PISCATAWAY, N.J., USA, 14 February 2005 The
IEEE SystemVerilog Working Group has scheduled final
balloting for the SystemVerilog standard by IEEE Standards
Association corporate members for 22 February to 24
March. Called IEEE P1800(TM), the standard has been
fast tracked within the IEEE Corporate Standards Program
and is scheduled for completion in mid 2005, or about
12 months after it was begun.
IEEE P1800, "Standard for SystemVerilog Unified
Hardware Design, Specification and Verification Language,"
will help industry address the growing complexity
of very large-scale integrated circuits by raising
productivity for their design, specification, simulation
and verification. The new standard, an extension to
the Verilog(R) hardware description language in IEEE
1364(TM), the predominant chip design language, adds
many features including advanced design modeling,
synthesis, hardware verification testbench and assertion
language capabilities plus tighter C/C++ integration
and co-simulation.
"IEEE P1800 will keep Verilog at the cutting
edge of industry demands," says Johny Srouji,
chair of the SystemVerilog Working Group. "The
advanced language capabilities SystemVerilog offers
will extend the basic Verilog language in the IEEE
1364 standard to aid in the design, synthesis, verification
and product development of large-gate-count chips,
as well as entire systems using a concise, common
and integrated development language."
The working group is also revising the existing IEEE
P1364, "Standard for Verilog Hardware Description
Language," to correct ambiguities and minor errors.
The updated version of this standard is also being
readied for ballot by IEEE Standards Association corporate
members. "Ultimately, we plan to merge the two
standards into a single, comprehensive Verilog language
specification, which will make chip development easier
for the electronic design automation, semiconductor
and system design communities," says Srouji.
Ballots for both IEEE P1800 SystemVerilog and IEEE
P1364 will be held from 22 February through 24 March.
A wide range of organizations have registered for
these entity-based ballots. In terms of the IEEE P1800
ballot, 14 organizations have expressed their intent
to participate: four users, six producers and four
others.
The IEEE has been a primary source of design automation
standards since the mid 1980s. Its IEEE 1364 Verilog
standard has been a common language for integrated
circuit development for more than a decade and has
helped fuel the strong growth in this sector.
The SystemVerilog Working Group includes vendors
that create Verilog-based products and users who apply
the Verilog language. These organizations worked closely
to identify and resolve a variety of technical issues
while meeting the aggressive schedule set by the Working
Group. The IEEE SystemVerilog standard is scheduled
to be published on September 2005. It is sponsored
by the Design Automation Standards Committee within
the IEEE Computer Society and the IEEE Corporate Advisory
Group. Additional information on SystemVerilog can
be found at www.eda.org/sv-ieee1800.
About the IEEE Standards Association
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standards-setting body, develops consensus standards
through an open process that brings diverse parts
of an industry together. These standards set specifications
and procedures based on current scientific consensus.
The IEEE-SA has a portfolio of more than 870 completed
standards and more than 400 standards in development.
For information on IEEE-SA see: http://standards.ieee.org/.
About the IEEE
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power and consumer electronics. The IEEE produces
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also sponsors or cosponsors more than 300 technical
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