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 Design Trends In my previous blog, I introduced the 2012 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study (click here). The objective of my previous blog was to provide background on this large, worldwide industry study. I will present the key findings from this study in a set of upcoming blogs.  This blog begins the process of revealing the 2012 Wilson Research Group study findings by first focusing … Read More

Functional Verification, Accellera, Verification Academy, IEEE 1800, Verification

Download the standard now – at no charge! The IEEE has published the latest update to the SystemVerilog standard.  And courtesy of Accellera, the standard is available for download without charge directly from the IEEE. The latest update to the SystemVerilog standard is now ready for download.  It joins other EDA standards, like SystemC in the IEEE Get™ program that grants public access to … Read More

UVM Cookbook, IEEE 1800, IEEE Get, Coverage Cookbook, UVM, SystemC

Verification Academy Adds Major New Technical Resource The Verification Academy adds another major methodology cookbook to focus on effective coverage adoption.  The Coverage Cookbook describes the different types of coverage that are available to track your verification process progress, how to create a functional coverage model from a specification, and provides examples to implement functional … Read More

OVM, UCDB, Coverage, Coverage Closure, Accellera, UCIS, Harry Foster, UVM, IEEE 1800, Coverage Cookbook, Verification Academy, functional coverage

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

At a recent SystemVerilog requirements gathering meeting,I was quite amused to see “deprecating features” come out as one of the top 10 user requested priorities for the next revision of the IEEE 1800 standard. Even more amazing was that this request came out without listing which features were to be considered for deprecation. P1800 Requirements gathering meeting 2/27/2010 I’m sure most people don’t … Read More

IEEE 1800

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

IEEE 1800