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<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\nAccellera<\/a>, who brought us SystemVerilog, and the Open SystemC Imitative<\/a> (OSCI), who brought us SystemC have made known their intent to unite to form a single front-end electronic design automation (EDA<\/a>) standards organization.\u00a0 You can read their joint press release here<\/a>.<\/p>\n While this may come as a surprise to many, one thing has remained constant for many years: the two organizations have had a long standing policy of collaborative interactions as both have evolved their standards programs.\u00a0 At a DATE 2004<\/a> panel titled \u201cSystemC and SystemVerilog: Where do they fit?\u00a0 Where are they going?<\/a><\/em>,\u201d technical members of the two communities gathered to ponder answers to those questions.\u00a0 At DAC 2004<\/a>, when I was chair of Accellera and Guido Arnout was chair of OSCI, we stood before a large assembly of SystemC users a few months later to point to what was not so obvious to many, SystemVerilog and SystemC complement each other.<\/p>\n Guido and I dispelled any issues of a \u201clanguage war\u201d and focused on what the value each language and what it delivered to the design and verification community.\u00a0 A lot has transpired since then.\u00a0 Both SystemC and SystemVerilog are now IEEE standards<\/a>, know as IEEE Std. 1666\u2122<\/a> and IEEE Std. 1800\u2122<\/a> respectively.\u00a0 And both OSCI and Accellera have continued to evolve their standards work program in significant and meaningful ways.<\/p>\n In this evolution, it became clear to me that each organization was \u201ccompleting\u201d the other.\u00a0 OSCI has developed the popular Transaction Level Modeling (TLM<\/a>) standards and Accellera had adopted TLM in their Universal Verification Methodology (UVM<\/a>\u2122).\u00a0 As the technical teams from each organization have leveraged each other, it began to make more sense to initiate discussions to unite the two groups to address further front-end EDA standards challenges \u2013 as one<\/strong>. And, indeed, the two organization recognized this and have taken the steps to determine how best to combine operations into a single organization.<\/p>\n In the months ahead, the unified organization will emerge, but for now, it is business as usual for the standards development teams in OSCI and Accellera.<\/p>\n What do you think about the unification?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" System Standards Worlds Initiate Unification Accellera, who brought us SystemVerilog, and the Open SystemC Imitative (OSCI), who brought us SystemC…<\/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":[309,313,326,409,414,528,620,749,751,764,787],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-309","tag-313","tag-accellera","tag-dac","tag-date","tag-ieee","tag-osci","tag-systemc","tag-systemverilog","tag-tlm","tag-uvm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4587","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=4587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14636,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4587\/revisions\/14636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4587"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=4587"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=4587"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n