Posts Tagged ‘IEEE Standards’
Thursday, September 25th, 2014
Last week I had a chance to chat by phone with Accellera Chair Shishpal Rawat, and when I say chance that’s accurate. Rawat is so busy these days, it’s hard to believe he has time for any extraneous conversations. Not only does he have a full-time job at Intel, he has been chair of Accellera for four years and now is ramping up to take over the reins at CEDA at well.
Among other activities, both Accellera and CEDA sponsor several key conferences in the industry. Accellera is the primary sponsor of the Design and Verification Conference and Exhibition (DVCon). I asked Shishpal about this year’s efforts to take DVCon on the road and how that dovetails with the changes he’s seen at Accellera over his years of leadership.
He said, “Without a doubt, the biggest change is the international outreach that we are now doing in our programs. DVCon will debut in Bangalore this month and will debut in Europe next month on October 14th and 15th in Munich. Expanding the conference this way has required a great deal of work on the part of local dedicated volunteers in both India and Europe, in addition to the efforts of our established corps of hardworking people. We expect a very big group of attendees at both of these shows, which adds to the work load for everyone involved.”
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Tags: Accellera, Cadence, CEDA, Dennis Brophy, DVCon, IEEE Standards, Intel, Jill Jacobs, Karen Pieper, Mentor Graphics, Shishpal Rawat, Synopsys, System Verilog AMS standard, SystemC, UPF, UVM, Verilog
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Thursday, March 8th, 2012
Even this deep into the era of IP and design reuse, it’s been my impression that things are not quite as far along as many in the industry would like you to believe. With that attitude in mind, I spoke with CAST CEO Hal Barbour, who convinced me otherwise, although with several caveats.
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Q: Are people still reluctant to buy IP?
Hal Barbour: There’s been a big change. There used to be fly-by-night IP companies, which were really services companies, so people were leery.
Over the last few years, however, people have pulled back from those attitudes. Some “IP” companies have gone out of business – they couldn’t survive on just selling data sheets – while the established suppliers have become more mature. Now people know who is and isn’t [a reliable supplier].
Q: Was that the case 10 years ago, or has it evolved over the last decade?
Barbour: I would say 10 years ago, everybody was still leery. They didn’t know if they could trust outside suppliers.
But time to market pressures have grown such that people found they couldn’t reinvent the wheel for lots of the IP used by their competitors, or other people doing similar projects, so they started to go outside for processors and peripheral devices such as USBs, and so forth.
There’s still some concern lingering today – it’s not completely gone – but you’ll find that customers are definitely a lot more knowledgeable about IP.
Q: Are there tools available for comparing and contrasting similar IP offerings? (more…)
Tags: 8-bit 8051 processor, CAST, eSilicon, Hal Barbour, IEEE Standards, OCP-IP, Third-party IP, USB, watermarking
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Friday, February 17th, 2012
Here’s your February Pop Quiz.
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1 – DVCon 2012 starts on February 27th. The conference was first held in _____.
a) 1989
b) 1995
c) 1998
d) 2003
2 – The IEEE Standards Association [IEEE-SA] oversees approximately _____ standards and _____ standards under development.
a) 500, 900
b) 800, 600
c) 900, 500
d) 700, 900
3 – The IEEE Standard associated with VHDL is _____.
a) IEEE Std 1064
b) IEEE Std 1076
c) IEEE Std 1164
d) IEEE Std 1176
4 – Accellera merged with _____ in 2011.
a) VSIA
b) OSCI
c) OCP-IP
d) OVI
5 – DVCon is managed by MP Associates, the same group that manages _____.
a) ICCAD
b) DesignCon
c) Semicon
d) ISQED
6 – The 2007 General Chair of DVCon was _____.
a) Tom Fitzpatrick
b) Stephen Bailey
c) Shankar Hemmady
d) Gabe Moretti
7 – SystemVerilog was donated to Accellera in _____.
a) 2000
b) 2001
c) 2002
d) 2003
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Tags: Aart de Geus, Accellera, Andrew Piziali, Brett Cline, Brian Bailey, Cadence, Cliff Cummings, CPF, DVCon, Gabe Moretti, Gary Smith, Grant Martin, IEEE Standards, JL Gray, John Cooley, Karen Bartleson, Kathryn Kranen, Magma, Mentor, MP Associates, OSCI, OVI, OVM, Paul McLellan, Rajeev Madhavan, Richard Goering, Synopsys, SystemC, SystemVerilog, Ted Vucurevich, UPF, UVM, Verilab, Verilog, VHDL, VHDL International, Wally Rhines
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