2011 IEEE Design Automation Standards Awards

2011 IEEE Design Automation Standards Awards

The DASC Participates in IEEE Standards Association Gala Event The IEEE Computer Society Design Automation Standards Committee (DASC) participated in…

TLM Becomes an IEEE Standard

TLM Becomes an IEEE Standard

IEEE Announces Revision to IEEE 1666™ – Adds Transaction-Level Modeling Support A significant step forward to address standards for advanced…

Worlds Standards Day 2011

Worlds Standards Day 2011

Creating Confidence Globally Today, 14 October 2011, is the day the world celebrates standards.  The leadership of the IEC, ISO…

VHS or Betamax?

VHS or Betamax?

Legacy’s Luster Lost As a follow-on to my last blog, where I shared information about Harry Foster speaking live about…

Verification Issues Take Center Stage

Verification Issues Take Center Stage

Is Legacy Holding You Back? Harry Foster, Mentor’s Verification Chief Scientist, will take center stage to give live presentations on…

Going from “Standards Development” to “Standards Practice”

Going from “Standards Development” to “Standards Practice”

Historical Perspective In my early days of standards development, I was intrigued how a standard went from the development phase…

Accellera & OSCI Unite

Accellera & OSCI Unite

System Standards Worlds Initiate Unification Accellera, who brought us SystemVerilog, and the Open SystemC Imitative (OSCI), who brought us SystemC…

The IEEE’s Most Popular EDA Standards

The IEEE’s Most Popular EDA Standards

How do your favorites rank? Have you ever wondered how popular the different IEEE standards for electronic design automation are?…

Getting Your Standards Update @ DAC 2011

Getting Your Standards Update @ DAC 2011

The standards developing organizations defining and updating front-end EDA standards will be at DAC in force.  And from the looks…