collaboration with major industry enablers and top academic experts, it addresses the latest technologies and products from vendors in semiconductor, EDA, IP, CPUs/DSPs, memories, NoC, multi-core, etc. The conference is presented by Savant Company, which recently joined The SPIRIT Consortium as a reviewing member.

About The Consortium
The SPIRIT Consortium is a global organization focused on establishing multi-faceted IP/tool integration standards that drive sustainable growth in electronic design. It is comprised of leading EDA, IP, system integration, and semiconductor companies dedicated to the adoption of a unified set of specifications for configuring, integrating, and verifying IP in advanced SoC design tool sets. For more information on The SPIRIT Consortium and its goals, please visit www.spiritconsortium.org.