Interface becomes International Standard

E‑SOL, a devel­op­er of real-time embed­ded soft­ware solu­tions, today announced that SHIM has been for­mal­ized as IEEE Std 2804–2019, the first such stan­dard to be for­mu­lat­ed by the IEEE Com­put­er Society/Design Automa­tion/­Soft­ware-Hard­ware Inter­face for Mul­ti-many-core Work­ing Group (IEEE C/DA/SHIM WG), which was estab­lished in Feb­ru­ary of last year with­in the Insti­tute of Elec­tri­cal and Elec­tron­ics Engi­neers (IEEE). The Mul­ti-many-core Work­ing Group’s role was to work on the stan­dard­iza­tion of hard­ware archi­tec­ture descrip­tions from the stand­point of soft­ware design. Masa­ki Gon­do, eSOL’s CTO and Tech­nol­o­gy Head­quar­ters GM, played a cen­tral role in for­mu­lat­ing the stan­dard, serv­ing as work­ing group chair and mak­ing con­tin­u­ous con­tri­bu­tions that result­ed in the stan­dard being issued less than one year after the work­ing group got under­way, an extra­or­di­nar­i­ly short time for an IEEE standard.

The IEEE C/DA/SHIM WG was estab­lished in Feb­ru­ary 2019 as a work­ing group for the stan­dard­iza­tion of hard­ware archi­tec­ture descrip­tions from the stand­point of soft­ware design with­in the Design Automa­tion Stan­dards Com­mit­tee of the IEEE Com­put­er Soci­ety, one of the 39 sep­a­rate soci­eties with­in the IEEE. This work­ing group is in charge of defin­ing descrip­tive stan­dards of archi­tec­ture from the stand­point of soft­ware design for Soft­ware-Hard­ware Inter­face for Mul­ti-many core (SHIM), as well as pro­vid­ing XML schemas to abstract the key hard­ware prop­er­ties that are crit­i­cal to enabling mul­ti-many-core tools. The XML inter­face will assist in reduc­ing costs for sup­port­ing new mul­ti-many-core hard­ware. This is expect­ed to spur devel­op­ment of new and inno­v­a­tive mul­ti-many-core tools for build­ing an ecosys­tem of mul­ti-many-core technology.