Another Standard Forthcoming in 2011
In my most recent post I highlighted two Standards that are scheduled to be released in 2011, viz., UVM from Accellera and SystemC from the IEEE P1666 Working Group (WG). In this post, I’ll focus on another Standard that will be put to a vote (and presumably approved) in 2011. The Standard is the “e” [...]
New & Updated EDA Standards Coming In 2011
I have not posted in a few weeks, but not because things have been quiet in the Standards world. Rather, too much has been happening, and it has been hard to find time to sit down and summarize for those who might not be intently following such things. To make up for this neglect, I [...]
Planning For IEEE Standards Association Corporate Membership
With the 2011 Corporate budget planning cycle about to begin in many companies, I thought it appropriate to review the IEEE Standards Association (SA) Corporate membership plan, including both its costs and benefits. This will allow companies that feel that SA membership is beneficial for them to put the membership dues in their 2011 budgets. [...]
Standards & Reference Implementations
In a previous blog entry, I spoke about the relationship between Standards and Open Source software, concluding that “open source standard” was an oxymoron. One topic that I did not discuss was the relationship between a Standard and the so-called “Reference Implementation” (“RI” for short) of that Standard. This relationship is not as straightforward as [...]
The Importance of Front End Standards
It was recently announced that Shishpal Rawat has been elected Chair of Accellera, a key “Front End” (i.e., RTL and above) EDA Standards organization. This by itself is a fine development, since I have absolutely no doubt that Accellera will prosper under Shishpal’s leadership. However, it is also a continuation of a trend. The Chair [...]
The “Open Source Standard” Oxymoron
Recently I explained why the forthcoming Accellera UVM Standard will not be released under an open source license. UVM will have an open source reference implementation associated with it, but the actual UVM Standard will not be open source. After the blog was posted, some people reasonably complained that I did not really explain the [...]