BS IEC 62014-4:2015

What is BS IEC 62014-4 - IP-XACT, Standard Structure for Packaging, Integrating, and Reusing IP within Tool Flows about?  

BS IEC 62014-4 is the fourth part of the multiple series that describes an eXtensible Markup Language (XML) schema1 for meta-data documenting intellectual property (IP) used in the development, implementation, and verification of electronic systems and an application programming interface (API) to provide tool access to the meta-data. This schema provides a standard method to document IP that is compatible with automated integration techniques.  

The API provides a standard method for linking tools into a system development framework, enabling a more flexible, optimized development environment. Tools compliant with BS IEC 62014-4 will be able to interpret, configure, integrate, and manipulate IP blocks that comply with the IP meta-data description.  

Note 1: BS IEC 62014-4 is based on version 1.4 IP-XACT of The SPIRIT Consortium. The standard is independent of any specific design processes.  

Note 2: BS IEC 62014-4 does not cover those behavioural characteristics of the IP that are not relevant to integration. 

Who is BS IEC 62014-4 - IP-XACT, Standard Structure for Packaging, Integrating, and Reusing IP within Tool Flows for?  

BS IEC 62014-4 on IP-XACT, Standard Structure for Packaging, Integrating, and Reusing IP within Tool Flows is useful for: 

• Electronics engineers 
• IT companies 
• Creation and inventions departments 
• Regulatory authorities of IP 
• IP vendors 
• HDLs designers 

Why should you use BS IEC 62014-4 - IP-XACT, Standard Structure for Packaging, Integrating, and Reusing IP within Tool Flows?  

IP-XACT allows for the usage of a uniform framework for a design's meta specification, components, interfaces, documentation, and component connectivity. Both manual and automatic approaches can be built on top of this structure. IP-XACT provides the tight generator interface (TGI) for vendor-independent access to data. The purpose of BS IEC 62014-4 is to provide an overview of the major concepts, significant semantic components, and norms, as well as a content summary. 

BS IEC 62014-4 provides a well-defined and unified specification for the meta-data that represents the components and designs within an electronic system to the electronic design automation (EDA), semiconductor, electronic design intellectual property (IP) provider, and system design communities. BS IEC 62014-4 enables the delivery of compatible IP descriptions and improves the importing and exporting of complex IP bundles too, from, and between EDA tools for system on chip (SoC) design environments (DEs); expresses configurable IP using IP meta-data and enables the provision of EDA vendor-neutral IP creation and configuration scripts (generators). 

Overall, in a highly automated design environment, BS IEC 62014-4 permits the generation and interchange of IP.