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TLM Becomes an IEEE Standard

Posted Nov 10, 2011, by Dennis Brophy

IEEE Announces Revision to IEEE 1666™ – Adds Transaction-Level Modeling Support A significant step forward to address standards for advanced system-on-chip (SoC) designs has taken place by the IEEE.  The IEEE announced the new revision of the SystemC standard, known as IEEE 1666™-2011, has been approved.  While it is a revision of the current SystemC standard, IEEE 1666™-2005, the major new feature … Read More

Tags: SystemVerilog, SystemC, TLM, 1800, Accellera, 1666, OVM, TLM 1.0, TLM 2.0, Standards, IEEE-SA, UVM, OSCI, Verification Academy

IEEE Standards in India

Posted Feb 3, 2011, by Dennis Brophy

IEEE Standards Association Hosts Design Automation Standardization Workshops in Bangalore & Delhi I, along with several other individuals, will participate in two IEEE-SA EDA standardization workshops in India on Friday, 4 February 2011 in Bangalore and on Thursday 10 February 2011 in New Delhi.  In the last year, the IEEE announced it opened an office in Bangalore, India.  This is the fourth IEEE … Read More

Tags: UPF, SystemVerilog, 1735, 1800, 1666, Standards, SystemC, 1801, IEEE-SA

The Final Signatures (the meeting during the meeting)

Posted Apr 14, 2010, by Dennis Brophy

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

Tags: IEEE 1800, IEEE-SA, Accellera, The SPIRIT Consortium, Spirit, SystemVerilog

IEEE Standards Meetings in India

Posted Mar 7, 2010, by Dennis Brophy

EDA & VLSI Standards Focus Meeting on 12 March 2010 As part of its continuing program to reach out to global technologists, the IEEE Standards Association will be conducting a series of outreach sessions throughout Bangalore from 10-12 March 2010. The IEEE-SA will also visit key governmental agencies in Delhi this week as well.  While there is a focal technical point for each outreach session, the … Read More

Tags: IEEE 1800, IEEE-SA, IEEE, Standards, SystemVerilog

I Do It …

Posted Feb 25, 2010, by Dennis Brophy

… 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

Tags: VHDL, 1800, Accellera, 1076, Standards, SystemVerilog, CAG, IEEE-SA

Three Perfect 10’s

Posted Jan 31, 2010, by Dennis Brophy

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

Tags: EDSFair, IEEE, Accellera, OSCI, Standards, IEEE-SA, JEITA