IEEE P1175.5, IEEE P1149.8.1 to Address Computer-Aided Software Engineering, Test Circuitry
April 5, 2009 // Published as a news service by IHS
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) will develop IEEE P1175.5 and IEEE P1149.8.1, both computing standards for computer-aided software engineering and test circuitry.
IEEE P1175.5 - Standard for Computer-Aided Software Engineering (CASE) Tool Interconnections - Reference Data Metamodel for System Behavior Specifications is the latest standard project in the IEEE 1175 family of standards.
It will rectify the conceptual metamodel for system behavior specification described in the recently approved IEEE 1175.4 - IEEE Standard for CASE Tool Interconnections - Reference Model for Specifying System Behavior.
IEEE P1175.5 will define a data metamodel for system behavior specifications. The data metamodel provides definitions of typed data elements, information representations and relationships with which behavior models for subject systems can be instantiated.
The standard is sponsored by the Software & Systems Engineering Standards Committee of the IEEE Computer Society.
IEEE P1149.8.1 - Standard for Boundary-Scan-Based Stimulus of Interconnections to Passive and/or Active Components will codify testability circuitry added to an integrated circuit (IC) incremental to the testability provisions specified by IEEE 1149.1 - IEEE Standard Test Access Port and Boundary-Scan Architecture.
This will enable selective alternating current stimulus generation that, when combined with non-contact signal sensing, allows testing signal paths between devices adhering to this standard and passive and/or active components.
Adherence to this standard will help allow devices created by multiple vendors to operate together during testing despite the differing characteristics and parameters of the IC processes used in fabrication, according to the IEEE.
IEEE P1149.8.1 is sponsored by the Test Technology Committee of the IEEE Computer Society.
Source: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Standards Association (IEEE-SA).