By now you’ve probably heard that Accellera approved the Universal Verification Methodology Standard (UVM1.0) today. This announcement is the culmination of a great deal of work by the members of the Accellera Verification IP Technical Subcommittee (VIP_TSC), ably led by Tom Alsop of Intel and Hillel Miller of Freescale, and all who contributed to this outstanding effort should take a moment to bask in the glow of the accolades now flying around the blogosphere and twitterverse. To my colleagues on the VIP-TSC, I offer a hearty “Yo!” (sorry – inside joke) echoing those sentiments.<\/p>\n
As a veteran of standards committees gong back to Verilog-95 (has it really been that long?), through Verilog 1364, SystemVerilog and now UVM, I’d like to offer my perspective. I have long been a proponent of Karen Bartleson’s First Rule of Standards, “Cooperate on standards; Compete on tools,” even before she had the brilliant idea of writing a book about it (which I strongly recommend, by the way). Having spent more time over the years than I care to recall trying to engage customers with new technology only to see them stuck where they are because of a mountain of proprietary code, I can’t tell you how much I’m looking forward to a level playing field. I expect that the user community is as well.<\/p>\n
The value of standards has always been that a user can wrte one piece of code and use it across multiple tools to see which one is best. This is why Mentor has always been a strong supporter of standards, whether de facto<\/em>, like OVM, or “official” standards from Accellera or IEEE. With UVM opening a new era of cooperation in the standards realm for functional verification, we invite our friends to join us in some healthy competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By now you’ve probably heard that Accellera approved the Universal Verification Methodology Standard (UVM1.0) today. This announcement is the culmination…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71936,"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":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000","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\/71936"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14549,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions\/14549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=2000"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=2000"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}