TLM Becomes an IEEE Standard

TLM Becomes an IEEE Standard

IEEE Announces Revision to IEEE 1666™ – Adds Transaction-Level Modeling Support A significant step forward to address standards for advanced…

VHS or Betamax?

VHS or Betamax?

Legacy’s Luster Lost As a follow-on to my last blog, where I shared information about Harry Foster speaking live about…

Verification Issues Take Center Stage

Verification Issues Take Center Stage

Is Legacy Holding You Back? Harry Foster, Mentor’s Verification Chief Scientist, will take center stage to give live presentations on…

Going from “Standards Development” to “Standards Practice”

Going from “Standards Development” to “Standards Practice”

Historical Perspective In my early days of standards development, I was intrigued how a standard went from the development phase…

Verification Horizons DAC Issue Now Available Online

Verification Horizons DAC Issue Now Available Online

Well, another DAC is behind us, and you know what that means. That’s right, the super-sized DAC issue of Verification…

Accellera & OSCI Unite

Accellera & OSCI Unite

System Standards Worlds Initiate Unification Accellera, who brought us SystemVerilog, and the Open SystemC Imitative (OSCI), who brought us SystemC…

Part 8: The 2010 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

Part 8: The 2010 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

Language and Library Trends This blog is a continuation of a series of blogs, which present the highlights from the…

Getting Your Standards Update @ DAC 2011

Getting Your Standards Update @ DAC 2011

The standards developing organizations defining and updating front-end EDA standards will be at DAC in force.  And from the looks…

User-2-User’s Functional Verification Track

User-2-User’s Functional Verification Track

User Adoption of OVM Featured; Views on UVM Discussed The Mentor Graphics user group meeting, User-2-User, in Santa Clara is…