Posts tagged with 'Accellera'
UVM: Charting the New Territory
At this year’s DAC, Accellera introduces UVM (Universal Verification Methodology) to the world at its Tuesday breakfast and panel discussion. While Accellera may call this “Charting the New Territory,” it is not terra incognita to Mentor Graphics nor to tens of thousands of OVM users. UVM is at is simplest, just OVM. If you know OVM; you know UVM.
While OVM and … Read More
Easier DUT to Testbench Connections
This package introduces a very simple class called uvm_container. In this package Mentor shows how to use this class to link a Design Under Test (DUT) and a testbench. The UVM Container can be downloaded here as a companion to the Accellera UVM 1.0 EA.
This extension also introduces the dual top methodology. This methodology isolates the connections between the … Read More
The Accellera VIP-TSC makes the Early Adopter release of the Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) available.
While Accellera does not use the Latin word Omnimodus in place of the English word Universal, what Accellera does make available is for all practical intents and purposes just OVM. In April 2010, we made available at www.ovmworld.org an early version of UVM EA. It has now been updated … Read More
Functional Verification, OVM, Accellera, VIP-TSC, UVM, UVM E.A.
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
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
… 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
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
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
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
