In November 2011, the IEEE Standards Association approved IEEE Std. 1666-2011.\u00a0 The completed and published standard was made available to the community as a whole for free in an agreement between Accellera Systems Initiative and the IEEE Standards Association in February 2012.\u00a0\u00a0 As a reminder, you can download your personal copy of IEEE 1666 here<\/strong><\/a> for free.<\/p>\n The previous version was also made available for free download and was just as popular as this version of the standard is.<\/p>\n IEEE 1666-2011 added a number of important new features, including support for transaction-level modeling (TLM) that has proven to be an important element to enable high-level design and is a key component upon which the Universal Verification Methodology<\/a> (UVM<\/a>) is built from.<\/p>\n For those who want to used the SystemC library directly, it is now available for wide industry access.<\/p>\n The downloads from the IEEE and Accellera Systems Initiative will require some license agreement approvals.\u00a0 The links are not one-click access to the material below.<\/p>\n Open-Source Proof-of-Concept Library Released Accellera Systems Initiative has released for general industry use an open-source proof-of-concept library as a companion…<\/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":[309,330,528,616,646,732,749,787],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-309","tag-accellera-systems-initiative","tag-ieee","tag-open-source","tag-proof-of-concept-library","tag-standards","tag-systemc","tag-uvm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6392","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=6392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14622,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6392\/revisions\/14622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6392"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=6392"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=6392"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"IEEE](\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2012\/07\/IEEE-1666-2011_thumb.jpg\")
<\/a>In the nearly 6 months since this version of the standard has been available about 7,000 copies have been downloaded under the IEEE Get program<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"1666-2011_Page_001\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2012\/07\/1666-2011_Page_001.jpg\")
<\/a>While the approved standard was being made ready for publication, Accellera Systems Initiative was also busy completing the open-source proof-of-concept library.\u00a0 After taking comments and feedback from a public review process, version 2.3.0 of the library was completed and is now available.<\/p>\nDownload Resources<\/h3>\n
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\nAll who download will need to agree to a click-through IEEE license and declare a \u201cuser type.\u201d<\/li>\n
\nNon-members need to register as a \u201ccommunity participant<\/a>\u201d in order to download the library and regression tests.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"