Accellera and IEEE-SA report on popularity of IP standard

PISCATAWAY, USA: The IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) and Accellera, an EDA standards organization, announced that in the last six months over 1,200 copies of the IEEE 1685 standard have been downloaded at no charge. The monthly downloads have doubled or tripled each month since the standard became available in June.

IEEE 1685 is the first standard description for Intellectual Property (IP) blocks for highly automated electronic design environments. It provides the electronics industry with an approach to create and use IP blocks in a standard way so that IP use and re-use is easier and more economic.

The Get IEEE 1685 provides access to the current, active version of the standard in a PDF format at no cost to end-users. IEEE retains the copyright on the standard. For more information or to download the standard, please visit: http://standards.ieee.org/getieee/1685/index.html.

"Our Get IEEE Standards programs accelerate and facilitate the dissemination of standards and speed up their implementation and adoption," said Judith Gorman, MD of the IEEE Standards Association. "The sustained and growing interest in Get standards like IEEE 1685 standard benefits everyone in the worldwide electronics industry and shows the popularity of this program."

"IP is a valuable part of System on a Chip designs," said Shishpal Rawat, Accellera Chair. "Our collaboration with the IEEE-SA gives the worldwide design community access to our first IP-creation focused standard at no charge."

The Get IEEE 1685 program is the first IEEE-SA project of this nature funded by Accellera.