{"id":1086,"date":"2010-04-14T12:52:11","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T19:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mentor.com\/verificationhorizons\/?p=1086"},"modified":"2026-03-27T08:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T12:45:07","slug":"accellera-spirit-merger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/2010\/04\/14\/accellera-spirit-merger\/","title":{"rendered":"The Final Signatures (the meeting during the meeting)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Accellera <\/a>and The SPIRIT Consortium Merger is Complete<\/h3>\n

An open SystemVerilog requirements gathering meeting sponsored by the IEEE Design Automation Standards Committee\u2019s (DASC) SystemVerilog Study Group was hosted at Mentor Graphics after DVCon 2010. While the meeting room was packed with many of the world\u2019s SystemVerilog cognoscenti \u2013 as well as many from around the world on the phone.<\/p>\n

\"Cliff-at-SV-Req-Gathering-Mtg-Web\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"MGC-Victory-Room-Web\"<\/a> Dave Rich posted his blog<\/a> on the meeting and shared a link<\/a> that allowed everyone to see the top-3 items Users and Producers sought from the next version of SystemVerilog.\u00a0 But while Cliff was making his presentation on \u201cDesign Connectivity Features,\u201d a few people slipped out of the room into the \u201cVictory\u201d room next door.<\/p>\n

What can now be disclosed was the Accellera and The SPRIRIT Consortium representatives were signing final documents to ensure the merger of the two organizations, announced at DAC 2009, would become final.<\/p>\n

\"Shrenik-Stan-Web\"<\/a> Shrenik Mehta, for Accellera and Stan Krolikoski, for The Spirit Consortium could be seen taking pen to paper as the final signatures were done to cement the merger.\u00a0 With final legal and governmental reviews complete, the merger became official and was announced today.\u00a0 The press release<\/a> crossed the wires this morning.\u00a0 The merged organization will retain the Accellera name and have 8 active standards projects.\u00a0 It has also recommitted that is is aligned to create formal standards through the IEEE Standards Association.<\/p>\n

Congratulations to the merger teams and staff that worked hard to make it a smooth merger process.\u00a0 Mentor Graphics looks forward to the benefits of the electronics industry when electronic design language-based standards are brought together with Intellectual Property (IP) standards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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