IEEE to Merge SystemVerilog, Verilog Hardware Design Language Standards
September 19, 2006 // Published as a news service by IHS
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The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) is merging its SystemVerilog and Verilog standards into a single document, IEEE P1800 - SystemVerilog Standard: Unified Hardware Design, Specification and Verification Language.
According to IEEE, the project will enhance SystemVerilog by:
- Improving its assertion language.
- Allowing integration with analog mixed signals (AMS).
- Supporting interoperability with other design languages such as SystemC and VHDL.
- Supporting errata resolution and various local enhancements to the overall content of the standard.
The unified standard will be developed within the IEEE Corporate Standards Program and is targeted for completion by the end of 2008.
"This project is a logical step in the ongoing evolution of this language," said Johny Srouji, chair of SystemVerilog Language Working Group.
"The union of IEEE 1800 SystemVerilog and IEEE 1364 Verilog, various enhancements and enabling interoperability with other design languages will be of great benefit for the electronic design automation, semiconductor and system design communities. It will give them a single language for hardware design and verification that is consistently supported by various vendors."
SystemVerilog is a broad design language created to meet the needs of those designing increasingly complex very large scale integrated circuits. It is intended to make verification, which now consumes 60% of the design cycle, more efficient.
The language allows for abstract and detailed specification of design, assertions, coverage and test-bench verification based on manual or automatic methods. It also offers application programming interfaces (APIs) for coverage and assertions, a vendor-independent API for accessing proprietary waveform formats and a programming interface for proprietary functionalities.
IEEE P1800 is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society and the Corporate Advisory Group.
Source: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE).