Accellera Forms Clock Doman Crossing WG

The new Clock Domain Crossing (CDC) Working group will focus on defining a standard CDC collateral specification to ease SoC integration. Currently, SoC teams cannot reuse IP-level CDC collateral in the SoC environment if both teams use different CDC verification tools, causing a time-consuming CDC verification problem. The CDC Working Group will address the current incompatibility, which will help to greatly improve productivity.

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SA-EDI 1.0 Moves Toward IEEE Standardization

Accellera’s Security Annotation for Electronic Design (SA-EDI) Standard 1.0 has been contributed to the IEEE for the development of the P3164 draft standard. “As a result of our longstanding partnership with the IEEE, our standards are able to achieve widespread global recognition and use,” stated Lu Dai, Chair of Accellera. “We anticipate that as the IEEE P3164 Working Group gets underway, this standard will be of tremendous benefit to IP providers and silicon integrators around the world as they work to reduce security risks in their IP.”

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UVM-AMS Standard Development

“Extending the Benefits of UVM to Include AMS: An Update on Accellera’s UVM-AMS Standard Development”

The emerging UVM-AMS standard is the focus of an article written by UVM-AMS Working Group members Tom Fitzpatrick and Peter Grove and recently published in Semiconductor Engineering. UVM has provided the industry with great productivity and reuse benefits for digital designs, and the plan is that UVM-AMS will extend those benefits to include a standardized AMS methodology that can scale, is reusable, and promotes metric-driven, mixed-signal verification. Read the full article here.