Accellera Board Approves Portable Test and Stimulus Standard 2.0
ELK GROVE, Calif., April 14, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Accellera Systems Initiative (Accellera), the electronics industry organization focused on the creation and adoption of electronic design automation (EDA) and intellectual property (IP) standards, announced today that its Board of Directors has approved the Portable Test and Stimulus Standard 2.0. The new standard is available immediately to download for free.
The Portable Test and Stimulus Standard (PSS) defines a specification to create a single representation of stimulus and test scenarios, usable by a variety of users across many levels of integration under different configurations. This representation facilitates the generation of diverse implementations of scenarios that run on a variety of execution platforms, including, but not necessarily limited to, simulation, emulation, FPGA prototyping, and post-silicon. With this standard, users can specify intent onc
DVCon U.S. 2021 Announces Stuart Sutherland Best Paper & Best Poster Winners, Attendance Numbers
March 09, 2021 10:30 ET | Source: DVCon U.S. DVCon U.S. Louisville, Colorado, UNITED STATES
GAINESVILLE, Fla., March 09, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) The 2021 virtual Design and Verification Conference and Exhibition U.S. (DVCon U.S.), sponsored by Accellera Systems Initiative (Accellera), concluded its 33rd annual event last week. The 2021 Stuart Sutherland Best Paper and Poster winners, as voted on by attendees, were announced during a presentation at the close of day three of the program on Wednesday, March 3.
Overall attendance for DVCon U.S., including the free keynote, panel, UVM Birds-of-a-Feather and exhibit-only attendees and all-access technical conference attendees, was 1,329.
Matthew Ballance to Receive Accellera Systems Initiative Technical Excellence Award
Siemens’ Ballance will be honored during virtual DVCon U.S. 2021 for his contributions to the development of the Portable Test and Stimulus Standard
Elk Grove, Calif., February 23, 2021 Accellera Systems Initiative (Accellera) announced today that Matthew Ballance, a member of the Portable Stimulus Working Group and a Product Engineer and Portable Stimulus Technologist with Siemens Digital Industries Software, is the recipient of the 2021 Accellera Technical Excellence Award. The award was established to recognize the outstanding achievements of an individual among Accellera’s working group members and their significant contributions to the development of its standards.
Join Us for DVCon U.S. 2021!
DVCon U.S. will be held March 1-4 on a virtual platform and will offer attendees a combination of recorded presentations and live Q&A to provide an interactive, high-quality virtual experience.
Keeping with tradition, Accellera Day opens the conference on March 1 with a tutorial, five short workshops, a UVM Birds of a Feather presented by Accellera working groups, as well as an Accellera update and the presentation of the 2021 Technical Excellence Award.
Accellera-sponsored tutorial on Monday, March 1:
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Portable Stimulus 2.0 is Here: What You Need to Know” will be presented from 9:00am-11:00am by members of the Portable Stimulus Working Group. Members will share some of the important new features coming in v2.0 of the Portable Test and Stimulus Standard that were added to enhance the usability, programmability, and portability of the standard.
Product Life Cycle of an Interconnect Bus
The portable stimulus standard (PSS) is the latest industry standard created to allow the specification of test intent and behavior such that the test stimulus can be reused across various target platforms.
The introduction of PSS alters the traditional approach of verifying and validating a system on chip (SoC), offering many advantages and a few challenges. This paper explores these process changes with the life cycle of an interconnect bus fabric from SystemC-based performance analysis to verification and validation using a generic PSS-based traffic generator.
Introduction
Verification techniques and methodologies have continually evolved ever since the design requirements have started becoming complex. The portable stimulus standard (PSS) is the latest addition to this evolution process and it was created to address the challenge of test portability. The new PSS allows creation of the test intent such that it can be reused across di