Verification Vertigo

An important piece of standards work is being undertaken within Accellera. It is the creation of a standard API related to coverage data and is being conducted under the UCIS committee. 18 months ago, a request for donations was made. All of the major EDA companies declined to accept the possibility. They stated at [...]

Most of the time, standards get created after the EDA industry knows what it wants. This is either because a defacto standard has already emerged, or the industry has enough knowledge to be confident in the solution it is creating. In other cases, such as the recent developments in the Unified Coverage Interoperability group [...]

For the EDA industry, standards are traditionally defined by the EDA companies. While end users often attend the first few meetings of a new standards venture, few of them have the time or inclination to spend the many hours it takes to work through the technical details or the politics. As a result, many [...]