Mentor Blogs

Accellera and The SPIRIT Consortium Merger is Complete An open SystemVerilog requirements gathering meeting sponsored by the IEEE Design Automation Standards Committee’s (DASC) SystemVerilog Study Group was hosted at Mentor Graphics after DVCon 2010. While the meeting room was packed with many of the world’s SystemVerilog cognoscenti – as well as many from around the world on the phone. Dave Rich … Read More

IEEE 1800, Accellera, The SPIRIT Consortium, Spirit

Companion UVM-EA OVM Compatibility Overlay Kit for Available for Download Mentor Graphics has made available its UVM-EA starter kit to promote OVM users’ feedback on UVM. As I wrote in an earlier blog, Accellera has defined specific modifications to OVM 2.1.1 to create UVM-EA.  The Mentor Graphics version of the UVM-EA can be downloaded here.  The UVM-EA starter kits passes all our Questa 6.6 regression … Read More

UVM Early Adopter, Verification Methodology, Interoperability, OVM, Accellera, UVM, UVM E.A.

Requirements set for Accellera UVM-EA (Early Adopter) Release This was a productive week for Accellera. After months of discussions, the Accellera Verification IP Technical Subcommittee (VIP-TSC) voted to adopt OVM 2.1.1 as the base of its verification methodology. Accellera’s OVM version will be called UVM. In adopting OVM 2.1.1, Accellera signaled it will make further changes. The VIP-TSC has … Read More

Methodology, OVM, Accellera, UVM

… To Advance Technology for Humanity It is a humbling honor to have been elected chair of the IEEE Standards Association’s (SA) Corporate Advisory Group (CAG).  While Corporate Membership in the IEEE SA has been an element of the organization from its inception, it has only been in recent years that it has started to bring the voice of global industry into the IEEE’s standards making process.  As … Read More

VHDL, Accellera, 1076, CAG

3 – 2 – 1 – DOWNLOAD! As I mentioned in a previous blog, the Accellera OVM/VMM Interoperability kit code that is a companion to the Verification Intellectual Property Recommended Practices (1MB PDF) was nearing readiness.  As of today, it is now ready for download and use.  With qualification tests run on verification platforms from the Big-3 EDA companies, no objection was voiced at a recent Accellera … Read More

OVM, Accellera, VIP-TSC, VMM

No, this is not an early Olympics update. But none the less, these three organizations have all earned 10’s.   Thursday, 28 January 2010 at EDSFair, JEITA EDA-TC the Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association’s standards group, celebrated their 10-year anniversary.  The JEITA EDA-TC collaborates with the IEEE, Accellera and the Open SystemC Initiative.  During the EDSFair … Read More

EDSFair, Accellera, OSCI, JEITA

Users Can Start Migration to OVM Today Accellera’s Verification Intellectual Property (VIP) Technical Committee (TC) co-chair issued a public status report that highlights the group’s progress on its first phase of work, the OVM/VMM Interoperability Guide and companion software interoperability kit, and its second phase of work, a common base class library (CBCL) with OVM as its basis. As the market … Read More

OVM, Accellera, VIP-TC, VMM