OVP Technology works well with SPIRIT interfaces

Information about how OVP works with SPIRIT Consortium IP-XACT (www.spiritconsortium.org)

Back in 2005 when Imperas created the foundation of Open Virtual Platforms it required a mechanism to represent IP models and be the driver for its model representations and library mechanisms.

Regarding these model related items, Imperas made three important decisions:
1) use XML for the data model & interface representation
2) use a vendor library name version structure for its library mechanism
3) build model interfaces in a high level language, but provide tool interoperability with XML

When the SPIRIT consortium was formed in 2006 it worked on these areas and now provides an approach being promoted in the industry that encompasses the ideas. There is IP-XACT and SystemRDL.

Open Virtual Platforms interoperates well with these SPIRIT Consortium interfaces by using tools from commercial vendors.

Please contact Imperas if you need to get from IP-XACT to OVP VMI or from an OVP model/platform to IP-XACT (as Imperas have such tools).

Also contact Imperas if you need to automate the building of behavioral models from convenient formats such as SystemRDL.