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The SPIRIT Consortium was a group of vendors and users of electronic design automation (EDA) tools, defining standards for the exchange of System-on-a-chip (SoC) design information.[8] The standards defined included IP-XACT, an XML schema for vendor-neutral descriptions of design components, and SystemRDL, a language for describing registers in components.[9] SPIRIT stood for "Structure for Packaging, Integrating and Re-using IP within Tool-flows".

In June 2009 it was announced that SPIRIT would merge with Accellera.[10]

There were four levels of membership in the SPIRIT consortium. The Board of Directors (BoD) was the ruling body.[11] Members around the time of the merge were:

• ARM Holdings
• Cadence Design Systems
• Freescale Semiconductor
• LSI Corporation
• Mentor Graphics
• NXP Semiconductors
• STMicroelectronics
• Synopsys
• Texas Instruments

Contributing members performed the standardization work and donate time and effort to the production of new specifications.[12]

Reviewing member status was a free membership for companies. These get early access to specifications to facilitate a deep review round of each proposal before it goes public.[13]

Associate member status was similar to a reviewing membership but for academics and other not-for-profit organizations.[14]

The Open Core Protocol International Partnership Association, Inc. (OCP-IP) was an independent, non-profit semiconductor industry consortium formed to administer the support, promotion and enhancement of the Open Core Protocol (OCP). OCP was the first fully supported, openly licensed, comprehensive, interface socket for semiconductor intellectual property (IP) cores. The mission of OCP-IP was to address problems relating to design, verification, and testing which are common to IP core reuse in "plug and play" system on a chip (SoC) products. This initiative comprehensively fulfills system-level integration requirements by promoting IP core reusability and reducing design time, risk and manufacturing costs for SoC designs. Design teams developing consumer, data processing, telecom (wireless or wired), datacom and mass storage applications can gain significant benefits from the OCP-IP solution.