John Aynsley and The IEEE SystemC LRM
The Accellera Systems Initiative has announced that John Aynsley, the CTO of Doulos. will be awarded that organization’s Technical Achievement for his “contributions to SystemC”. In the press release, it is noted that John was a member of the IEEE P1666 Working Group (WG) that recently produced an updated version of the SystemC Standard. As the [...]
Get Ready ‘Cause Here It Comes: Accellera Systems Initiative Day @ DVCon
Lots of ink has been spilt (in a good cause) in reporting on the new Accellera Systems Initiative organization. However, many of you may still wonder how you can get an in-depth view on what is happening in this new organization that resulted from the merger of Accellera and the Open SystemC Initiative (OSCI). The [...]
Why the OSCI-Accellera Merger?
By now most of you will have heard and read about the merger Accellera and OSCI into the Accellera Systems Initiative. A question that may linger after reading various press accounts is “why a merger”? There are, of course, synergies in standards to be discovered and exploited– anyone with even a rudimentary knowledge of current EDA [...]
Larry, Larry, Larry!
On Sunday, December 4, Larry Saunders received the Ron Waxman award from the IEEE Design Automation Standards Committee (DASC) for extraordinary service to the DASC. A back injury kept me from attending the awards ceremony, but it did not keep me from recalling Larry’s seminal work. Larry was first chair of the 1076 (VHDL) Working [...]
OSCI-Accellera: Cue Mr. Peabody’s WABAC Machine
As most of you will have seen by now, Accellera and OSCI have announced their intention to form a new EDA standards organization that will cover the design flow roughly from Gate-level up through the System-level. This may seem to be a natural move to most people, and one that could easily have happened years [...]
DVCON & DATE 2011: A Rerospective
The last two months since my last post have been extremely busy for me—several weeks out of the office, and new responsibilities at work. In this post, I’d like to briefly look the two conferences, DVCon and DATE that I attended during this period. By now everyone knows that DVCon (held in early March in [...]
Reflections on UVM 1.0
As you may have already seen in the blogosphere and in the tweetdom, the Accellera Board today approved the release of UVM 1.0. This release is a major accomplishment from a technical standpoint, but it also represents a triumph of the collective will of the Electronics/EDA industry. If one flashes back to January 2008, the [...]
Thoughts On SystemC Users’ Groups
I ate breakfast a few weeks ago with Gabe Moretti of GabeOnEDA fame—always a pleasant event. During our discussion, Gab opined that the Open SystemC Initiative (OSCI) was superior to other front-end standards organization because of its SystemC Users’ Groups like NASCUG, ESCUG, the Taiwan SystemC users’ Group, SystemC Japan and so forth. At a [...]
SystemVerilog in Japan
During the EDSF show held in Yokohama in late January, there were several meetings between members of JEITA and members of the IEEE Design Automation Standards Committee (DASC). These meetings were designed to bring the various organizations‘members up to speed on the other groups’ activities. This is important, given that there are overlapping interests among [...]
Standards– This Time It’s Personal
On Sunday evening December 6, I came face-to-face with part of my past. The window to my past was opened by meeting (after a very long hiatus) two of the “founding fathers” of the EDA standards world, Hal Carter and Ron Waxman, at the IEEE Standards Association Awards Banquet in New Brunswick, NJ. Before I [...]