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…

Language Transitions: The Dawning of Age of Aquarius

Language Transitions: The Dawning of Age of Aquarius

Wally Rhines DVCon 2011 Keynote Highlights Survey on Verification Languages OK, maybe it is not the Dawning of the Age…

Using the UVM libraries with Questa

Using the UVM libraries with Questa

by Rich Edelman and Dave Rich Introduction The UVM is a derivative of OVM 2.1.1. It has similar use model,…

DVCon: The Present and the Future

DVCon: The Present and the Future

Open SystemC Initiative Tackles the Future If you have examined the DVCon program, you know that it is a week…

Accellera Approves New Co-Emulation Standard

Accellera Approves New Co-Emulation Standard

Standard Co-Emulation Modeling Interface (SCE-MI) 2.1 Improves Verification Productivity The Accellera Interface Technical Subcommittee (ITC) completed version 2.1 of the…

The Survey Says: Verification Planning

The Survey Says: Verification Planning

As the saying goes: Those who fail to plan, plan to fail. With that said, I am excited to announce…