{"id":13189,"date":"2018-07-30T17:30:48","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T00:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mentor.com\/verificationhorizons\/?p=13189"},"modified":"2026-03-27T08:42:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T12:42:19","slug":"accellera-approves-portable-stimulus-standard-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/2018\/07\/30\/accellera-approves-portable-stimulus-standard-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Accellera Approves Portable Stimulus Standard &#8211; and more&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Portable Stimulus Takes Center Stage at 2018 Design Automation Conference<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.accellera.org\/images\/about\/policies\/logos\/logo-portable-stimulus-200.png\" align=\"right\" \/>Accellera Systems Initiative technical teams have been busy the past year creating new standards and revising those in use.\u00a0 During the 2018 Design Automation Conference, the newest standard from Accellera was approve by its Board of Directors.\u00a0 The Portable Test and Stimulus (PSS) standard was approved to define a specification to create a single representation of stimulus and test scenarios usable by a wide variety of users across many levels of integration under different configurations.\u00a0 This standard will help scenarios run across execution platforms from simulation, emulation, FPGA prototyping and post-silicon debug.<\/p>\n<p>There are resources online to help learn more about how you can use Accellera\u2019s new Portable Stimulus Standard.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Accellera Portable Stimulus Standard: Download <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accellera.org\/downloads\/standards\/portable-stimulus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Accellera DVCon U.S. 2018 Tutorial: Available <a href=\"http:\/\/videos.accellera.org\/portablestimulus2018\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Verification Academy PSS Basics Course: Available <a href=\"https:\/\/verificationacademy.com\/courses\/portable-stimulus-basics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Verification Academy DAC 2018 Booth Presentations:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/verificationacademy.com\/sessions\/dac-2018\/portable-stimulus-a-new-hope\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Portable Stimulus: A New Hope<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/verificationacademy.com\/sessions\/dac-2018\/portable-stimulus-from-ip-to-soc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Portable Stimulus from IP to SoC \u2013 Achieve More Verification<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/verificationacademy.com\/sessions\/dac-2018\/portable-stimulus-versus-uvm-whats-the-difference\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Portable Stimulus versus UVM: What\u2019s the Difference?<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Additional Accellera Standards Updated<\/h3>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.accellera.org\/images\/about\/policies\/logos\/logo_systemc.gif\" align=\"right\" \/>SystemC CCI<\/strong><br \/>\nNew SystemC Configuration, Control &amp; Inspection (CCI) 1.0 standard was recently approved by the Accellera Board of Directors as well.\u00a0 Users can now use complaint\u00a0 tools\u2019 configuration capabilities with any model using a complaint configuration library.\u00a0 The CCI features have been designed to allow existing model configuration solutions to achieve compliance through a bridge to avoid the necessity to update models and assist in an easy migration to the new standard.\u00a0 The new standard can be downloaded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accellera.org\/downloads\/standards\/systemc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.accellera.org\/images\/news\/newsletter\/logo_uvm.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/>UVM<\/strong><br \/>\nNew UVM Reference Implementation has been released.\u00a0 The Accellera UVM Working Group has release the UVM 2017 0.9 reference implementation.\u00a0 The reference implementation is available as a SystemVerilog class library and is fully compatible with <a href=\"https:\/\/standards.ieee.org\/findstds\/standard\/1800.2-2017.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>IEEE Std. 1800.2\u2122-2017<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 You can download the reference implementation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accellera.org\/downloads\/standards\/uvm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"float: right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.accellera.org\/images\/about\/policies\/logos\/systemverilog-logo.png\" width=\"159\" height=\"54\" align=\"right\" \/>SystemVerilog<\/strong><br \/>\nThe IEEE completed its update of the SystemVerilog standard a year earlier and is a good companion to the updated UVM standard.\u00a0 Accellera has worked with the IEEE to make this standard available fee-free to the industry as well.\u00a0 You can find a copy of the IEEE Std. 1800\u2122-2017 standard <a href=\"https:\/\/standards.ieee.org\/findstds\/standard\/1800-2017.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portable Stimulus Takes Center Stage at 2018 Design Automation Conference Accellera Systems Initiative technical teams have been busy the past&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71541,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[326,374,533,534,638,732,749,751,787],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-13189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-accellera","tag-cci","tag-ieee-1800","tag-ieee-1800-2","tag-portable-stimulus","tag-standards","tag-systemc","tag-systemverilog","tag-uvm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71541"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14573,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13189\/revisions\/14573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13189"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=13189"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=13189"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=13189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}